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...ith him a great ran som: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath and he besought the Achæans, but most ... ...et coming hereafter. Your The Iliad – Book I 3 sceptre of the god and your wreath shall profit you nothing. I will not free her. She shall grow old ... ...with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo, wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath, and he besought the Achæans, but most... ...rming herself for battle. She threw her tasselled ægis about. her shoulders, wreathed round with Rout as with a fringe, and on it were Strife, and Str... ... deemed that it would be best for her to go to Ida and array herself in rich attire, in the hope that Jove might become enamoured of her, and wish to ...

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...bouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spi- ral clouds and gradually melted away... ... of lieutenant-general, which he ornamented with all his crosses, and thus attired, ordered his finest horses and drove to the Rue de la Chausse d’Ant... ...s brain for the twentieth time, when the door opened and Eugenie appeared, attired in a fig- ured black satin dress, her hair dressed and gloves on, a... ...fect confidence which contradicted the girlish simplicity of this mod- est attire. Madame Danglars was chatting at a short distance with Debray, Beauc... .... An hour after they stepped into their calash, both dressed in femi- nine attire. The gate of the hotel had been closed to screen them from sight, bu...

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... and on the work-table itself, growing under the master’s hand, was a long wreath, entirely composed of leaves and seed-vessels in their quaint and be... ...t. But should they all be seed and fruit?” “Yea, truly, my Stina, for this wreath shall speak of the goodly fruits of a completed life.” “Even as that... ...ry German maiden, she cherished in her window, to supply her future bridal wreath. Now pale as death, but so resolutely composed as to be almost disap... ...ey were worth looking at, and sighing at the thought of Master Gottfried’s wreath when she met with the asphodel seed-vessels. Once the quiet mule was... ...CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV SNO SNO SNO SNO SNOW W W W W-WREA -WREA -WREA -WREA -WREATHS THS THS THS THS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS WHEN ’TIS T... ...he two lads admired and gazed, caring far less for their own new and noble attire! Friedel was indeed somewhat concerned that the sword by his side wa...

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...erity, Under the allowance of your great aspect, Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire On flickering Phoebus’ front,— 59 CORNWALL: ... ...I do not like the fashion of your garments: you will say they are Persian attire: but let them be changed. KENT: Now, good my lord, lie here and r...

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...me. de Maufrigneuse was obliged to bow her head with its court feathers or wreath of flowers to enter in at the door; but within all the peris of the ... ... She was now, and always, as de Marsay said, an invited guest at a banquet wreathed with roses, a banquet which mankind, as in duty bound, made ready ... ...the face of the globe, Mme. la Duchesse de Maufrigneuse herself, in man’ s attire, had driven alone from Paris in a caleche, and was wait- ing to see ... ... tears in his eyes. (She was destined always to be an angel, even in man’s attire.) “Button up your greatcoat, muffle your- self up to the eyes in you...

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...the knees of his small clothes were buttoned with silver threepences. Thus attired, he sat with great dignity in Grandfather’s chair; and, being a por... ... a striking picture to behold the white headed old sire, with this flowery wreath of young people around him. When he talked to them, it was the past ... ...lume, Laurence came to the portrait of a stern, grim looking man, in plain attire, of much more modern fashion than that of the old Puritans. But the ... ... New England. His tastes and habits were aris tocratic. He loved gorgeous attire, a splendid mansion, mag nificent furniture, stately festivals, and...

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...nighthood on her selfe to don, And counseld with her Nourse, her Maides attire To turne into a massy habergeon, And bad her all things ... ...ay and night, which doe require, That he with fleshly weedes would them attire: Such as him list, such as eternall fate Ordained hath, ... ...ents rent, And her loose lockes to dight in order dew, With golden wreath and gorgeous ornament; Whom such whenas the wicked Hag did ve...

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... he feared would be refused, if not instantly vindicated as his right. His attire was a riding- cloak, which, when open, displayed a handsome jerkin o... ..., sir,” replied Master Goldthred, “I promise you, she was in gentlewoman’s attire—a very quaint and pleasing dress, that might have served the Queen h... ...irts, they were in the old pass-devant fashion.” “I did not ask you of her attire, sir,” said T ressilian, who had shown some impatience during this c... ...om one would have chosen to intrude an unexpected and undesired visit. His attire was a doublet of russet leather, like those worn by the better sort ... ... interrupted his reverie. He looked round, and in the beautiful and richly-attired female who entered at that instant by a side-door he recognized the... ... land with- out finding anything half so expressive or half so lovely. The wreath of brilliants which mixed with her dark-brown hair did not match in ... ...teable. A long cushen of crimson velvet, embr. with the ragged staffe in a wreathe of goulde, with my Lo. posie “Droyte et Loyall” written in the same...

