 Grief-stricken, prematurely old, yet beautiful even amid. the loneliness of her situation, Inez Walker came into the presence of Shelby, a queen. Some strands of gray were in her glossy, golden hair. The liquid light of her large dark eyes had long ago...  Noted Guerrillas: Or The Warfare of the Border... - Page 487by John Newman Edwards - 1877 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 442 pages
...and beautiful when it is known how love gathered up the threads of destiny, and how all the warp that was blood-stained, and all the woof that had bitterness...perfect, was now bent and fragile; but there was such a look of mournful tenderness in her eager, questioning face that the men drew back from her presence... | |
 | Mary Virginia Plattenburg Edwards - 1889 - 448 pages
...the woof that had bitterness and tears upon it, could be traced to a woman's hand. Grief -stricken, prematurely old, yet beautiful even amid the loneliness...perfect, was now bent and fragile; but there was such a look of mournful tenderness in her eager, questioning face that the men drew back from her presence... | |
 | Francis Asbury Sampson, Floyd Calvin Shoemaker - 1922 - 664 pages
...and beautiful when it is known how love gathered up the threads of destiny, and how all the warp that was blood-stained, and all the woof that had bitterness...perfect, was now bent and fragile; but there was such a look of mournful tenderness in her eager, questioning face that the men drew back from her presence... | |
 | Francis Asbury Sampson, Floyd Calvin Shoemaker - 1922 - 670 pages
...the woof that had bitterness and tears upon it, could be traced to a woman's hand. Grief -stricken, prematurely old, yet beautiful even amid the loneliness...perfect, was now bent and fragile; but there was such a look of mournful tenderness in her eager, questioning face that the men drew back from her presence... | |
 | Edwin Adams Davis - 1995 - 196 pages
...sent to bring her from her room. John Edwards described her entrance in his usual romantic fashion: "Grief-stricken, prematurely old, yet beautiful even...perfect, was now bent and fragile; but there was such a look of mournful tenderness in her eager, questioning face that the men drew back from her presence... | |
 | John R. Edwards - 2007 - 284 pages
...and beautiful when it is known how love gathered up the threads of destiny, and how all the warp that was blood-stained, and all the woof that had bitterness...perfect was now bent and fragile; but there was such a look of mournful tenderness in her eager, questioning face that the men drew back from her presence... | |
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