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...ticed stealth as in the days before the Covenant. He had shot a young adult female between the eyes and left torn brains to waste, then tied his sat... ...ed as she hurried past the Soala to her brother Ila's hut. Four males, nine females, twenty-eight children—their household had gotten big enough to ... ...i heard wooden shafts whistling through air, slamming into their targets as archers stood in a line and practiced with contraband weapons. Others wi... ...aced before the carts while Watu assigned their runners. She would send her archers and spearmen to the ridge, where they would flatten themselves a... ... up with MossDancer's lope. The larger boy would not wait for him. Several archers were still firing. FeatherFly grabbed MossDancer's tunic and pul...

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... and assess: last night, on the part of others, he apologized: the Gascon archers were much on his mind... “I have thought of them many, many times.... ...e Gascon fools...nothing else to do...made a target of your cavello...our archers...” Bronze for cannons...he knew about that...he searched about fo... ...stimate that there were four hundred horsemen, two hundred mules, mounted archers, stablemen, the Chamberlain, musicians, clergy, wizards, cooks, do... ...blemen, the Chamberlain, musicians, clergy, wizards, cooks, doctors...the archers wore black and red, the musicians wore yellow and green; the King ... ...cage and let a sick lion go; for days the young man had tried to cure the female. Running amok through town, she cre- ated quite a scare until she wa... ...hey knew, too, about the Gascon bowmen. I understand they had watched the archers, as they used my clay model for target. Watched my Cavallo disinte... ...e King’s kitch- ens! The King has a poet in residence who likes to recite female poetry—for the pomades and perfumes! He is a hunchback, with a shar... ... hospital, with proper light. I had adequate leisure. I dissected male and female ...eight or ten cadavers...over the years. Made my drawings in vari...

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...n, in an encounter with Machanidas, having sent before a strong troupe of archers and good marke men to begin the skirmish, and the enemie, after he... ...ing; or else naturall and not necessary, as the acquaintance of males and females; or else neither necessary nor naturall: of this last kinde are al... ... It lieth not in them (nor perhaps in chastitie it selfe, seeing she is a female) to shield themselves from concupiscence and avoid desiring. If onl... ...ong go, A guilty blush in hir sad face doth flo. I say that both male and female are cast in one same moulde; instruction and custome excepted, ther...

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...ssary to verify three serious things—viz.: If the flea be a male, if it be female, or if it be a virgin; supposing it to be a 29 Droll Stories – Vol.... ...said she, turning towards the page, “I give thee command of a com- pany of archers. But for the future do not throw things out of the window.” Then sh... ... to play the part of the innkeeper, his pages dressed like guests, and his female servants like servants of the inn, he waited for spies to convey to ... ...cherous and captivating ways, all traps which are abun- dantly used by the females of all nations. When, after many wrigglings, smacks in the face, no... ... Droll Stories – Vol. 2 dead by reason of his extravagant amours with this female demon. The which noble gentleman was three-and-twenty years of age; ... ...self only upon males, she had the opportunity of seeing in the garden this female demon, superbly attired, walking in company with a knight, with whom... ... Mark-counting-tournoise-pounds; Master Martin Beaupertuys, captain of the archers of the town re- siding at the castle; Jehan Rabelais, a ships’ pain... ... and accepted the advice of the Chapter. By their efforts the men-at-arms, archers, knights, and citizens, in a large number, kept watch, and killed a...

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...on of projecting angles, by which they might be flanked in case of need by archers or slingers. Before this entrance the Templar wound his horn loudly... ...y tarries the Lady Rowena?” “She is but changing her head-gear,” replied a female atten- dant, with as much confidence as the favourite lady’s-maid us... ...the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apart- ment. Cedric, though surprised, and p... ...the Lady Rowena seemed engaged in conver- sation with one of her attendant females; and the haughty Templar, whose eye wandered from the Jew to the Sa... ... a sort of Eastern dress, which she wore according to the fash- ion of the females of her nation. Her turban of yellow silk suited well with the darkn... ...e can draw their bows—the forests of Needwood and Charnwood must rear good archers.” “I,” said Prince John to his attendants, but not in direct reply,... ...ep- ers in the royal forests of Needwood and Charnwood. When, however, the archers understood with whom they were to be matched, up wards of twenty wi... ...d Prince,” said the yeoman, “to compel me to peril myself against the best archers of Leicester And Staffordshire, under the penalty of infamy if they... ...clina- tions, and to assert her independence in a case in which even those females who have been trained up to obedience and subjection, are not infre...

