His firm belief in the realization of the vague picture of the future which he had conceived, nay, which Allah held before him, drove him to the uttermost exertion of his mental power in order to surmount the innumerable unexpected obstacles which he encountered.

Your nerve and judgment will be sufficiently tried to-night; and it is a valuable maxim of our science that, in the hours immediately preceding either an important decision or a severe trial, the spirit should be left as far as possible calm and unvexed by vague shadows of that which is to come.

Hundreds of thousands of the healthiest, finest, most valuable forces in the nation are trembling from anxiety that chance, or a nod of Europe's rulers, malevolence, or a fit of Sadism, a Caesar-madness or a business speculation, an empty word or a vague conception of honour, will drive them to-morrow out of their homes, from wife and child, from all that which they treasure and have built up with so much pain and troubleinto death.

This was, however, the artistic prelude to a large, vague, gloomy dissertation about nothing very definite, a muddling up of the main question with the minor issue of a schedule of constituencies involved in the proposal.

For it, too, every one must become a student, must go on with the task of making vague intentions into definite intentions, of analyzing and destroying obstacles, of mastering the ten thousand difficulties of detail....

With a vague, yet wild, purpose she entered the house, and took her way to her mother's chamber.

For a moment she paused almost upon the threshold, and looked around her with a vague and misty vision.

Whatever might ensue, a vague conviction of having achieved a great object pervaded, as it were, her being.

The name of Ned Stillman was not unfamiliar to any San Franciscan who scanned the social news with even a casual glance, and Claire had a vague remembrance that Mrs. Condor also figured socially, but in a rather more inclusive way than her companion.

She lay for hours, quite motionless, staring into the gloom of her narrow bedroom, her mind ruthlessly shaping formless, vague intuitions into definite convictions.

Could it be that a vague pity had stirred him, too?

Her ecstasy awoke a vague response in her partner, who bent forward as he kept repeating, monotonously: "And you said you couldn't, Miss Robson!

She felt glad that he was behind her, in a vague, impersonal, thoroughly inexplainable way.

I suppose he'll instantly abduct you and sweep you away from beneath my eyes?" She made a vague gesture of denial.

He began to have vague fears that this young devil might have hypnotic powers, or be in touch with he knew not what unearthly source of information.

From this variety in the progress of vegetation, some persons have endeavoured to calculate the relative ages of the cones; but these opinions are exceedingly vague, as it requires a longer period to form a soil on some lavas than on others.

The Indians likewise heard vague rumors of what had occurred and left the town; a number of the inhabitants who were favorable to the British, followed the same course.

53, 57, 60, 77, 79, 81, etc.]; and the public men who represented districts remote from the frontier shared these views of large, though vague, beneficence.

As the comrades of the fallen sprang forward to avenge them, the lithe warriors vanished as rapidly as they had appeared; and once more the soldiers saw before them only the dim forest and the shifting smoke wreaths, with vague half glimpses of the hidden foe, while the steady singing of the Indian bullets never ceased, and on every hand the bravest and steadiest fell one by one.

I had a vague notion that in some hazy past I had listened to strong reasons against war.

The witnesses had been searched for at the suggestion of Fayette Overtop, with the vague hope of making them useful in some way.

something whispered, or seemed to whisper in her heart as vague consciousness returned, unutterably sweet; was it the voice of an angel coming to bear her hence?

Balzac has written some admirable pages on this subject; my memory of them is vague and uncertain, although durable, as all memories of him must be.

" The young girl is often pretty but her prettiness is vague and uncertain, it inspires a sort of pitying admiration, but it suggests nothing; the very essence of the young girl's being is that she should have nothing to suggest, therefore the beauty of the young face fails to touch the imagination.

The cry of a bird, some vague sound attracts the sentry, he turns; all is lost.