On one of those ugly nights, which we have
faintly hinted at, but forborne to picture forth, the minister started from his chair.
I had been vaguely conscious, for a while, of a person who was walking in the street abreast of us; I had glanced furtively at him once or twice, and noticed that he was a fine, large, vigorous young fellow, with an open, independent countenance,
faintly shaded with a pale and even almost imperceptible crop of early down, and that he was clothed from head to heel in cool and enviable snow-white linen.
Just here the blast of a toy tin trumpet came
faintly down the green aisles of the forest.
Cobb's seat and lifting the blue china teapot, smiled
faintly, smoothed her hair, and dried her eyes.
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then
faintly blowing.
There was a low fire glowing
faintly on the hearth and a night light burning by the side of a carved four-posted bed hung with brocade, and on the bed was lying a boy, crying fretfully.
She put the question
faintly, while he was getting his hat and stick; and he did not appear to hear her.
Then, still smiling
faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.
I opened the door of the coal cellar, and stood there in the darkness staring at the
faintly lit doorway into the kitchen, and listen- ing.
Faintly now, And fainter beats the drum; for strength is shorn, And arrows spent, and bow-strings snapped, and swords Shattered.
A sad smile gleamed
faintly from beneath the black veil, and flickered about his mouth, glimmering as he disappeared.
He raised his head from its musing position at the first sounds of her voice, and smiled
faintly, and with an expression of anguish, as she proceeded; but when she had ended, and taken her seat near him, still keeping her eyes on his varying countenance, he took her hand into his own before he replied.