Thus, with the exception of the
fragile memory which the author of this book here consecrates to it, there remains to-day nothing whatever of the mysterious word engraved within the gloomy tower of Notre-Dame,--nothing of the destiny which it so sadly summed up.
But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-hush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and
fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
`In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this
fragile thing out of futurity.
She stood erect in a singularly
fragile canoe, and urged it with the mere phantom of an oar.
Now doth it come to pass that solitude itself becometh
fragile and breaketh open, like a grave that breaketh open and can no longer hold its dead.
All hands now set to work to construct "bull boats," as they are technically called; a light,
fragile kind of bark, characteristic of the expedients and inventions of the wilderness; being formed of buffalo skins, stretched on frames.
Should they then abandon their horses, cast themselves loose in
fragile barks upon this wild, doubtful, and unknown river; or should they continue their more toilsome and tedious, but perhaps more certain wayfaring by land?
He thought of taking her in his arms, the thin,
fragile body, and kissing her pale mouth: he wanted to pass his fingers down the slightly greenish cheeks.
Her melancholy had become so marked that Lydgate felt a strange timidity before it, as a perpetual silent reproach, and the strong man, mastered by his keen sensibilities towards this fair
fragile creature whose life he seemed somehow to have bruised, shrank from her look, and sometimes started at her approach, fear of her and fear for her rushing in only the more forcibly after it had been momentarily expelled by exasperation.
People spoke of him as once strong and vigorous, but I recall him
fragile and pale, gentle, patient, knowing his inexorable doom, and not hoping or seeking to escape it.
It was all rather contemptible, but I passed on tolerantly, for it is only when she is unhappy that this woman disturbs me, owing to a clever way she has at such times of looking more
fragile than she really is.
White, and found that
fragile creature in the act of handing him a nickel.