There are the
spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.
"Milk and honey" would have been an appropriate inscription for the delicious little library which parents who, I surmised, doted on Nicolete in vain, had allowed her to build in a wild woodland corner of her ancestral park, half a mile away from the great house, where, for all its corridors and galleries, she could never feel, at all events,
spiritually alone.
And I am also very much afraid for him
spiritually. He has not a character like us women who, when we suffer, can weep away our sorrows.
But he had a vague consciousness of one thing, though it was not clear to him till later; that his original Tess had
spiritually ceased to recognize the body before him as hers--allowing it to drift, like a corpse upon the current, in a direction dissociated from its living will.
or was she
spiritually conscious of something hidden in the room?
The unlikeliest materials -- a stick, a bunch of rags, a flower -- were the puppets of Pearl's witchcraft, and, without undergoing any outward change, became
spiritually adapted to whatever drama occupied the stage of her inner world.
Hilbery, in virtue of her position as the only child of the poet, was
spiritually the head of the family, and Katharine, her daughter, had some superior rank among all the cousins and connections, the more so because she was an only child.
Casaubon had an intense consciousness within him, and was
spiritually a-hungered like the rest of us.
Again I felt those strangely mingled sensations of rapture and awe, which had once before filled me when I was conscious,
spiritually, of her touch.
Nor is their ground-landlord
spiritually the richer.
Spiritually, he was in the position of a man who has been hit simultaneously in a number of sensitive spots by a variety of hard and hurtful things.
The lake, as I have hinted, was to a considerable depth exceedingly transparent; and as human infants while suckling will calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different lives at the time; and while yet drawing mortal nourishment, be still
spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence; --even so did the young of these whales seem looking up towards us, but not at us, as if we were but a bit of Gulf-weed in their new-born sight.