"Unshadowed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be defended by the blood of the brave, who know the rights of man and shrink not from their assertion; may they be each a column, and all together, under the Constitution, a perpetual Temple of Peace, unshadowed by a Caesar's palace, at whose altar may freely commune all who seek the union ...
— Washington's Birthday • Various
... the house was part of the street, the street was part of the city, the city part of the man-made world. For a moment the walls pressed in upon them as the hotel walls had done, and the ceilings shut out the stars. Then he turned and met her eyes. They were clear now—unshadowed by doubt, fear, or question. He knew what it meant,—at length she was altogether out of the web. It was odd but he had never kissed her lips. He had ...
— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... in which gray rafters with wavering edges, rough posts each with an accessory of shadow, an old harness in grotesque loops, ceased to be background and assumed roles. The background itself, modified by many an unshadowed promontory, was accented in caverns of manger and roof. The place revealed mystery and beauty in the casual business of saying what had to ...
— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale
... horizon he daily draws more close—whose doors may even now be opening for him? A hundred hands point out a hundred roads to knowledge—they are lost half way. Only the cold spiritual firmament, unlit by any guiding stars, unbrightened by the flood of human day, and unshadowed by the veils of human night, still bends above his head in awful changelessness, and still his weary feet draw closer to the portals of ...
— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard
... The clear, unshadowed sun, as it declined towards the western verge of the horizon, shone brightly upon the gypsy encampment, a few miles from Redwood. The wandering tribe had displayed their proverbial taste, in their ...
— The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales • Francis A. Durivage
... instant of time, and often pass as quickly; the latter are slowly wrought in the loom of life, through daily experience and careful thought. Herein lies the ground of my faith in God;—it is an inwrought conviction. First I had the child's sweet faith transfused into my soul with a mother's love, and unshadowed by a single doubt. Then, on growing older, as I read the Bible, which I believe to be God's word, I saw that its precepts were divine, and so the child's faith was succeeded by rational sight. Afterwards, as I floated off into ...
— All's for the Best • T. S. Arthur
... ghostly shapes and ghostly sounds, go dimly walking forth— That soon the night of Death may throw its mantle over me, And unfamiliar things shall rise from dark eternity. Yet, would I hope, when such shall come, to dwell not with pain, But walk, with a triumphant song, o'er heaven's unshadowed plain— Where Youth and Hope, and Love and Joy, (the angels,) ever smile, And evermore the aching heart from woe ...
— Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems • James Avis Bartley
... hands soon to be folded, we build up the structure of our lives from what our fingers can feel, our eyes can see, and our ears can hear. Till, in a moment—marvelous whether it come in storm and tears, or softly as twilight breath beneath unshadowed skies—we are called upon to yield our grasp of these solid things, and trust ourselves to the invisible Soul within us, which betakes itself along an invisible path into the Unknown. It is strange: a door opens into a new world; and man, child of the dust that he is, follows ...
— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton
... Donal was living through those years now. He did not know that any happiness could be taken from him. He was hers and she was his. It would be horrible if there were anything one could not let him keep—in this early unshadowed time! ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... High for his mercy in directing the Father of Ice to call while the Emir was out. He thought no more of it. They rode again the next day and the next; his happiness went on, unshadowed, till a certain morning when the Frank announced, with a yawn, that he supposed he must return the visit of the missionary. This he gave as a reason for not riding on that day. He would write off arrears of letters in the morning, and in the afternoon ...
— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall
... ten days of unshadowed happiness and companionship, and then a cloud arose. Pat was not well; he grew worse; he grew seriously ill. The knee itself had done all that was expected of it, but the first attempt at walking, to which the poor fellow had looked forward as to a festival, proved in reality a painful and depressing ...
— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey |
