| 单词 | bareness |
| 例句 | I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modem life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Stylistically, it is of Spartan—well, Attic—bareness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He lowers Ray to the ground in the first patch of bareness he sees. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If I had no clothes on, that would be nothing compared to the kind of bareness that’s exposed to her right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z To our ears, accustomed to the subsequent six hundred years of harmony, there’s something missing that accounts for the bareness of sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His version of the story may be better than mine because of its bareness, not twisted into designs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He peeled it off and stopped to admire her bareness. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The bareness of much early music — its lack of dynamic or expressive indications — drove Mr. Heras-Casado’s musical development. Pablo Heras-Casado, With Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z “I don’t like obvious bareness so when you move, something might unwrap a little bit,” Kors said. Flip-flop glamor at Michael Kors Spring 2018 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z That means more coverage and less bareness for a more extreme, contrasted look. How the French Manicure Made Its Comeback 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z In unobtrusive cuts, the frame reveals more detail, accentuating the bareness of the trees. ‘Fire Will Come’ Review: An Arsonist Returns Home to the Forest 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z “And I think that sneaky bareness is more interesting to me than obvious bareness.” Flip-flop glamor at Michael Kors Spring 2018 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z With their bareness, Pawson's spaces offer the fantasy of freedom from ownership, for people who own too much. John Pawson: Plain Space 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z But the bareness of the stage suits Coetzee's prose and gives just enough unreality to his characters to permit them to engage in inscrutably simple philosophical arguments. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z The space is extravagant in its bareness, with 15-foot ceilings and light streaming in from the adjacent rooms. T Magazine: A Fine Balance 2013-08-23T17:00:45Z “I don’t like obvious bareness so when you move, something might unwrap a little bit,” Kors said. Flip-flop glamor at Michael Kors Spring 2018 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Her bareness, physically and emotionally, was a big part of the discussions that we all had. ‘The Idol’ Creators: ‘This Is Not Going to Be for Everybody’ 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z “And I think that sneaky bareness is more interesting to me than obvious bareness.” Flip-flop glamor at Michael Kors Spring 2018 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z But for all the efficient bareness of the setting, the show has a brightly colored, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink exuberance. Review: In ‘Le Comte Ory,’ a Salacious Rossini Comes Through 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z Here, Mahler, though, offers the promise of sweetness to our bitter bareness. Review: Dudamel's bittersweet L.A. Phil gala delivers star power and most moving moments 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z They returned home to total bareness - there were no seeds even to plant anew. AP PHOTOS: Northeast India recalls ‘Stalingrad of the East’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z They returned home to total bareness — there were no seeds even to plant anew. AP PHOTOS: Northeast India recalls ‘Stalingrad of the East’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z A more accurate phrase, they say, is “food apartheid,” because while a desert implies an organic state of bareness, an apartheid is the result of deliberate, systemic racism. Chef Jonny Rhodes built a revered Houston restaurant. His next mission: Fighting ‘food apartheid.’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “The simplicity and bareness of the storytelling means the details are important. They can drive tension as much as a big bomb.” Netflix and Amazon take the fight to the battlefield with 'War Machine' and 'The Wall' 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump acknowledged the relative bareness of his events at a rally on Friday night: In defiant language, Mr. Trump hailed the size of the crowd packed into an arena in Hershey, Pa. Big Names Campaigning for Hillary Clinton Underscore Donald Trump’s Isolation 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Together they found a bright apartment and countered the bareness with cheery posters and tags labeling everything in English: lamp, cupboard, wall, door. Canadians stand apart in their warm embrace of refugees 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Flying over the area to shoot pictures, I saw the starkest of contrasts between lush foliage and the bareness of the plots shaved into the jungle. Brazil has battled for decades to halt the Amazon's destruction 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Above the tree line up there, simple wood and stone homes are roofed in corrugated tin, and the bareness could make you think that you had detoured to the Tibetan Plateau. Turkish Eastern Black Sea: The Other Alps (Part Two) 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The bareness of the restaurant, the pounding gangsta rap and the menu of unreconstructed Korean stews speaks to an extremely specific Koreatown experience. Review: At Pot in Koreatown, Roy Choi's still messing with expectations 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z There were no large trees near it, though a clump rose a few hundred yards behind it, and took away the effect of bareness it would otherwise have had. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z She was used to entering Italian palaces and finding interiors as bare and comfortless as a barrack; but in them the discomfort and bareness had always been due to the inadequate means of their owners. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z The loneliness of much of it is not depressing, the bareness of much of it is not sad. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z For an instant the aspect of the interior gave her pause; so bare, with the northern bareness, so squalid with the wretchedness of poverty, was the great dark kitchen. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The actual story may be discouraging in its bareness, yet the situations are seldom fantastic. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z There's a charm one can't quite explain about them—the sameness and the stillness and the great tops so high up, and yet the bareness and openness down below, though always in the shade. Nurse Heatherdale's Story 2012-03-06T03:00:21.190Z "Ye are spies," he said, "ye are come to see the bareness of the land." The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z The room was tolerably large and high, and lighted by gas-burners, which fully illustrated the bareness of wall and floor and ceiling. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z In the half-light of the passage within, which faded tapestry and a stand of arms relieved from utter bareness, the woman who had admitted her faced her sourly. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The house, in short, rose abruptly from the lawn, and the general surface of the ground was characterised by smoothness and bareness. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z On the other side, sloping back, or overhanging, mounts beautiful in their bareness, for they are green as emerald; others, scarcely more beautiful, studded with fair trees, some altogether woods. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Patches of thin grass, heather, juniper, thyme, tamarisks and mountain roses hardly relieve the bareness and aridity of the seaward slopes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Chase's sitting-room was in the strangest contrast to the bareness of the mission and the squalor of the streets. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z He could well believe, so vast was the apartment, that fourteen had not cumbered its bareness. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The bareness and emptiness of life were then insupportable.... Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The remnants of faded gentility were strangely mixed with bareness and poverty. The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z We quickly cleared the building of rugs, tapestries, lace curtains, pictures, and expensive furniture, reduced the twenty-five rooms to their original bareness, and filled every corner with office equipment. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z The slight and scanty fragments that remain from the latter part of the poem, are expressed with all the bareness, and, apparently, with the fidelity of a chronicle. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z She still boasted of enjoying the pleasures of poverty and of preferring them to the others, but she was, in these days, chiefly brought in contact with the dulness and the bareness of poverty. