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...and his ministers.’ The fear of instant death, saith the poet, is like the rod of the prophet Haroun, which devoured all other rods when trans- formed... ...ss than an evoked spirit can transgress the bound- aries prescribed by the rod of a powerful enchanter. The thought involuntarily pressed on her that ... ...id the camp of the descendants of Israel when the rock was stricken by the rod of Moussa Ben Amram.” “Ay, but,” said the King, smiling, “it required, ...

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...esty and disagree- able as he’s bound to be? Can you suggest a rhyme? God, rod, sod—all used; any others?” Although he spoke much as usual, Helen coul...

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...matters domestic she rules supreme over her titular lord, and rules with a rod of iron. Nor is this all. Things domestic Dr Proudie might have abandon... ...show himself angry with such a potentate as the Jupiter. He had kissed the rod that scourged him, and now thought that he might fairly look for his re... ...rry well accustomed to manage a horse, but not to do so with a twelve-foot rod on his arm, lowered 348 Barchester Towers his right hand to the bridle...

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...Mr. Rippenger seized little Temple, and flogged him. Far from dreading the rod, now that Heriot and T emple had tasted it, I thought of punishment as ... ...p, as it were, all the faster for the extremest strokes of Mr. Rippenger’s rod. He remarked justly that I grew an impenetrably sullen boy, a constitut... ...ext in the order of nobility to the dignity con- ferred by Mr. Rippenger’s rod, was the being down in their books. Temple and I walked in the halo of ... ...and Janet, to flatter me (of which I was quite aware), while I dressed her rod as if she was likely to catch something, talked of Heriot, and then sai... ... not shrink from speaking of. I lashed Temple in my aunt’s presence with a rod of real eloquence that astonished her, and him, and myself too; and as ...

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...j Kourbsky.’ Ivan answered by such a blow on the leg with his iron- tipped rod that the blood poured from the wound; but Vasili neither started, cried...

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...nce, but the resin from the green pillars of the shed, which still sweated from the axe. It was a strange thing to feel in one’s hand this weapon, whi...

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...ughed. ‘What may be the name of that instrument, like an im mense fishing rod,’ I inquired, ‘with which bills are posted on high places?’ ‘The joints...

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... A part of the machinery is always above this deck; where the con necting rod, in a strong and lofty frame, is seen work ing away like an iron top s...

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...back five-and-fifty years in the course of that evening. Dr. Raine and his rod were just as awful to him in his heart, then, at sixty-eight, as they h...

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...m the end of the table. They were heavy stuff, travelling on a thick brass rod with some contrivance to keep the rings from sliding to and fro when th... ...sheen of the lamp on the other side of the curtains visible only above the rod on which they ran. The door of Mr. Smith’s cabin was in that dark part....

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... made perfect here, immortal there: Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re–judge his justice, be the God of God. In pride, in reas’ning prid... ...other deems him instrument of hell; If Calvin feel heav’n’s blessing, or its rod, This cries there is, and that, there is no God. What shocks one part... ...hine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit’s a feather , and a chief a rod; An honest man’s the noblest work of God. Fame but from death a villa...

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...ears, and could not if I tried. He said excitedly— “‘Y ou got the sounding-rod in here, Marlow? I can’t get the pumps to suck. By God! it’s no child’s... ...the pumps to suck. By God! it’s no child’s play.’ “I gave him the sounding-rod and lay down again, trying to think of various things—but I thought onl... ...mps. By the light of the lantern brought on deck to ex- amine the sounding-rod I caught a glimpse of their weary, se- rious faces. We pumped all the f...

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...d of some agreeable music, and how he learned Latin, without suffering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning French, thanks to the German tea... ...r and timorous souls to love their book, with a furious countenance, and a rod in hand! A cursed and pernicious way of proceeding! Besides what Quinti...

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............................................. 73 THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD........................................................................... ...eside the rose, How far a little virtue goes. THE ANGLER ROSE, HE TOOK HIS ROD The angler rose, he took his rod, He kneeled and made his prayers to Go... ...nd 78 The air was full of sun and birds, 18 The angler rose, he took his rod, 74 The broad sun, 68 The cock’s clear voice into the clearer air 49...

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...anitor put in an appearance, lowering the tall colored windows with a long rod. A noise of hammer- ing and the scrape of saws began to issue from a co...

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...d and twenty kilograms in weight (but very active), ruled Vermichel with a rod of iron. Thrashed by her when drunk, he allowed her to thrash him still...

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... other, far as the eye could stretch; and then, as if under an enchanter’s rod, the “lock” seemed to thaw; motion spread with the fluent race of light...