...culture. Such striving is the top priority, the crowning achievement, the measuring rod of such a culture, its attainment - its criterion of success...

... with their bare hands, and can take down a dozen men with nothing more than a rod of wood.” She held her breath. Wyrm wasn’t a man to be trifled w...

... There must be beauty. Life must have beauty. Jerusalem Shevat 29 Thy rod and Thy staff will comfort me...yeah, though I walk through the valley...

...uch striving is the top priority, the crowning achievement, the measuring rod of such a culture, its attainment - its criterion of success or failure...

...sitive, happier, healthier, more responsive, more alive. How do you make any rod more flexible? You bend it back and forth both ways. If you bend... ...y one way, you weaken it at that bending spot so if any strain is put on that rod, it will break. If you bend it too far either way, it will break. ... ...bies… all but one. Who was Herod? He was a destructive heron… he was the rod of iron. The male he-man. Sent down by his own god to punish his...

...rce- lain and glazed tile and metal sleek as silver. The towel- rack was a rod of clear glass set in nickel. The tub was long enough for a Prussian Gu...

...ness, and some laughter to death. The river Selarus in a few hours turns a rod or wand to stone: and our Camden mentions the like in England, and the ... ...ng a quarter of a yard short of the water, to which end you must rest your rod on some bough of the tree. But it is likely the Chubs will sink down to... ...ill sink down towards the bottom of the water, at the first shadow of your rod (for Chub is the fearfullest of fishes), and will do so if but a bird f... ...h you, setting yourself in a fit place, may very easily see, and move your rod, as softly as a snail moves, to that Chub you intend to catch; let your... ...ore you offer to take him out of the water. Go your way presently; take my rod, and do as I bid you; and I will sit down and mend my tackling till you... ...nd to my young brother’s good fortune to morrow. I will furnish him with a rod, if you will furnish him with The Compleat Angler — Walton 61 the res... ... we sit down under this honeysuckle hedge, whilst I look a line to fit the rod that our brother Peter hath lent you, I shall, for a little confirmatio... ...for the making and using of your flies: and in the meantime, there is your rod and line; and my advice is, that you fish as you see me do, and let’s t... ... another. Trust me, I have another bite. Come, scholar, come lay down your rod, and help me to land this as you did the other. So now we shall be sure...

...ding on, I would fain have claimed him for my own capture. Portland had no rod. He held the gaff and the whiskey. California sniffed up-stream and dow... ...ound, and let the gaudy fly drop in the tail of a riffle. I was getting my rod together, when I heard the joyous shriek of the reel and the yells of C... ...my tackle away. And the prayer was heard. As I bowed back, the butt of the rod on my left hip-bone and the top joint dipping like unto a weeping willo... ...anding. Portland bid us both be of good heart, and volunteered to take the rod from my hands. I would rather have died among the pebbles than surren- ... ...er my right to play and land a salmon, weight unknown, with an eight-ounce rod. I heard California, at my ear, it seemed, gasping: “He’s a fighter fro... ...ling in with one eye under the water and the other on the top joint of the rod was renewed. Worst of all, I was blocking California’s path to the litt... ...n company with my first salmon caught, played and landed on an eight-ounce rod. My hands were cut and bleeding, I was dripping with sweat, spangled li... ... with a salmon in tow, and land him in the shallows. Then Portland took my rod and caught some ten-pounders, and my spoon was carried away by an unkno...

...Demy Coronall of Gold. With him, the Earle of Surrey, 2430 bearing the Rod of Siluer with the Doue, Crowned with an 2431 Earles Coronet. Colla... ... Wand, as High Steward. With 2434 him, the Duke of Norfolke, with the Rod of Marshalship, 2435 a Coronet on his head. Collars of Esses. - 54... ... 1 Marquesse Dorset, 2449 And that the Earle of Surrey, with the Rod. 2450 2 A bold braue Gentleman. That should bee 2451 The Du... ...f a Queene; 2509 As holy Oyle, Edward Confessors Crowne, 2510 The Rod, and Bird of Peace, and all such Emblemes 2511 Laid Nobly on her: w...

...o and I’ll put it in the paper. I’m the editor of the ‘Sport- with-Gun-and-Rod’ column in ‘The Press,’” he added with a flush of pride. Toward the mid... ...From his seat in the bow, Condy cast a glance at Blix. She was holding her rod in both hands, absorbed, watchful, very intent. She was as trim as ever... ...Oh-Condy-I’ve-got-a-bite!” He looked up just in time to see the tip of her rod twitch, twitch, twitch. Then the whole rod arched sud- denly, the reel ... ..., reeling in as rapidly as was possible, the butt of the twitching, living rod braced against her belt. 64 Blix All at once the rod straightened out ... ...at!” she cried, as the trout darted straight for the bot- tom, bending the rod till the tip was submerged. “Condy, I’ll lose him—I know I shall; you, ... ...tip was submerged. “Condy, I’ll lose him—I know I shall; you, you take the rod!” “Not for a thousand dollars! Steady, there, he’s away again! Oh, talk...

...he mangled limb, the devastated face, The innocent sufferer smiling at the rod - A fool were tempted to deny his God. He sees, he shrinks. But if he ...