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z The climate is dry and hot, owing to the absence of shade and the bareness of soil, except in the neighbourhood of the Mahoba lakes, which cool and moisten the atmosphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z And suddenly—while the moment before I had been impatient at the bareness resulting from their absence—I was overwhelmingly conscious of the pervading influence of charming women. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z All the grim bareness and desolation of the stone and mud country through which we had passed seemed to serve a purpose now in heightening the intoxication of this scene. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z The trees had burst their buds, and the winter bareness of landscape had been once more turned into a thing of beauty. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z Science does not want to convince or make plausible, and rather seeks to provoke cold distrust by its mode of expression, by the bareness of its walls. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The bareness of the slab walls was relieved, if not entirely concealed, by the tasteful manipulations of the foliate decorator. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z I speak often of this spot, it was the only one where we saw God's own world, a pure and bright horizon, the free desert steppes, whose bareness always produced a strange impression on me. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Lassie looked around the simple bedroom with its absolute bareness. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z Owing to the bareness of the slope, the Russians went down into battle without cover, cut up terribly by the British infantry fire, and by the shell fire from the King's Norton batteries. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z He got up and walked restlessly around the dreadful little room, helpless before its bareness. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z With stumbling eagerness he mounted the rough stairs, and entered a small room, clean, though almost sordid in its bareness, yet through its western window filled with the solemn light of sunset. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The bareness of the place was quite in keeping with the frugal and simple life led by the Reformer. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z A writer who complains of the bareness of narratives, should certainly not curtail their statements. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z Before the curtains of history lifted, one feels the world was like this—this Celtic bareness and sombreness and air. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z There is nothing of bareness about it, nor is there an over-luxuriant interpolation of irrelevant things, such as a curator crowds into a museum. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z They were early at the hall, whose bareness had been relieved by a gay show of bunting and flags. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z A few leaves were still left to flutter down in eddies from the trees, or hop and rustle on the frosty ground, but their scarcity looked more mournful than utter bareness would have done. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z What is known as "Whitfield's Mount," a little clump of enclosed trees, is almost the only relief from the bareness and flatness of this golfing common. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z There were a few holy pictures on the wall which broke the awful bareness. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z Each complete story is composed of an essential skeleton, with a certain amount of secondary matter added to it to take away from its bareness. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z Before her, the face smeared with shining varnish, lay the wooden Christ, hard and cold in its carven bareness and rigidity. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The ignoring of this department of culture by our Puritan ancestors, had much to do with the bareness of surrounding and poverty of amusement which almost affright us in the record of their society. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z The bareness of the floor was relieved by a number of well-dressed bear skins. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z Its white bareness confirmed a suspicion of long standing. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z There was something homelike in the aspect of the place, despite its bareness. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I wish our trunks would come so we could cover up this bareness. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z And this also showed its familiar features in the talk of the distinguished man as he bewailed the social bareness of American life and descanted upon the charm of an ancient and well-ordered society. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z The tall maples were very beautiful in their winter bareness, and the slope about their feet was massed with a close feathery growth of young balsam firs and hemlocks, with openings between. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z Here we may point to an example of the superabundance of French material, which may almost console us for the comparative dimness and bareness of the contemporary English landscape. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Father was taken with the place, too, I could see, but he hummed and hawed a good deal about the bareness of the rooms—the bedrooms especially. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z The bareness and undiversified iteration of situation in the first three scenes of the last act form one presumption against the devising of those scenes by Fletcher. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Theirs was one of those old-fashioned suites of offices in Lincoln's Inn, where the passages are of stone, the doors of painted deal, and a general air of bareness and discomfort prevails. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z All the bareness of its brutal usage was now poignantly evident, and the very atmosphere was heavy with an unconquerable melancholy. A Song of a Single Note A Love Story 2011-02-24T03:01:01.930Z There should be simplicity indeed in this home, but no bareness, no harshness, never an ugliness nor a discord. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z But the revulsion against strangeness and fancy and magnificence went too far; it made for a temporary bareness and meanness and disharmony, which had to be checked by Addison, Bolingbroke and Berkeley. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The dust of Athens, and the bareness of the plain, make all walks about the town disagreeable, save either the ascent of Lycabettus, or a ramble into these olive woods. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z But a sojourn there "in the season," amid the luxury of a "palace-hotel," or the bareness of a mediocre pension, is a thing to be dreaded. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z There are a bareness and a whitewashed feeling about the place that are death to romance. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z It was somewhat bare of furniture, for many things had been left behind at the Pyramids; but its very bareness enhanced its Oriental effect and added to its enchantment. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z A convent cell was no smaller than this, and presented a greater aspect of space from its bareness. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z The people in the bareness of their poverty were nourished with a literature full of wit, imagination, feeling, and dignity. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z Its queer, suspended canopy and slight turreted towers are unique; though, for a fact, they suggest, in embryo, those lavish Burgundian porches; but it is only a suggestion, because of the incompleteness and bareness. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z But then you pass through the carved doors of a magnificent juba screen, and the bareness disappears. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z In case of need it would serve to conceal the bareness of her bosom. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Notwithstanding this wealth of sculpture, we are struck by the bareness of the lofty interior. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Go to, Betsy, never mind the bareness, for you have a glorifying sun within you, whose radiance can brighten the roughest, thorniest way. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z There are no books, no small articles of bricabrac to be seen, and there is a sense of emptiness and bareness which oppresses one. The Story of Malta For all its bareness, my room radiates light; the meagre sunlight shines in through the window and is already transfiguring the place; I feel comfortable in it. Woman She had not finished dressing yet, and the bareness of her arms seemed appropriate to that Hungarian dance she played. Sinister Street, vol. 2 On the benchlands there was nothing to relieve the dark gloom of the firs, the bareness of the deciduous trees, the frost-burnt dead of the grasses. The Land of Strong Men Even grapevines which would seem a natural and beautiful relief from the hideous bareness of the prevalent earth colour, are, in some regions at least, wholly tabooed. