That which had been found in the old Lee well had been buried in the Mitchell plot at Shrewsbury and a white marble shaft, "Sacred to the memory of Beatrice Burnley, beloved wife of Allan Burnley," had been erected.
Yearning to listen and console, while I thought audience and solace beyond hope's reach—no sooner did opportunity suddenly and fully arrive, than I evaded it as I would have evaded the levelled shaft of mortality.
Did I consume the venison at once and with haste, as if Esau's shaft flew every day?
Like a bird or a shaft, or any other swift thing, she was gone from the room.
A huge driving-wheel and a shaft half-filled with rubbish showed the position of an abandoned mine.
" said Leslie, after a brief silence, pointing to the exquisite effect of a shaft of light falling through a cleft in the rock behind them, across a dark green pool at its base.
"We were quarrelling like cats about you, Heathcliff; and I was fairly beaten in protestations of devotion and admiration: and, moreover, I was informed that if I would but have the manners to stand aside, my rival, as she will have herself to be, would shoot a shaft into your soul that would fix you for ever, and send my image into eternal oblivion!
"This cavern stretches under the island as far as the volcano, and is only separated from its central shaft by the wall which terminates it.
It might therefore be concluded that the vapors and smoke found a free passage through the central shaft; and that the safety-valve being sufficiently large, no convulsion would be produced, no explosion was to be apprehended.
At last the horse was caught and harnessed, and they set off, all talking at once, each animal either trudging by the side of the cart or sitting on the shaft, as the humour took him.
" Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul.
A shaft of pale spring sunlight fell through a great pine athwart her bare black head and her slanted eyes.
He arrived unmolested at the foot of the shaft, and stood still again, biting at his breath, which had almost left him.
Titled Twelve Landscape Screens, each of the paintings is framed in a vertical shaft of 1.
The oils produced by the scalp – notably sebum – keep the shaft of the hair clean, smooth and protected, performing the role of 'shampoo and conditioner' far more effectively than the manufactured alternatives.
They are one of the best sources of vitamin C and help in the production of collagen, which strengthens the capillaries supplying blood to the hair shaft.
They are one of the best sources of vitamin C and help in the production of collagen, which strengthens the capillaries supplying blood to the hair shaft.
As in a ruin we it call One thing to be blown up, or fall; Or to our end like way may have By a flash of lightning, or a wave; So love's inflamed shaft or brand May kill as soon as Death's cold hand; Except Love's fires the virtue have To fright the frost out of the grave.
" He took up a pair of sharp scissors, and with a snap cut off the exposed arrow shaft.
Her view is of an air shaft.