Everything about me appeared to be growing dim.

The candles were burning dim on the table when he spoke at last in a strange, hard voice: "It is good for you Englishmen when you go back home.

She stood there, gazing across my balcony towards the sea of wooded country that spread dim and vague in the obscurity of the dusk.

He was glad to see us, inquired the news from the outer world, talked about York State, Vermont, the Bay State, and then, after an hour's converse, as if his social instincts and sympathies had been satisfied, he shouldered his rifle and started off across the plain, towards a belt of timber lying dim and shadowy, like a low cloud, upon the distant horizon.

I may not burst the spirit's tie, Or lift the dim, mysterious screen, That hides me from thy mortal eye;

I do not suppose that, at the present day, any geologist would be found to maintain absolute Uniformitarianism, to deny that the rapidity of the rotation of the earth may be diminishing, that the sun may be waxing dim, or that the earth itself may be cooling.

So he sailed; but saddest 'tis alway Not for those who go, but for those who stay; And her sweet eyes gathered a shadow dim As days went by with no news of him, And weeks and months, but at last it came, As the gray moor shone with the sunset flame Her quick eyes glanced the strange lines o'er, Then she fell like dead on the cottage floor.

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.

From where I sit, I see the stars, And down the chilly floor The moon between the frozen bars Is glimmering dim and hoar.

With what joy we saw at last the white wall of the island glooming dim ahead.

O winds, that seem to waft from far A mystic murmur o'er the soul, As ye had power to pass the bar Of nature in your vast control, Hail to your everlasting roll Obedient still ye wander dim, And softly breathe, or loudly toll, Through earth and sky the name of Him.

Shall I lay it down e'er the midnight dim With horrible shadows is roofed and paved?

Patches of snow on the fellsides gleamed and faded; mossy belts glowed vivid green, red berries in the hedgerows shone among withered leaves and fern, and then the light passed on and left the valley dim.

Your eyes look wondrous dim.

A gibbous moon had set, and presently a fog rolled down the river, blotting out landscape and stars and making even these willows dim and unreal.

Indeed, it seemed a hidden enemy Must lurk within the clouds above that bank, It strained so wildly its pale, stubborn eye, To pierce its own foul vapours dim and dank; Till, wearied out, it raved in wrath and foam, Daring that Nought Invisible to come.

Others would doubtless have mocked at him, for he had as yet but reached that dim, quivering hour when inventors feel the gust of their discovery sweep over them, before the idea that they are revolving presents itself with full precision to their minds.

I say that it came from the direction of the mountains, seen dim and shadowy in the distance, and yet none of us were quite sure of this.

And he had seen the dimming of those shining eyes and the tightening of her lips.

The moon shines dim in the open air, 175 And not a moonbeam enters here.

There was a mist, and for a couple of miles the great river, broad and quiet, ran between the high walls of tropical forest, the tops of the giant trees showing dim through the haze.

And so one eve when a bridge of gold Seemed spanning the last sea dim and cold, She went to him, for aye to be In the fairest land beyond the sea.

For thence, in his lone night-watches, By moon or starlight dim, A face full of love and pity And tenderness looked on him.

We climbed one of the minarets, and had a view of the city at our feet, and the green and fertile plains stretching dim into the shimmering haze beyond the Ravee River.

These were the verses the Tame Rabbit recited: The Grand Old Man was on the stir; MORANT named me to him; He gave me a good character; I thought his meaning dim.