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology His very bareness called her attention to his virtue; and these were the exact fruits of her beautiful and terrible admonition. The Spoils of Poynton "You must not mind the poverty of your welcome," she said, with a half-proud, half-apologetic look around her, which I must say the bareness and shabby character of the room we were in fully justified. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth The subject of the dwellings of the common people of this time deserves study: their bareness, absence of sanitation, water-supply, lack of conveniences and utensils. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women In the lower rooms and in the corridors there remained the original Spanish bareness, the cool open spaces empty of furniture. East Angels The roof of the piazza was upheld by tall white columns, and vines growing at either end relieved the bareness. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 The absence of luggage had made this young woman feel meagre even before her companion, taking in the bareness at a second glance, exclaimed upon it and roundly rebuked her. The Spoils of Poynton At first glance the extreme bareness of the spot seemed to promise nothing to my curiosity. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth The bareness and heavy structure of the body are compensated for by the beauty of the interior decoration, which is of the best of the mural work of the kingdom. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield A man in chain armour passed through a castle door, and the seeress noticed with surprise the bareness and rudeness of castle rooms. Ideas of Good and Evil From a well-kept schoolyard, and schoolrooms relieved of their bareness by copies of the great masterpieces, there will radiate all through the township the spirit of order and beauty which will bless the whole community. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Its bareness told him what he had already suspected. Day of the Druid Our night-shirts were wet through, so we got into our other shirts and knickerbockers, but preserved bareness in our feet. The Wouldbegoods Contemporary cuts show us the limited dimensions, the shallow depth and the bareness of accessories typical of this earliest of the housings of the drama, for such it might fairly be called. How to See a Play What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness every where! The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes In promoting social fellowship in countless ways it has relieved the bareness of a life of toil and its plans for wholesome recreation have greatly enriched the community life. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Apart from its bareness and lack of pasture, the place bore an ill name. Dusty Star The short story that is a short story—such as Kipling's "Without Benefit of Clergy," Stevenson's "Markheim," or Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher"—gives off no impression of verbal bareness. The Technique of Fiction Writing There was bareness and desolation, but no sublimity. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Delightful to be on the Hill of Howth Before going over the white-haired sea: The dashing of the wave against its face, The bareness of its shores and of its border. Ancient Irish Poetry Bar the dam bareness of the bass, it looks like a piece of real music from a distance. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) She had but once before touched the bareness of another’s body, and that her mother’s, and in death. The House of Fulfilment Some of these Keith had never entered before, and their bareness appalled him. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon He respects truth to such a degree that he offers it to his readers in its disconcerting bareness. Contemporary Russian Novelists The interior of the little church was plain to bareness; but the sun, which had fallen low, threw red lights on the upper part of the undecorated walls, and rich shadows darkened the lower half. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 She stood up and glanced slowly about her—at the bareness, at the moonlight, at the narrow, white-draped bed. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 Its esthetic bareness had affected her like the meagerness of poverty. Aurora the Magnificent Nothing remains in shadow, everything is illuminated to bareness, and the searching light of His looks goes through every fibre of being. Why I Preach the Second Coming The resignation of this man, the terrible bareness of his obscure existence, oppressed me. Contemporary Russian Novelists Our own Anglo-Saxon records prove that such furnishings were employed to mitigate the cold bareness of our northern homes from the earliest times. Needlework As Art Like the furniture of her house, it struck her as symbolic in its bareness of the sturdier virtues. The Benefactress No doubt there are passages which err upon the side of bareness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 They are not great events that are here recorded, but in their very bareness they give a true picture. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Cell-like it was, in its monastic or conventual bareness. Amaryllis at the Fair Hawthorne and Whittier and Longfellow—all of them sound antiquarians, though none of them in sympathy with the theology of Puritanism—have described in fit terms the bareness of the New England meeting-house. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures And as they watched, the depressing bareness and emptiness of that gray-black expanse was changing. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 The nave, the choir and chevet, and chapels, are all of a bareness which only exaggerates the floridness of these other appendages. The Cathedrals of Northern France There were more buildings than at Huntington’s, but she saw no beds of flowers, no wide veranda screened with potted plants; a certain bareness and air of inhospitality, she thought. The Heart of Thunder Mountain It was vague with bareness: a huge, square room, gaunt as a barn, the walls and ceiling whitewashed, the floor plain boards. Amaryllis at the Fair Anticipating such delicacy in my prospective audience of to-night, I threw a physiological drapery, not to say pathological, over the ethical bareness of my theme, by introducing into it the idea of disease. Is civilization a disease? The first impression a person gets is one of great vastness and bareness, for, unlike Westminster Abbey, here one does not encounter at every step famous statues, memorials, and graves. John and Betty's History Visit As there is no triforium in the nave proper, this decoration is, of course, intended merely as a relief to a bareness which, on account of the generous height, would otherwise exist. The Cathedrals of Northern France The prospect put on a bareness that already gave her something in common with the Miss Condrips. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 But their very bareness and sinewy proportions opened their way to the hearts of the people whom he addressed. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 A moment later he had lighted the cheap lamp and the room stood revealed in all its bareness. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real The place did not have the bareness characteristic of a ranch. Valley of Wild Horses On each side of this great window are a series of blunt pointed lancets, which form a sort of arcade which otherwise relieves the bareness which would exist. The Cathedrals of Northern France Here are enumerated various graceful ways to cover the polished bareness of this musical instrument. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The whole scene was a combination of natural wildness, loveliness, beauty, and barrenness, or rather bareness, yet not comfortless or cold; but the whole was beautiful. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 Others stand forth with the bareness, but also with the grandeur and enduring strength, of Alpine mountains. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character The stalls soon began to exhibit a welcome bareness, and the stall-holders felt the fullness of their bags with satisfaction. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life The rooms were large, high, and dignified, but the bareness of life, under the new conditions, was a great trial to the boy. Beside Still Waters It was a grey stone house, low and solid, its bareness unalleviated by any grace of ornament or structure, and its two long rows of windows gazed out resignedly at a tame prospect. Amabel Channice First, because of the bareness of its worship, the lack of music, color and form; through which it lost in the nineteenth century some of its best families. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study There was an earthy savor in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too much getting up by candle-light, and not too much to eat. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others When she arrived with Miss Bey, they were shown into a deliciously cool shady drawing-room, charmingly furnished, and the effect upon Beth, after the graceless bareness of St. Catherine's, was altogether reassuring. