The promise was void, like so many other sweet, illusory promises of our childhood; void as promises made in Eden before the seasons were divided, and when the starry blossoms grew side by side with the ripening peach,—impossible to be fulfilled when the golden gates had been passed.
Matthew and Marilla were there, with eyes and ears for only one student on the platform—a tall girl in pale green, with faintly flushed cheeks and starry eyes, who read the best essay and was pointed out and whispered about as the Avery winner.
She looked dismally about her narrow little room, with its dull-papered, pictureless walls, its small iron bedstead and empty book-case; and a horrible choke came into her throat as she thought of her own white room at Green Gables, where she would have the pleasant consciousness of a great green still outdoors, of sweet peas growing in the garden, and moonlight falling on the orchard, of the brook below the slope and the spruce boughs tossing in the night wind beyond it, of a vast starry sky, a
"You did just splendidly, Anne," puffed Diana, recovering sufficiently to sit up and speak, for Anne, starry eyed and rapt, had not uttered a word.
" sighed Anne, when it was all over and she and Diana were walking home together under a dark, starry sky.
I can imagine that I have a beautiful rose-leaf complexion and lovely starry violet eyes.
It was really winter now—wonderful, cold, starry winter.
I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience.
The artist in her longed for vibrant landscapes and starry moonlit skies.
A ship in sail, a blooming flower, a town at night, a lovely poem, leaf shadows, a child's grace, the starry skies, apple trees in spring--the thought of beauty--these are the drops of rain that keep the human spirit from death by draught.
One starry night that I could never forget, I was sitting beside the window, when I saw a shooting star.
I must search in the drowsy shade of the bakula grove, where pigeons coo in their corner, and fairies' anklets tinkle in the stillness of starry nights.
She walks in beauty, like the night ,, Of cloudless climes and starry skies; ,; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: , Thus mellow'd to that tender light —— Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
) 9) I'm so happy with you in this starry night.
The engineers drew inspiration from a similar solar-powered bike path in the Netherlands known as the "Starry Night" bike lane that was unveiled by Studio Roosegaarde about two years ago.
The City of London is rarely starry eyed about anything.
The artist in her longed for vibrant landscapes and starry moonlit skies.
She walks in beauty, like the night ,, Of cloudless climes and starry skies; ,; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: , Thus mellow'd to that tender light —— Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
And thou hast sought in starry eyes Beams that were never meant for thine, —— Another's wealth: — tame sacrifice ; To a fond faith!
the starry sky is their auditorium.