...to throw: I count you happy starred; for God, When He with inkpot and with rod Endowed you, bade your fortune lead Forever by the crooks of Tweed, For... ... forests drear, island and dale And mountain dark. For thou with Tristram rod’st Or Bedevere, in farthest Lyonesse. Thou hadst a booth in Samarcand, ...

..., rushed forward, and aimed a blow at him with the butt-end of the fishing-rod; but it was the work of a moment to seize the boy and tie his hands, wh... ...le ones, then,” said the officer, fiercely, “speak, or you shall taste the rod. Do you know where your brother is?” “No—no,” sobbed Lucy; and her moth... ...he struggles of a boy of thirteen!” “A blow with the butt-end of a fishing-rod is no joke from boy or man,” answered the officer. “When last I served ...

...eth. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod o... ... the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no str... ...of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lame... ...ad with you, saith the Lord GOD. 37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: Ezekiel 20:25 – 20... ... bished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that... ...hy thigh. 13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD. Ezekiel 21:1 – 21:13 43 14 T...

...m down, can say with his final breath—O Father!—chiefly known to me by Thy rod—mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than t... ...ched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It 125 Herman Melville resembled that perp... ...white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of ... ...ing thing within; naught was there but bones. Cutting me a green measuring-rod, I once more dived within the skeleton. From their arrow-slit in the sk... ...mself, like a hot musket’s powder-pan.” At last the shank, in one complete rod, received its final heat; and as Perth, to temper it, plunged it all hi... ...is path made plain to him by elbowed lances of fire. Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into th... ... is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it i... ... were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri-pointed lightning-rod-end with three tapering white flames, each of the three tall masts was ... ... listen. What’s the mighty differ- ence between holding a mast’s lightning-rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasn’t got any lightnin...

...down, can say with his final breath — O Father! — chiefly known to me by Thy rod — mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than... ...ched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that per pendicular seam some... ... white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of f... ...ing thing within; naught was there but bones. Cutting me a green measuring rod, I once more dived within the skeleton. From their arrow slit in the sk... ...mself, like a hot musket’s powder pan.” At last the shank, in one complete rod, received its final heat; and as Perth, to temper it, plunged it all his... ...his path made plain to him by elbowed lances of fire. Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the... ...e is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it ... ...s were tipped with a pallid fire; and touched at each tri pointed lightning rod end with three tapering white flames, each of the three tall masts was s... ...ow listen. What’s the mighty difference between holding a mast’s lightning rod in the storm, and standing close by a mast that hasn’t got any lightnin...

...okout behind his spec tacles? For such offenders, if any such there be, a rod of birch is hanging over the fireplace, and a heavy ferule lies on the ... ...w a judg ment seat. Ah, Master Cheever has taken down that terrible birch rod! Short is the trial,—the sentence quickly passed,— and now the judge pr... ...e good old times, a schoolmaster’s blows were well laid on. See, the birch rod has lost several of its twigs, and will hardly serve for another execut... ... merry uproar of all their voices! What care they for the ferule and birch rod now? Were boys created merely to study Latin and arith metic? No; the ... ...ys! Enjoy your playtime now, and come again to study and to feel the birch rod and the ferule to morrow; not till to morrow; for to day is Thursday le... ...herefore sport, boys, while you may, for the morrow cometh, with the birch rod and the ferule; and after that another morrow, with troubles of its own... ...nd. May she never again be subjected to foreign rule,—never again feel the rod of oppression!” “Dear Grandfather,” asked little Alice, “did General Wa...

...would scold you out of hearing in less time than a hunted deer would run a rod. With an Indian ’tis a mat- ter of conscience; what he calls himself, h... ... little known among this self-abandoned people. In a country of birches, a rod is never seen, and it ought not to appear a marvel in my eyes, that the...

...e, 35 And I (blesse the marke) his Mooreships Auntient. 36 Rod. By heauen, I rather would haue bin his hangman. 37 Iago. Why... ...r I in any iust terme am Affin’d 43 To loue the Moore? 44 Rod. I would not follow him then. 45 Iago. O Sir content you. 46... ...my sleeue 71 For Dawes to pecke at; I am not what I am. 72 Rod. What a fall Fortune do’s the Thicks- lips owe 73 If he can carry... ...Arise I say. 101 Bra. What, haue you lost your wits? 102 Rod. Most reuerend Signior, do you know my voice? 103 Bra. Not I: ... ... do you know my voice? 103 Bra. Not I: what are you? 104 Rod. My name is Rodorigo. 105 Bra. The worsser welcome: 106 ... ...alitious knauerie, dost thou come 111 To start my quiet. 112 Rod. Sir, Sir, Sir. 113 Bra. But thou must needs be sure, 114 ... ... Bra. This thou shalt answere. I know thee Rodorigo. 133 Rod. Sir, I will answere any thing. But I beseech you 134 If’t be your... ...’d? Haue you not read Rodorigo, 191 Of some such thing? 192 Rod. Yes Sir: I haue indeed. 193 Bra. Call vp my Brother: oh would... ... you know 195 Where we may apprehend her, and the Moore? 196 Rod. I thinke I can discouer him, if you please 197 To get good Guard,...