And here, in thevivid dusk, We will make our own love songs!
I love flaming reds, And vivid greens, And royal flaunting purples.
I thought of a misty summer night, When a shower fell on the vivid grass (There, through the rain, I watched you pass!
As eyes which have been seared by the lightning, his mind, which had lost the too vivid impression, now perceived everything in mist and confusion.
He often looked with some anxiety at the increasing paleness of the cheek, at the too vivid gleam of the eye, at the eager nervous quivering of the lip, and said within himself, "This is overdone.
I saw one a tender green, and the sand about it was in a haze of softest rose-colour, through which shone the vivid orange light of the sunset behind it.
A guide flung a log of wood on the river, and it spontaneously burst into vivid flame, shrivelled up, and was gone in a puff of smoke.
Are these few features enough to give you a distinct and vivid picture of Rab?
It is a painting in words--a vividpicture of a very pretty scene.
This bit of the path was always the crux of the night's ramble, though, before starting, her apprehensions of danger were not vivid enough to lead her to take a companion.
The sad accessories of Fanny's end confronted him as vivid pictures which threatened to be indelible, and made life in Bathsheba's house intolerable.
The beams from one lamp shone for a moment upon the crouching woman, and threw her face into vivid relief.
How perpetually, as we walk in the country, his vivid pictures recur to the memory!
There is one penalty people pay for being authors, which is that from cultivating vivid impressions and mental pictures they are apt to take fancies too seriously and to mistake them for reality.
There is something of Madame de Sevigne in her vivid realisation of natural things.
The teacher's effort is first directed to a vivid interpretation of the author's thought and feeling, and later to an expressive rendering of the thought.
The lack of training in vivid and poetic thought in early years is sure to make itself felt in deficient and languid thought and feeling in the higher grades.
In geography and history it is the purpose of pictures, vivid descriptions, biographical stories, and the accounts of eye-witnesses and real travellers, etc.
The supreme value of a vivid and versatile imagination in giving full and rich development to the whole mind is now a vital part of our confession of faith.
Higginson's collection of letters and reports of the early explorers, with their quaint language and eye-witness descriptions, is strikinglyvivid in its portraiture of early scenes upon our shores.
A pointed question energizes thought along a definite line, and leads to a more intense and vivid perception of the meaning.
It is fiction, not history, in the usual sense, and yet it gives a more real and vivid consciousness of the forces at work in that age than history proper.
The details of that growth are vividin the memory of living men.
It was his personality, his energy, his deep and vivid sympathy with student interests, even more than his learning and his contemporary influence in other spheres, that helped to re-create McGill.
The fancy was so horribly vivid that he shivered as if from a cold wind passing over him, while all the time he was bathed with perspiration.
Griggs did prove to be right, for when the course of the trees had been followed for about four miles, the party found themselves upon a marshy patch of a vivid green, the trees they had followed ending at the very edge.
How full of solemn truth about godless lives the vivid outline picture is!
We can make choice of which shall be the object of our trust, and according as we choose the one or the other, the experience of these vivid pictures will be ours.
It may be that they are meant to give in a vivid dramatic form the effect of the judgments on the sufferers.
That is a vivid metaphor for the fragmentary satisfaction which all earthly good gives, leaving a deep yearning unstilled.
We may smile at the rude conception, but it will be well for us if we can get as vivid an impression of the fact as He had.
We have here, in a very picturesque and vivid form, the setting forth of the manner in which the Evangelist Zion is to proclaim her message.
We have here a singularly vivid and dramatic prophecy, thrown into the form of a dialogue between the prophet and a stranger whom he sees from afar striding along from the mountains of Edom, with elastic step, and dyed garments.
Each day brought its own sudden and vivid interest.
It abounds in vivid and picturesque sidelights, drawn with a strong touch.
It remains true, however, that the essential reality lies in the vivid sense of sin, and its experience in conscience.
As the terrors of imagined suffering are always worse than actual pain, so dreams are frequently more vivid than the reality of life,- -that is we are sure that life is indeed reality, and not itself a dream within a dream.
He stood erect,--he was still in the scarlet robes in which he had made his appearance at the Vatican, and they fell regally about his tall dignified form, the vivid colour intensifying the pallor of his thin features.
He had waved her a good-by from the platform, and smiled: and for a long time, as she drove through the silent roads, his words and his manner remained as vivid as though he were still by her side.
And, his imagination being great, he reproduced for himself such a vivid sensation of a bullet-hole in his spine that he missed his footing near the bottom, and measured his length in the entry.
Petigny read afterwards in Balzac's books seemed to him only a pale, distant echo of the rich and vivid expressions which fell from his lips in these intimate talks.
Some romances of this school are vivid and highly finished pictures of human misery, unredeemed by hope, and hardly brightened by occasional gleams of humour, of the sardonic sort which may stir a mirthless smile, but never a laugh.
The people had watched with vivid interest the young romance of Princess Charlotte's happy marriage, and had bitterly lamented her too early death--an event which had overshadowed all English hearts with forebodings of disaster.
This volume was published some years ago, but the interesting and vivid details given in its pages of the Balaclava combats and the light it throws on many obscure incidents of the day have been strangely overlooked.
Ladies in white jackets and trailing silk skirts of vividhue were taking a leisurely airing, each with her demure maid behind her carrying the lacquer-ware box of betel-nut.
The moon had now gone, and the vivid lightning followed the thunder, and yet louder and more fearful thunder succeeded the lightning.
The effect of toovivid a conception of it is never wholesome.
It narrates in singularly vivid style the deeds of a frightful fiend, and is, believe me, a truly remarkable work.
It is unusual to see the ground beneath beech trees a vivid green, since grass will not grow at their roots, but all about was a close-growing bed of bog-myrtle, softer and brighter than bracken in its hue.
The grass alone, poor and sparse as it is, has a gamut of tints, through dull green and hay colour to ash grey, and in the wet places are streaks of vivid emerald.
The description being given from the barely optical rather than from any reflective scientific stand-point more or less advanced, is on this very account the more vivid as well as the more universal.
We shall depend for the further record of that eventful day on the narrative of Zenas, as subsequently reported, with all the vivid touches of personal experience and eye-witness.
Footnote: The present writer has a vivid remembrance of a night-passage of the river under circumstances of some peril.
The gravel pathways and stretches of vivid turf were thronged with the best known men and women of the two great Parisian worlds of sport and fashion, and the air rang with gay gossip and spirited discussion.
Gradually he readapts himself, regains and confirms his faith in the human spirit that was so vivid when he lived with his fellow soldiers.
Herr Davidson," said Liebknecht, "referred to the two cases I wanted to mention, and he drew just as vivid a picture of the spirit prevailing in the army and of the illegal persecutions as I should have done if I had been allowed.
