Beneath the
unclouded and mild azure sky, upon the fair face of the pleasant sea, wafted by the joyous breezes, that great mass of death floats on and on, till lost in infinite perspectives.
A moment later--it may have been an hour--the moon sailed into a patch of
unclouded sky and the hunted man saw that visible embodiment of Law lift an arm and point significantly toward and beyond him.
The God of gales and battles favouring her arms to the last, has let the sun of England's sailing-fleet and of its greatest master set in
unclouded glory.
While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone
unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.
To us, their descendants, who are not historians and are not carried away by the process of research and can therefore regard the event with
unclouded common sense, an incalculable number of causes present themselves.
He has not only Tourguenief's transparency of style,
unclouded by any mist of the personality which we mistakenly value in style, and which ought no more to be there than the artist's personality should be in a portrait; but he has a method which not only seems without artifice, but is so.
The Morrow sailed from the mouth of the Mersey on the 15th of June and for several weeks we had fair breezes and
unclouded skies.
"Yes, I give it," said Basilio, "not agitated or distracted, but with
unclouded reason that heaven is pleased to grant me, thus do I give myself to be thy husband."
Fanny agreed to it, and had the pleasure of seeing him continue at the window with her, in spite of the expected glee; and of having his eyes soon turned, like hers, towards the scene without, where all that was solemn, and soothing, and lovely, appeared in the brilliancy of an
unclouded night, and the contrast of the deep shade of the woods.
Morning arose in
unclouded splendour, and ere the sun was much above the horizon, the idlest or the most eager of the spectators appeared on the common, moving to the lists as to a general centre, in order to secure a favourable situation for viewing the continuation of the expected games.
The knives and forks were of exquisitely polished steel, and were set in
unclouded ivory.
In an
unclouded harmony of tastes and interests they cultivated ferns in Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on linen, collected American revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to "Good Words," and read Ouida's novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere.