It is the winged lightning; and as it flashes along the wires stretched from city to city, and across continents, carries with unerring certainty every word committed to its charge.

Oh, yes, we little china people have a variety of rivets, thank God, to prevent too frequent nodding and too cowardly a compromise with baseness,rivets that are a part of us and force us into flashes of upright living, almost in spite of ourselves, when duty and inclination grapple.

One knew them by their colors and measured flashes.

It was possible these things were like the flashes that leaped out of the dark.

At the same moment my heels flew into the air, I saw as many flashes as at Austerlitz, and the back of my head came down with a crash upon a stone.

Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me?" Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale flashes seemed to rise, As when the northern skies Gleam in December; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.

Far in the east the Harlem River lies like a sheet of dazzling silver, dotted with boats; every skylight, every point of glass or metal on the roofs, flashes in the sun, and, gazing down from that corner in the sky, one sees the visible morning hymn of the citya drift from thousands of house chimneys of delicate unraveling skeins of white-blue smoke lifting from those human dwellings like aerial spirits.

This was the time he loved best, these precious silent hours when the city slept and his mind became most activethis was the time when chiefly he received those flashes of inspiration or intuition that had so often and so wonderfully guided him.

Along the marvellous electric currents of life there flashes from the man to the horse, intelligence, feeling, purpose, even thought perhaps, so that to the true horseman the centaur can never be wholly a fabulous creature.

The torment of expectation is, indeed, not easily to be borne at a time when every idea of gratification fires the blood, and flashes on the fancy; when the heart is vacant to every fresh form of delight, and has no rival engagements to withdraw it from the importunities of a new desire.

Sometimes unexpected flashes of instruction were struck out by the fortuitous collision of happy incidents, or an involuntary concurrence of ideas, in which the philosopher to whom they happened had no other merit than that of knowing their value, and transmitting, unclouded, to posterity, that light which had been kindled by causes out of his power.

The flashes from the heavens were not in quick succession; but the few that did break upon the gloominess of the scene came in majesty, and with dazzling brightness.

A thousand flashes of uncertain light Cleave the thick darkness, driving far athwart The up-piled glooms, as lightnings plough their bright Fire-furrows through the barren cloud They sow with thunders.

The other is of equal excellence, in a different style; it is a bust of "Jephthah's daughter," when the consciousness of her doom first flashes upon her.

This thought flashes into my brain, and a quiver of anguish passes through my body from head to foot.

All the lights of his mind had fallen upon this ideal, all the colors of the spectrum and many from heavencertain swift flashes of glory, such as are brought, in queer angles of light, from a butterfly's wing.

Equally unexplainable was the way in which these strange moods, these dim flashes, were subtly bound up with Veronica.

There are flashes struck from midnights, There are fireflames noondays kindle, Whereby piled-up honors perish.

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He doubles like the serpent, changes and flashes like the shaken kaleidoscope, transmigrates bodily into the views of others, and so, in the twinkling of an eye and with a heady rapture, turns questions inside out and flings them empty before you on the ground, like a triumphant conjuror.

The quick succession of flashes of lightning, the sudden, sharp, unendurable explosions, before, behind, and on either side, shook the nerves of Charlton and drove little Katy frantic.

In his manner of treating art, this is often shown bywords and forms and flashes of instinctive reminiscence which recall the great school.

I see him before me now with his strong personality, his captivating and persuasive speech, his mind with its incisive flashes; but a visible melancholy swayed him and was to follow him through the variety and contrasts of the subjects on his program.

In the third place, I observed that in the intervals between the flashes, when the water was dark, all objects immersed in that water were luminous.

We ascend out of the gloomy mountain-nightsunlight flashes around"Good luck to you!" Most of the miners dwell in Clausthal, and in the adjoining small town of Zellerfeld.