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... all the worn lines in her face. Carroll regarded her even in the midst of the distressful stress of affairs with a look of admiration. It was an absent-minded regard, very much as a mourner might notice a stained-glass window in a church while a funeral was in progress. It was the side-light of grace on affliction involuntarily comprehended, from long training, by the exterior faculties. Carroll even ...

— The Debtor - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... disciples sleeping. On the wall behind Luther is a portrait of Pope Alexander VI., who died not long before this time, and was one of the worst of men. In a recess beyond a curtain we see on another stained-glass window, the figure of Augustine, one of the great teachers of the early Church, after whom the monastery at Erfuert was named. A number of old parchment-covered books are visible, and it is interesting to notice the titles of some of them, and the places where they lie. Away on a shelf are the ...

— Evangelists of Art - Picture-Sermons for Children • James Patrick

... of Gethsemane, with Christ praying, and the disciples sleeping. On the wall behind Luther is a portrait of Pope Alexander VI., who died not long before this time, and was one of the worst of men. In a recess beyond a curtain we see on another stained-glass window, the figure of Augustine, one of the great teachers of the early Church, after whom the monastery at Erfuert was named. A number of old parchment-covered books are visible, and it is interesting to notice the titles of ...

— Evangelists of Art - Picture-Sermons for Children • James Patrick

... where or when, in my childhood, I had seen a stained-glass window in a church. Nor do I recollect its subject. But I know that when I saw her turn round, in the grave light of the old staircase, and wait for us above, I thought of that window; and I associated something of its tranquil brightness with ...

— Ten Girls from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... strange poem, and made you feel like a stained-glass window; it was full of incense, but it was full of something else too. ...

— The Romance of Zion Chapel [3d ed.] • Richard Le Gallienne