shadow-dance

Guilt's malignancy stalks a gas-lit shadow-dance upon the walls, perversity arouses oestrus in the embers of our trance; magic moments muted in taut breath are crushed in weighted consequence, discretion flees the night to heighten senses steeped in self-pity, drowned in self-indulgence.

Archive 2008-07-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

They watched the fitful shadow-dance of clouds over the green earth.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The tight-pressed lids flew open, and for a long time she watched the shadow-dance of the flames on her tent wall.

The Gun-Brand 1921

Peepers, skulkers—they shadow-dance in laughing tombs.

Smoke and Steel. I. Smoke Nights 1920

The last breath of an expiring wind softly stirred the pine - branches, which swayed to and fro in a mystic shadow-dance against the constellations.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

We could do it in the shadow-dance in the second act.

Cinderella And Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

She sang as she danced, pouring out her soul in an ecstasy that ill became her pitiful condition; and as she danced her shadow-dance, for she was but a ghost, poor soul! these were the words she repeated:

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

Boulogne, for the path from India had been but a series of shadow-dance glimpses of strange scenes.

A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

The shadow-dance has been mainly answerable for my folly.

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

We did not succeed, with our best efforts; but it turned out better than we had expected after all; for his shadow-dance got him into notice, and he is quite popular now, and making money fast.

Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864