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Sentences ending with shadow

With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
The elderly servant, who, singularly enough, was of noble family--his real name was Von Wurmkessel--did his duty as noiselessly as a shadow. [10]
The fire flared up, but there were corners in deep shadow. [11]
It was not until morning that I beheld my retreat, when little wisps of vapour were straying over the surface of the lake, and the steep green slopes that rose out of the water on the western side were still in shadow. [9]
In that house, too, General Warren probably passed the night before the Bunker Hill battle, and over its threshold must the stately figure of Washington have often cast its shadow. [6]
This cut me to the heart, inasmuch as this tree was dear to my uncle, having been planted by his grandfather; and there was never a spot where his ailing wife was so fain to be in the hot summer days as under its shadow. [10]
She was in the light of an electric lamp, and he was in the shadow. [11]
Such fecundity throws the Gould & Curry, the Ophir and the Mexican, of your neighborhood, in the darkest shadow. [5]
You would think that this lion has two heads, but that is not so; one is only a shadow. [5]
Skirting the south side of the temple, in order to get to the fountain, her chief thought was to keep in its shadow. [10]

Short sentences using shadow

A shadow hung between them. [11]
Meantime shadow No. [5]
Hence horrible shadow! [5]

Sentences containing shadow two or more times

I was no shadow of a king; I was the substance; the king himself was the shadow. [5]
They always said it might be something great and fine to be rightful Shadow of an earldom, but to merely be shadow of a shadow, and two or three times removed at that--pooh-pooh! [5]

