Only the highest spires of the city pierced heaven above their shadowiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Unicorn Trade]
On our right the mountain rose further, on our left it plunged downward, in frosted shadowiness where here and there gleamed yellovy the windows of a home. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house. From Wordnik.com. [Modern British Poetry] Reference
The curtains are drawn, the lamp is lighted and veiled into exquisite soft shadowiness. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
Dusk began to gather, the last birds in that dense shadowiness of trees had ceased to sing. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
The shadowiness of the clouds overhead made the effect of the sunlight strange, where it fell. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1] Reference
In the shadowiness of the firs, the glimmer of a fire was just discernible on the kitchen window. From Wordnik.com. [David Elginbrod] Reference
There is nothing of the confused outline, the mere shadowiness of mystical dreaming, in this most concrete human figure. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
It, too, is full of the sense of the shadowiness of things that weighed upon Debussy, has not a little of the accent of the time. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
The lozenge-paned windows, with thick stone mullions, were much overgrown with ivy, throwing a cool green shadowiness into the room. From Wordnik.com. [David Elginbrod] Reference
Only the Arthurian story can approach them here, and that leaves still an element of gracious shadowiness about the heroines, if not the heroes. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
In those ideal figures, pensive a little from the first, we may suppose, with the shadowiness of a past age, we may yet see how Greeks of the time of. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
In them lay a faint shadowiness like the memory of shed tears; but sweeping over that and blotting it out he saw a look which struck him like a blow. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
There was just that shadowiness about them which you find in people whose lives are part of the social organism, so that they exist in it and by it only. From Wordnik.com. [Moon and Sixpence] Reference
There was green hellebore too, a fascinating plant -- and one or two little treasures, the last of the rose-coloured Alpine cyclamens, near the earth, with snake-skin leaves, and so rose, so rose, like violets for shadowiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
It may, too, be a question whether the literary man and the artist are not immolating their genius to society when, in the shadowiness of assumed talents -- that counterfeiting of all shapes -- they lose their real form, with the mockery of Proteus. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
It is not quite a natural twilight in which we behold these things; rather the awesome shadowiness of a partial eclipse; but gleams of the healthiest sunshine withal mingle in the prevailing tint, bringing reassurance, and receiving again a rarer value from the contrast. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Hawthorne] Reference
Emily's avowed attachment to an accepted lover -- whose shadowiness made him difficult to realise even as an obstacle -- he dwelt persistently on the thought of Hood's position, and found it impossible to imagine a refusal on Emily's part to avert from her father the direst of calamities. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
He found too that her great mass of hair, instead of being, as he had thought, dull, was in reality full of glints and golden hints, as if she had twisted up a handful of sunbeams with it in the morning, which, before night, had faded a little, catching something of the duskiness and shadowiness of their prison. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
Greece who had become a kind of serfs; and in a certain shadowiness in his conceptions of the gods, contrasting with the concrete and heroic forms of the gods of Homer, we may perhaps trace something of the quiet unspoken brooding of a subdued people -- of that silently dreaming temper to which the story of Persephone properly belongs. From Wordnik.com. [Greek Studies: a Series of Essays] Reference
A great deal about the reality of Heaven and the shadowiness of earth, but no one acts as if it were the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
But there crowded after him a whole horde of verse-writers, who seized the most obvious symbols he used and standardized them, and in their writings one wandered about, gasping for fresh air land sunlight, for the Celtic soul seemed bound for ever pale lights of fairyland on the north and by the by the darkness of forbidden passion on the south, and on the east by the shadowiness of all things human, and on the west by everything that was infinite, without form, and void. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginations and Reveries] Reference
"My dear, I mean the general effect -- a sort of shadowiness which suits. From Wordnik.com. [Vixen, Volume I.] Reference
With the blue shadowiness of distant hills. From Wordnik.com. [The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems] Reference
Elsewhere a corner seemed to be reserved for the commoner kinds of lily; of a neat pink or white like rocket-flowers, washed clean like porcelain, with housewifely care; while, a little farther again, were others, pressed close together in a floating garden-bed, as though pansies had flown out of a garden like butterflies and were hovering with blue and burnished wings over the transparent shadowiness of this watery border; this skiey border also, for it set beneath the flowers a soil of a colour more precious, more moving than their own; and both in the afternoon, when it sparkled beneath the lilies in the kaleidoscope of a happiness silent, restless, and alert, and towards evening, when it was filled like a distant heaven with the roseate dreams of the setting sun, incessantly changing and ever remaining in harmony, about the more permanent colour of the flowers themselves, with the utmost profundity, evanescence, and mystery -- with a quiet suggestion of infinity; afternoon or eveni. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
Elsewhere a corner seemed to be reserved for the commoner kinds of lily; of a neat pink or white like rocket-flowers, washed clean like porcelain, with housewifely care; while, a little farther again, were others, pressed close together in a floating garden-bed, as though pansies had flown out of a garden like butterflies and were hovering with blue and burnished wings over the transparent shadowiness of this watery border; this skiey border also, for it set beneath the flowers a soil of a colour more precious, more moving than their own; and both in the afternoon, when it sparkled beneath the lilies in the kaleidoscope of a happiness silent, restless, and alert, and towards evening, when it was filled like a distant heaven with the roseate dreams of the setting sun, incessantly changing and ever remaining in harmony, about the more permanent colour of the flowers themselves, with the utmost profundity, evanescence, and mystery — with a quiet suggestion of infinity; afternoon or evenin. From Wordnik.com. [Swann's Way] Reference
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