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...Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!’ 33 Sir Walter Scott XXI. With all her joyful female band Had Lady Margaret sought the strand. Loose on the breeze their ... ... down wretchedness and shame, And infamy and woe.’ Then rose the cry of females, shrill As goshawk’s whistle on the hill, Denouncing misery and ill... ... him down the way. What woful accents load the gale? The funeral yell, the female wail! A gallant hunter’s sport is o’er, A valiant warrior fights no ... ...ke a tender flower—’ 70 The Lady of the Lake ‘O hush, Sir Knight! ‘t were female art, T o say I do not read thy heart; T oo much, before, my selfish ... ...ound the path its dizzy ledge Around a precipice’s edge, When lo! a wasted female form, 72 The Lady of the Lake Blighted by wrath of sun and storm, I... ... first in twain. From the King’s hand must Douglas take A silver dart, the archers’ stake; Fondly he watched, with watery eye, Some answering glance o... ... of peaceful life, One glance at their array! XVI. ‘Their light-armed archers far and near Surveyed the tangled ground, Their centre ranks, wi...

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... there to milk them in the morn- ing and evening. While thus employed, the females of this family, to their great terror, perceived that their motions... ...ing and slaying right before us. In this terrible species of war, even the females and the helpless do not always escape. One little maiden alone, who... ...ho fre- quented Darnlinvarach, she possessed none of that timidity which a female, educated chiefly among her own sex, would either have felt, or thou... ...tality. Sir Duncan entered, conducting his lady, a tall, faded, melancholy female, dressed in deep mourning. They were followed by a Presbyterian cler... ...ed its inhabitants together; and was answered by the shrill clamour of the females, mixed with the deeper tones of the men, as, talking Earse at the t... ... and, at the same time, somewhat to extend his front, placing two detached archers at each flank by way of posts of observation, when the near cry of ... ...“what will become of us, now they have brought musketry to en- counter our archers?” But just as the pursuer had attained a projecting piece of rock a...

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...ie.] who favoured me with the history of the upright and high-prin- cipled female, whom, in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, I have termed Jeanie Deans. The ... ...he Bride of Lammermoor actually occurred in a Scottish family of rank. The female relative, by whom the melancholy tale was com- municated to me many ... ...be all possible propriety, by com- manding the attendance of her principal female attendant, Mrs. Alice Lambskin, who might, from the gravity and dig-... ...imation, and his manner was so different from his usual frankness, that my female curiosity was set in motion. We walked on the whilst, and I found th... ...of being overheard. I looked, and beheld, not without some sense of awe, a female form seated by the stem of the oak, with her head drooping, her hand... ...o two columns, entrusting the command of the first, in which he placed his archers and lightest armed troops, to Sir James Douglas, whilst he himself ... ...d by Douglas, who, rush- ing down from the high grounds at the head of his archers and light-armed foresters, attacked the body of the moun- taineers,...

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...furnish forth ten well-ap- pointed lances, with maybe some fifty more men, archers and varlets included. Some have deserted my unlucky pen- non—some h... ...untruly of the dignity of knighthood.” “ And mix you as boldly amongst the females of your chiefs and leaders?” asked the Saracen. “God forbid,” said ... ..., on which were blazoned the words, vera crux; at the same time a choir of female voices sung Gloria Patri. The instant the strain had ceased, the shr... ...the sound of the lauds, or earliest office of the Catholic Church, sung by female voices, which united together in the performance as they had done in... ...could not be fortuitous, the resemblance of that half-seen but beau- tiful female hand with one which his lips had once touched, and, while they touch... ...his second figure ascended in the same man- ner as the first; but it was a female arm in this second in- stance which upheld the lamp from the subterr... ... expired at the King’s feet. “Ye are careful warders,” said Richard to his archers, in a 237 Sir Walter Scott tone of scornful reproach, as, aroused ... ...drew from the royal tent. A train with blaz- ing torches, and an escort of archers, awaited Berengaria with- out the pavilion, and she was soon on her... ...as frankly afforded by Saladin if Richard stood in the desert with but two archers in his train!” The next day saw Richard’s return to his own camp, a...

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...ndian continent. Shah Allum, the son of Shah Lollum, the descendant by the female line of Nadir Shah (that celebrated Toorkomaun ad- venturer, who had... ...and on taking it, shall put to death every male in the garrison, and every female above twenty years of age. For yourself I shall reserve a punishment... ...f the mon- strous animals had a castle on its back, armed with Mauritanian archers and the celebrated Persian matchlock-men: it was the feeding time o... ...ch had formed my meal, when I heard a scuffle of feet, a shrill clatter of female voices, and, the curtain being flung open, in marched a lady accompa... ...would have been death to them to have remained and looked in her face. The females ranged themselves round their mistress, as she squatted down opposi... ...able allowance of an olive and a glass of wine, which I had promised to my female friends, in my speech to them. The animal reserved for the ladies wa...

