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More "Enshroud" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interrupted, for Baron Suire, who had already once gone by without perceiving them, so completely did the darkness enshroud them in that retired corner, had just recognised the ex-public prosecutor's good-natured laugh. And, thereupon, with the volubility of a man whose head is easily unhinged, he gave him several orders respecting the ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... sad of demeanour, to shun the disturbing effects of social distraction, had become second nature to him. By no wish of his own, but naturally and irresistibly, that habit of melancholy which had fallen on its master seemed to enshroud his home. He liked his brother to be with him in the home in which he had been born, but he would not welcome his brother's friends. He was greatly attached to the sister, who was half a dozen years older than himself, but the idea that she could desire any other company than his own, had ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
... enshroud the hard machinery of the human frame seem to arrive in a merely incidental or accidental sort of way. Yet once they have arrived they exert a mysterious influence over careers. Because of a mere change in contour, many a queen has lost her throne. It is a terrifying thought when one remembers ...
— The Slim Princess • George Ade
... Union would not be "worth a rush."[131] With such unworthy levity did these leaders of sectional strife express their exultation in the prospect of the conflict, which was to drench the land with blood and enshroud ...
— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis
... These airy insects. Birds have ceased to sing, But twitter faintly, settling to their rest; And not a rook's caw rends the placid air. I must begone; but ere I go, will kneel To kiss this ivy—modest earthly type, That would with constant verdure grace her name, As I enshroud her memory with my love! For She has been the blessing that has nerved My strength in failing hours of blackest night, When doubts oppress and fears distract; and when Gigantic Evil's hoofs are crushing good, And pity burns in terror; ...
— My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale • Thomas Woolner
... o'er my wilder'd mind, A thraldom came which did each sense enshroud; Not that I bowed in willing chain confined, But that a soften'd atmosphere of cloud Veiled every sense—conceal'd th' impending doom. 'Twas mystic night, and I seem'd borne along By pleasing dread—and ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
... night is well-nigh spent, my soul! The night is well-nigh spent; And soon above our heads shall rise A glorious firmament. A sky all clear and glad and bright, The Lamb once slain its perfect light, A star without a cloud, Whose light no mists enshroud, Descending never! ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
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