The clouds and the rain at length swept on, and the bow of promise spanned the rear of the retiring storm; a new joy seemed to take possession of the wild things, and gladness and merriment sounded from every direction in the old woods; a thin and shadowy mist hung like a veil over the water, and a refreshing coolness, as well as brightness and glory, were all around us.

Tradition, speaking from the dim and shadowy past, tells us of the vast numbers of these sagacious and harmless animals which congregated in these regions, living in undisturbed quiet and happiness all the year, building their dams, their canals, and cities on all the ponds, rivers, and lakes hereabouts.

Those were pleasant times, as we look upon them now, just fading into the dim and shadowy past, but they were times of toil and privation.

I say that it came from the direction of the mountains, seen dim and shadowy in the distance, and yet none of us were quite sure of this.

I didn't answer a word, and after a little, he flew back to his shadowy perch among the dense foliage of the hemlock.

In October of that year I discovered the Black Mountain Glacier in a shadowy amphitheater between Black and Rod Mountains, two of the peaks of the Merced group.

Mountains, red, gray, and black, rise close at hand on the right, whitened around their bases with banks of enduring snow; on the left swells the huge red mass of Mount Gibbs, while in front the eye wanders down the shadowy cañon, and out on the warm plain of Mono, where the lake is seen gleaming like a burnished metallic disk, with clusters of lofty volcanic cones to the south of it.

We catch their restful spirit, yield to the soothing influences of the sunshine, and saunter dreamily on through flowers and bees, scarce touched by a definite thought; then suddenly we find ourselves in the shadowy cañon, closeted with Nature in one of her wildest strongholds.

No bird moved among the sable branches, or even twittered in its sleep as if disturbed by the light, swift passing of the shadowy horsemen.

And there were many hundreds in that shadowy multitudeswaying, struggling, groaning, laughing, weeping, shouting, praying, dancing, leaping, and falling.

And then his craving for the romantic and beautiful was satisfied for the moment by gazing about this big, strange, shadowy, embowered room.

Her blue eyes seemed to be wistfully seeking the secret of love among the rosy mists which the sunset had left beneath the shadowy trees.

And the one look was enough for she knew that the great shadowy mass glooming in the dark distance must be what she sought.

Something still stood there, large, shadowy, and motionless.

Nevertheless, every hand was constantly in readiness, and all kept close together; so that thus moving through the dim light, the shadowy mounted figures looked like some fabulous monster of gigantic size and with many arms, all extended toward a common burden.

She arose quietly and stood in the door, gazing at a shadowy form which came suddenly from under the dark trees.

Every few minutes the road rushed to the water's-edge, and the glowing main, with its flashing reef, and the shadowy outlines of Moorea, a score of miles away, appeared and fled.

Hasten, hand in human hand, Down the dark, the flowered way, Along the whiteness of the sand, And in the water's soft caress Wash the mind of foolishness, Mamua, until the day. Spend the glittering moonlight there, Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair; Or floating lazy, half-asleep.

The mountain rose steeply at our backs, and constellations appeared to rest upon its shadowy crest.

Dead stillness brooded around the Coliseum; the pale, silvery lustre streamed through its arches, and over the grassy walls, giving them a look of shadowy grandeur which day could not bestow.

The eyes look on those faded characters, and across the great gulf of Time, the soul leaps into the Past, brought into shadowy nearness by a mirage of the mind.

This was a dreary and pedantic poem, in which it is told how Graunde Amoure, after a long series of adventures and instructions among such shadowy personages as Verite, Observaunce, Falshed, and Good Operacion, finally won the love of La Belle Pucel.

He lurked in the shadowy doorway.

It stood open, and from the cool and shadowy interior came a sourish smell of malt liquors and the hum of voices.

The woodshed was vacant of Pennimans, and its shadowy silence promised security.