 ... which glanced occasionally with a restless, melancholy, and almost alarmed expression. Whatever feeling, however, of bodily illness, yet undeveloped, or of mental uneasiness might cause this expression, Mrs. Courtenay did not reveal it in words, for...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Seite 1811843Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Urquhart - 1838 - 506 Seiten
...Highlander wears his little knife for hamstringing deer. There was scarcely an interval of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, so brilliant were the stars ; and when the orb of Diana arose, the rays she shot might even have made... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1843 - 574 Seiten
...her beauty, a very watchful eye might have traced the possibility that their action was not far nil', in the anxious expression of her soft, brilliant black...another part of the room, where was seated a handsome young man, a few years older than his fair young j^bride, in the undress of her majesty's regiment.... | |
 | 1843 - 346 Seiten
...nothing for it but to proceed downwards to the monastery. There was scarcely an interval of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, so brilliant were the stars ; and when the orb of Diana arose, the rays she shot might even have made... | |
 | 1843 - 378 Seiten
...nothing for it but to proceed downwards to the monastery. There was scarcely an interval of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, so brilliant were the stars ; and when the orb of Diana arose, the rays she shot, might even have made... | |
 | 1852 - 348 Seiten
...compulsion from the relentless sun, which there never withdraws behind clouds but by some rare caprice. Between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, the great dial may rest ; but only then may it refuse to show the hours. From making dkls, in imitation... | |
 | John Lang - 1859 - 420 Seiten
...hour for me to come to the purdah behind which she sat ; and the Brahmins had told her that it must be between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, which was then near her full ; in other words, between half-past five and half-past six o'clock. This... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...compulsion from the relentless sun, which there never withdraws behind clouds but by some rare caprice. Between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, the great dial may rest ; but only then may it refuse to show the hours. From making dials, in imitation... | |
 | John Lang - 1861 - 478 Seiten
...hour for me to come to the purdah behind which she sat ; and the Brahmins had told her that it must be between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, which was then near her full ; in other words, between half-past five and half-past six o'clock. This... | |
 | George Clifford Whitworth, Whitworth, George Clifford, d. 1917 - 1885 - 410 Seiten
...fortnight from the full moon to the new moon, in which period there is a daily lengthening time of darkness between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon. See £uklapaksh. Krita. [Sanskrit, from kri, to do.] Accomplished, performed ; the side of the die... | |
 | Edward Sims Van Zile - 1899 - 332 Seiten
...god ! We'll find your Cabanacte ere the night is old — and none will ever know. And now, begone ! Between the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon I'll come to you and Coyocop. Be true to me, senora, and by the magic of my silver wand you'll look... | |
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