"Background" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... plainly amid his sombre surroundings. I can see the muscles about his nostrils twitching, as he stops now and again to nibble at a withered tuft of grass. A lonely jay flits from one tree to another; a cardinal speeds by my window, a line of color across a dark background; and one by one the dry leaves drop noiselessly down, making thicker the soft covering which Nature is spreading over ...
— The Love Story of Abner Stone • Edwin Carlile Litsey
... mouth to scream, but fear had paralysed her voice, and she lay staring at the hangings, incapable of movement or sound. As she watched the curtain she saw it move again, and a shape appeared faintly against the gloomy background. ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... three weeks of daily bathing with water from 18 to 24 deg. C., however, the screaming decreased again. The experience that a pleasant feeling of warmth succeeded, may have forced the recollection of the unpleasant feeling into the background. But the screaming can not at all be represented by letters; ae and oe do not suffice. The same is true of the screaming, often prolonged, before falling asleep in the evening, which occurs not seldom also without any ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... to be one of serious agitations, different to any that had yet entered into her experience. Political enterprise for the time cast all purely personal interests and emotions into the background. "I have never known how to do anything by halves," she says of herself very truly; and whatever may be thought of the tendency of her political influence and the manner of its exertion, no one can tax her with sparing herself in a contest to which, moreover, she came disinterested; vanity ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas
... peaceful life to live there; But when first the room I entered, Over chips of wood I stumbled. On the door I knocked my forehead, And my head against the doorposts. At the door were eyes of strangers: Darksome eyes were at the entrance, 570 Squinting eyes in midst of chamber, In the background eyes most evil. From the mouths the fire was flashing, From beneath the tongues shot firebrands, From the old man's mouth malicious, From beneath ...
— Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) - The Land of the Heroes • Anonymous
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