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Sentences starting with shadows

Shadows had begun to gather in the forest, filmy mists to creep over the waters. [9]
Shadows frighten me sometimes, my dear avocat. [11]
Shadows gathered under shelving cliffs. [13]
Shadows you have been and are to my readers; very real you have been and are to me,--as real as the memories of many friends whom I shall see no more. [6]

Sentences ending with shadows

He also looks upon life as a picture, but to catch its beauties, its lights,--not its defects and shadows. [4]
Do you dare to say those verses don't fit me--except for the Titian hair and heavenly shadows? [11]
If she wished to find out who they were who had been sacrificed to the fury of the tyrant, it must be done at once, for the immense building of the temple already cast long shadows. [10]
Balbilla could not tire of admiring this varying scene, in which the most gorgeous hues vied with each other and the intensest light contrasted with the deepest shadows. [10]
And presently, winding through the trees, we were in sight of a long, brick mansion trimmed with white, and a velvet lawn before it all flecked with shadows. [9]
Her mother's face, the Judge had noted, was the foreground of a landscape which had lonely shadows. [11]
It was in the evening like this, but darker, for the pines made great shadows. [11]
Tom found a subterranean lake, shortly, which stretched its dim length away until its shape was lost in the shadows. [5]
The old chief stood a moment looking at the windows, upon which slush-lights were throwing heavy shadows. [11]
He was assimilating something from this valley of gleams and shadows. [13]

Sentences containing shadows two or more times

The day was very cloudy and the sun threw no shadows at all; but the man was satisfied that if the sun had come out and made shadows it could not have made any for him. [5]
When he entered that door, two shadows glided over the threshold; five lingered in the doorway when he passed through it for the last time,--and one of the shadows was claimed by its owner to be longer than his own. [6]