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...by word Of magic or some fairy’s power, at once Behold me rich in monies and attired 35 In splendid clothes, with hose of silk, and hair Glittering li... ...n 55 But with more shame, for my habiliments, The transformation and the gay attire. Delighted did I take my place again At our domestic table; and, d... ... no doubt yet standing there, an ash, With sinuous trunk, boughs exquisitely wreathed: Up from the ground and almost to the top The trunk and master b... ...ejection taken up for pleasure’s sake, 485 And gilded sympathies, the willow wreath, Even among those solitudes sublime, And sober posies of funereal ... ...novelties in speech, Domestic manners, customs, gestures, looks, And all the attire of ordinary life, Attention was at first engrossed; and thus 85 Amu...

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...ue sky, the west wind sounding through its yet leafless branches, the snow-wreaths still lin- gering in its hollows, but melting fast beneath the sun,... ...he accom- panied her mamma to the ball on T uesday; of course splen- didly attired, and delighted with her prospects and her charms. As Ashby Park was... ...in in a few minutes; though, of course, I took a little more pains with my attire than if I had merely been going out on some shopping expe- dition al...

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...ho wished to throw off the base yoke which fanati- cism had endeavoured to wreath round their necks, had not a moment to lose. “The Covenanters,” he s... ...etter so than be smothered like a cadger’s pony in some flow-moss, or snow-wreath, which was like to be his fate if this winter campaign lasted longer... ...use, observed, at different times, a woman resembling herself in shape and attire, walk- ing solitarily at no great distance from her, and being sur- ...

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...ciphered legend Peffer only . For smoke, which is the London ivy, had so wreathed itself round Peffer’s name and clung to his dwelling place that th... ... something exceedingly inconsistent. She should be an upper servant by her attire, yet in her air and step, though both are hurried and assumed—as far... ... exemplifies the before mentioned family likeness to the monkey tribe that attired in a spangled robe and cap she might walk about the table land on t... ...acted manner in which Mrs. Jellyby would deliver herself up to having this attire tried on by the dress maker, and the sweetness with which she would... ...merald velvet where the roller passes, the smoke of the great kitchen fire wreathing itself straight and high into the lightsome air. Lastly, up comes... ...g processes are tri umphantly completed; Quebec and Malta appear in fresh attire, smiling and dry; pipes, tobacco, and something to drink are placed ... ...tered saw pits and such nooks of the park; and when the smoke of two pipes wreathes away into the fragrant evening air from the trooper’s door. Then i...

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...ce, it was plain she understood herself and made the most of her points. Her attire, voluminous and delicate, bristling with elegance, had the look of... ...s style; and that if she is dressed with great freshness she wears her smart attire with an undisguised appearance of sav ing it—very much as if it w... ...ly bared of their tight black velvet (oh the old clothes! and a gold laurel wreath set upon a multitude of glossy ringlets. She had spoken softly and... ...yes, lighted like great glazed railway stations, had put up no shutters; her attire had lost none of its crispness, her opinions none of their nationa...

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...orms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and sno... ...orrit – Book Two then presented himself in a refulgent condition as to his attire, but looking indefinably shrunken and old. However, as he was plainl...

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...of your sounds Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in ... ...Cassius? Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they Put on my brows this wreath of victory, And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shout...

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...ness. And this she gathered from the people’s eyes: This too the women who attired her head, To please her, dwelling on his boundless love, Told Enid,... ...his noble prince who won our earldom back, So splendid in his acts and his attire, Sweet heaven, how much I shall discredit him! Would he could tarry ... ... And so descended. Never man rejoiced More than Geraint to greet her thus attired; And glancing all at once as keenly at her As careful robins eye th... ...ny such be mine—I fly to thee. Save, save me thou—Woman of women—thine The wreath of beauty, thine the crown of power, Be thine the balm of pity, O He... ...ace: then he found a door, And darkling felt the sculptured ornament That wreathen round it made it seem his own; And wearied out made for the couch ... ... for all the land was full of life. And when at last he came to Camelot, A wreath of airy dancers hand-in-hand Swung round the lighted lantern of the ...

