And this," I said to myself, as I regarded the wondrous loveliness with which the snow had at once clothed and disfigured the bare branches of the trees, "this is what has come of the chaos of falling flakes!
All the time I was sensible of a wondrous elevation of being, a glory of life and feeling hitherto unknown to me.
While I experienced this wondrous poem of feeling human and even of weeping,--he slept like a dead one at the very same table.
I shall like our American acquaintance the better that he has sharpened your remembrance of me, but he is also a wondrous fellow for romantic lore and antiquarian research, considering his country.
The water runnes swift, and wondrous deepe, From bottome unto the brimme; My brother Henry hath men good enough; England is hard to winne.
The lead is wondrous heavy, mither, The well is wondrous deep; A keen penknife sticks in my heart, It is hard for me to speak.
For your strokes they are wondrous sair; True lovers I can get many a ane, But a father I can never get mair.
The rivalry of Praxiteles need not concern him, for there are wondrous ideals yet to be wrought, which will be comprehended and loved even in these days of hastening endeavour.
How wondrous must be the beauty when a glimpse of it suffices to hasten the blood through shrivelled veins, and provoke tempestuous currents to awake atrophied nerves!
Here is scope for the imagination--to indicate the fancies of the budding genius who was to carve the wondrous shield, and adorn the heaven-domed halls of Olympus.
Then it came to pass that a pestilence fell on the city, Presaged by wondrous signs, and mostly by flocks of wild pigeons, Darkening the sun in their flight, with naught in their craws but an acorn.
Such was the Kyrat's wondrous speed, Never yet could any steed Reach the dust-cloud in his course.
Full of faith and hope, Ernest doubted not that what the people said was true, and that now he was to behold the living likeness of those wondrous features on the mountain-side.
She thought of nothing but the wondrous happiness love could bring to her.
She had never possessed a rich or complete costume in her life; and there was a wondrous novelty in the anticipation of wearing dresses that were not remodelled from Pamela's or her mother's cast-off garments.
Only a few know whereabouts is the grave where lies laborious Carte; and yet, O wondrous power of genius!
A vast number of pages might be filled with narratives of the tricks that were played upon him; but they resemble each other a good deal, as may be imagined, and the chief point remarkable about them is the wondrous faith of Poinsinet.
Then to his bed, where he would dream of his Elsa and the good old days, the folks he had loved, his youthful courtships, and all the fine and wondrous things which his lonely drinking bout had brought to his inward eye.
His face seemed as though cast in metal, and was of wondrous fine mould, but deadly and unchangefully pale.
He was a right well-disposed and cheerful old man, of a rare good heart and temper, and of wondrous good devices.
It seemed to Isabel wondrous strange, that she should feel so anxious to be rescued from her perilous situation, when not so long ago she had been so desirous of death, but so it was.
The God of stable laws, Varuna, has taken his place in his palace to be the universal king, the god with the wondrous intellect.
Their most wondrous possessions are their ships, which know the thoughts of men, and sail swifter than a bird or than thought.
So the Treaty of Gundamuck was no sooner signed than Ministers and Ministerial journals raised a great hymn of triumph over the wondrous things which they had wrought in Afghanistan.
He felt keenly that, in a mere worldly point of view, he must sacrifice; but it was exactly in that love and that sacrifice was born the poet, the wondrous child of song, who has given us the most glorious lyrics of our language.
Were there intelligences to whom these could speak, and thus reveal a wondrous history?
Near the pyramids, more wondrous and more awful than all else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely sphinx.
Nothing seemed impossible to a generation which knew of toils and quests greater than any minstrel had sung, which had beheld in the East sights as wondrous and fearful as any the jongleur could tell of.
With Robert de Borron it is the sin of the flesh which brings down upon the Grail host the wrath of Heaven, and necessitates the display of the Grail's wondrous power.
The most obvious way of accounting for their wondrous silence under oppression is also the true one--namely, that, as a general fact, the oppression is unknown.
In conversation father can Do many wondrous things; He's built upon a wiser plan Than presidents or kings.
And I recall how proud he was of me that wondrous day When I could tell him that, unasked, the firm had raised my pay.
Among the friends of America was Mr. Pitt, afterward Earl of Chatham, who spent so much of his wondrous eloquence in endeavoring to warn England of the consequences of her injustice.
I will procure a consultation of physicians, and see whether this wondrous inoculation may not stay the progress of the destroyer.
What befell there, no one can tell for it shall remain a thing of mystery; but those who saw have said that when Natawara came forth his face bore a wondrous light as if the Great Spirit had touched it.
From the Sioux he learned how to use a wondrousthing even like the present ax.
He was to scale the mountains, penetrate to the wondrous land on the other side, and bring thence untold treasures and tales of marvels to May and his mother.
But in the night a wondrous light filled the room; a wondrous light and fragrance.
The King welcomed them in his Palace, where, beneath a golden dome, birds of ruby, wrought with a wondrous art, sat and sang in bushes of emerald.
It is my most ardent desire, Wondrous Guide, that we, your servants, will not be obliged to disturb your peace again for a thousand centuries, once this affair is concluded.
Not once have you mentioned an appreciation of thewondrous exaltation that comes from an esthetic feel for beauty.