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The single defect of the house is the blankness and bareness of its walls, which have none of that delicate parasitic deposit that agrees so well—to the eye—with the surface of old dwellings. A Little Tour of France He rose to his feet, and the pitiful bareness of the place seemed to become suddenly enhanced by the quiet dignity of his demeanor. The New Tenant There is a sleeping-place at the end of the long, narrow, lamp-lit perspective, curtained off from the rude bareness of the outer place. The Dop Doctor Before such vacancy and bareness the shocks of wrecked worlds were indeed welcome. The World I Live In The bareness of the huge room was gone entirely—concealed by flags and bunting, which hung in brilliant festoons from the galleries and the roof. In Her Own Right When I say the bareness I mean the absence of woods and hedges. A Little Tour of France The little beds cut in the turf were neat in their Winter bareness, despite a few dead leaves which had fluttered on to them. Love of Brothers The place was silent now; the very bareness and desolation of the scene sickened Beatrice to the soul. The Slave of Silence Mr. Linton and the boys selected rooms principally remarkable for bareness. Captain Jim None of them was new—practically the entire furnishing antedated 1830, and much of them 1800—except that, here and there, a few old rugs of oriental weaves, relieved the bareness of the hardwood floors. In Her Own Right She found that the sitting-room lacked the bareness of dormitory rooms. Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life The intensity of the appeal of Roland is no doubt helped by that approach to bareness—even by a certain tautology—which has been mentioned. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 When Tamara was old enough, they would have set her to work with them, but Tamara did not like the cold, dark cavern, or the silence and bareness of her underground home. Cornwall's Wonderland The sound of their footsteps echoed mournfully through the bareness and seeming desolation of the place. To Love It looked as though Miss Levering lacked courage to repeat it in all its violent bareness. '——when they called out things—about the encounters with the police. The Convert They talked cheerily, and did not appear to notice the bareness of the room. An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales At once the room grew cheerful, its bareness furnished, as it were, by this open fire. Dorothy on a Ranch Wasn't the very bareness of the field itself moreover a challenge, in a degree, to design?—not, A Small Boy and Others In summer a rose climbed over the portico and broke the snowy monotony, but at this season the leafless stems served only to enhance the bareness. A Tar-Heel Baron But in spite of its bareness the wardroom is very snug and comfortable. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories With all its gloom, its bareness, and the few hundreds of shaking pallid mortals which make up its present-day population, the marsh city of Aigues-Mortes is a lively memory to all who have seen it. The Automobilist Abroad It was May and the keen light raked her room, laying its bareness still more bare. The Creators A Comedy Versailles, in many respects, falls far short to-day of the ideal; its very bigness and bareness greatly detract from the value of the historic souvenir which has come down to us. Royal Palaces and Parks of France She had never been in Winn's room before, and as she sat down to wait for him her eyes took in its neat impressive bareness. The Dark Tower “It’s not much of a circle, Uncle Matt,” said Rupert, looking round at the bareness of the big room he sat in. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Suddenly a shout went up from the soldiers who had penetrated to her Highness's praying-room, which, owing to its bareness and small size, had received at first but a cursory glance from the searchers. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg They were alone in the lamplit bareness; the finale of the act was ringing and booming behind them. A London Life and Other Tales To-day Versailles is lonely; one is haunted by the silence and the bareness, if not actual emptiness. Royal Palaces and Parks of France The girls thought it was bare, but Oswald likes bareness because it leaves more room for games. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune At their left the shores of the wider part of the lake, the bulb of the gourd, were, in unexpected contrast to the bareness of the uplands, heavily wooded with great cottonwood trees and spruce. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest The big, luxurious cake seemed to emphasize the bareness and loneliness. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Perhaps the very fact of their bareness made her look at them more particularly. A harum-scarum schoolgirl Two or three small rugs relieved the bareness of the floor. A Girl of the Commune That was a sort of pity for the incompleteness of her mother's life; the bareness of it. Mary Ware's Promised Land Their costume was abbreviated in the beginning, and after Bull Run," the President's eyes twinkled, "lots of them had to borrow skirts and blankets to cover their bareness. The Lost Despatch There was an earthy savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too much getting up by candle light and not too much to eat. A Christmas Carol The purple shadows of the palm-trees intensified the bareness of the sunny desert. There was a King in Egypt “Yours is so pretty that I couldn’t stand the bareness of mine any longer.” The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story The woodwork had been painted white and the walls were a grayish blue color with several pretty pictures scattered about them to break the bareness. Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion Her feet were bare, and their bareness was only a revelation of greater beauty, so perfect was their arched slenderness. Lodusky If she had no convictions, she had tastes; and her taste revolted from the bareness of Protestant ritual and above all from the marriage of priests. History of the English People, Volume IV There was no suggestion of bareness or anything left unfinished. Marcia Schuyler My story had too much of the bareness of the Greek stage, and I was conscious that landscape, as well as action, was required to mellow the subject and relieve it from tedium. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Yes," I answered, "I present you the thing in all its bareness. Paul Patoff It is not bareness, but beautiful firmness, which refreshes and uplifts the heart of man as the sight of some island mountain rising sheer from the sea. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 The sense of exclusiveness is preserved without the great sense of bareness and emptiness. The Etiquette of To-day At first there are trees scattered picturesquely over the undulating pastures and sometimes forming woods—dry and open woods, yet welcome after the bareness which one has left behind. Impressions of South Africa “Oh, our father,” said his sons, who were walking by his side, “why art thou uncovering the bareness of thy head?” Byeways in Palestine The Watson family, when they were at last settled in their new seats, did a great deal to relieve the bareness of the dingy school-room. The Second Chance Across the lake the patches of forest, shaded with the scarlet and green of dying leaves, relieved the bareness of the harvested wheat-fields. Tess of the Storm Country At any rate, poverty had safeguarded its pure bareness. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 Terrible swarms of locusts had passed, leaving a track of dismal bareness. Impressions of South Africa The ascetic character wants these; therefore in its religion there will be a harshness of outline,—a bareness, so to say,—as well as a grandeur. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American But he little cared for its bareness in that misery of the soul which so far transcends bodily suffering. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls But to swing from bareness and boredom to the other extreme of abstruseness and complexity is no remedy: in these latter qualities there exists no special compensating virtue. Spirit and Music He determined to make a real university in the West; he fixed his glance upon the opportunities for future development rather than the bareness and inevitable crudity of pioneer life. The University of Michigan It rested on something in the window, which stood out in gorgeous splendour from the white bareness of its surroundings—the cactus had bloomed! White Lilac; or the Queen of the May My room is all lovely, now that I have covered its bareness with my own things, but it has one great thing that can't compare with anything at home, and that is its view. A Voice in the Wilderness Weston, sitting down, contrasted its luxury with the grim bareness of his match-boarded cubicle in the boarding-house, and with the log shanties of the railroad and logging camps. The Gold Trail It was not so much foolish shame at the fact of poverty, but the stab of painful repugnance which came with the remembrance of the bareness and lack of beauty which characterised the old life. The Fortunes of the Farrells The first impression was of bareness and severity, an effect caused by the absence of picture or ornament of any kind. A College Girl In the middle of the hard horsehair sofa sat Mrs Fanshawe herself, her elaborately coiffured, elaborately attired figure looking extraordinarily out of place in the prim bareness of the little room. The Independence of Claire It was not then, with the committee all around him, but long afterwards at Wheens, that Andrew was struck by the bareness of the chambers. Better Dead But away across, an opposite slope rose to bareness, where were just grass and rocks; and between was a long patch of aspens or willows, down in the hollow. