"Astral" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been. By the way, Nellie, you must have sent an astral warning that you were coming along. We were just ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller
... an extra holiday hand. Dozens of customers clamoured for her at once. Each female creature seemed to have as many hands as Briareus, all reaching for things they wanted, or gesticulating and brandishing money, or snatching for change. If each distracted girl had had half a dozen highly trained astral bodies with which to serve these terrible ladies, it would not have been enough. More ladies ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... I do mean," she said. "It's a sort of power that grows—and oh, Bill, I'd do anything in the world to get rid of it! But this woman whom I saw standing by Lionel Varick in the porch was not a spirit. She was an astral body; that is, she was alive somewhere else: it was her thoughts—her vengeful, malicious thoughts—which ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... yonge lady," he said, meekly, falling back to the centre-table on which was burning my shaded astral lamp—for I had left it as he approached, instinctively to seek the protection of an interposing chair, on the back of which I ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield
... brilliant brunette, but here was another brunette who eclipsed her in her own splendid style of beauty as an astral lamp outshines a candle. Cleopatra, Thais, Aspasia, or any other world-renowned siren who had governed kingdoms through kings' passions, might have been just such a woman ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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