She could not pray: under the rush of solemn emotion in which thoughts became vague and images floated uncertainly, she could but cast herself, with a childlike sense of reclining, in the lap of a divine consciousness which sustained her own.
Casaubon was touched with an unknown delight (what man would not have been?) at this childlike unrestrained ardor: he was not surprised (what lover would have been?) that he should be the object of it.
It was this which made Dorothea so childlike, and, according to some judges, so stupid, with all her reputed cleverness; as, for example, in the present case of throwing herself, metaphorically speaking, at Mr.
Enoch Robinson stared at George Willard, his
childlike blue eyes shining in the lamplight.
Sometimes he had written from Boston and asked her the news of Riverboro, and she had sent him pages of quaint and childlike gossip, interspersed, on two occasions, with poetry, which he read and reread with infinite relish.
Adam put a finger under Rebecca's chin and looked into her eyes; eyes as soft, as clear, as unconscious, and childlike as they had been when she was ten.
On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and
childlike moan.
"Who's Vronsky?" said Levin, and his face was suddenly transformed from the look of
childlike ecstasy which Oblonsky had just been admiring to an angry and unpleasant expression.
It is a sordid life, you say, this of the Tullivers and Dodsons, irradiated by no sublime principles, no romantic visions, no active, self-renouncing faith; moved by none of those wild, uncontrollable passions which create the dark shadows of misery and crime; without that primitive, rough simplicity of wants, that hard, submissive, ill-paid toil, that
childlike spelling-out of what nature has written, which gives its poetry to peasant life.
In his new solo exhibit for Galerie Stephanie at Shangri-La Plaza, 'Analog Obscura,' top-selling painter Farley del Rosario employs his vintage naif art to express his
childlike fascination with vintage cameras.
A PERVERT who illegally imported a sex doll with "
childlike features" was warned he could face jail - despite having terminal cancer.
One of the sex dolls was 4ft 7in, or 140cm, in height and had both "
childlike and adultlike features", according to an expert.