More example sentences with the word shadow in them

In Italy, the works of mediaeval Art seem to be of yesterday,--Rome, under her kings, is but an intruding newcomer, as we contemplate her in the shadow of the Cyclopean walls of Fiesole or Volterra. [6]
It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
Come--come and say with me that we shall part no more--in spirit no more; that, whatever comes, you and I have fulfilled our great hope, though under the shadow of the sword. [11]
The great Destroyer, whose awful shadow it was that had silenced me, came near me,--but never, so as to be distinctly seen and remembered, during my tender years. [6]
Franz von Welemisl, who was wont to creep like her shadow, and who was again a guest at the Tetzels' house, had been kept within doors by the cough that plagued him. [10]
These were they who had lost fathers and brothers; and now were going out alone with the shadow of the plague over them, for there was none to say them nay. [11]
It brightened the white kerchief, and the bodice and skirt of a faint pink, throwing the face into a pleasing shadow where the hand curved over the forehead. [11]
They now stood whispering and making love in the shadow of the temple. [10]
Even the jealousy which had clouded the happiness of her love like a fleeting, rapidly changing shadow, she believed she had now renounced forever. [10]
Oh, indeed yes; when you talk about your poor Roman and Egyptian day-before-yesterday antiquities, you should choose a time when the hoary Shadow Face of the Jungfrau is not by. [5]
But if you were, if you had a hand in the making of your funny little story, there's a nutcracker that 'd break the shell of that joke--" He turned round quickly, seeing a shadow and hearing a movement. [11]
The warm life went out of her, and she was to herself as a dimly conscious shadow that glided with passive acquiescence wherever it was led. [6]
You might as well try to jump upon your own shadow as to hit the little man's intellectual features. [6]
For a whole week we lived under the shadow of the spire of the great cathedral. [6]
As soon as we come out of the shadow that the great walls cast on the road we shall be in broad light. [10]
In a vague way he felt its full significance, and the shadow of it fell on him. [11]
At first I was strongly interested in the tree, for I was told that it was the renowned peepul--the tree in whose shadow you cannot tell a lie. [5]
The street beyond was so narrow, and the shadow of the houses on one side of the way so deep, that he seemed to have risen out of the earth. [12]
Already the darkness was so heavy that one could not see far; these people and the old turrets, being partly in deep shadow and partly in the red glow from the great torch-baskets overhead, made a good deal of a picture. [5]
The dark shadow was Princess Mary, who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, and dropped it again behind her. [2]
Her own, mercifully, was in the shadow, and burning now with a shame that was insupportable. [9]
Half the street was in shadow, the other half brightly lit by the sun. [2]
Once, when I was in Burgos, I saw a queer, longish shadow coming round a street corner, and two minutes after, first a nose and then old Enrique appeared. [10]
Ah, yes, she was happy, more than happy, and yet not entirely so, for happiness must be bright, and a dark, harassing shadow fell again and again over the sunny enthusiasm which irradiated her nature and lent her a haughtier bearing. [10]
The afternoon sun was beating in over the threshold as he reached it, and, at his footstep, a figure started forward from the shadow of a corner. [11]
Now that she was a long distance from Ingolby, the fact that a man had held her in his arms left no shadow on her face. [11]
With what zealous warmth he related that Wolff, like the upright man he was, had rejected even the faintest shadow of doubt of her steadfastness and truth, which were his own principal virtues also. [10]
It brightened to waning shadow in the wider ascent. [13]
It was not until the shadow of the forest had crept far across the lake and the darkening waters were still that we rose reluctantly to put the dishes in the tea basket and start on our homeward journey. [9]
Presently Tim moved uneasily, then got up and walked about; and at last, with a strange, awed look, when an hour was past, he stole back into the shadow of the trees, while still the wounded soul poured out its misery and repentance. [11]
Now he turned towards her, where she stood in the shadow by the door. [11]
Henderson followed, and took a seat a little in shadow behind her. [4]
It's too foolish, to yield to the shadow of an old appetite. [11]
We have got to wait six weeks, anyhow, for a dividend, maybe longer--but that it will come there is no shadow of a doubt, I have got the thing sifted down to a dead moral certainty. [5]
All this seemed to throw a lurid kind of shadow over The Mountain. [6]
It was curious to see a good strong shadow of an earthly object cast upon so intangible a field as the atmosphere. [5]
Here he intended to rest and, as he gazed around him, he perceived in the shadow of an overhanging cliff a man's tall figure. [10]
But she hesitated to reply, and ere he could win from her even the faintest shadow of consent, Ernst Ortlieb, who had been talking with other members of the council in the room where the wine was served, interrupted him to take his daughter home. [10]
It is pleasant to know we are disappointed, in that we never dreamed we might see portions of the actual Temple of Solomon, and yet experience no shadow of suspicion that they were a monkish humbug and a fraud. [5]
The doing good to another person where no shadow nor suggestion of benefit to one's self can result from it. [5]
To get used to a thought, to have it so near her, that if the man--if Laforce himself came, she would have herself schooled to endure the shadow and the misery of it all? [11]
Soon it thinned till it was the shadow of a laugh, and I didn't know whin it stopped, he smilin' down at the fiddle bewhiles. [11]
Why did you throw your shadow on my path? [11]
A woman like this casts a deep shadow on her Queen's course. [10]
Little did he think of witnessing a shadow of his former happiness, though no doubt he wished it might be so. [5]
Secrecy again--always the thing that had chilled the dead woman, and laid a cold hand upon herself --"I felt the shadow of secrecy in your life. [11]
By and by they judged that twelve had come; they marked where the shadow fell, and began to dig. [5]
And on both these occasions the circumstances of the killing were so aggravated, and the murders so seemingly heartless and treacherous, that if Baldwin had not been insane he would have been hanged without the shadow of a doubt. [5]
And he said there was no use in going to law--Morgan had no shadow of right to remain where he was --nobody in the wide world would uphold him in it, and no lawyer would take his case and no judge listen to it. [5]