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...atience! what do you mean by the altar?” “Pile green turf,” said the friar, “wreathe it with flowers, and crown it with fruit, and we will show the no... ...odes when our foresters bring in booty: Bold Robin has robed him in ghostly attire, And forth he is gone like a holy friar, Singing, hey down, ho ... ...sounded upon the door. Robin, Marian, and the baron threw by their pilgrim’s attire, and stood in arms on the defensive. They were provided with sword... ...prudent to return in a different dis guise, they laid aside their pilgrim’s attire, and assumed the habits and appurtenances of wandering minstrels. ... ...ely moored in a nook on the opposite bank; near which a chimney sending up a wreath of smoke through the thick set willows, was the only symptom of hu... ...m of human habi tation; and Robin naturally conceiving the said chimney and wreath of smoke to be the outward signs of the inward ferry man, shouted...

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... Him als accompanyd vpon the way A comely Palmer, clad in blacke attire, Of ripest yeares, and haires all hoarie gray, That with a... ... for griefe his hart did grate, And from so heauie sight his head did wreath, Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate, Which plunged had ... ...it, A flaming fire in midst of bloudy field, And round about the wreath this word was writ, Burnt I do burne. Right well beseemed it, ... ...and braunches, which did broad dilate Their clasping armes, in wanton wreathings intricate. The Faerie Queene: Book II. 169 So fashioned a ...

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...her brother was again at the other side of the garden. “Bring me those light wreaths of snow that have rested on the lower branches of the pear tree.... ..., she almost doubted whether it were a real child after all, or only a light wreath of the new fallen snow, blown hither and thither about the garden ... ...little white stranger sporting to and fro in the garden, like a dancing snow wreath, and the flock of snow—birds fluttering about her head. “Pray, wha... ...e vestal muslin of a cap; her close, long waisted gown, and indeed her whole attire, might have been worn by some rustic beauty who had faded half a c... ... the spring. There were three men, a woman, and a little girl and boy. Their attire was mean, covered with the dust of the summer’s day, and damp with... ..., in a black coat, out at elbows; notwith standing the ill condition of his attire, there were about him several tokens of a peculiar sort of foppery... ...tle parties of men, among whom Robin distinguished individuals in outlandish attire, came hurrying along; but, though on both occasions, they paused t... ...bed the neighborhood; windows flew open on all sides; and many heads, in the attire of the pillow, and confused by sleep sud denly broken, were protr...

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...ronged about her without understanding what she said. They wondered at her attire, but she turned a long frightened look upon them all, then sinking h... ...as hidden beneath a disordered array of monuments. There were temples with wreathed columns bearing bronze capitals and metal chains, cones of dry sto... ...tered about everywhere, and the scents were stifling in spite of the cloud-wreaths from the styrax shrivelling on a brazen tripod in the centre. The C... ... their wearers were about to perish; he dashed towards them; then the vast wreath of red plumes closed in, and they soon rejoined him and surrounded h...

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...the Roman commander to enter! Caesar, plainly dressed, but, wearing an oak wreath to conceal his baldness, enters from, the loggia, attended by Britan... ... down. (He obeys.) These Roman helmets are so becoming! (She takes off his wreath.) Oh! (She bursts out laughing at him.) CAESAR. What are you laughin... ...nnus, who puts the cuirass on him.) CLEOPATRA. So that is why you wear the wreath—to hide it. 45 Caesar and Cleopatra BRITANNUS. Peace, Egyptian: the... ...ad steps of the gate, crowded with Cleopatra’s ladies, all in their gayest attire, are like a flower garden. The facade is lined by her guard, officer...

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... simply as though all the rosettes and lace, all the minute details of her attire, had not cost her or her family a moment’s attention, as though she ... ...r head, among her black hair—her own, with no false additions—was a little wreath of pansies, and a bouquet of the same in the black ribbon of her sas... ...n lilac, and that her charm was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could never be noticeable on her. And her black dres... ...f protection towards Kitty. With a flying, feminine glance she scanned her attire, and made a movement of her head, hardly perceptible, but under- 95... ... turning, after the departure of her guests, to the con- sideration of her attire, was very much annoyed. She was generally a mistress of the art of d...

