Quotes About Encroaching

she could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.

He is surrounded. Even the sealed cabin around him has grown septic with life. Everything is animate, green and encroaching. Dozens of millions of species seethe around him, few of them visible, even fewer named, ready to try anything once, every possible cheat and exploitation, just to keep being.

This darkness had a calming effect on me. The open country sank into a deep dark tinge of blue beneath the pearly heavens, and I could see the forests encroaching on the tilled land, creeping higher here and there, as the hills folded over one another or sank steeply into valleys of pure blackness.

The library, although duly considered in many alterations of the house and additions to it, had nevertheless, like an encroaching state, absorbed one room after another until it occupied the greater part of the ground floor.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Sin is of an encroaching nature; it creeps on the soul by degrees, step by step, till it hath the soul to the very height of sin.

our competition is not the FAANGs—it's the other horses in our industry and tiny little software startups that are encroaching on our market.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

The cuckold acquires a reputation as easily exploitable once it becomes known that he has been exploited. Women assume that he lacks the ability to prevent other men from encroaching. Perceptions of his desirability on the mating market plummet. All these factors add up to formidable fitness costs of being cuckolded.

Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

The encroaching darkness that shrouded him couldn't compare to the joyless gloom that hung in his heart.

Your intended?" Dakota demanded. "You mean to say he already had a mate staked out and he's been encroaching on my preserve?