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies I am sorry, Mademoiselle," I said, suddenly conscious of the stiff bareness of my ancestral home, "that things are not brighter. Dross No doubt this is a partial explanation of the bareness of American politics. A Preface to Politics With his customary excess of logic he plunged headlong into these ardent waves of the realm of Venus rising unimpeachably from the sea in her immortal bareness. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life On the other side, sloping back, or overhanging, mounts beautiful in their bareness, for they are green as emerald; others, scarcely more beautiful, studded with fair trees—some altogether woods. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 If we couldn't make the bareness, those aspens or willows would be better than the pines129 and evergreens. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies But the luxurious living made up for the bareness of furnishings. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Quite as distinctly as each of the tragedies was a success, the little comedies were failures: being overwhelmed utterly by their stately surroundings, and lost in the melancholy bareness of that great stage. The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals Their bareness and boldness startled the convent-bred girl, even horrified her. The Guests Of Hercules Along the reddish bareness of the hill showed the white blossoms of some fruit-trees, almost like a white dust flung up against the tawny breast of the earth. The Way of Ambition I tell you, their white trunks and their green leaves looked good to me; but ahead of us was that other slope to climb, before we were into the bareness. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies There was an earthly savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too much getting up by candle-light, and not too much to eat. A Christmas Carol It was a primitively simple house, even humble, it seemed to the girl, who had as yet no conception of the bareness and lack of comfort—according to Western ideas—of Arab country-houses. The Golden Silence You have not much on underneath, Roger; and your bareness, in such weather as this, would be as noticeable as your gown. Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower Now its bareness lay wrapped in a kindly shadow through which glinted diamond sparks from much-scrubbed tin. Red-Robin But to whatever accommodation this bareness permitted they made Mad Bell kindly welcome, the crathur being sick and crazy, and she stayed with them for three or four days. Strangers at Lisconnel It had been almost brilliant during a part of the afternoon because the bareness of the branches let in the wintry sun. Robin Many things in the way of deciduous flowering shrubs may be grown with them, their bareness in winter and shade during summer favouring their enjoyment and growth. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. The ocean was here in all its grandeur, yet there was no bleakness or bareness in these rock-bound shores, softly veiled in the haze of the October afternoon. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 "Will you come in?" and the old man awkwardly ushered them into the little back parlour, which Valmai's busy fingers had transformed from its original bareness into a cosy home-room. By Berwen Banks The sun was scarcely three hours in the ascendant before the frost disappeared, like the withdrawal of a silvery veil, disclosing the bareness it had beautified so briefly. The Mayor of Warwick But most of what is called his harshness should rather be called bareness, and is the result of a revolt, conscious or unconscious, against Keats' prescription of "loading the rifts with ore." Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Moreover, to a nature like Hugh's, naturally temperate and ardent, and with no gross or sensuous fibre of any kind, there was a real craving for the bareness and cleanness of self-discipline and asceticism. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Tell him, Priscilla, of the bareness and hardness of the life. The Place Beyond the Winds One may have at first a strange feeling of bareness, for things that we've always clung to as essential have gone out from us to others. Quiet Talks on Following the Christ In winter its bleakness and bareness add to the chill of the rigorous Iowa temperature, and in summer the sap oozing through the boards is disagreeably suggestive of perspiration. Prudence of the Parsonage In the moonlight I could perceive all the bareness of the apartment. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter The bareness, the poverty, the misery of the present time seemed to come into view and gather into a point in what he saw. The Children's Portion A certain ruggedness and bareness was of the essence of Scott's idealism and romance. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) She always wore her dress close up to her neck, and never showed the bareness of her arms. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Lizzie soon tired of sewing and she and Anne pattered off through the halls to the bareness and strangeness of which Anne could not get used. Honey-Sweet It almost amounted to asceticism; her rooms, when her work was finished, had the bareness and purity of a nun's cell. Jane Field A Novel The London clerk does not care to reveal the shifts and the bareness of his domestic life. The Quest of the Simple Life Now, the bareness which Scott so loved in his native scenery, there is in all his romantic elements of feeling. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Craft holds the candle that betrays the bareness of the cupboard. Art One glance at the room revealed by the dim light showed its desolate bareness. Under Sealed Orders Passing Bonn and Cologne, the bareness of the landscape is remarkable after the variety of that from which we have just emerged, and henceforward the river takes on what may be called a ‘Dutch’ appearance. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine I was early and sat almost alone in the great golden room whose restraint in decoration suggests the primitive bareness of early days. The Gay Cockade In spite of its poverty and bareness, there was nothing squalid or unwholesome about the place. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V It was a bare building in the heart of the town, but its bareness did not convey any chill to her. The Odds And Other Stories As for these "Platts," which I shall now venture to call "Scenarios," they surprise by their bareness, conveying no notion of the piece itself, though quite sufficient for the actors. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The hospital-like bareness of the room evinced a simple taste in the owner. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest In spite of smallness, bareness, and angularity, it is fit for a May morning to enter, and expand to full-grown day. Idolatry A Romance After it was over and the few neighbors gone, Andy and Ruth remained to scatter flowers upon the young hero's bed, and cover up the bareness of the place. Then Marched the Brave She wore some soft and fluffy dress—a man cannot describe a garb in detail—with that lace-surrounded triangular bareness upon the bosom just below the chin which is as irreproachable as it is telling. A Man and a Woman She had two helps of everything, but at the same time she was being appalled by the bareness of the room. The Judge Ambrose was introduced to a wide interior of a dignified bareness. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest Often mere bareness, openness, absence of objects, will arouse a deeper feeling than the most famous scenes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Indeed, the whole parish had been born to a new spiritual life since that day when the worship at St. Antipas had been kept simple to bareness by a stubborn and perverse reactionary. The Seeker Kelham laughed as he sat down at the end of the wooden couch to which, without making any apology for the bareness of the tent, his host had pointed. The Hawk of Egypt She watched him go out into the white ecstatic glare and pass behind the illuminated twiggy bareness of the hedge, which looked like the phosphorescent spine of some monstrous stranded fish. The Judge Its clean bareness reminded her, a little, of rooms in the farm after the furniture had been sold. Captivity We attribute this partly to the bareness of the trees, but chiefly to the absence of the singing birds, the hum of insects, that noiseless noise which lives in the summer air. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Her feet, her little feet—their bareness no longer troubled her—left the ground. Parisian Points of View Walking by the Tweed, the poet falls asleep and has a vision of Homer, who reproaches him with the bareness of style in his "Epigoniad." