"Unilluminated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one homely uniform of blue-checked gowns, with such caps upon their heads as English servants wear. Generally, too, they had one dowdy English aspect, and a vulgar type of features so nearly alike that they seemed literally to constitute a sisterhood. We have few of these absolutely unilluminated faces among our native American population, individuals of whom must be singularly unfortunate, if, mixing as we do, no drop of gentle blood has contributed to refine the turbid element, no gleam of hereditary intelligence has lighted up the stolid eyes, which their forefathers ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... idea of giving them a piece of his land; they wanted it to join to their own, which is rather an awkward shape just there. The influence of S. Giuseppe had already been at work four years, but Peppino's father still remained obstinately unilluminated. ...
— Castellinaria - and Other Sicilian Diversions • Henry Festing Jones
... Ornaments' constitutes a gorgeous work, illustrated by gold and colour, giving correct ideas of the magnificence of the original examples of which the unilluminated works afford but a scanty conception."—Civil Engineer ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 • Various
... knocked, by his solicitation, at the supernatural door of life? How was it that a woman whom he encountered so often, a very angel of mercy, could do the things he was doing, tramping about in the misery and squalor of the great city day and night, her path unilluminated by a ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... big shed some firemen battered down the door in order to turn a stream of water on the fire there. The flames lighted up the place with an intensive light, leaving no corner unilluminated. Jack, on the qui vive with ...
— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham
... rotate about the axis of S, by means of the wheel, F, equal to and engaging with D. The upper end of S projects slightly through a perforation in the moon, and to it the hemispherical black shell or cap, G, is fixed by the screw, K; this cap represents the unilluminated part of the moon, and since G, s, b, and B, are in effect but one piece, the cap moves precisely as the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various
... hang 'em!"), so wonderfully sore a feeling about the revolution thus celebrated, that to avoid its fete the majority had gone off by steamer the day before, and those who remained were prophesying assaults on the unilluminated houses, and other excesses. Dickens had no faith in such predictions. "The people are as perfectly good tempered and quiet always, as people can be. I don't know what the last Government may have been, but they seem to me to do very well with this, and to be rationally ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster |
