Wealth and station, added to these, soon floated her upward, and for years now my Lady Dedlock has been at the centre of the fashionable
intelligence and at the top of the fashionable tree.
In fact, from the origin of things down to the fifteenth century of the Christian era, inclusive, architecture is the great book of humanity, the principal expression of man in his different stages of development, either as a force or as an
intelligence.
'voluntary act.' Thus the animal's reflex and voluntary performances shade into each other gradually, being connected by acts which may often occur automatically, but may also be modified by conscious
intelligence.
Only a very few days more - appallingly few to the hearts which had set themselves bravely to hope against hope - three weeks, a month later, perhaps, the name of ships under the blight of the "Overdue" heading shall appear again in the column of "Shipping
Intelligence," but under the final declaration of "Missing."
He then was sure that no enemy could approach, from any direction, without being discovered by his hunters; who have a quick eye for detecting the slightest signs of the proximity of Indians; and who would instantly convey
intelligence to the camp.
Her tears fell abundantlybut her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understandingreally for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the twoand that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or
intelligence could do.
Walled by the living clay, that fierce
intelligence we had known burned on; but it burned on in silence and darkness.
The clamor of many voices soon announced that a party approached, who might be expected to communicate some
intelligence that would explain the mystery of the novel surprise.
How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the
intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child!
Every item of
intelligence appeared to redouble the astonishment of the islanders, and they gazed at us with inquiring looks.
Bute Crawley, numbed with midnight travelling, and warming herself at the newly crackling parlour fire, heard from Miss Briggs the
intelligence of the clandestine marriage, she declared it was quite providential that she should have arrived at such a time to assist poor dear Miss Crawley in supporting the shock--that Rebecca was an artful little hussy of whom she had always had her suspicions; and that as for Rawdon Crawley, she never could account for his aunt's infatuation regarding him, and had long considered him a profligate, lost, and abandoned being.
Some letters had passed between her and her brother, in consequence of Marianne's illness; and in the first of John's, there had been this sentence:-- "We know nothing of our unfortunate Edward, and can make no enquiries on so prohibited a subject, but conclude him to be still at Oxford;" which was all the
intelligence of Edward afforded her by the correspondence, for his name was not even mentioned in any of the succeeding letters.