"Starkness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with a cry that was half a sob. "Lord King, I cannot bear it to see more people that are strange to me! Since I left my father's house I have felt the starkness of strangers, and now—now I can endure it no longer. My heart within me is as though it were bruised black and blue. Let me go back where all know me,—where none will hold me off at arm's length to challenge me with his eyes, but all love me and ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... in the mountains, experienced the strange world of the river at night lighted by the wan radiance of glowing shrubs and plants, forced the starkness of the heights. Yet there had been through all that journeying a general resemblance to his own past on other worlds. A tree was a tree, whether it bore purple foliage or was red-veined. A rock was a rock, a ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... saw the horror of the void in which he lived, and that for a moment—though too late—a sudden wave of not ignoble passion overwhelmed his baser self, even if only to let the fangs of the treacherous rock reappear in their starkness and cruelty. ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... forward, steadily, across its surface. Away ahead, shone the vast, blood-red ring [15] that lit the place. All around, was spread the extraordinary desolation of stillness, that had so impressed me during my previous wanderings across its starkness. ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... possessed the king with certain general facts, which disposed William to give the accused a patient hearing, and when his "starkness" was not roused, ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake |
