Her soft eyes were dimmed with irresponsible emotion.

and though the little Pilgrim had been made free of fear, at that word which she would not speak, she trembled, and the light grew dim in her eyes.

the twilight ceased to increase, and remained as dim as that cast by the crescent moonassumed the outline of a slender trunk supported by wings, dark for the most part but defined along the edge by a narrow band of brightest green, visible in a gleam too faint to show any object of a deeper shade.

Without Redbud, everything seemed dim to him; and he could not ask whither she had flown.

The moonlight was too dim for Nelly Lebrun to make out the face of Lou Macon, but even the light which escaped through the filter of clouds was enough to set her golden hair glowing.

The dim of sight are the timid and the shrinking.

"That, by Jove," said I, "I cannot guess, unless you can take off this mist from my eyes, for they are horribly dim at present."

His eyes are become dim through excessive study; his heart is very large, full of love and hope in Jesus Christ.

'It is dim before me,' she said, 'and I cannot see clearly.

It is long since, and my memory waxes dim on some subjects, or I should wish to convey some notion of the manner in which the pleasant creature described the circumstances of his own wedding-day.

There was little for us to see, but that little was well worth seeing; only a tree or a clump of bushes or a hedge-row here and there, but all dimmed into new forms and graces for that day and for us.

But suffer me to contemplate it more closely, for my eyes have waxed dim by over application to study.

But it was no more than a gleaming of the former spirit of the man, now becoming dim under the darkness that was fast encircling all his views of this world.

That sullen face, with the eyes that would never brighten at a tale of daring, or dim from a story of pathos, belonged to a man who would imitate crocodile tactics by lying quiet till his prey was within striking distance.

I looked out; and there, at the gate, in the dim morningfor the sun was not upwas Jess and the cart, a cloud of steam rising from the old mare.

When you are about eighty years old, have cooled down about ten degrees below zero, have got a little dim about the eyes, and a little stiff about the knees, it may possibly be safe for you to come and break yourself in gradually.

"And all that noon and weary night she lay, Poor child, like death upon her prison stone, And none that came to her but crept away, Sickened at heart to see her lips so moan, Her eyes so dim within their sockets grey, Her tender cheeks so thin and ghastly grown; But when the next morn's light began to stir, She sent and prayed that I might be with her.

He had reached there and paused, just as the brighter glare of the set sun was growing dim above the tops of the cypresses.

I could add other illustrious names,especially those of Brougham and Lord John Russell; but the sun of glory around the name of the first was dimmed after his lord chancellorship, while that of the latter was yet to blaze more brightly when he assumed the premiership on the retirement of his great predecessor, with such able assistants as Lord Palmerston, Earl Grey, Macaulay, and others.

The view in the direction from which we had come was splendid, and led the eye to the distant sweeping ranges, dark and dim along the horizon.

Now dim amid the distant foam she spies A rising speck,"'tis he! 'tis he!"

Gradually, the brilliancy of the sun that had so long dazzled the eyes of all Europe began to wax pale, and the luminous star of Napoleon to grow dim among the dark clouds that were gathering around him.

I am as one who on the brink Of a dark river stands and sees The waters flow, the landscape dim Around him waver, wheel, and swim,

The fields were dim behind the shining, glassy bead curtain of the rain.

But vainly she strove to forget that burst of ungoverned passion she had witnessed; it haunted her sleeping and waking thoughts, and his protestations of devoted love were dimmed beside it, they shared its blackened hue.