It did not occur to him that his employer was mounting guard over the Baumgartners' yacht, and meant to have a clear field of vision while a shred of daylight remained.
The most miraculous of pictures created by man, "Las Meninas," resembles nothing so much as the vision momentarily floated on a mirror.
For every month there is surely some fitting land and sky, some fragrance that satisfies the sense or some vision that satisfies the soul.
The greatest of literary artists, we may rest assured, had the clearest vision of the haven for which he was sailing.
But on one side they are all part of the vision and music of Nature, not merely the creators of pictures and melodies, but even yet more fundamentally themselves the music and the vision.
Every king of England has at the back of his mind a vision of a flashing axe on a frosty January morning nearly four centuries ago.
Every profound vision of the world must recognise these two equally essential aspects of Nature and of Man; every vital religion must embody both aspects in superb and ennobling symbols.
Is not a certain aloofness essential to our visionof the Heaven of Art?
Bacon fell into the ditch, and Freud is obsessed by the vision of a world only seen through the delicate anastomosis of the nerves of sex.
Chapoulot, a retired braid manufacturer from the Rue Saint-Denis, returning from the Ambigu-Comique with his wife and daughter, was dazzled by a vision of such a costume and such a charming woman upon their staircase.
The idea of her idol's fall, with a vague vision of the disasters prophesied by Crevel, was such a terror to the poor woman, that she became rapt in the contemplation like an ecstatic.
Then a vision of her mother appeared before her, and revulsion ensued; she was calm and cool, and mistress of her reason.
I never saw anybody look a vision if she don't look one to-night," the admiring nurse declared.
The gentleman went on, passing from her forward vision as he replaced his hat.
The vision of her yawning trunk, flanked by piles of clothing waiting patiently to be put in it, loomed large before her.
A vision of the little blue-eyed golden-haired girl who always did exactly as she pleased in the prim guise of a teacher was infinitely diverting.
On the contrary, it is probable that their minds, hearts and conversation were full of the marvels which had occurred since first the vision of angels had informed them that Jesus was alive.
Before we visit Peter with our censures because of his unmistakable reluctance to accept Christ's vision of the cross let us give heed to ourselves.
We cannot but regret that the immediate effect of this glorious vision upon Peter and James and John seems to have been a tendency to arrogance and ambition.
No painter has ever had a more exact vision of the human figure, nor hands more skilful to fix in its entirety on the paper or the canvas what his eyes saw.
Surely radiance was fully before me and my tricked vision saw it as despair.
Did I expect a vision of Doctor Wedderburn lounging at the table, his fingers thrust into a Bible?
I had feeble sight, and objects presented themselves to my vision so strangely that I could not shoot straight.
Unfortunately, a vision of that kind never has been, and never will be, seen by a man.
I deemed it the vision of the poor spectre that I destroyed.
The bushes parted at the sounding of his voice, and a radiant visionstood before him, backed by the greenwood shade.
Woodfield, as he gazed at the vision of beauty; and when Hough had told him the good soldier's heart swelled, and he raised his stiff body that he might take her hand, while she smiled at him through a mist of pity.
She had witnessed the mirage before, and by this present vision merely understood that an attack upon the citadel was even then in progress.
It was not the flash of a poetic visionwhich aroused him.
Not in the last campaign, for it would have been a crime in me to have hesitated then, but away back when no vision of the presidency had crossed the disc of his ambition, and when the cruelest blows were struck from behind.
Even in conversation with average people we must know how to obscure our own mental vision in order to attain and grasp average thinking.
The noblest effect of greatness is that it gives the contemplator a power of vision that magnifies and embellishes.
And the cause of their wrath is that they have endangered what remains of their vision almost without compensation.
With that the ghostly visitor vanished as it came, and left Penelope much cheered by the clear vision which had brought her words of healing at the blackest hour of the night.
Then, all unbidden, a vision of the little lad carrying the can, who had come to beg ale for his sick mother, and whom he had long ago forgotten, rose up before him.
Vast opportunity had thus been afforded this gifted man for the enlargement of his vision of affairs, and it had not been slighted.
Fixed in character, matured in judgment, affable of manner, cultured, and possessed of a breadth of vision much above the ordinary, he was not long in winning his way to the confidence and esteem of the people among whom he settled.
The alluring vision of the invading Spaniard of the abundance of gold in the retreats of the American wilds, was gradually dispelled and vastly counterbalanced by the hourly peril that menaced.
Bestor revealed the first vision of a comprehensive public school system for the state.
His was the vision of the genuine optimist, and the service then rendered, though not on the whole demonstrative, was conducive to the welfare of the state.
The compass of his vision was that of a statesman, and during the troublous times which followed the Civil War, the counsel of one like him was needed, and that counsel found most profitable expression through the nib of his powerful pen.
He seemed suddenly to have been inspired by a rare vision of life, for he abruptly left his farm work and entered on the study of the law in the neighboring village of Wadesboro, N.
His closing years were spent in the city of Montgomery, where he continued to practice law till compelled by failure of vision to surrender it.
The vision of his sumptuous home in distant Spain rose often before him, and in his dreams he had pictured a palace rivalling that of royalty, in consequence of his discovery of gold, but he was destined never to see that home again.
Bid sleep to soourn on these eyen-lids * Haply invision I thy sight shall see.
And hath love of slumber deprived those eyes * And the phantom-vision vexed thy sprite?
Although I was ignorant, yet I emerge from this condition to a clearer vision of Him, if I come to see Him as I now see the sun.
The vision which we shall catch of God is knowledge.
Hath it now been clearly enough explained about wisdom and about the visionof God?
The Parisienne knew about the peculiar character of the eye, and that it ceases to see with any emotional response at all that which remains within its range of vision for any extended length of time.
And what in the large sweep of his vision of the whole field of the world's beauty he saw, he reported with infinite gusto.
Nevertheless a discharge of blood into the eyes of some persevering bird or snake might so seriously interfere with its clearness of vision that the lizard might make its escape while the enemy was wiping its eyes.
On the bed lay the old man, dead, with the same expression on the worn face which I had noticed in my vision of the previous night.
A vision of the cool forest grot where he had seen them swaying in the wind arose in his mind.
If this gallant soldier had been able to look downward a little way through the ground under his feet, his vision would not have been quite so rose-colored.
To their illumined vision those piles of fagots, those bars, those chains, were but so many Jacob's ladders, gates to heaven.
