He was day-dreaming, seeing visions in the fire.

Rat, gnaw, and rope are tangible, perceptible things; the words bring to us visions of particular objects and actions.

Enter the low door and take a sharp turn to the right and you will find yourself at length on an ill- smelling landing with a creaking ladder-like staircase in one corner, enveloped from top to bottom in darkness so profound that one can almost conjure up visions of sudden death from the assassin's dagger.

The next moment, he knew that he beheld no vision, knew it and accepted it as certainly and completely as if all his life had been but a preparation for the revelation.

And before his mental sight there rose the dread vision of warthe insatiablestriding like a devouring monster over a whole continent.

Then, all at once, something caught my vision, something that came 'round one of the huge buttresses of the House, and so into full view.

Friction over small things obscures vision and judgment, and hate hides the lovableness that must lie in every being.

"If," she said, "your name actually is George, thisthis is the most the most terrible punishment" She closed her eyes with her fingers as though to shut out some monstrous vision.

Because, though I have given up hope, I would follow a forlorn chance, a lost cause, and tell you again and again that I love you, Nelly Lebrun!" He had half lowered his eyes as he spoke; he had called up a vision, and the face of Lou Macon hovered dimly between him and Nelly Lebrun.

Thus, to take one illustration, the euphrasia or eye-bright (Euphrasia officinalis), which was, and is, supposed to be good for the eye, owing to a black pupil-like spot in its corolla, is noticed by Milton, who, it may be remembered, represents the archangel as clearing the vision of our first parents by its means: "Then purged with euphrasy and rue His visual orbs, for he had much to see.

The Hous of Fame, an unfinished poem, gives a vision of a vast palace of ice on which the names of the famous are carved to await the melting rays of the sun.

I remembered the sudden vision that had come to me, as I neared the Solar System, of the fast whirling planets about the sunas though the governing quality of time had been held in abeyance, and the Machine of a Universe allowed to run down an eternity, in a few moments or hours.

She then related her vision of what took place in the Garden of Olives, and as she continued her narrations the following days, the friend who was listening to her was enabled to connect the different scenes of the Passion together.

What a help it would be to many, if in their more gloomy times they would but recall the visions of truth they had, and were assured of, in better moments!

His eyes that held the vision of the Grail Were ever clear to see and know the truth; His lips that had been touched by holy chrism Were strong to utter holy living words; He sang of life in life, and life in death, And taught the lesson that his heart had learned All love should be a glory, not a doom; Love for love's sake, albeit bliss-denied.

Her maid had a moment earlier confessed that she could do no more, and Etta had come down stairs a vision of luxury, of womanly loveliness.

As they ran wildly in the direction from whence those appeals for assistance still came, louder than ever, every fellow was straining his vision to be the first to discover what it could be that was causing Steve to let out such alarming whoops.

Cannot our day-laborers be granted vision? Why should we have the Gothic cathedral, with its exquisite traceries and carvings, pillars and reredos and screen, for men to pray in, one or two hours a week, and the hideous, grime-covered, foul-smelling, overheated factories, in which men and women spend their working-lives?

there is a dream of early youth, And it never comes again; 'Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth, That flits across the brain: And love is the theme of that early dream.

He did not know who the youth was, but meeting him the next day on the Capitol itself he recognized him, and told the vision to the bystanders.

" He looked up, great tears falling from his eyes, and asked, "Where?" I took him to the gallery of the clouds, and showed him my vision, and repeated the words spoken to me up there, the words for him only,the others were full of mystery still.

I prayed to him, having a vision of hima personbefore my eyes.

In that dim light I could not see the singer, but I needed no vision.

Now Dante's monument is "the marvellous, mystic, unfathomable song," in which he sang his sorrows and his joys, revealed his visions, and recorded the passions and sentiments of his age.

It seemed to be falling an infinite depth; the celestial music grew fainter and fainter, till common earthly sights and sounds dispelled the vision.