An atmosphere of extraordinary languor [languor = dreamy, lazy mood ] An atmosphere thick with flattery and toadyism An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence An audacious challenge of ridicule An avidity that bespoke at once the restlessness, [avidity = eagerness] and the genius of her mind An awe crept over me An eager and thirsty ear An easy prey to the powers of folly An effusive air of welcome An equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism An erect, martial, majestic, and imposing personage An eternity of silence oppressed him An expression of mildly humorous surprise An expression of rare and inexplicable personal energy An exquisite perception of things beautiful and rare An iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart An ignoring eye An impenetrable screen of foliage An impersonal and slightly ironic interest An impervious beckoning motion An inarticulate echo of his longing An increased gentleness of aspect www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 362 An incursion of the loud, the vulgar and meretricious [meretricious = plausible but false] An inexplicable and uselessly cruel caprice of fate An inexpressible fervor of serenity An ingratiating, awkward and, wistful grace An inspired ray was in his eyes An instant she stared unbelievingly An intense and insatiable hunger for light and truth An intense travail of mind An obscure thrill of alarm An odd little air of penitent self-depreciation An open wit and recklessness of bearing An oppressive sense of strange sweet odor An optimistic after-dinner mood An overburdening sense of the inexpressible An uncomfortable premonition of fear An unfailing sweetness and unerring perception An unpleasant and heavy sensation sat at his heart An unredeemed dreariness of thought An unsuspected moral obtuseness An utter depression of soul And day peers forth with her blank eyes And what is all this pother about? [pother = commotion; disturbance] Animated by noble pride www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 363 Anticipation painted the world in rose Appalled in speechless disgust Appealing to the urgent temper of youth Apprehensive solicitude about the future Ardent words of admiration Armed all over with subtle antagonisms Artless and unquestioning devotion As if smitten by a sudden spasm As the long train sweeps away into the golden distance August and imperial names in the kingdom of thought Awaiting his summons to the eternal silence B Bandied about from mouth to mouth Barricade the road to truth Bartering the higher aspirations of life Beaming with pleasurable anticipation Before was the open malignant sea Beguiled the weary soul of man Beneath the cold glare of the desolate night Bent on the lofty ends of her destiny Beset by agreeable hallucinations Beset with smiling hills www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 364 Beside himself in an ecstasy of pleasure Betokening an impulsive character Beyond the farthest edge of night Birds were fluting in the tulip-trees Biting sentences flew about Black inky night Blithe with the bliss of the morning Blown about by every wind of doctrine Bookish precision and professional peculiarity Borne from lip to lip Borne onward by slow-footed time Borne with a faculty of willing compromise Bowed with a certain frigid and deferential surprise Broke in a stupendous roar upon the shuddering air Browsing at will on all the uplands of knowledge and thought Buffeted by all the winds of passion Buried hopes rose from their sepulchers Buried in the quicksands of ignorance But none the less peremptorily [peremptorily = ending all debate or action] By a curious irony of fate By a happy turn of thinking By virtue of his impassioned curiosity www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 365 C Carried the holiday in his eye Chafed at the restraints imposed on him Cheeks furrowed by strong purpose and feeling Childlike contour of the body Cleansed of prejudice and self-interest Cloaked in prim pretense Clothed with the witchery of fiction Clutch at the very heart of the usurping mediocrity Cold gaze of curiosity Collapse into a dreary and hysterical depression Comment of rare and delightful flavor Conjuring up scenes of incredible beauty and terror Conscious of unchallenged supremacy Constant indulgence of wily stratagem and ambitious craft Contemptuously indifferent to the tyranny of public opinion Covered with vegetation in wild luxuriance Crisp sparkle of the sea Crystallize about a common nucleus Cultivated with a commensurate zeal Current play of light gossip Curtains of opaque rain D www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 366 Dallying in maudlin regret over the past [maudlin = tearfully sentimental] Dark with unutterable sorrows Darkness oozed out from between the trees Dawn had broken Day stood distinct in the sky Days of vague and fantastic melancholy Days that are brief and shadowed Deep shame and rankling remorse Deficient in affectionate or tender impulses Delicately emerging stars Delicious throng of sensations Despite her pretty insolence Dignity and sweet patience were in her look Dim opalescence of the moon Dimly foreshadowed on the horizon Dimmed by the cold touch of unjust suspicion Disfigured by passages of solemn and pompous monotony. Disguised itself as chill critical impartiality Dismal march of death Distinguished by hereditary rank or social position Distract and beguile the soul Distressing in their fatuous ugliness www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 367 Diverted into alien channels Diverting her eyes, she pondered Dogs the footsteps Doled out in miserly measure Doubt tortured him Doubts beset her lonely and daring soul Down the steep of disenchantment Dreams and visions were surpassed Dreams that fade and die in the dim west Drear twilight of realities Drift along the stream of fancy Drowned in the deep reticence of the sea Drowsiness coiled insidiously about him Dull black eyes under their precipice of brows E Earth danced under a heat haze Easily moved to gaiety and pleasure Either way her fate was cruel Embrace with ardor the prospect of serene leisure Endearing sweetness and manner Endeavoring to smile away his chagrin Endlessly shifting moods Endowed with all those faculties www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 368 that can make the world a garden of enchantment Endowed with life and emphasis Enduring with smiling composure the near presence of people who are distasteful