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...y? never greeted more.” “T o prove a genuine birth (the prince replies) On female truth assenting faith relies. Thus manifest of right, I build my cla... ...m, Wish your Ulysses shared an equal doom! Your widow’d hours, apart, with female toil And various labours of the loom beguile; There rule, from palac... ...y war began; But bold Telemachus assumed the man. “Instant (he cried) your female discord end, Ye deedless boasters! and the song attend; Obey that sw... ...urged, she perfects her illustrious toils; 43 Pope A wondrous monument of female wiles! “But you, O peers! and thou, O prince! give ear (I speak alou... ...ull on his neck, and cut the nerves in two. Down sunk the heavy beast; the females round Maids, wives, and matrons, mix a shrilling sound. Nor scorned... ...meful strife; With that famed bow Ulysses taught to bend, For me the rival archers shall contend. As on the listed field he used to place Six beams, o...

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...-up persons of the establishment— knights, squires, grooms, scullions, and females of every de- gree—had thronged round them, but parted at her approa... ...itted her maidens to stray into the regions appropriated to the yeomen and archers, and others of the meine, where they certainly had no business. It ... ...iness saw nothing before her but to become an anchoress, that is to say, a female hermit, such as generally lived in strict seclusion under shelter of... ...d dogs; but Mas- ter Groot was not ill-pleased at the bottom that both the females of the household took part against him, and they had a merry supper... ...els and gold blazed as we never saw the like—and as to the rascaille Scots archers, every one of them was arrayed so as the sight was enough to drive ... ...e in a shining brooch. Then came more instruments, and a body of gay green archers; next heralds and pursuivants, one for each of the Duke’s domains, ... ... England—if that would. So I may resign myself to be the Duke’s captain of archers for the rest of my days. Heigh ho! And a lonely man; I fear 154 ...

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... lad of his word. Peace with thy lords and ladies, woman, thou’lt have the archers after him at once.’ ‘She makes no secret of being of gentle blood—a... ...oving figures, not cattle, but Anne recognised them at once. ‘Men-at-arms! archers! lances! A search party for me! The Prioress must have sent to the ... ...ieved, and in due time the hall was cleared, excepting of the lady, an old female servant, and Hob, who had sat all the time with his foot on a stool,... ...eelholm. But who are these?’ he added, looking at the troop of buff-coated archers in the rear. ‘They are bold champions of the Red Rose, returned Sir... ...should be welcome, or more truly he could not help receiving them, but the archers must stay outside, their entertainment in beef and ale being commit... ...e, as a grim red and scarred face was seen on a ruffian held by two of the archers. ‘No Yorkists we, sir!’ began a stout figure, coming forward from t...

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...There are very many cases in which, simply from consider- ations of sex, a female cannot stand forward as the head of a family, or as its suitable rep... ...men. The staff of authority does not annihilate their sex; and scruples of female delicacy interfere for ever to unnerve and emasculate in their hands... ...d down upon him with maternal pride and delight, she looked up to him with female ambition as the re-edifier of her husband’s hon- ors, with reverence... ... elder Julia to death—and at another, upon hearing that Phoebe (one of the female slaves in his household) had hanged herself, he exclaimed audibly,— ... ..., which now stain the page of history, would *And this was entirely by the female side. The family de- scent of the first six Cæsars is so intricate, ... ...by a writer not disposed to flatter him, the very foremost of the Parthian archers and of the Mauritanian lancers [Parthyaion oi toxichæs hachribentes...

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...n their grief. Poor Joanna had been exacting and tyranni- cal, and with no female attendants but the old, worn-out English nurse, had made them do her... ...s and daughters, and the two princesses, the party consisted of Christian, female atten- dant for the ladies, the wife of Andrew of the Cleugh, an eld... ...s. T oo soon he saw that his hope was vain; there were ten or twelve stout archers with the white rosette of York in their bonnets, the falcon and fet... ...is highest in the direct male line to King Ed- ward of Windsor, and in the female line stands nearer than this present King.’ ‘In Scotland he would no... ...ds, muttering— ‘As if I looked for this. Beshrew the old priest!’ None but female attendants could be admitted. Sir Patrick, with his sons and the res... ...dame de Ste. Petronelle was to go with them, and an escort of trusty Scots archers, and all would meet again in a fortnight’s time. All sounded simple... ...fend you from all ecorcheurs; indeed, they dare not come near our Scottish archers, whom Messire, my husband, has told off for your escort. And you wi... ... them here!’ ‘Nay! They were to start two days after us, with an escort of archers, while we visited the shrine of St. Menehould. They might have been... ...health and the younger had been her nursling. In fact, she was the highest female authority in the castle, and kept up whatever semblance of decency o...

