Hawkins accepted in silence, and thereafter--for cigars were a rarity on the frontier--puffed half the length of the weed in wordless content.
The evening before, Irene Lawrence had gone to Sylvie's room, and found her kneeling by the open window, her face turned heavenward in a wordless prayer for strength.
Now that it had come, she was rather glad to offer this wordless apology for a crime against good-breeding, that only a rude young girl could be guilty of, to one she considered her inferior.
There was an undercurrent of distrust, a disinclination to lay in stock, a wordless questioning from eye to eye, with no hopeful response.
Jack looked up to the stars, still with a little wordless pain at his heart.
Strange spells were in the weaving, and no two souls are fused to harmony without much subtle questioning of spirit, many delicate, tremulous speculations compounded of wordless joy and wordless fear.
Blair threw up his arms with a wordless gesture of disgust.
Then Blair flung up his arms in a wordless protest; he actually winced with pain.
He was weary of the pinched and unpromising condition of our daily life, but he smiled, and entertained us and guided us with unflagging manliness, though with longer and longer intervals of wordless reserve.
More than once, too, Sylvia had seen a flash of some quick, wordless communication pass between them.
Then suddenly he thought of Hinton, the artist for whom both he and his friend had had reason to feel so deep if wordless a contempt, and yet whom they had both tried, over and over again, to help and set on his feet.
I waited above the beach, enchanted by the haunting, wordless melody of the gongs.
As we climbed, I could hear the haunting melody of Mildred's wordless song coming faint across the distance.
There were flowers about him--sweet old-fashioned flowers which his mother had planted in the homestead garden in her bridal days and for which Matthew had always had a secret, wordless love.
Next it was a wordless clamour startlingly close, and loud enough to be distinct if each word had not killed the other.
He had come close to the woods that walled in the castle before he had quite realized what hiswordless state meant and was meant to mean.
Close beside him, Mary looked down in wordless despair over this final disaster of the night.
She stood motionless in wordless dismay, impotent before this disaster forced on her by untoward chance.
The air vibrates with wordless promises, calls, messages, beckonings; and fairy-tales are told by all the whispering leaves.
Whereupon Lin-chi emitted the first of what was to be a lifetime of shouts, affirming his wordless insight.
Upon hearing this Lin-chi suddenly understood that Huang-po was transmitting the wordless insight to him, the understanding that Ch'an lies not in the words produced in the abbot's room but rather in the realization of his intuitive mind.
It was this transmission of wordless insight, of Mind, that obsessed Huang-po.
When you finally reach this state of wordless insight, you realize that both words and wordlessness are merely part of this larger reality.
The third stage, enlightenment through Universality, leads one to meditate on the Absolute, upon the single wordless truth that defines the particular around us as part of itself.
Huang-po struggled with a fundamental dilemma of Ch'an: how the wordless wisdom of intuition can be passed from generation to generation.
Could it be that with this incident we have finally captured a wordless transmission?
As did other masters, Huang-po also employed silence as a teaching device, using it to teach wordless insight by example.
Huang-po's wordless response was to lay him low with a blow of his stick.
He shared the concern of Huang-po and Ma-tsu with the problem of wordless transmission and to their repertory of beatings and silences he added the yell, another way to affirm insights that cannot be reasoned.
But what more ideal expression of China's wordless doctrine?
On lonely mountaintops, teachers of sudden enlightenment were experimenting with new ways to transmit wordless insight.
The sheriff's ominous words, falling like a pall over the first flash of his happiness, had filled his mind with wordless terrors.
When he relaxed at last it was simply to her arms around him, his head on her bosom, her wordless notes of tenderness and consolation.
It is as if he seated himself at the piano in the room of a bereaved mother, comforting her with the wordless song of resignation.
Thus early did the child enter into communion with the wordless speech of humanity; thus early had the all-embracing sympathy of the life of feeling enabled him to pass beyond the narrows of town and of province, of nation and of era.
He paused to stare in wordless misery at the silent gathering before him.
And from a balconied window up high in the side of a tall stone building, two men stood wordless and waiting while they watched the preparations below.
She buried her face down deep in their sweetness, and every faint, feeble pulse thrilled with wordless delight.
Bess and Dilsey knew little about artistic methods; but the sight was a joy that the finest knowledge could not have described--that full, wordless satisfaction.
How often they looked wistfully at each other, and asked a wordless question.
Thus stood Judas, wordless and cold as death, and the cry of his soul was met by the cries and the tumult that encircled Jesus.
He longed to purge himself for the great martyrdom and the great sacrifice yet unrevealed, and his days and his nights became one ceaseless prayer, one wordless effusion.
He shouted, something wordless and alarmed, and Link rolled over and climbed up to his feet and lurched a few steps deeper into the postage-stamp-sized yard, limping badly.
Once more he gave his wordless cry--a cry like the shrill hail of a mute.
She made to walk past the boys back towards Yaverland's End, but as she moved they sent up shrill wordless calls to their fellows who were still in the fields, which were immediately answered.
He did not seem to be looking at her; indeed, he averted his eyes from her, but thoughts about her made him laugh and send out a jeering cry--wordless like the call of the boys.
She felt sick and shaken, as if she had been sitting in an express train and the driver had suddenly put on the brakes, and it angered her that he once more made one of those wordless sounds that she detested.
It struck her as a mark of debasement that their bodies were moving more swiftly than their minds, and that each time they spoke they first gesticulated or made some wordless sound.
Three times again he knocked, and there penetrated through the panels one of those wordless noises that had been disgusting her all the afternoon.
