 | 1859 - 826 pages
...globules like bubbles of light, many-coloured —green, yellow, fire-red, azure, Up and down, to mid fro, hither, thither, as tiny Will-o'-the-wisps, the...now advanced from the wall without apparent agency, aud placed at the opposite side of the table. Suddenly as forth from the chair, there grew a Shape... | |
 | 1859 - 1036 pages
...from the floor, sparks or glohules like huhhles of light, many-coloured — green, yellow, tire-red, azure, Up and down, to and fro, hither, thither, as...slow or, swift, each at its own caprice. A chair (as iu the drawing-room helow) was now advanced fmin the wall without apparent agency, and placed at the... | |
 | 1861 - 878 pages
...the far end there rose, as from the floor, sparks or globales like bubbles of light, many-colored — green, yellow, fire-red, azure. Up and down, to and fro, hither, thither, as tiny will -o'- the -wisps, the sparks moved, slow or swift, each at its own caprice. A chair (as in the... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 396 pages
...the far end there rose, as from the floor, sparks or globules like bubbles of light, manycolored— green, yellow, fire-red, azure. Up and down, to and...table. Suddenly, as forth from the chair, there grew a shape—-a woman's shape. It was distinct as a shape of life —ghastly as a shape of death. The face... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1865 - 396 pages
...far end there rose, as from the floor, sparks or globules like bubbles of light, many-coloured — green, yellow, fire-red, azure. Up and down, to and...apparent agency, and placed at the opposite side of tic table. Suddenly, as forth from the chair, there grew a shape— a woman's shape. It was distinct... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 216 pages
...at the far end rose, as from the floor, sparks or globules like bubbles of light, manycolored, — green, yellow, fire-red, azure, — up and down, to...side of the table. Suddenly, as forth from the chair, grew a shape, a woman's shape. It was distinct as a shape of life, ghastly as a shape of death. The... | |
 | Magdalen School (University of Oxford) - 1880 - 540 pages
...far end there rose, as from the floor, sparks or globules like bubbles of light, many-coloured — green, yellow, fire-red, azure. Up and down, to and...opposite side of the table. Suddenly, as forth from the chuir, there grew a Shape — a woman's shape. It was distinct as a shape of life — ghastly as a... | |
 | 1892 - 396 pages
...far end there rose, as from the floor, sparks or globules, like bubbles of light, many-colored — green, yellow, fire-red, azure. Up and down, to and...swift, each at its own caprice. A chair (as in the drawing room below) was now advanced from the wall without apparent agency, and placed at the opposite... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1903 - 298 pages
...at the far end rose, as from the floor, sparks or globules like bubbles of light, many-colored, — green, yellow, fire-red, azure, — up and down, to...side of the table. Suddenly, as forth from the chair, grew a shape, a woman's shape. It was distinct as a shape of life, ghastly as a shape of death. The... | |
 | William Patten - 1906 - 442 pages
...green, yellow, fire-red, azure. Up and down, to and fro, hither, thither, as tiny Will-o'-the- Wisps, the sparks moved, slow or swift, each at its own caprice....— a woman's shape. It was distinct as a shape of lifeghastly as a shape of death. The face was that of youth, with a strange mournful beauty; the throat... | |
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Will-o'-the-Wisps, the sparks moved, slow or swift, each at its own caprice. A chair (as in the drawing-room below) was now advanced from the wall without apparent agency, and placed at the opposite side of the table. Suddenly, as forth from the chair,... 
