The choice for each of us is whether the veil will thicken till it darkens the Face altogether, and that is death; or whether it will thin away till the last filmy remnant is gone, and 'we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
So my sin darkens my soul, and separates me from the light of life.
But it is our sinful moral nature that darkens His face and dulls our eyes.
What a heavy gloom lies upon his past and his present, which darkens into an impenetrable mist that wraps and hides the future!
When cloud fills the sky itdarkens the earth, and shuts out the sunshine and the blue, it closes the petals of the little flowers, it hushes the songs of the birds.
However earth may be shaken by storms, or swathed in mist that darkens all things and shuts out heaven, the sun is still in its tabernacle and pouring down its rays through the cloudless blue that is above the enfolding cloud.
When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
ALEEL crawls into the middle of the room; the twilight has fallen and gradually darkens as the scene goes on.
The twilight has fallen and graduallydarkens as the scene goes on.
She spoke of them as though they were historical figures of the past, men too distant and too great to arouse the weak emotion which darkens contemplation.
Alder bark or alder leaves added to the dye bath darkens the colour.
The wool comes out of the vat a greenish shade, but the oxygen in the air darkens it, through oxydation, to indigo blue.
The stern condition on which we hold our nobler and diviner gifts darkens our vision towards the future of those for whom we know the human infirmities of jealousy or hate or love.
Behold the icy and profound disdain on the brow of the old man,--the lofty yet touching sadness that darkens the glorious countenance of Zanoni.
I face it, and it graduallydarkens back into the shade.
A paler yellow remains as a residual tint, and this on continued exposure to the light, slowly darkens to brown.
Continue the exposure, and a brown impression begins to be percieved in the midst of the white streak, which darkens slowly over the region between the lower blue and extreme violet rays.
It should not be exposed too long, as not only is the ultimate effect less striking, but a picture begins to be visibly produced, which darkens spontaneously after it is withdrawn.
Faint gleams the evening radiance thro' the sky, The sober twilight dimly darkens round; In short quick circles the shrill bat flits by, And the slow vapour curls along the ground.
Cold on his brow convulsing stands the dew, And night eternal darkens on his view.
Interposed between her and the fading light of day in the now quiet street, his shadow falls upon her, and he darkens all before her.
So when calamity darkens round us, or our sense of sin and sorrow shakes our hearts, we need effort to resolve and to carry into practice the resolution, 'I flee unto Thee to hide me.
Death darkens my lodge; my door is closed to sun and moon and stars.
Alonso, “it must be because the holy woman who has charge of the lamp cheats the devotees and scants the oil, so that the light, almost out, brightens and then darkens again in its dying agony.
And when night darkens and you return to the castle, white and weary, in vain I seek in the game-bag the spoils of the chase.
The weather darkens the line and defines it, or mingles it with the raining cloud; or softly dims it, or blackens it against a gleam of narrow sunshine in the sky.
It does but darken his window as itdarkens the day, and is gone again; he does not see it pluck and snatch the sun.
Mist darkens the mountain, night darkens the vale," in place of "There is mist on the mountain and mist on the vale.
When night darkens on the dwellings, fires are lighted in our heart And our entrails burn within us, for desire and love's excess.
And this is the thought which is most operative in many minds, though it is veiled in more seemly phrases, and which darkens and injures all those on whom it lays hold.
His hopeless condition, crushed out as it were to gratify him in whose company her pleasures are but transitory, and may any day end, darkens as she contemplates it.
Maria stands in a defiant attitude, her left hand poised on a chair, and her right pointing scornfully in the face of Keepum, who recoils under the look of withering scorn thatdarkens her countenance.
Simultaneously a broad, cheerful face, somewhat matronly in its aspect, and enlivened with an urbane smile, darkens the space.
In one picture, therefore, he has given us the rain-clouds showering their blessings upon man, and in the other revealed the dread fatalistic power that ever darkens the background of life.
And instead of white wreaths of clouds crowning the wolds, a pillar of fire lights them up by night, and a cloud of smoke darkens them by day.
As the animals age, their color darkens to almost black with distinctive regions of grayish white on the belly and chest.
When endless day dispels the strife Which blinds and darkens now, Perchance the brightest crown of life Shall deck some lowly brow.
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