In a story, he thought, what a man observes might shadow forth his fate: wild roses, barberry, Indian corn.
Perhaps the poem is forgiving the ships, since they were helpless, but it is first and foremost using their helplessness and indomitability to shadow forth the condition of the slaves.
The moment they arrived, the temperature in the room went down, the silence and the stillness shadowing forth a chill.
In later editions of "Origin," Darwin added a footnote about the tale, remarking, "We here see the principle of natural selection shadowed forth".
Protestant divines had tended to restrict typology to figures, actions, and objects in the Old Testament which in their view shadowed forth Christ as their antitype.
But in Rosyth, a run-down port in the shadow of the Forth Bridge near Edinburgh, distinctive local factors are pulling people in opposite directions.
"My message today to Westminster is this: Scotland's voice will be heard in Westminster now more loudly than it has ever been before," SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said in the shadow of the Forth Bridge outside the Scottish capital.
Yesterday, he stepped out of those shadows and strode forth as his own man.
As Dr. Montague explained it, much of the world is predictable: buildings usually stay in one place, gravity makes objects fall, light falling at an oblique angle makes long shadows and so forth.
For we have seen the moon, half-full, pass beneath the planet Mars, which vanished on its shadow side and came forth by the bright and shining part.
"I decided to look under the door to see where he was, and it was then that I saw his shadow moving back and forth, and suddenly he banged on our door," said Ricceli, 15. "Then the police arrived".