Between these two there had never been even the faint shadow of romance or passion; but in the terrible mystery of pain and humiliation, they had drawn together to help each other, through a breach of all social law, in pity of each other. [11]
But dark as the Widow looked in her half-concealed pet, she was but as a pale shadow, compared to Elsie in her silent concentration of shame and anger. [6]
Before I knew the truth, I felt the shadow of secrecy in your life. [11]
A shadow blurred the sunlight in Nancy's face --there was uneasiness in it, and disappointment. [5]
And then, when the six of us stood huddled in the rank growth at the water's edge, we saw a boat floating idly in the forest shadow on the far side. [9]
Accompanying Carterette to the shore was a little figure that moved along beside them like a shadow, a little grey figure that carried a gold- headed cane. [11]
He could get the shadow, the sham, the base counterfeit of that meal; but it would do him no good, and money could not buy the reality. [5]
He was in the shadow, the other wall of the gulch was in the sun. [11]
Behind them, in the shadow, a middle-aged woman in plainer attire. [4]
They sat in the shadow waiting. [5]
Ephriam cowered in the shadow of the tent, from which he had slipped, and pressed his ear close to the wall. [10]
It has outsoared the shadow of our night. [6]
Above her hovered the shadow of grim, hidden, secret power. [13]
He said-- 'By the Shadow of Death, but he's a lightning pilot! [5]
Lying down in the shadow of a thick tamarisk bush, above which a tall palm towered proudly, he stretched his limbs comfortably to rest in the assurance that the people were now provided for, in war by his good sword, in peace by the Law. [10]
It hung in the shadow of a door-way and watched him as he approached the door of the big building where Adrian Fellowes lived. [11]
I am nearing the shadow now,--the time of which I can hardly bear to write. [6]
He was in the shadow and near great window-curtains, and his fingers instinctively clutched them as he saw a figure in white at the door of the room. [11]
The arrival on the scene of this young man, who was scarcely out of his teens, was a shadow of disaster to the Turks. [4]
I can see the pale shadow glancing through the pages and hear the comments that shape themselves in the bodiless intelligence as if they were made vocal by living lips. [6]
Toward 4 P.M. the other day I was gazing and worshiping as usual when I chanced to notice that shadow No. [5]
Slowly out of the obscurity of the earth's shadow emerged the vague outlines of familiar things until they stood sharply material, in a silence as of death. [9]
By 4:40 P.M. the nose of the shadow is perfect and is beautiful. [5]
The gifts, no, the more than well-earned payments for which he was indebted to the King, were only a bodiless shadow, a caricature of these lofty gifts of Heaven. [10]
His prestige with the men was now under a shadow, yet he dared not deny the truth of the statement. [11]
As I crossed the lawn I saw two figures in the deep shadow beside the gallery, and I heard Nick's voice giving orders to Benjy to pack and saddle. [9]
At these words the invalid's face turned pale, a dark shadow appeared under his eyes, and an expression of pain hovered around his mouth. [10]
The evening after the funeral, while the Marches sat together talking it over, and making approaches, through its shadow, to the question of their own future, which it involved, they were startled by the twitter of the electric bell at their apartment door. [8]
By 6 P.M. the face has dissolved and gone, and the goatee has become what looks like the shadow of a tower with a pointed roof, and the shoe had turned into what the printers call a "fist" with a finger pointing. [5]
A shadow darkened the companion-way, and Radisson came quickly down. [11]
To satisfy himself that this spot was really the centre of the earth, a sceptic once paid well for the privilege of ascending to the dome of the church to see if the sun gave him a shadow at noon. [5]
Then I remembered that my sinful feet were upon holy ground--the ground where that celestial shadow had rested. [5]
They will see that I spoke falsely,--being ignorant, as they will fancy --and with the falling of the first shadow of that darkness you shall see them go mad with fear; and they will set you free and make you great! [5]
I bade him thank the chaplain for me, and opening the book, I found a leaf turned down at the words, "In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. [11]
The annals of Tasmania, in whose shadow we were sailing, are lurid with that feature. [5]
There is a tap on the drum, a tuning of the strings, a flash of light from the rear of the room inundates the white canvas, and suddenly a figure is poised in the space, her shadow cast upon the glowing background. [4]
Almost overwhelming relief surged through her, a feeling as akin to joy as any she could have been capable of in those gloomy hours of shadow, and one that suddenly stunned her with the significance of what Lassiter had come to mean to her. [13]
Such rage under such circumstances is but the dark shadow cast by love, and is as inseparable from love as from any tangible body. [10]
Presently, as he stood still at sight of a ground-hog making for its hiding-place, he saw a shadow fall across the light breaking through the trees some distance in front of him. [11]
Then she stood still a moment and clenched her hands; with a few light bounds she sprang into the shadow of the Gaul's house. [10]
He had a stick in his hand, and, when he had got clear of the shadow of the gateway, he leant upon it, looked back--directly, as it seemed, towards where she stood--and beckoned. [12]
Knowing what he sought, she could no longer resist the impulse of her heart, but stepped forth from the shadow of the sycamore and gave Hosea a cordial and tender welcome. [10]
He missed him sorely, since it did not enter his head that his faithful shadow, Biberli, knew nothing of the thunderbolt which had almost robbed him of his master and killed his pet, the dun horse. [10]
As he entered, some one came quickly forward from the shadow of the trees and touched him on the arm. [11]
A band of Socialists stood grouped against the ministerial desks, in the shadow of the Presidential tribune. [5]
Her head was small, her hair like a dark, blurred shadow clinging round it. [9]
She felt calm, slightly cold, strong as she had not been strong since the first shadow fell upon her. [13]
We durst not slacken pace that night, and by morning, much exhausted, we deemed ourselves safe, and rested for a while, making a hearty breakfast, though a sombre shadow had settled on the face of the good Chevalier. [11]
The Honourable was sitting in the shadow, with his back to the new actor in the scene. [11]
Idleness had long since grown to be the occupation of his life; but accustomed to it as he was, he was sometimes conscious of its dark attendant shadow ennui--as of a disagreeable and intrusive interruption to the enjoyment of life. [10]
He took it silently and pressed it to his bosom as he saw that she spoke true; and the shadow of the thing fell on him. [11]

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