His heart was not beating unpleasantly any longer; but as he shot out from the narrow passage through the flags, and saw the little waves laughing in the cool, dim starlight, he suddenly stopped rowing, leaned on his oars, gave a great sigh of relief, and exclaimed, "Dar, I's safe now.

That is, he got away from the square of the open door, where the faint starlight might vaguely serve to silhouette his body.

His eyes, now accustomed to the darkness in his room, distinguished clearly in the pale starlight.

Above, as the veil of atmosphere between myself and outer space grew thinner, the sky, which had been a fair springtime blue at first, grew deeper and richer in colour, passing steadily through the intervening shades, until presently it was as dark as the blue sky of midnight, and presently as black as the blackness of a frosty starlight, and at last as black as no blackness I had ever beheld.

It was as dark as earthly starlight throughout its length, while the ghastly green day lay along the upper edge of its precipices.

She rested her hand lightly on Howland's shoulder as he bent over to make it out in the elusive starlight.

Never had he seen eyes like those that glowed up at him softly, filled with the gentle starlight; never in his life had he dreamed of a face like this, so near to him that it sent the blood leaping through his veins in strange excitement.

On the Boy went in the ghostly starlight, running, stumbling, calling at regular intervals, his voice falling into a melancholy monotony that sounded foreign to himself.

5 There we heard the breath among the grasses And the gurgle of soft-running water, Well contented with the spacious starlight, The cool wind's touch and the deep blue distance, Till the dawn came in with golden sandals.

Behind the cliff overhanging the river-bed that they were just rounding, there, spread out in the sparkling starlight, as far as he could see, a vast primeval forest.

The night march over the unending roads, through the gloom and the spectral starlight, with the dull rumblings of cannon shocking his heartthat Dorn lived over, finding strangely a minutest detail of observation and a singular veracity of feeling fixed in his memory.

I protest there was no thought of coquetry in the declaration which Susan Barringer blurted out to her old lover under the sympathetic starlight of the May heaven.

" The plain lay in a brilliant starlight at this hour; they could see the gleam of the snow-peaksthe light was almost like the glow of the moon.

There was more of Annandale than I had imagined, and several tall smoke-stacks loomed here and there in the thin starlight.

His heart was not beating unpleasantly any longer; but as he shot out from the narrow passage through the flags, and saw the little waves laughing in the cool, dim starlight, he suddenly stopped rowing, leaned on his oars, gave a great sigh of relief, and exclaimed, "Dar, I's safe now.

She had left the engine running, probably for sake of the headlights, and her eyes shone dark and bright in the crisp starlight.

Even in after years, when long days of happiness had crowded out much of those stirring times from Betty's mind, a shudder would creep over her, and closing her eyes she could see again the tall gaunt trees, the frozen road, the snow that glittered so still and cold in the cruel starlight, and hear the distant shouts that she feared told of pursuit.