More example sentences with the word shadows in them

I lived from year to year With shadows, the strong warders of desire; I learned through them to seek the golden fire That hides itself in Song's bright hemisphere. [11]
Far below them wound the Blue into its vale of sapphire shadows, with its hillsides of the mystic fabric of the backgrounds of the masters of the Renaissance. [9]
A fleet of white clouds, like ships pressed with sail, hurried across the sky as though racing for some determined port; and the shadows they cast along the hillsides accentuated the high brightness of the day, emphasized the vivid and hateful beauty of the landscape. [9]
In the shadows where his nature dwelt now he would not allow her good innocence and truth to enter. [11]
It shone from what appeared to be an old oriel window, and being surrounded by the deep shadows of overhanging walls, sparkled like a star. [12]
Perhaps because they were rather deeply set, though large, and because they seemed to glow in the shadows made by the brows, the strange intensity was deepened. [11]
But again there were days when he did nothing but lie on the skins at the hut's door, or saunter in the shadows and the sunlight. [11]
The distant prospects were Anne's delight, and when I look round, she is in the blue tints, the pale mists, the waves and shadows of the horizon. [14]
Right from the water's edge rose long lines of stately palaces of marble; gondolas were gliding swiftly hither and thither and disappearing suddenly through unsuspected gates and alleys; ponderous stone bridges threw their shadows athwart the glittering waves. [5]
The dwarf after watching their retreating shadows with a wider grin than his face had yet displayed, stole softly in the dark to bed. [12]
Not a whisper was uttered, now, but the three men stared ahead into the shadows and two of them spun the wheel back and forth with anxious watchfulness while the steamer tore along. [5]
When the fire was lighted, the effect of the bright light in the cavern and the heavy shadows in the room was Rembrandtish. [4]
The short day was drawing to a close, shadows were gathering in the corners of Ditmar's room as she reached the threshold and gazed about her at the objects there so poignantly familiar. [9]
Besides, her talk was always an education in the fine lights and shadows of this social life. [11]
Crowning the shadows was a splendid helmet of light, rich with the dyes of the morning; the pines were touched with a brilliant if austere warmth. [11]
Some were below us, some on our level; they were all in well-defined, distinct masses, molten silver on deck, below trailing rain, and attended on earth by gigantic shadows that moved with them. [4]
It realizes to us what sorry shows and shadows we are. [5]
Susy hovers about us this holiday week, and the shadows fall all about us of "The days when we went gipsying A long time ago. [5]
The lamp-light fell upon his face, and the lines she had formerly perceived looked like deep shadows between his eyes and mouth. [10]
The log flared up again, and he turned slowly and looked at the shadows in her face. [9]
On it went, under the wide spans of the old wooden, covered bridge, swirling around the great rocks on which the piers stood, spreading away below in shallows, and taking the shadows of a row of maples that lined the green shore. [4]
At last, "there, under the shadows of the Frenchman's Cap, whose grim cone rose five thousand feet in the uninhabited westward interior," they were found. [5]
On the short trip, the crests of the tossing waves sometimes shone with a flickering light, while elsewhere long shadows spread like dark sails over the sea. [10]
The shadows of tree-top, thatch, and wall were lengthening as I walked along the Rue Bourbon. [9]
And gray old trees of hugest limb Shall wheel their circling shadows round To make the scorching sunlight dim That drinks the greenness from the ground, And drop their dead leaves on her mound. [6]
And it magically transformed for me (as I stood, momentarily alone, in the doorway where I had first beheld Maude) the accustomed scene, and charged with undivined significance the blue shadows under the heavy foliage of the maples. [9]
The sight nearly took his breath away!--He stood gazing at the fair young face like one transfixed; then presently ejaculated-- "Lo, the Lord of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows on his throne! [5]
He stepped across to where the old man sat, with his bald head shining like ivory under the gas-jet, and his fine patriarchal length of bearded mask taking picturesque lights and shadows, and put out his hand to him. [8]
I half expected to see the Athenian heroes of twenty centuries ago glide out of the shadows and steal into the old temple they knew so well and regarded with such boundless pride. [5]
She had come to me last night ah--true; but that was in keeping with her dramatic temperament; it was the drama of it that had appealed to her; and to-morrow she would forget me, and sink her fresh spirit in the malarial shadows of Doltaire's. [11]
No doubt, Jane thought, the rider, in his almost superhuman power of foresight, saw behind the horizon the dark, lengthening shadows that were soon to crowd and gloom over him and her and little Fay. [13]
For a moment they strained at the rafters and the crude weapons and implements there, then the body moved, quickly, eagerly, and turned to see the flickering shadows made by the fire and the simple order of the room. [11]
As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. [5]
The rocks by the wayside still threw long shadows on the sandy desert-road, when a party of Arab horsemen came from Fostat to meet the travellers, shouting the latest news to the prisoner's escort. [10]
The shadows of the walnuts and hickories were growing long, and a rich country was giving up its scent to the evening air. [9]
I have pulled the twins apart and made two individuals of them; I have sunk them out of sight, they are mere flitting shadows, now, and of no importance; their story has disappeared from the book. [5]
The buildings and the trees that bordered the Achtergracht were already casting longer shadows, and the golden mists hovering over the roofs began to be mingled with a faint rosy light, when Maria heard a horseman trotting up the street. [10]
The shadows of the tall trunks lay in transparent bars on the underbrush, luxuriant moss, and ferns, and the dew clung to the weeds and grass. [10]
And up through the splendour, and the shadows, and the loneliness, and the austere warmth, must our travellers go. [11]
Clouds scudded across the sky and their shadows sailed darkly down the sunny slope. [13]
This was in the shadows of the scented pines; and a new life breathed upon her, as it breathed upon them all, and they knew that the fever of the White Valley had passed away from them forever. [11]
At last, when the shadows of the big trees had crept across the green, he came, the customers flocking to the porch to greet him, Wetherell standing curiously behind them in the door. [9]
Her hand trembled, the shadows deepened in her eyes, but determination gathered at her lips. [11]
When night and the shadows came, he sat alone in his office with drawn blinds, brooding, wondering. [11]
They walked around the pond, --fringed now with yellow water-lilies on their floating green pads, --through the woods, and when the shadows were lengthening came out at the little summer-house over the valley of Silver Brook--the scene of that first memorable encounter with the Vicomte. [9]
The shadows of the pines were blue and cold, but the tops of them were burnished with the cordial sun, and a glacier- field, somehow, took on a rose and violet light, reflected, maybe, from the soft-complexioned sky. [11]
The verdure of the Park was freshened to an incredible brilliancy by the dew, a thin white veil of mist was spread over the mirror of the waters, the trees flung long shadows across the turf. [9]