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...le had long ago been quite ready, and in her white dress and long veil and wreath of orange blossoms she was standing in the drawing-room of the Shtch... ... her beauty; but because, in spite of the elaborate sump- tuousness of her attire, the expression of her sweet face, of her eyes, of her lips was stil... ...making a sign to Levin, walked back again. The priest lighted two candles, wreathed with flowers, and holding them sideways so that the wax dropped sl... ...an Arkadyevitch was telling his sister-in-law his joke about divorce. “The wreath wants setting straight,” she answered, not hearing him. “What a pity...

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...’s horse, Brownie, and Darya Alexandrovna, delayed by anxiety over her own attire, came out and got in, dressed in a white muslin gown. Darya Alexandr... ...o go to greet his mother and put down the flowers, or to finish making the wreath and go with the flowers. The governess, after saying good-morning, b... ...is dress, in the old-fashioned threadbare coat, obviously not his everyday attire, in his shrewd deep-set eyes, in his idiomatic, fluent Rus- sian, in...

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...pipe when a youth stopped to read the card on the doorpost. This youth was attired in a coarse sailor’s jersey and a pair of gray tweed trousers, whic... ...humiliated by Miss Carew’s bounty. But the thought of being driven, richly attired, in one of the castle carriages, and meeting Janet trudging about h... ...cognized the drunken dancer as Mellish. He was followed by three men gayly attired and highly elated, but compara- tively sober. After them came Cashe... ...r with unsym- pathetic curiosity, and turned as they passed to examine her attire. Men resorted to various subterfuges to get a satisfac- tory look wi... ...ive lessons in fencing made the place unen- durable to him. He changed his attire, went out, called a cab, and bade the driver, with an oath, drive to... ...o?” Lydia had put on her hat, and was swiftly wrapping herself in a shawl. Wreaths of rosy color were chasing each other through her cheeks; and her e...

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...A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire; An upper vest, once Helen’s rich attire, From Argos by the fam’d adultress brought, With golden flow’rs and ... ...a train of Loves, She gently bears him to her blissful groves, Then with a wreath of myrtle crowns his head, And softly lays him on a flow’ry bed. Cup... ...erable statues of the gods, With ancient V esta from the sacred choir, The wreaths and relics of th’ immortal fire. “Now peals of shouts come thund’ri... ...plumy crest. Thus Ripheus, Dymas, all the Trojan train, Lay down their own attire, and strip the slain. Mix’d with the Greeks, we go with ill presage,... ...on Cynthus walking, sees below The merry madness of the sacred show. Green wreaths of bays his length of hair inclose; A golden fillet binds his awful... ...afar, their nightly god they hear, And howl about the hills, and shake the wreathy spear. At length she finds the dear perfidious man; Prevents his fo... ...spaces lie. The Aeneid Virgil 97 Sad cypress, vervain, yew, compose the wreath, And ev’ry baleful green denoting death. The queen, determin’d to th... ...ike hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas; with his pole he steers; The freights of fli... ... Severe Fabricius, or can cease t’ admire The plowman consul in his coarse attire? Tir’d as I am, my praise the Fabii claim; And thou, great hero, gre...

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... before them, th’ unwieldy Elephant To make them mirth us’d all his might, & wreathd His Lithe Proboscis; close the Serpent sly Insinuating, wove with... ... voice, and Clouds began To darken all the Hill, and smoak to rowl In duskie wreathes, reluctant flames, the signe Of wrauth awak’t: nor with less dre... ..., as the great first Movers hand First wheeld thir course; Earth in her rich attire Consummate lovly smil’d; Aire, Water, Earth, By Fowl, Fish, Beast,... ...fts her Saile; So varied hee, and of his tortuous Traine Curld many a wanton wreath in sight of EVE, To lure her Eye; shee busied heard the sound Of r... ...rough his veins, and all his joynts relax’d; From his slack hand the Garland wreath’d for EVE Down drop’d, and all the faded Roses shed: Speechless he...