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Lacking every luxury, it had the charm of tasteful bareness, of exquisite penury. A Cathedral Singer She loved porti�res, and she would fain have mitigated the bareness of the panelled or distempered walls; only that here her husband was firm. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement What always strikes one on first entering a Japanese dwelling is the extreme cleanliness, and white and chilling bareness of the rooms. Madame Chrysantheme Little knicknacks of feminine taste had been hung here and there to disguise the bareness of the walls. Out To Win The Story of America in France Little by little the eye becomes accustomed to the bareness and greyness of this Proven�al landscape; and then we find that the scenery round Avignon is eminently picturesque. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series It was small and scantily furnished, though great curtains shrouded door and window, and here and there a picture relieved the bareness of the walls, which were paneled with roughly-dressed British-Columbian cedar. Winston of the Prairie The scene had nothing of the grim bareness of the western prairie of which Sylvia was languidly thinking; her surroundings shone with strong color, and beyond them a peaceful English landscape stretched away. Ranching for Sylvia You see it at last in all its brutal bareness. War Brides: A Play in One Act It was very different from the tangled pine bush of Ontario and the stark bareness of the plains, but it was somehow familiar and Foster felt that he was at home. Carmen's Messenger This undulating champaign, green with meadows and watered with clear streams, is very refreshing to the eyes of Northern people, who may have wearied of the bareness and greyness of Nice or Mentone. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Spread out on the ground around it, were its roots, twitching and palpitating with repulsive life, and bare with a bareness that shocked the senses. The Sorcery Club It was plainly furnished, but there was everything that comfort demanded, for the happy mean between bareness and superfluity had been cleverly hit, and George thought Miss Grant was responsible for this. Ranching for Sylvia To-day we are going almost to the extreme of bareness, and putting nothing on our tables not actually needed for use. Etiquette These nearer things were many, for Valentine's original asceticism, which had displayed itself essentially in the slight bareness of his principal sitting-room had apparently been swept away by a tumultuous greed for ornaments. Flames In point of scenery and situation it is hardly second to any of these mountain-girdled cities; but its poverty and bareness are scarcely less striking than those of Bocognano. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Constance glanced about the room with more interest, and as she noticed the simplicity and the bareness, Swot's remark concerning the doctor's poverty came back to her. Wanted—A Match Maker Landscape and heavens were of an iron bracingness and bareness; and the beauty in them was not for eyes like Netta's. The Mating of Lydia She loved him for his maps and his dreams and the bareness of his talk to her. Mr. Britling Sees It Through And, in the phrases themselves, what severity, what bareness almost! Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Amid its old-fashioned and distinguished bareness--tempered by flowers, and a litter of foreign books--Julie seemed at last to have found her proper frame. Lady Rose's Daughter The garret's bareness, its whitewashed walls and rickety furniture, realized to her mind an existence whose simplicity she had sometimes dreamt of in her girlhood. A Love Episode The bareness of Minnie Davis' yard was relieved by a single rosebush, and her small house might best be described as a "tumble-down shack." Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 As for these "Platts," which I shall not venture to call "Scenarios," they surprise by their bareness, conveying no notion of the piece itself, though quite sufficient for the actors. A History of Pantomime Shall we say, then, that bareness is natural to the mountain? The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History The bareness of the big barn-like end is softened by the shadow in which it is seen. Jean Francois Millet She was burning to get away, but on opening a door she found herself threading three small rooms, the bareness and dirt of which were repulsive. A Love Episode But the place itself--the bareness--and the glitter and the salt smells, and the wind blowing the sand! A Diversity of Creatures A large ebony and ivory crucifix hanging on the discolored wall stood out in strong relief from the surrounding bareness, and necessarily caught the eye. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Page 5The very bareness of the outline is sufficient proof that the material is not new. The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 It was quite comfortable, but Jean felt a bareness. Penny Plain Could the scholar be aiming a sly sarcastic hit at the bareness of our educational outposts in the West? The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Behind the loggia were the priest's four rooms, bare even for the bareness of that squalid place. The Italians The clerestory is spacious, and the roof fair, but a general sense of bareness pervades the whole building. Somerset In India sometimes when a famine is at hand the life of the land starts up before your eyes in all its bareness and bitter stress. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Happy to be on Ben Edar, before going over the sea; white, white the dashing of the wave against its face; the bareness of its shore and its border.... Ireland, Historic and Picturesque In the winter weather the Mareway, in its dreary and sodden bareness, is to my mind an even more impressive place. The Silent Isle Harry was greatly struck by the bareness of the fields and the poverty of the country; and as he journeyed further west the country became still wilder and more lonely. Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War Some of the best are richly adorned, but there is a certain bareness and an absence of color. Cuba, Old and New To this bareness some succumb, and the divine afflatus dies. In the Claws of the German Eagle All this was floored with last year's faded foliage, giving a singular bareness and whiteness to the foreground. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Bracing I say, because of its bareness and precariousness, its sense of ultimate insecurity. The Silent Isle There was nothing now between them but the real issue in all its uncomely bareness. The Bent Twig His hand groped down the blanket, now, for hers, and she took it and sang on a bit unsteadily in the echoing bareness of the dismantled room. The Happy Venture The sight of this splendid man gave an impression of strangeness, in the general bareness, much as if some marvellous jewel had been unaccountably found lying on that dusty brick floor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Artifice and imitation reveal the finikin or uncertain soul as surely as deliberate bareness reveals a conscious austerity. Essays in Rebellion But Lammle has him out again before he has so much as completely ascertained the bareness of the land. Our Mutual Friend The room was extremely bare, but with a bright foreign bareness that was very cheerful, in an odd way of its own. The Phoenix and the Carpet Our nightshirts were wet through, so we got into our other shirts and knickerbockers, but preserved bareness in our feet. The Wouldbegoods Bar the dam bareness of the base, it looks like a piece of real music from a distance. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 The winter bareness spread drearily over it now. The Woman in White They want to prune life of its foolish fringes and get back to the noble bareness of the desert. Greenmantle There was an orchard behind it, and a nicely kept lawn before it, but, somehow, there was a certain bareness about it. Anne's House of Dreams But she was unexpectedly cheerful, and her dining-room, with its thin tablecloth on a long pine table, had the decency of clean bareness. Main Street Lady Anstruthers laid the bareness of the land before him without any effort to palliate unpleasantness. The Shuttle The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness. Anne of Green Gables In place of the grim bareness of downstairs here was a place all luxury and colour and light. Greenmantle As we went along, and he pulled my ear and finaly went asleep with a hand on my shoulder, the bareness of my Life came to me. Bab: a Sub-Deb The bareness of the squalid room made the pain of it more poignant. Of Human Bondage The large drawing-room presented but another aspect of the bareness of the rest of the house. The Shuttle The place had indeed a bareness which did not suggest hidden treasures; there were no dusky nooks nor curtained corners, no massive cabinets nor chests with iron bands. The Aspern Papers Modern luxury seems grafted upon the bareness of the peasant. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I The little room always cheered K. Its warmth and light appealed to his aesthetic sense; after the bareness of his bedroom, it spelled luxury. K In its appointments it escaped by a safe margin being of any particular period; it escaped stiffness, stuffiness, bareness, and decadence. The Beautiful and Damned Betty found herself wondering how long a time it had taken the belongings of the big place to dwindle and melt away into such bareness. The Shuttle Such a fact as that suggested bareness, but nonetheless it worked happily into the sentimental interest I had always taken in the early movements of my countrymen as visitors to Europe. The Aspern Papers The space covered is large, yet so cleverly handled that no bareness is suggested. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition It was covered with painting and mosaic; and she felt the sharp contrast between it and the simple bareness of the house to which it was attached. The Coryston Family A Novel She took one hurried glance at the room in its scrupulous bareness, with waves of heat pouring in the open window, and bent over Peaches. Michael O'Halloran For one moment there seemed to rise before her vision of a huge room, whose stately size made its bareness a more desolate thing. The Shuttle Here and there some lingering fragment of fine furniture; but as a rule bareness, poverty, and void—nothing could be more piteous, or, to Mrs. Fountain's memory, more surprising. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I Above, therefore, we have the Prince in all the glory of life and pomp of state; below, in the cold bareness and nakedness of death, a contrast highly artistic and touching at the same time. Holidays in Eastern France The spaces of the somewhat empty room matched the bareness of the white linen, the few flowers standing separately here and there upon it, and the few pieces of old silver. The Coryston Family A Novel The light of day, falling on a scene which was familiar only by the subdued light of a lamp, produced an effect as of chill and bareness. The Heavenly Twins Altogether she was an incongruous object in the unhome-like bareness of a bachelor's apartments. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada The light was diffused and cold, all objects having a certain bareness of effect, deficient in shadow. The Far Horizon Each time it came, with its soft beauty, its languor of sweetness—like a word reclining—it flayed her soul alive, and showed her red, raw bareness. The Woman with the Fan A little further along the corridor came the two best bedrooms, which, at first sight, gave to a Parisian girl a sensation of bareness and emptiness, corrected later by habit. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 His eye quickly caught the uninhabited bareness of the apartment. The Mountebank It has not, like the abbey at Tournus, the sober massive breadth, the round expansive arch, the icy bareness, the majestic simplicity of those buildings based on the semicircular arch. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Well, I had rather have the bareness than I would have it overlaid by coverings under which there is room for abundance of vermin to lurk. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI It is a mildewed spot, whether the bareness is inside or outside. The World English Bible (WEB): Leviticus The stark bareness of the room was revealed to him in a single comprehensive glance and the chill of it sent a sudden feeling of anger surging through him. The Shadow of the East The landscape on a spring day has a bracing bareness, which is not without exhilaration. The History of David Grieve It is true, in the line of authorship he pursued, erudition was not so much wanting; and his wit, like the laurel of Caesar, was leafy enough to hide any bareness in this respect. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 I tell you if I don't find my real self out here, if I don't see my own soul in all its bareness and weakness then I will never see it. The Lady of the Decoration Deronda then chose to point to some giant oaks worth looking at in their bareness. Daniel Deronda The monastic buildings, including the chapel, were to be of the simplest description, without paintings, sculpture, or stained glass; and the ritual used at the services was in keeping with this bareness. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 The little church was half decorated for Easter, though the altar had still its Lenten bareness. The History of David Grieve Must the bareness, the space, the sense of expansion, be hers no more? Light O' the Morning The insinuations of women, the bareness of their revelations, her mother returning unsteady and mussed from a dinner, were unutterably disgusting. Linda Condon Another reason is in the London atmosphere, which deepens and heightens all the effects, while the lunar bareness of our perspectives mercilessly reveals the facts. London Films The empty bareness of these, with their huge marbles, and their soulless splendors of theatrical sculpture, their frescoed roofs and broken arches, was insufferable. Venetian Life They mean bareness of furniture, of clothing, and of the table in many a cottage in Lancashire, in Suffolk, and in Dorsetshire. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 What had she done that life should shut down before her in such cruel bareness? Men, Women, and Ghosts Then, too, losing the sense of the bareness of the house Hallet Lowrie had built for his French wife, she began to find it surprisingly appealing. Linda Condon Yet during the many hours I spent there the bareness of the walls often worried me. With Zola in England And I perceived that the part of the plain which did jut bareness into the Land before me had no greatness of size; but might be passed swiftly in but a little running. The Night Land Mrs. Carey waited a few moments, silently regarding the unequalled bareness, ugliness, and cheerlessness of the room. Mother Carey's Chickens But the drifting leaves hid the bareness, and magic covered everything. The Little House in the Fairy Wood Then he jested respecting the bareness of the lonely pavilion which they occupied, recounting that as yet they possessed only a dozen plates and five egg-cups. Fruitfulness But within doors there was a bareness that struck Pearl's heart with pity. Purple Springs A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 They were not numerous, and the scattered groups emphasized the bareness of the big echoing room. Lister's Great Adventure She held up her hands to show their bareness. The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story The little desert town with its bustling activity, its clamorous, rushing disorder, its naked newness and glaring bareness, offended her. The Winning of Barbara Worth Up hill and down hill, between hills and around hills, mountains of every shape and degree of bareness and baldness looking down at us over one another's shoulders as we drove along. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland If you live in the country, or can get into the country, and have your eyes opened and your wits about you, your house need not be condemned to an absolute bareness. American Woman's Home The bareness and monotony of a social life without sex can readily be imagined. Sociology and Modern Social Problems The bareness of the rooms strikes one at once upon entering, but when one examines the utensils in daily use even by the poorer classes he sees that they are of uncommon beauty. Round the World It had previously reminded me of the interiors seen in Italian pictures of sacred subjects, with its bareness, spacious whiteness, its columns and arches. Here, There and Everywhere There were a few pictures on the walls, for the most part rude prints cut from the columns of the daily press and pasted up to hide the bareness of the room. Literary Lapses The rules of conduct were rigid; the manner of life simple to the point of bareness; the discipline of work severe and unbroken. Essays on Work and Culture The bareness and emptiness of coming years froze the blood in her heart, and when she turned away she lifted her head and bid life do its worst. Miss Gibbie Gault Corydon was always chafing at the bareness of their little home; and going into the shops in the town, and discovering things which might have made it lovely. Love's Pilgrimage She had seen nothing but the bareness, the coldness of it. Youth Challenges The bareness of Mrs. Pearce's front room was fully displayed at ten o'clock at night when a powerful oil lamp stood on the middle of the table. Jacob's Room There is naturally an eager wish for shade as soon as possible, and a desire to banish from surroundings an aspect of bareness. The Home Acre It is only in country places that one finds the true bareness of Presbytery. The Recreations of a Country Parson In direct, quiet words—words whose bareness made them dramatic for the weight of possibility they carried—the Colonel explained. Short Stories for English Courses I'm going to make you set out trees enough to double the value of your place and take all the bleakness and bareness from this hillside. Taken Alive Oh no, Italy is all fierceness, bareness, exposure, and black priests shuffling along the roads. Jacob's Room Stephen stopped, as if it were too painful for him to continue, looked around the room, noting its bareness, and asked, with a break in his voice: "Where do you put her?" Felix O'Day Its bareness and simplicity had the charm of novelty. What Katy Did at School In another instant he returned with them and faced desperately the candid bareness of the little room that they lived and slept in. The Spoilers Suddenly Shefford became aware of a house looming