It was a house which aforetime had had vivid brides and mothers and wives, and the atmosphere of their loves and lives still hung around it, not yet banished by the old-maidishness of the régime of Elizabeth and Laura.
Villette is one blaze, one broad illumination; the whole world seems abroad; moonlight and heaven are banished: the town, by her own flambeaux, beholds her own splendour—gay dresses, grand equipages, fine horses and gallant riders throng the bright streets.
Antiquity brooded above this region, business was banished thence.
Fallen, insurgent, banished, she remembers the heaven where she rebelled.
A perfect crowd of spectators was by this time gathered round the Lioness, from whose vicinage I had been banished; nearly half this crowd were ladies, but M.
Then every trace of it was banished by a sudden, strange, fierce anger that swept over him.
The hearth fire banished the chill of the September evening, but the window of the dining room was open and sea breezes entered at their own sweet will.
Heathcliff, who grew more and more disinclined to society, had almost banished Earnshaw from his apartment.
" "Oh, indeed; you're tired of being banished from the world, are you?
I desire an explanation: playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind; and I can't dance attendance on your affectations now!
I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his.
One Sunday evening, it chanced that they were banished from the sitting-room, for making a noise, or a light offence of the kind; and when I went to call them to supper, I could discover them nowhere.
But the open fire did more than anything else to win and hold them all, as it seldom fails to do when the black demon of an airtight stove is banished from the hearth.
The little air-tight stove was banished, and a pair of ancient andirons shone in the fire-light.
I am banished from both now.
But that sort of wishing had been banished along with other dreams that savored of seeking her own will; and she thought, besides, that Philip might be altered by his life abroad,—he might have become worldly, and really not care about her saying anything to him now.
But still the disappointed father held a strong lever; and Fred felt as if he were being banished with a malediction.
She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly, as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings—that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigor of irresistible day.
Will was banished further than ever, for Mr.
A touch, a ray, that is not here, A shadow that is gone: "A dream of breath that might be near, An inly-echoed tone, The thought that one may think me dear, The place where one was known, "The tremor of a banished fear, An ill that was not done— O me, O me, what frugal cheer My love doth feed upon!