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...ven started their co-operative stores to ruin them; and from out the smoke-wreaths of Bir- mingham a finger has begun to write upon the wall the con- ... ...o show forth, falls more and more into neglect. An architect may command a wreath of vine-leaves round the cornice of a monument; but if, as each leaf... ...at ‘tall, comely dame, something of a swarthy complexion, in very pleasant attire, but old,’ ‘gives you a smile at the end of each sen- tence’– a real... ...ears older than I had dreamed myself all night. SKETCHES CHAPTER III – THE WREATH OF IMMORTELLES I T IS ALL VERY WELL to talk of death as ‘a pleasant ... ...e down they neared a grave, where some pious friend or relative had laid a wreath of immortelles, and put a bell glass over it, as is the custom. The ... ...aiting but a touch to become royal? She saw herself transformed, radiantly attired, but in the most exquisite taste: her face grown longer and more re...

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...chivalrous ap- pearance, which is far more easily imagined than described. Attired in this magnificent costume, I first presented myself before Colone... ...et three. He was habited for the evening meal in the costly, though simple attire of the nobleman of the period—and his costume a good deal resembled ... ...d had sup- plied his wrists and bosom with the most costly laces; and thus attired, with an opera-hat placed on one side of his head, or- namented wit... ...didly illuminated to receive them. Servitors, in rich liveries, (they were attired in doublets of the sky-blue broadcloth of Y pres, and hose of the r... ...ffo?” exclaimed a voice from the cavern; and presently, from be- neath the wreaths of geranium and magnolia, appeared an in- tensely venerable, ancien... ...too, that he had seen in the streets numerous other bands of men similarly attired in green. On ask- ing at the cathedral porch the cause of this asse... ...ron was declared conqueror at the ring; and Jemmy awarded him the prize, a wreath of white roses, which she placed on his lance; he receiving it grace... ...ar hit the right place; for it carried off the Baron’s helmet, plume, rose-wreath and all; but his Excellency hit truer still—his lance took Tagrag on...

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...ople. On one side the religious multitude, with their sad visages and dark attire, and on the other, the group of despotic rulers, with the high churc... ... and decayed, while yet he had decked her out in the brightest splendor of attire, as if the loveliest maiden had suddenly withered into age, and be- ... ...church. First came an old man and women, like chief mourners at a funeral, attired from head to foot in the deepest black, all but their pale features... ... hues of the banner at its top. On the lowest green bough hung an abundant wreath of roses, some that had been gathered in the sunniest spots of the f... ...ers for the dance of life, beginning the measure that same bright eve. The wreath of roses, that hung from the lowest green bough of the Maypole, had ... ...own. “Edith, sweet Lady of the May,” whispered he reproach- fully, “is yon wreath of roses a garland to hang above our graves, that you look so sad? O... ...s of the smallest, they made an image with the sheaves of Indian corn, and wreathed it with autumnal gar- lands, and bore it home triumphantly. But wh... ...est Puritan of all who laid the rock foundation of New England, lifted the wreath of roses from the ruin of the Maypole, and threw it, with his own ga... ...estly in Dorothy’s face. Her mild but saddened features, and neat matronly attire, harmonized together, and were like a verse of fireside poetry. Her ...

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... he turns finally to the door, it opens and Candida enters in housekeeping attire. CANDIDA. Are you going, Eugene?(Looking more obser- vantly at him.)... ...RCHBANKS. She offered me all I chose to ask for, her shawl, her wings, the wreath of stars on her head, the lilies in her hand, the crescent moon bene...

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...r as Etretat, lifting my eyes suddenly, I perceived some- thing singularly attired standing on the crest of 85 Selected Writings the declivity; it lo... ... they let her lie. Behind her, a soldier was carrying a parcel of feminine attire, and the officer said, rubbing his hands: ‘We will just see whether ... ...ng his way, I felt the stones, the crosses, the iron rail- ings, the metal wreaths, and the wreaths of faded flowers! I read the names with my fingers...

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...d of a servant. From there they passed into another room. A man in strange attire appeared at the door. Willarski, stepping toward him, said something... ...oice told her that now or never her fate would be decided, and in her male attire she seemed quite a differ- ent person. Louisa Ivanovna consented to ... ...lly . Something cracked in the flames. The fire died down for a moment and wreaths of black smoke rolled from under the roof. There was another terrib... ...nce, and now frolic about playing with a chip of wood or a straw. Pierre’s attire by now consisted of a dirty torn shirt (the only remnant of his form...

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...ght carrying the child, the other with bowed face crouching by her side. A wreath of immortelles under a glass dome had thus attracted them; and, draw... ...ries of men and scenes, rigging up (it may be) some especial friend in the attire of a buccaneer, and decreeing armies to manoeuvre, or murder to be d...