"Cadenced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attempt presently, and sat silent, elbows on her thighs, hands propping her chin. Thoughts, vague as the fitful breeze, arose, lingered, and, like the breeze, faded, dissolved into calm, through which, cadenced by the far beat of the ebb tide, her heart echoed, beating the steady intervals ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers
... from the sky or the deep, That faint, long-cadenced wail? From the closing door of the down-way steep, His own bosom, or out of the gale? From the land where dead dreams, or dead maidens sleep? Out of every night to come will creep That cry his ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... all have striven for, but only one, gifted above his fellows with magic power of weaving the gossamer thread of words, has truly attained. For it is in that reconcilement of apparent opposites, and in the cadenced measures of a musical voice, that the dignified traditions of an aesthetic purity, repellent to the thin, colourless lips of impotence, reside and make their home. But— [Breaks off, and lights ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 12, 1890 • Various |
