What feeble wit of man might here suffice, To point with colours dim Sir Lanval's extacies!

A creaking and metallic rattle, as of chains, comes across the arable fielda steady gaze reveals the dim outline of a team of horses slowly dragging the plough, their shapes indistinctly seen against the hedge.

He could discern the dim bulk of William and Mary College and of the Governor's Palace, but except near at hand the smaller buildings were lost in the dusk.

The current sucked him up and suddenly he found himself in a chilly cave, feeling his way on the slimy floor by the dim light.

As if from a mountain side he saw dim forms moving into the jury box, heard the judge and Mr. Tutt exchanging meaningless remarks.

Hunting then became quite a dream for me, as if it called back to me dim mystic days in the woods of some past weird world.

General Grover was in the centre of a group of officers, surrounding a dim lantern which, was on the ground at the root of a large tree; horses were tied near by to the branches of trees.

I now tried to discern this new light, and could not at first, but after a little while it did seem to me that just ahead there was a dim gray streak.

One who had been silent seemed awakened by inspiration and spoke in impromptu lines somewhat as follows, as he pointed out to the dim distance: "Yonder in mountains' gray beauty, Wealth and fame decay.

Nehemiah and his workmen fade away; the walls of Jerusalem become dim and obscure, and, in their place, we see coming out, as in a dissolving view, other figures and another landscape.

They had no difficulty in finding the house, with its ominous lights, that had all night long burned out dim into the darkness.

He could not endure the sharp angle of the nose, that so stabbed up into the dim night, unrelieved by the other features.

She looked up, and a cold, starless, dim blank was all over her; and all around, standing thick, were cold, dark, silent trees.

CHAPTER XLI THE MASTER'S PRICE A dim and subtly perfumed corridor opened out before them, its walls hung with tapestries, between which, by the light of sandal-oil mash'als, or cressets, the glimmer of the dull-gold walls could be distinguished.

Copper braziers, suspended from the pillars, sent dim spirals of perfumed smoke aloft into the blue air.

All were unarmed; but the muscles of their heavy shoulders, the gorilla-like dangle of their steel-fingered hands produced an effect more ominous even than the gleam of simitars in the dim cressets' light would have been.

Nothing more soothing could have been imagined than the soft wooing of repletion and of silken cushions, the dim sunlight through the smoke of incense and tobacco, the gentle bubbling of the water-pipes, the half-heard courting of pigeons somewhere aloft in the embrasures of the clerestory windows.

Faith, very good indeed!" He laughed at his own witticism and blew perfumed smoke toward the dim, golden roof.

The gracious weaving of those lithe, white bodies of the girls as they swayed from sunlit filigree to dim shadow, stirred even the coldest heart among the Legionaries, that of the Master himself.

"Remember, men," the Master warned his men as they penetrated the dim, golden-walled passage also lighted with sandal-oil mash'als"remember the mercy-bullets.

(Under thy protection, O Sheik!) Let not the laws of hospitality or the Oath of Salt be forgotten!" The Olema only smiled oddly, in the dim and perfumed obscurity of the passageway, along which the slither of the many sandaled feet on the gold pavement made a soft, creeping sound.

Not even the censers, depending from the dim roof, far above, could freshen it; nor could the cressets' light make more than a kind of ghostly aura through the gloom.

By this dim half-illumination the Master beheld, there before him in the middle of the tremendous golden pavement, a strange, pyramidal object rising four-square in the shape of an equilateral trianglejust such a triangle as was formed by the locations of Mecca, Bab el Mandeb, and El Barr.

Together, in silence, they mounted toward the dim, high-arched roof.

From near the top, the Master, glancing down, could see the white-robed mass of the Arabs, the small, compact group of his own men; and, behind them all, the dim, black lines of the stranglers.