The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other courts: in the
inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates, from one square into another, were but eighteen inches high, and seven inches wide.
Dimmesdale, not merely the external presence, but the very
inmost soul of the latter, seemed to be brought out before his eyes, so that he could see and comprehend its every movement.
there yet is man -- Man, the divinest of all things, whose heart Hath known the shipwreck of a thousand hopes, Who bears a hundred wrinkled tragedies Upon the parchment of his brow, whose soul Strange cares have lined and interlined, until Beneath the burden of life his
inmost self Bows down.
As he did not, however, outwardly express any such disgust, it would be an ill office in us to pay a visit to the
inmost recesses of his mind, as some scandalous people search into the most secret affairs of their friends, and often pry into their closets and cupboards, only to discover their poverty and meanness to the world.
Life was very pleasant in Avonlea that summer, although Anne, amid all her vacation joys, was haunted by a sense of "something gone which should be there." She would not admit, even in her
inmost reflections, that this was caused by Gilbert's absence.
They pardon thee in their
inmost hearts only--for thine errors.
I looked along them, and I saw down into his
inmost heart.
Thou touchest my
inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings.
We mounted higher, and lo, the secrets of the earth, the depths of mines and
inmost caverns of the hills, were bared before me.
A great curiosity came on the trustee, to disregard the prohibition and dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries; but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations; and the packet slept in the
inmost corner of his private safe.
Even within himself, though Grandfather was now at that period of life when the veil of mortality is apt to hang heavily over the soul, still, in his
inmost being he was conscious of something that he would not have exchanged for the best happiness of childhood.
It seemed an endless time to Rosamond, in whose
inmost soul there was hardly so much annoyance as gratification from what had just happened.