Little Mary and the other patients under Rufinus' roof were on the way to recovery; still there was much to cast gloomy shadows over this happy termination. [10]
The linden and the neighbouring houses cast dark, sharply outlined shadows upon the light pavement, and from the convent garden the song of the nightingale echoed down the quiet moonlit street. [10]
The shadows of the middle world were upon her. [11]
The spectre-knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows is become a spectre-earl--a dizzy flight for a callow wing! [5]
The shadows of the houses seemed especially dark to-day, the air of the city heavier than usual, as if the spring had come to every human being, great and small, old and young, except herself. [10]
The shadows of the houses and palm-trees lay like dark strips of carpet across the road, which was nearly empty in spite of the evening coolness, which usually tempted the citizens out into the air. [10]
He could sweep the horizon in a wide general outlook, and manage his perspective and his lights and shadows so as to place and accent his special subject with its due relief and just relations. [6]
They crawled nearer the gate, still hidden in the shadows and the grass. [11]
The light of the fire showed across the gorge, touching off the far wall of pines with burnished crimson, and huge flickering shadows looked like elusive spirits, attendant on the lonely obsequies. [11]
The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh--beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing. [2]
Who dares warrant that it will not all be repeated before the shadows are an ell long on the shore! [10]
There were shadows that betrayed less roundness to her face; there were lines that told of weariness; but in her eyes there was a glowing light of hope. [11]
She looked graver than the day before, while heavier shadows under her eyes and the deep flush on her cheeks reminded Wilhelm of Belotti's fears for her health. [10]
The meadows were sweet with the newly cut grass, the wind softly blew down the river, large white clouds sailed high overhead and cast shadows on the changing water; but to all these gentle influences the fish were insensible, and sulked in their cool retreats. [4]
His temples were sunken, his cheeks hollow, and his face was full of those shadows which lend a sort of tragedy to even the humblest and least distinguished countenance. [11]
But there were such strange crackings in the shrubs, and the trees and bushes cast such uncanny shadows that she hailed daybreak as a deliverance. [10]
And if you stood in a dark room and your neighbors in the next had lights, the shadows on your canvas told queer secrets sometimes! [5]
The 'primo tenore' statue of Garibaldi had already taken possession of the place in the name of Latin progress, and they met Italian faces, French faces, Spanish faces, as they strolled over the asphalt walks, under the thinning shadows of the autumn-stricken sycamores. [8]
The walls of stately date-palms that fenced the gardens and bordered the way, threw their shadows down and made the air cool and bracing. [5]
The sick soldier, Sokolov, pale and thin with dark shadows round his eyes, alone sat in his place barefoot and not dressed. [2]
Halfway lay some snow-covered piles of firewood and across and along them a network of shadows from the bare old lime trees fell on the snow and on the path. [2]
The limestone rocks showed with blinding clearness, the atmosphere quivered as if heated over a flame; each minute the shadows grew shorter and their outlines sharper. [10]
The moon was shining, and outside of the shadows it made it most as light as day. [5]
Very rarely did she recall the day when the funeral-pile had cooled, and the ashes of the two mothers, both so early summoned to the realm of shadows, were collected, placed in the vases, and added to the other urns. [10]
With wide-open eyes she gazed at the moonlight and the shadows, expecting every moment to see his dead face, and she felt that the silence brooding over the house and within it held her fast. [2]
Were these, then, shadows, or was he a spirit himself? [4]
At last, when shadows were gathering in the corners of the room, I heard footsteps. [9]
The suffering and shadows showed the more because his features were refined enough for a woman. [11]
In the blue shadows of the firs they stand as we take our leave of one of them. [11]
But when the shadows of night closed them in, they gradually ceased to talk, and sat gazing into the fire, with their minds evidently wandering elsewhere. [5]
In the noonday shadows of a recess was a dark mahogany sideboard loaded with softly gleaming silver--Honora's. [9]
How soft the shadows lie upon the stately mountains that border the dream-haunted Mauoa Valley! [5]
Only when the shadows lengthen may he be stricken. [11]
She watched the shadows lengthen down the slope; she felt the cool west wind sweeping by from the rear; and she wondered at low, yellow clouds sailing swiftly over her and beyond. [13]
There would be shadows for the rest of him, but there was not light enough to go round, it being a dull day, with only fleeting sun-glimpses now and then. [5]
The sun had set, and darkness covered the City of the Dead, but the moon shone above the valley of the kings' tombs, and the projecting masses of the rocky walls of the chasm threw sharply-defined shadows. [10]
And yet I say: the bulwarks raised by men However strong, compared to Thy great works Are but vain shadows, and no human aid Avails against the foe--but Thy strong hand. [10]
They were unremarkable, save in the case of two tall silver candlesticks, which, with their candles at an angle from the musician, gave his face strange lights and shadows. [11]
The old man sat watching the shadows as they trembled in this patch of light, until the sun went down; and when it was night, and the moon was slowly rising, he still sat in the same spot. [12]
When Venters had saddled the two burros, strapped on the light packs and the two canteens, the sunlight was dispersing the lazy shadows from the valley. [13]
He heard the rustle of garments, and he could just discern the cloaked figure in the shadows. [11]
It filled the room with a gracious heat and with huge, comfortable shadows. [11]
How well I recall that sunny afternoon, when the shadows of the great oaks were just beginning to lengthen. [9]
I had no reason to admire Doltaire, and yet to this hour his handsome face, with its shadows and shifting lights, haunts me, charms me. [11]
Seated on the railing, with the tip of one toe resting on the porch, she smiled down at him from under the shadows of her wide hat. [9]
Beyond it were pleasant shadows, through which men passed and repassed at their work. [11]
While smoking the pipe of peace after breakfast we watched the sentinel peaks put on the glory of the sun, and followed the conquering light as it swept down among the shadows, and set the captive crags and forests free. [5]
How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! [5]
Presently the tug Pinafore glides up to the landing, the engineer flings open the furnace door, and the glowing fire illumines the interior, brings out forms and faces, and deepens the heavy shadows outside. [4]
Look how the painted walls and columns gleam in the light, and what marvellous figures the shadows of the obelisks and sphinxes throw on the smooth yellow pavement! [10]
We slackened our pace to let them come up, and in the meantime I got out my cargo of grapes and dropped them firmly but reluctantly into the shadows by the wayside. [5]
Noiselessly she stole over the grass and into the shadows of the trees where he lay. [11]
Some one drew out of the shadows and came towards her. [11]

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