Half-way Joan stumbled in a drift and fell, her loose hair flying in a shimmering veil over the snow.

Farther out on the plain she went and then stopped, with the golden glow of the autumn moon and the stars shimmering in her hair and eyes.

Over the whole scene there hung a clear, transparent night, green and shimmering, which would never be darker than an English twilight.

"One hundred and twenty," it was saying"and twenty-one, and twenty-two, and twenty-three, and twenty-four," and then he who was counting came out from behind the little sandy rise into the white and open level of shimmering brightness.

The stately pall of snowy damask, fringed with silver, swept almost to the water's breast, behind the felze of azure velvet, where, beside her father, sat the bride, in robe of brocaded silver shimmering like the seaa subtle perfume of orange blossoms heralding her advance.

" She came toward him, in her shimmering festal robes, with the unconscious, happy grace of a child, dropping into a low seat close beside him, leaning back and letting her hands fall in an attitude of complete repose, while she gave him, without effort, the detail of the evening's talk.

When he reached the shimmering heat of the outdoors again, he was feeling like a murderer.

For a moment I forgot Harriet and the agent, I forgot myself, I even forgot the book on my kneeeverything but that hour in the pasta view of shimmering hot housetops, the heat and dust and noise of an August evening in the city, the dumb weariness of it all, the loneliness, the longing for green fields; and then these great lines of Wordsworth, read for the first time, flooding in upon me: "Great God!

you were indeed in the very depths of the seaand were all sitting, Mr. Moggridge with the rest, amid coral caves and seaweed, and in a curious green and shimmering light.

He looked down into the valley, shimmering in the wet of the night's rain, and he saw nothing to rouse discontent; he sniffed the air, and it was filled with the unpolluted sweetness of growing grass, of flowers, and balsam, and water fresh from the clouds.

Muskwa soon understood the significance of the shimmering streaks that ran swiftly over the surface of the water.

After pondering over this fact for a few moments, the grizzly waded openly into the deepest part, and from the bank above Muskwa saw the shimmering trout darting into the shallower water.

It pushed its way forward between the stark trees, like a shimmering mist.

It was one of those charming, invigorating days, familiar to those of Newport experience, when the sea lies shimmering and glittering in deep blue and gold, and the sky above is firm and cloudless, and every breeze that comes landward seems to bear health and energy upon its wings.

The effect of the shimmering fronds, so delicately wrought, flanked by evergreens, is highly artistic.

She yielded to his persuasion, and walked on up the path with her face to the shimmering sea.

She saw again the shimmering, wonderful sea and the ever-brightening stars.

Just a shimmering mist, at first, but it steadied and brightened, until the snowy breast of old God-Mother was configured in the midst of her lowly brethren on the borders of Kashmir....

Against the frosted green background of the moonlit courtyard her shimmering robe, her white face and throat, and her long hair of flaming copper stood out gloriously.

Over the waters a golden, shimmering wake of light was streaming.

Just above the low, dim parapet, without a twinkle, the morning star shone large, its slender, mile-long radiance shimmering on the gliding river.

She and her five companions could see clear down both bayonet-crested living wallsblue half the sun-tortured way, gray the other halfto where in red képis and with shimmering sabres, behind their tall captain, stretched the dense platoons and came and came, to the crash of horns, the boys, the boys, the dear, dear boys who with him, with him must go, must go!

If he had known all that he would have to suffer before eleven at night, Lord Arleigh, with all his bravery, all his chivalry, would have been ready to fling himself from the green hill-top into the shimmering sea.

Not even a man in extremis could have turned away his gaze from the unbelievable masses of shimmering wealth in those square pits of gold.

She was divested now of the shimmering satin and all her bridal splendour.