"Wordless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we wearily sigh for, All of the future for which our hearts long, All Love would live for, and all Love would die for Wordless, ...
— The Miracle and Other Poems • Virna Sheard
... two held his rifle in unsteady hands while the canoe glided out from the bank. An exclamation began in his throat which ended in an indistinct gurgle. Remembering that he was pledged to silence, he settled himself to be as wordless and motionless as if his living body ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
... me away from what I meant to say, which was simply that Miss Rossano's wordless reception of Brunow made me furiously jealous of him, and altogether dashed my happiness. She had spoken to me—ergo, she could speak. She had not spoken to him—ergo, the emotion of encountering him was too great for her. We had been ...
— In Direst Peril • David Christie Murray
... Choose, and do not err! For time but follows as you shape the mold, And finishes in marble, stern and cold, That statue of the soul, the character. By wordless blessing, or by silent curse, By act and motive,—so do you define The image which time copies, line by line, For the great gallery ...
— Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life • Orison Swett Marden
... Right Worthy my fellow-thegns, if ye could read my heart at this moment, believe that you would not find there the vain joy of aspiring man, when the greatest of earthly prizes is placed within his reach. There, you would see, with deep and wordless gratitude for your trust and your love, grave and solemn solicitude, earnest desire to divest my decision of all mean thought of self, and judge only whether indeed, as king or as subject, I can best guard the weal of England. Pardon me, then, if I answer you not ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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