out of the bareness of the slope. The Rainbow Trail The sick-room was kept with exquisite simplicity, with such freshness, bareness, and order as made it a place of delight. Sisters And he liked East Wellmouth, bareness and bleakness and lonesomeness and all. Galusha the Magnificent Again the man's eyes roamed over the room, the bareness of which seemed still to impress him. Kennedy Square The true stuff of the spirit is revealed and laid out in all its bareness. The Altar Fire Upon their plateau, sole guests of the bareness, stood two small olive trees, not distorted by winds. In the Wilderness But poverty is never ridiculous to Comic perception until it attempts to make its rags conceal its bareness in a forlorn attempt at decency, or foolishly to rival ostentation. Complete Short Works of George Meredith When the first suspicion of Wallace's condition came to her she was standing in the kitchen, waiting for a kettle to boil, and staring dully out into a world of frozen bareness. Martie, the Unconquered Wherever the walls would have confessed their bareness the enterprising tradesman had hung gorgeous advertising cards. The Unclassed Round the walls of the parlour were hung his own drawings, which used to conceal the bareness of his lodging in Tysoe Street. The Nether World Who would not shed his sorrows under these pine trees, in the country where the solitudes radiated happiness, and even bareness was like music? In the Wilderness He was a man with an actual talent for bareness and spareness in his sleeping quarters. The Window-Gazer These were small quarters after the airy bareness of the Curley home, and they were additionally reduced in effect by the peculiar taste their first occupant had shown in furnishing. Martie, the Unconquered Its cheerless bareness seemed worse than the most sinister shadows of night. Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Vast, sheer walls, unbroken by even an attempt at ornament; row above row of windows in the mud-coloured surface, upwards, upwards, lifeless eyes, murky openings that tell of bareness, disorder, comfortlessness within. The Nether World "Is this really Athens?" she had said, wondering, as they had driven into what seemed a village set in bright bareness, sparsely shaded here and there by small pepper-trees. In the Wilderness The provincial people, intimidated by Gudrun's perfect sang-froid and exclusive bareness of manner, said of her: 'She is a smart woman.' Women in Love In swamps, where there is only here and there an ever-green tree amid the quaking moss and cranberry beds, the bareness does not suggest poverty. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Any one can paint these pictures on the wall, and to complain of its bareness is to acknowledge the poverty of one's own imagination wishing for something,—never mind what. The Malady of the Century She saw that a fly was hovering over the excoriated arm and drew the ragged sleeve over its bareness. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life The smell of tobacco smoke and a certain bareness of wall and floor suggested a bachelor's home. The Vultures The bareness of the scene emphasized our lack of resources. The Firefly of France A few had shallow verandas that relieved their bareness, but the rest were frankly ugly, and in some the front was carried up level with the roof-ridge, giving them a harsh squareness of outline. The Girl from Keller's But, though to people and minister, Convener and Superintendent, the little manse meant so much, the bareness, the unloveliness, and, more than all, the utter loneliness of it smote Shock with a sense of depression. The Prospector There is a bareness and desolation about the misery of a Harris house that is tenfold more depressing. Second Shetland Truck System Report It was, as it had been on the occasion of her first visit to it, stuffy, smelling of gas and brick and painted wood, ugly in its bareness and unresponsiveness—and, nevertheless, exciting. The Captives I have always loved this magic of the awakening spring, this smile of the first flowers against the gloomy bareness of the bark. Bramble-Bees and Others His fresh young nature revolted at the dinginess and bareness of the surroundings. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn His diction, like Wordsworth's, is usually plain almost to bareness; the formal framework of his discourses is obtruded; and he hunts objections to their last hiding place with wearisome pertinacity. The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters On the right, and far off, is a delicious pink bareness of distant flats and hills. The Spell of Egypt Yet that same gracious area frames the grim cliff-cup which holds San Francisco bay—a spot of Dantesque sheerness and bareness. —and this. The Native Son Perhaps it was this—the bareness of the rooms—that made the man turn to his boyish passion for collecting things. Miss Billy So the car was filled with things to eat and to wear, and things "to take the bareness off." The Major He was lodging in a mechanics' cheap boarding-house in Duane Street, and we may imagine the bareness of his room, the feeble poverty of his lamp. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) On, the water side, the Marina, he used the trees to break the bareness of the long esplanade. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth Yet the very bareness of these inner courts and wards, their condition of mere pasturage, protects what remains of them as no defences could do. A Changed Man; and other tales Since the brutal outburst of the Marchesino, she, too, had felt the desire, the necessity, of a desert place, where she could sit alone and realize the bareness of her world. A Spirit in Prison They don't take much room and they take the bareness off. The Major She moved her hand over the bareness of the base of her throat, to have the warmth of flesh upon it and upon her bosom. The Good Soldier The Romans disliked bareness on the top of their arches. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth But the white fog shut out to- day even their winter bareness. T. Tembarom The very absence of everything external, the bareness of the mere humanity involved, may in itself be an excitement greater than any accompaniment of the antique or the picturesque. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald That's what kills the women folk in the West, the bareness inside and outside. The Major This was the first time she had ever been in room—with its poverty, its bareness. The Choir Invisible Faville's wall, for example, was built with the understanding that its bareness was to be relieved with masses of foliage, creating shadows. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth His big head was quite bald, and the bareness of his forehead only served to make his bushy eyebrows more prominent. Mauprat Pinnacles and needles of bare, flushed rock rose out of luxuriant vegetation—Quiraing without its bareness, the Rhine without its ruins, and more beautiful than both. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan The only defect of the house is the blankness and bareness of its walls, which have none of those delicate parasites attached to them that one likes to see on the surface of old dwellings. A Little Tour in France The room was not large, but its bareness of furniture made it appear so. Mary Barton The spot itself was dreary and bleak, but the neighbouring woods of pines and beeches relieved the bareness of the scene. A History of the Moravian Church So as to rid my judgment of every trace of personal enmity, I suppressed the names in my thoughts, reducing the dreadful occurrence by which I had suffered to the bareness of an abstract narrative. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels A couple of chairs were by the hearth, and all seemed to speak of poverty and bareness. The House of the Wolf; a romance It is true that this bareness results in a kind of silvery whiteness of complexion, which carries out the tone of the quiet pools and even that of the scanty and shadeless park. A Little Tour in France There was an air of bareness over everything. Rudder Grange This simplicity, which amounted almost to bareness struck Godefroid, whose quick eye took it all in as he recovered his self-possession. The Brotherhood of Consolation After that we sat and waited, and I daresay the bareness and darkness of the room put us into excellent receptive condition. Sight Unseen As he re-entered what had been his home, its bareness made his heart sink. New Grub Street When I say the bareness, I mean the absence of woods and hedges. A Little Tour in France Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had that; and, for their bareness, I am sure they never learn'd that of me. King Henry IV, Part 1 You notice a rigid symmetry and an indescribable bareness which inevitably suggest that the original arrangements of the upholsterer have never been modified or supplemented. Russia You, who are one of our most pious and faithful parishioners, must have keenly felt the bareness of the high altar. Bureaucracy But poverty is never ridiculous to Comic perception until it attempts to make its rags conceal its bareness in a forlorn attempt at decency, or foolishly to rival ostentation. An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit There were no trees, only scrub growths and sandy bareness. The Jacket (Star-Rover) |
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