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...shed to know’. Another Spartan, named Dienices, when told that the enemy’s archers were so numerous that their arrows darkened the sun, replied, ‘So m... ...ected, but sheltered and clothed the fugitives, and raised a great body of archers and of horsemen, with whom he re- turned to his own territory in Au... ...in his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their places on couches around... ...t men-at- arms, each of whom was attended by three bold followers; and his archers, with their crossbows to shoot bolts, and longbows to shoot arrows ... ...nd placed in it nu- merous warlike engines, with forty men-at-arms and 200 archers, who kept such a watch upon the harbour that not even the two Abbev... ...arty in right of his wife, declaring that it could not be in- herited by a female. In this he appears to have acted unjustly, from the strong desire t... ...ghter only four years old, and as the Magyars had never been governed by a female hand, they proposed to send and offer their crown, and the hand of t... ...nuous hum of the hymns and chants from the three Russian chapel-tents. The archers held their arrows on the string, the gunners stood with lighted mat...

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...that a young lady of your age should live entirely with two youths without female society , and be constantly associat- ing with such friends as they ... ... them.” I remember now how the unshed tears burnt in my eyes as I said the female society had left me to myself, and begged to know with whom I had as... ...lemen, there had a final one taken place between the two winners, male and female, in which Hippo had hitherto always carried off the glory and the be... ...h only as a spectator. As I stood shy and far from sanguine among the lady archers, I felt out of my natural place, and glad she was under her mother’... ...e this without practice?” “Lucy taught me a little.” “Well, if heaven-born archers come down on one, there’s noth- ing for it but submitting. Robin Ho... ...year. And, I say, Mr. Alison, I have a right to some compensation. All you archers are coming to lunch at Therford on Thurs- 145 Charlotte M. Y... ...ll to have a little sense, and not treat me as if I was one of the elegant females in ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ who only refuse for fun! Is not that enou... ...nish themselves off more happily without either of us, and though one idle female more might not be desirable, I thought at least I might pre- vent Ha...

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...ne 775 Of secrets, then with like infirmity To publish them, both common female faults: Was it not weakness also to make known For importuni... ... Therefore Gods universal Law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, 1055 Nor from that right to part an hour, Smile she... ...re: So shall he least confusion draw On his whole life, not sway’d By female usurpation, nor dismay’d. 1060 Sams. Fair days have oft cont... ...n each side went armed guards, Both horse and foot before him and behind Archers, and Slingers, Cataphracts and Spears. At sight of him the peop...

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...he hardiest soldiers and oppressors of the people. She had brave captains, archers, and nobles, ready to serve her at every turn. She had only to brea... ...ood watch tonight,” replied Chiquon, “as for his own part he will keep his archers ready. The hunchback who has robbed you has come back again. Keep u... ... of his secret enemy. He took a goodly number of his most loyal and adroit archers, and placed them on the quay tower, ordering them under the heavies... ...aled by some of the handsomest, believing them more gal- lant: neither the archers, men-at-arms, nor others, dared open for her the smallest entrance ... ... and dispositions before they recognised by the sixth sense with which all females are furnished, the special dan- ger which threatened the poor lover... ...r master arriving in great haste at the postern, because on their side the archers of the quay had whistled to him afar off, saying to him— “The Sire ...

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... even if Richard had thought of flight, it would have been impossible. Two archers made their presence ap- parent at the entrance of the tent, and in ... ...re?” “ Ay, my Lord; and for that cause I would warn you against two of the archers, one of whom was in Simon’s troop, and went with the late prince to... ...empt thee from all blame.” Again he was departing, when Richard added—”The archers, my Lord—were it not good to dismiss them?” “T ush,” said Edward; “... ...y been gay, open-hearted, and careless, he might have hung both the guilty archers, and a dozen innocent ones 103 Yo n g e into the bargain, and yet ... ...ot many such as she,” said Richard, smiling. “Well, I have not spoken to a female thing, save perhaps pretty Bessee, since I went into the Spital, ten... ... my feet, and asked me if I were sure I was not hurt. And by that time the archers were 112 The Prince and the Page coming in, when all was over; and...