Th' undying voice of that dead time, With its
interminable chime, Rings, in the spirit of a spell, Upon thy emptiness - a knell.
Slowly but surely his consciousness grew, his vision of his state thus completing itself; he had been miraculously CARRIED back - lifted and carefully borne as from where he had been picked up, the uttermost end of an
interminable grey passage.
After a time that seemed
interminable, they emerged from the circling wood.
Ah, well--" It was their old
interminable argument as to the obstinate unwillingness of the "clever people" to frequent the fashionable, and both men knew that there was no use in prolonging it.
On such an afternoon, if ever, the Lord High Chancellor ought to be sitting her--as here he is--with a foggy glory round his head, softly fenced in with crimson cloth and curtains, addressed by a large advocate with great whiskers, a little voice, and an
interminable brief, and outwardly directing his contemplation to the lantern in the roof, where he can see nothing but fog.
Just in front of the chariots the visiting jeddak rode alone upon a pure white thoat--another unusual sight upon Barsoom--and after them came
interminable ranks of mounted spearmen, riflemen, and swordsmen.
The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are
interminable.
The doctor became uneasy at this persistent setting of the wind in that direction, for he felt that he was being thrown back to the eastward, toward the centre of Africa, and the
interminable deserts of that region.
But, what every one might have noticed was the
interminable hours which he often employed, seated upon the parapet of the area in front of the church, in contemplating the sculptures of the front; examining now the foolish virgins with their lamps reversed, now the wise virgins with their lamps upright; again, calculating the angle of vision of that raven which belongs to the left front, and which is looking at a mysterious point inside the church, where is concealed the philosopher's stone, if it be not in the cellar of Nicolas Flamel.
The anthem was
interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being sung; you could not hear the droning sermon, and your body twitched because you had to sit still when you wanted to move about.
During the three months she had been here she had made up considerably, as Helen meant she should, for time spent in
interminable walks round sheltered gardens, and the household gossip of her aunts.
However, time seemed
interminable then, and I thought there would be enough of it for me in which to read all Spanish literature; or, at least, I did not propose to do anything less.
