shadowes

The "shadowes" with which sin frightens us are first compared to the imaginary creatures into which fancy shapes the clouds; then sin itself (relegated from an active to a passive part) is likened not to a pure creation of the fancy, but to an exaggerated picture of a real monster displayed by "policy," i.e. the craft which seeks to debar men from their desires.

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

Sew Lolrus haz gotted iyn touches wif kitteh adn tole hers tu reelaxx adn putt taht annoiying flashlite awai, becuz itz blyndyng ebbereeboddee adn creeateyng sum gnormus shadowes

…and dey nevar found - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Euery house almost had a cisteme or well in a garden on the backe side: in which gardens grew vines (with ripe clusters of grapes) making pleasant shadowes, and Tabacco nowe commonly knowen and vsed in England, wherewith their women there dye their faces reddish, to make them seeme fresh and young: Pepper Indian and common; figge-trees bearing both white and red figges: Peach trees not growing very tall: Orenges, Limons, Quinces, Potato-roots,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

After that I was brought from these long and doubtfull thoughts and phantasticall imaginations, and remembring all those maruellous diuine shapes and bodies which I had personally seene with mine eies, I then knew that they were not deceitfull shadowes, nor magicall illusions, but that I had not rightly conceiued of them.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Nymphs, with their desired louers, in a thousand sorts of pleasures solacing themselues vpon the greene grasse, fresh shadowes, and by the coole riuers and cleere fountaines.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

And these true shadowes of the Guise and Cardinall,

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

For me I am none of their faction, I love not to climbe high to catch shadowes; suficeth gentle Sir, that your perfections are the Port where my labors must anchor, whose manie and liberall favours have been so largely extended unto me, that I have long time studied how I might in some fort gratefully testifie my thankfulnes unto you.

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

By this you may see the boldnesse of those buzards, that think themselves hectors when they see but their shadowes, & tremble when they see a Iroquoit.

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

You must consider the height of the Mountaines is but very little, if you compare them to the length of their shadowes.

The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643

All this worlds glory seemeth vayne to me, and all theyr shewes but shadowes sauing she.

Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594