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"Blankness" Quotes from Famous Books

... her hands and looking upwards with a kind of devout blankness, 'I wouldn't lay myself out as she does; I wouldn't be as bold as her; I wouldn't seem to say to all male creeturs "Come and kiss me"'—and here a shudder quite convulsed her frame—'for any earthly crowns as might be offered. Worlds,' Miggs added solemnly, 'should not reduce ...

— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

... The luminous blankness circling us continued to remain unflecked for less than an hour. Then out of the horizon toward which we steamed, a small grey vagueness began to grow. It lengthened fast, and seemed a cloud. And a cloud it proved; but slowly, beneath it, blue filmy shapes began to define ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn

... light and shadow, had sunk beneath another level, but one that glistened, sparkled, was instinct with varying life, and moved and even danced below him. The low palisades of regularly recurring tules that had fenced in, impeded, but never relieved the blankness of his horizon, were forever swallowed up behind him. All trail of past degradation, all record of pain and suffering, all footprints of his wandering and misguided feet were smoothly wiped out in that obliterating sea. He was physically helpless, and he felt it; ...

— A First Family of Tasajara • Bret Harte

... Again a calm blankness fell upon the psychic's delicate and sensitive face, and the hand once more slowly closed ...

— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland

... Dan stared at him with the blankness of surprise. "Where did you come from, Big Abel?" he questioned at ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

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