12 examples of trance-like in sentences
it is too true; At her bed's feet this traitor made me see Her shame, his treason, and my deadly grief Her princely body yielded to this thief; The high despite whereof so wounded me That, trance-like, as a senseless stone I lay; For neither wit nor tongue could use the mean T'express the passions of my pained heart.
" At length I stayed from my weeping, and lifted my face from the grass; The moon was walking the wood with feet of mysterious pearl, And the great trees held their breath, trance-like, watching her pass, And a bird called out from the shadows, with voice as sweet as a girl.
Silencieux, Beatrice, Wonder, himself, all faded away, in a trance-like sense of a stupendous passion, an august possession.
He drifted into a trance-like sleep.
" Bobby stepped back, remembering his last thought before drifting into the trance-like sleep.
Undine did not have to send back her ring, and in her state of trance-like happiness she hardly asked by what means her path had been smoothed, but merely accepted her mother's assurance that "father had fixed everything all right.
He was a dark, still, slender person, always with a trance-like remoteness, a mystic dreaminess of manner, such as I never saw in any other youth.
He could not take his eyes from her, from her flushed, grave, receptive face, from her downcast, listening eyes, her slow, trance-like step as she waited for him to go on.
There was an unnerving quality in the trance-like stillness; and the mystery of it pricked him to forebodings.
She sat down upon Beth's working-stool, elbows on knees, and stared trance-like at her friend.
One day, lost in one of her trance-like meditations in which she states her intuitions with absolute disregard of expediency, she said to me: "Labor will swamp Sinn Fein.
He had passed from his trance-like sleep into a state of delirium, and when we entered the room was sitting up, pale and ghost-like, muttering to himself, and gesticulating as if in the presence of an audience.