But the sweet ignorance of the baby, which rightly considered is more than a type or symbol of faith, operated most Healingly; for she appeared in her sweet merry ways-no baby was ever more filled with the mere gladness of life than Connie's baby-to the mood in which they all were, like a little sunny window in a cathedral crypt, telling of a whole universe of sunshine and motion beyond those oppressed pillars and low-groined arches.
"The Seaboard Parish, Complete"
George MacDonald
He has not slept all night, and his eyes are dry and feverish; but the air, moist with the tears of the dawn, beats his lids with its soft pinions, and all the lovely common sights of early morning touch Healingly upon his bruised brain, and heart still jarred and aching with the ignoble pain of that late encounter.
"Doctor Cupid"
Rhoda Broughton
He stated a truth and did it in such a pleasant way, and salved over my sore spot so gently and so Healingly, that I was rather glad I had committed the crime, for the sake of the letter.
"Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
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