All this time I had experienced little, save a sense of lightness and cold discomfort.

That Mr. GREELEY'S toe is "fantastic," every body who has ever inspected his "Congress gaiters" must know, but as to its lightness we have our doubts.

For underneath Billie's lightness they knew that she was still puzzling her wits for some way to pay for that broken statue.

It must contain, of course, certain old standard tunes which seem justly destined to live in perpetual favor, and it must surround these with clusters of new tunes, which shall be as solid and correct in their harmony as the older, while their lightness and fluency of melody belong to the present day.

She began to realise the sentiment of her ancestor, the good Lord Brodie:"God can make use of poison to expel poison: in London I saw much vanity, lightness, and wantonness."

O this lightness!

The proper appearance of this dish depends entirely on the expedition with which it is served, and some cooks, to preserve its lightness, hold a salamander over the soufflé until it is placed on the table.

From the Cavaliers we have a more intimate bequest: it is from them, not from the Puritans, that the fighting forces of the British Empire inherit their outlook on the world, their freedom from pedantry, and that gaiety and lightness of courage which makes them carry their lives like a feather in the cap.

Wherefore we should not let ourselves be transported into any excessive pitch of lightness, inconsistent with or prejudicial to our Christian state and business.

he said with rather strained lightness.

Her high voice trembled on the verge of hysteria, yet she tried to speak with her usual mocking lightness.

Call it perpetual youth, or joyousness, or what you like, the fact remains that the power of sustained enthusiasm, lightness of heart and gaiety, with the faculty of communicating to others that state of mind, is not one of the commonest endowments of the human brain.

He took a walk with me every day, generally to the Candlemaker Row; but he was sombre and mild; declined doing battle, though some fit cases offered, and indeed submitted to sundry indignities; and was always very ready to turn, and came faster back, and trotted up the stair with much lightness, and went straight to that door.

The beholder is charmed with the deer-like lightness and elegance of their make; and although the relief is not above an inch from the background, and they are so much smaller than nature, we can scarcely suffer reason to persuade us they are not alive."

It was a morning on which to be happy for no other reason than lightness of heart; and Avery, with her work-bag on her arm, sang softly to herself as she went.

"Yes, dear," she answered, with an effort at lightness.

Do you want me?" "Just to scare away the bogies," she made answer, with a lightness that scarcely veiled a deeper feeling.

She shewed me a picture of the town as it appeared to her when she had been brought there many a long and weary year ago, ere yet her step had lost its lightness, and when she was in the bloom of her bridal life.

Her steps had a long-limbed freedom and lightness, with which his own steps ran in a rhythm to the music of some past association.

If he is ever tedious, it is from an excess of liveliness: he oppresses from a sense of airy lightness.

It would, when the back-gate was shut, jump over a six feet picket fence, with the ease and lightness of a bird.

We dismounted our birch from the truck, and laid its lightness upon the stream.

She had stumbled and gone astray,she told herself hourly now that she had stumbled and gone astray,in preparing those roses and ribbons, and other lightnesses for her young girl.

In the original machine this roller simply kept its place upon the detaching roller by its weight, and when the machine came to be run at high speeds it was found that owing to its lightness the contact thus obtained was not reliable, the flutes or ribs of the roller slipping upon those of the detaching roller, which for good work is undesirable.

Her courses were hauled up, on account of the lightness of the air; but all her upper sails stood, and were carefully watched and trimmed, in order to make the most of the cats'-paws, or rather of the breathings of the atmosphere, which occasionally caused the royals to swell outward.