In the end he wrote a book which he called "The Book of the Grotesque." It was never published, but I saw it once and it made an
indelible impression on my mind.
But when in repose her features had a shadowy look that was like a sardonic grin, as if some one had sketched with cruel forefinger
indelible lines about her mouth.
The relation of the master and scholar is
indelible; as, indeed, all other relations are; for they all derive their original from heaven.
It is unnecessary to say, that those shameful tumults, while they reflect
indelible disgrace upon the time in which they occurred, and all who had act or part in them, teach a good lesson.
I see her face now, better than I did then, I dare say, with its
indelible look of regret and wonder turned upon me.
For many thousands of generations he had been away from it; yet, deep down in the crypts of being, tied about and wrapped up in every muscle and nerve of him, was the
indelible record of the days in the wild when dim ancestors had run with the pack and at the same time developed the pack and themselves.
But for the
indelible picture that my remembrance now holds before me, I could scarcely believe, even as I write these words, that I saw two-and-thirty men and women put before the Judge to receive that sentence together.
The unison of opposites to prove, Of the soft wax and diamond hard am I; But still, obedient to the laws of love, Here, hard or soft, I offer you my breast, Whate'er you grave or stamp thereon shall rest
Indelible for all eternity.
I wished to fix an
indelible impression of it in my mind.
Then the cambric was torn from her beautiful shoulders; and on one of those lovely shoulders, round and white, D'Artagnan recognized, with inexpressible astonishment, the FLEUR-DE-LIS--that
indelible mark which the hand of the infamous executioner had imprinted.
Many events are focussed sharply on my brain, but between these
indelible pictures I retain are intervals of unconsciousness.
Curiosity and admiration excited by her beauty; inquiries made about her; the story of the past discovered; Society charitably sorry for her; Society generously subscribing for her; and still, through all the years of her life, the same result in the end--the shadow of the old disgrace surrounding her as with a pestilence, isolating her among other women, branding her, even when she had earned her pardon in the sight of God, with the mark of an
indelible disgrace in the sight of man: there was the prospect!