The leaping waves clapped their hands in joy, And gleams of gold with the waters flowed, But the peace of the sleepers knew no alloy, For all was hushed in their lone abode!

The rapture of Lady Jarvis may be more easily imagined than faithfully described, the Christian name of her husband alone throwing any alloy into the enjoyment of her elevation: but by a license of speech she ordered, and addressed in her own practice, the softer and more familiar appellation of Sir Timo.

Examples: "No human happiness is so pure as not to contain any alloy.

Thackeray does not merely expose the cant, the emptiness, the self-seeking, the false pretenses, flunkeyism, and snobberythe "mean admiration of mean things"in the great world of London society; his keen, unsparing vision detects the base alloy in the purest natures.

And straightway the musician entered on a multitude of ingenious experiments, so as to discover the particular metallic alloys that reflected light with the greatest intensity, the best means of giving the parabolic figure to the mirrors, the necessary degree of polish, and other practical details.

When the ring was finished, acid was poured upon it; and the acid ate out the alloy, leaving the beautiful design in pure gold.

We found her at home, and passed the time agreeably, excepting the alloy of your absence.

The visions of the pagan world, floating before the mind of all men in the fifteenth century, found very different interpreters in these three paintersBotticelli adding the quaint alloy of his own fancy, Signorelli imparting the semi-savagery of a terrible imagination, Mantegna, with the truest instinct and the firmest touch, confining himself to the processional pageantry of bas-relief.

DRAMA (with the double mask) The mask of Janus have I in my keeping On one side sorrow, on the other joy; For man must alternate 'twixt bliss and weeping, And with the dark is mixed a light alloy.

To-night as she walked through the park, she was consciousfor the first time perhapsof a certain alloy mixed with her gladness.

If it had been his conception of duty which impelled him to take a high line with Beaumaroy, there was now in his feelings, although he did not realize the fact, an alloy of less precious metal.

"Yet ever, from the clearest source, hath run Some gross alloy, some tincture of the man.

In the First Adventures, even, it needed all the art of the most consummate artist in the Book way that the world hath yet seen, to keep up in the mind of the reader the heroic attributes of the character without relaxing; so as absolutely that they shall suffer no alloy from the debasing fellowship of the clown.

I was vexed to find the alloy of modern refinement in a lady who had so much old family spirit.

Indeed, we have before noticed it as the most obvious and most degrading imperfection of Dryden's poetical imagination, that he could not refine that passion, which, of all others, is susceptible either of the purest refinement, or of admitting the basest alloy.