Having looked on such sights as lie behind the curtain, having trod such ways, they should be bubbling with excitement.

Like those who meet a Devil in the night, And all afrighted gaze upon the Fury, But dare not turn their backs to what they fear, Though safety lie behind them.

Did a dead man lie behind the trunk, or had a wounded man crawled into cover?

More, of course, may lie behind; but no evidence has been produced, so far as I am aware, to show that the Austrian project was approved or supported by her ally.

Whatever might lie behind, he had struck for the future which he meant to live and enjoy.

Science deals entirely with phenomena, and has nothing to say to the nature of the ultimate reality which may lie behind phenomena.

And we will trip on merry heel and toe With all the fair who lightly come and go; We will deny the years that lie behind And say that age is only in the mind.

A streak of dull, unnatural light was seen in the quarter which lay above the meadows of the Rhone, and nearly in a direction with the peak of Mont Blanc, which, though not visible from this portion of the Leman, was known to lie behind the ramparts of Savoy, like a monarch of the hills entrenched in his citadel of rocks and ice.

They lie behind the mere crash of the falling flood, within it somehow, not audible to allfelt rather than definitely heard.

But I knew he was a king, lady, and I couldn't no more shoot him that I could lie behind a bush and shoot a man."

Up to the time of Panaetius and the Scipionic circle the Roman idea and study of law had been of a crabbed practical character, wanting in breadth of treatment, destitute of any philosophical conception of the moral principles which lie behind all law and government.

No other method can wind itself so completely into the psychological intricacies and recesses which lie behind every event.

Go now, to please me, and when you wake, both France and your troubles will lie behind you.

He spent weeks over it, and, staggering under its weight, would carry it out into the hayfield, where, truant to the harvest, he would lie behind the stacks and read and read.

Christ's sweetest consolations lie behind crosses, and He reserves His best things for those who have the courage to press forward, fighting for them.

In the shadows of the night, Lie behind us shame and scorn; Lies the slave's exulting might, Who the German oak has torn.

Even if landing were possible, the grimmest crevassed snow slopes lie behind to cut one off from the Barrier surface; there is no hope of shelter till we reach Cape Royds.

Not until with Christ we bow our heads and say, "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt," will the iron gates unfold and the shadows of the Garden lie behind us.

Led by a thread of sunshine, you have walked the labyrinth of the waters, and all their gigantic dangers lie behind you.

In England men will learn with amazement and incredulity that war is possible over the question of a Servian port, or even over the larger issues which are said to lie behind it.

The human eye never beheld a more affluent scene of houses, cities, villages, vineyards, and country residences than was presented by the broad breast of this isolated mountain, passing which a wider view is obtained of the rich plain that seems to lie behind it, bounded as it is by a wall of a distant and mysterious-looking, yet bold range of the Apennines.

Some great change of climate must lie behind this vanishing of vast forests, this gradual growth of peat-covered moors.

"But thou shalt lie behind the right-wing men to pass them torches.

"Clouds of palm crowns lie behind, Clouds of gray moss in the wind, Crumbling oaks with jessamines twined, Where the ring-doves meet their mates, Cooing in the cypress gates Of the Ocklawaha.

SILENCE, WORSHIP OF, Carlyle's name for the sacred respect for restraint in speech till "thought has silently matured itself, ... to hold one's tongue till some meaning lie behind to set it wagging," a doctrine which many misunderstand, almost wilfully, it would seem; silence being to him the very womb out of which all great things are born.