When she had entered his employment a few days before, he had noticed, of course, that she had a sort of ethereal beauty; but then every girl you see in Hollywood has either ethereal beauty or roguish gaminerie or a dark, slumbrous face that hints at hidden passion.

But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, / Leaving no tract behind.

the weight of care or business

He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.