Enjoyed with astonishing unscrupulousness Enticed irresistibly by the freedom of an open horizon Essay a flight of folly Evanescent shades of feeling [evanescent = vanishing like vapor] Events took an unexpected sinister turn Every curve of her features seemed to express a fine arrogant acrimony and harsh truculence Everywhere the fragrance of a bountiful earth Exasperated by what seemed a wilful pretense of ignorance Exhibits itself in fastidious crotchets Expectation darkened into anxiety Experience and instinct warred within her Exquisite graciousness of manner Exquisitely stung by the thought F Familiar and endearing intimacy Fatally and indissolubly united Fathomless depths of suffering Fear held him in a vice Feeding his scholarly curiosity www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 369 Feeling humiliated by the avowal Felicitousness in the choice and exquisiteness in the collocation of words Fettered by poverty and toil Feverish tide of life Fine precision of intent Fitful tumults of noble passion Fleeting touches of something alien and intrusive Floating in the clouds of reverie Fluctuations of prosperity and adversity Flushed with a suffusion that crimsoned her whole countenance Forebodings possessed her Foreshadowing summer's end Forever echo in the heart Forever sings itself in memory Formless verbosity and a passionate rhetoric Fragments of most touching melody Free from rigid or traditional fetters Freedom and integrity of soul Freighted with strange, vague longings Frosty thraldom of winter [thraldom = servitude; bondage] Fugitive felicities of thought and sensation Full of dreams and refinements and intense abstractions Full of majestic tenderness www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 370 [...]... gravity www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 383 Kiss-provoking lips L Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle Language of excessive flattery and adulation Lapped in soft music of adulation Lapse into pathos and absurdity Large, dark, luminous eyes that behold everything about them Latent vein of whimsical humor Lead to the strangest aberrations Leaping from lambent flame into eager and... of ill-humor He threw round a measuring eye He treads the primrose path of dalliance He used an unguarded adjective He was a tall, dark, saturnine youth, sparing of speech [saturnine = melancholy; sullen] He was aware of emotion He was born to a lively and intelligent patriotism He was dimly mistrustful of it He was discreetly silent He was empty of thought He was entangled in a paradox He was giving... Immured in a trivial round of duty [immured = confine within] Impassioned and earnest language Impatient and authoritative tones Impervious to the lessons of experience Implying an immense melancholy Imprisoned within an enchanted circle In a deprecating tone of apology In a flash of revelation In a gale of teasing merriment In a misery of annoyance and mortification In a musing ecstasy of contemplation... www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 380 In a sky stained with purple, the moon slowly rose In a spirit of indulgent irony In a strain of exaggerated gallantry In a tone of after-dinner perfunctoriness [perfunctoriness = with little interest] In a tone of musing surprise In a tumult of self-approval and towering exultation In a vague and fragmentary way In a wise, superior, slightly scornful manner In accents... moved me to a strange exhilaration It parted to a liquid horizon and showed the gray rim of the sea It proved a bitter disillusion It seemed intolerably tragic It seemed to exhale a silent and calm authority It was a breathless night of suspense It was a desolating vision It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind It was a night of stupefying surprises It was all infinitely soft and refreshing... his youth away by handfuls He was haunted and begirt by presences He was measured and urbane He was most profoundly skeptical He was nothing if not grandiloquent He was quaking on the precipice of a bad bilious attack He was utterly detached from life He went hot and cold www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 374 He would fall into the blackest melancholies He writhed in the grip of a definite apprehension... moment The accelerated beat of his thoughts The affluent splendor of the summer day The afternoon was filled with sound and sunshine The afternoon was waning The air and sky belonged to midsummer The air darkened swiftly The air is touched with a lazy fragrance, as of hidden flowers The air was caressed with song The air was full of fugitive strains of old songs The air was raw and pointed The allurements... of a coquette The ambition and rivalship of men The angry blood burned in his face The anguish of a spiritual conflict tore his heart www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 395 The artificial smile of languor The awful and implacable approach of doom The babble of brooks grown audible The babbledom that dogs the heels of fame The bait proved incredibly successful The balm of solitary musing The beauty... haughty step waxed timorous and vigilant Her head throbbed dangerously Her heart appeared to abdicate its duties Her heart fluttered with a vague terror Her heart pounded in her throat Her heart was full of speechless sorrow Her hurrying thoughts clamored for utterance Her imagination recoiled Her interest flagged Her life had dwarfed her ambitions Her limbs ran to marble www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com... sighed Involuntary awkwardness and reserve Involved in a labyrinth of perplexities It came to him with a stab of enlightenment It elicited a remarkably clear and coherent statement It is a flight beyond the reach of human magnanimity It is a thing infinitely subtle www.Inspiring-Quotes-and-Stories.com 382 It is not every wind that can blow you from your anchorage It lends no dazzling tints to fancy It moved . An atmosphere of extraordinary languor [languor = dreamy, lazy mood ] An atmosphere thick with flattery and toadyism An attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence An audacious challenge. An ingratiating, awkward and, wistful grace An inspired ray was in his eyes An instant she stared unbelievingly An intense and insatiable hunger for light and truth An intense travail. Dawn had broken Day stood distinct in the sky Days of vague and fantastic melancholy Days that are brief and shadowed Deep shame and rankling remorse Deficient in affectionate