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The room was large, very
lofty
and light.
'Let's go!'CHAPTER VIIION LEAVING THE TABLE Levin, feeling that as he went his arms swung with unusual regularity and ease, passed with Gagin through the
lofty
apartments to the billiard-room.
Levin again looked at the portrait and at her figure as, arm-in-arm with her brother, she passed through the
lofty
doorway, and he felt a tenderness and pity for her which surprised him.
He was tall, his forehead broad, his nose straight, his mouth clearly etched, his teeth magnificent, his hands refined, tapered, and to use a word from palmistry, highly "psychic," in other words, worthy of serving a
lofty
and passionate spirit.
In the morning I spotted this island's
lofty
summits a few miles to leeward.
We passed freely under their
lofty
boughs, lost up in the shadows of the waves, while at our feet organ-pipe coral, stony coral, star coral, fungus coral, and sea anemone from the genus Caryophylia formed a carpet of flowers all strewn with dazzling gems.
But this
lofty
plateau measured only a few fathoms, and soon we reentered Our Element.
The writer whose narratives record the
lofty
deeds of those heroic times is Plato himself.
For one instant I could see their
lofty
peaks.
It was paved with marble slabs, was very lofty, and the sound of footsteps and that of voices re-echoed through it as in a church.
In my soul you are as a Madonna on a pedestal, in a place lofty, secure, immaculate.
In the choir a silver lamp was burning, and from the side chapels and dark places of the church sometimes rose sounds like sighs, with the clang of a closing grating, its echo reverberating under the
lofty
vault.
So he gave up his flute, exalted sentiments, and poetry; for every bourgeois in the flush of his youth, were it but for a day, a moment, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of
lofty
enterprises.
With an outward show of the most perfect submission, and a self-suppression which the husbands of Verrieres used to quote as an example to their wives, and which was a source of pride to M. de Renal, her inner life was, as a matter of fact, dictated by the most
lofty
disdain.
The pure air of these
lofty
mountains breathed serenity and even joy into his soul.
As though perched on a
lofty
promontory, he was able to judge, and, so to speak, overlooked extreme poverty on the one hand and that life of comfort which he still called riches on the other.
Madame de Renal was exalted by transports of the most
lofty
moral pleasure.
The newly gilded chapel was quite small, but very
lofty.
He is exposing that bald brow which he says is filled with
lofty
thoughts.'
In those moments in which his
lofty
ambition allowed him some relaxation, the Marquis did his business with sagacity; being in a position to hear all the latest news, he speculated with success.
CHAPTER 6 PronunciationTheir
lofty
mission is to pass calm judgment on the trivial events in the daily life of nations.
When he learned what the matter was, a
lofty
pride still struggled in his features against the slightly playful coolness which ought never to be absent from the face of a diplomat.
Julien was coming towards the spot where she was, still talking to Altamira; she looked fixedly at him, studying his features in search of those
lofty
qualities which may entitle a man to the honour of being sentenced to death.
These
lofty
thoughts were interrupted by the sudden arrival of Mademoiselle de La Mole, who at this moment entered the library.
He thinks that I have a
lofty
nature.
'Amid the most
lofty
thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.'
Mathilde is perspicacious, she felt from the first that this suspicion might ruin him with me; hence that admission: it was she who thought first of loving him ...'That a girl of so
lofty
a character should so far have forgotten herself as to make tangible advances!
His remorse occupied him a great deal and often called up before him the image of Madame de Renal, especially in the silence of the night, disturbed only, in this
lofty
dungeon, by the cry of the osprey!
It depicted a man wearing a judge's robes; he was sitting on a
lofty
throne gilded in a way that shone forth from the picture.
This shadow play slowly surrounded the head like a decoration or
lofty
distinction.
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