Now she caught the low undertone, as of the wind sinking down to repose itself; then ascended with it, as it rose through progressive gradations of sweetness and power, until its volume seemed to
envelop her with an atmosphere of awe and solemn grandeur.
This precious commodity they brought to the house,
enveloped in multitudinous folds of leaves; and as a special mark of the esteem in which they held me, would spread an immense leaf on the ground, and dropping one by one a few minute particles of the salt upon it, invite me to taste them.
Now, one evening when D'Artagnan, who was in the trenches, was not able to accompany them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, mounted on their battle steeds,
enveloped in their war cloaks, with their hands upon their pistol butts, were returning from a drinking place called the Red Dovecot, which Athos had discovered two days before upon the route to Jarrie, following the road which led to the camp and quite on their guard, as we have stated, for fear of an ambuscade, when, about a quarter of a league from the village of Boisnau, they fancied they heard the sound of horses approaching them.
Immediately after quitting it, we were
enveloped in clouds of snow.
"In one moment I've seen what has hitherto been
Enveloped in absolute mystery, And without extra charge I will give you at large A Lesson in Natural History."
She seeks to place herself above the sympathies of our common nature, which
envelops all human souls.
Before he could break out of the numbness that
enveloped him like a sheet of lead, he heard far below, as if in the entrails of the earth, a door close heavily.
Not once did she look back upon the ruin that brooded like a huge monster--a black spot in the darkness that
enveloped it.
The shadows there
enveloped all objects in a sort of mist.
After she had tasted a few dewdrops, freshly gathered for her, she danced gracefully to the music while the others finished their repast; and when she whirled until her fleecy draperies of rainbow hues
enveloped her like a cloud, the Tin Woodman was so delighted that he clapped his tin hands until the noise of them drowned the sound of the cymbals.
But now that he was
enveloped in the old calico robes which had grown yellow in the same service, he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once--a parish child--the orphan of a workhouse--the humble, half-starved drudge--to be cuffed and buffeted through the world--despised by all, and pitied by none.
Exactly at a quarter to twelve he appeared under the lofty portal of the Hotel de Louvre, with his fresh face, his ill- fitting grey suit, and
enveloped in his own sympathetic atmosphere.