" Poor Dorothea, shrouded in the darkness, was in a tumult of conflicting emotions.
She was particularly fond of animals, and, besides her canary, whose cage hung on a nail in the massive wall of the keep by day, to the great annoyance of prisoners who relished an after-dinner nap, and was shrouded in an antimacassar on the parlour table at night, she kept several piebald mice and a restless revolving squirrel.
She trod in the dining-room on the Turkey carpet of her fathers; she regulated her day by the excellent black marble clock on the mantelpiece which she remembered from childhood; her walls were entirely covered by the photographs her illustrious deceased friends had given either herself or her father, with their own handwriting across the lower parts of their bodies, and the windows, shrouded by the maroon curtains of all her life, were decorated besides with the selfsame aquariums to which she
They needed no light but the firelight that sometimes leaped up and revealed them—sometimes shrouded them in shadow.
He had done all he could to help Valancy before it—he had shrouded the pale Cecilia in white roses from the garden—and then had gone back to his island.
Looking to the south, one has a fascinating view of the spectacular Lake Dian, and the graceful and full shape of the distant "Sleeping Beauty Mountain" shrouded in white clouds.
Beijing was shrouded in severe smog for weeks early this year, with pollutants from vehicle emissions, coal-burning in neighboring regions and construction dust.
A strange cloud was reported to have shrouded a hillside, and a battalion of English soldiers marched into it and never returned.
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Thy glory shrouded in its garb of fire: ,, Thyself—none living see and not expire!
Beijing was shrouded in severe smog for weeks early this year, with pollutants from vehicle emissions, coal-burning in neighboring regions and construction dust.
Short enigmatic videos of the shrouded car whizzing around desert roads bear captions such as Who said don't reinvent the wheel?
The Lagoa Stadium, which is hosting the rowing and canoeing competitions, remains partially shrouded in scaffolding while bags of garbage, orange cones and piles of dry leaves litter one of the entrances.
Thirty minutes later, we passed through a lavish carved gate and entered what looked like a palace or temple: buildings made of that orange brick, their doors shrouded in ornate sandstone carving.
Thy glory shrouded in its garb of fire: ,, Thyself—none living see and not expire!
I stumbled to the edge of the cliff overlooking the deep valley that was shrouded in dark ness.
The weather was dismally dark, and inclined to rain; the clouds hung low, like a mourning veil on the tops of the mountains, and shrouded their glittering peaks.
I cannot lead thee to Hedeby that thou mayst receive Christian baptism, for first thou must remove the thick veil with which the waters of the moorland are shrouded, and bring forth from its depths the living author of thy being and thy life.
She was laid in a black coffin, looking mild and beautiful in the white folds of the shrouded linen, though her eyes were closed; but every wrinkle had vanished, her hair looked white and silvery, and around her mouth lingered a sweet smile.
and his spirit followed the second flame, which carried him out to sea,3 where cannons roared and the ships lay shrouded in smoke, and the flaming heart attached itself to the breast of Hvitfeldt in the form of the ribbon of an order, as he blew himself and his ship into the air in order to save the fleet.