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...before they succumbed to lobbying and the euphoria of the eradication of the Moslem Moors from Granda in January 1492. He is a deeply controvers...

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...ices in the morning’s birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; on the moors 10 The Hare is running races in her mirth; And with her ... ...troubled me: In my mind’s eye I seem’d to see him pace About the weary moors continually, Wandering about alone and silently. While I these th...

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...ious. Nuno Alfonso was almost as distinguished in the struggle against the Moors in the reign of Alfonso VII as the Cid had been half a century before... ...1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his descendants inter- married with so... ..., who had always resisted absolutism as strenuously as they had fought the Moors, had been divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen t... ...bough or branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his descen- dants fro... ...not for me.” “Not for me either,” said Sancho, “for more than four hundred Moors have so thrashed me that the drubbing of the stakes was cakes and fan... ... where there are no blankets, nor blanketeers, nor phantoms, nor enchanted Moors; for if there are, may the devil take the whole concern.” “Ask that o... ...lmo, that thine is just now the temper of mind which is always that of the Moors, who can never be brought to see the error of their creed by quotatio... ...emed from his attire to be a Christian lately come from the country of the Moors, for he was dressed in a short-skirted coat of blue cloth with half-s... ...ive thousand regular Turkish soldiers, and more than four hundred thousand Moors and Arabs from all parts of Africa, and in the train of all this grea...

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..., Mrs. Bragin,” sez I, very cool; “’tis not for me to interfere wid your a-moors; but you might manage things wid more dacincy. I’m off to canteen,” I... ... the names undher the canopy av Hivin for plaguin’ her wid my miserable a- moors whin I ought to ha’ stud betune her an’ this Corp’ril man that had lo...

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...ould like a fellow that can do nothing but draw, never shoots over his own moors, and looks like a German singer! But do put the room tidy; and if you... ...nt. She lay dreamily, figur- ing to herself Arthur enjoying himself on the moors and mountains, till Helvellyn’s own purple cap came to brighten her d...

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... scene of action. His arrival in Mauritania be- ing very acceptable to the Moors, he lost no time, but imme- diately giving battle to Ascalis, beat hi... ...or the carriage 17 Plutarch’s Lives of every skin; and many Spaniards and Moors undertaking the work, he chose out those who were the strongest and s... ...y the command of Pompey, others fled into Africa, and were set upon by the Moors, and run through with their darts; and in a short time, not one of th...

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... is afar off descried from the mast-head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaugh- tered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed a...

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... is afar off descried from the mast head; how he is chased over the watery moors, and slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; how he is then towed alo...

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... in the face. We were to halt for breakfast at Moffat. Well did I know the moors we were marching over, having hunted and hawked on every acre of grou...

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... the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back f...

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... her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking a...

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...at you run a risk of being lost in the marshes? People familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings; and I can tell you there is n... ...at we should appropriate the dairywoman’s cloak, and have a scamper on the moors, under its shelter. A pleasant suggestion—and then, if the surly old ... ...ner or supper. But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment gre... ... he rose early; and, as it was a holiday, carried his ill-humour on to the moors; not re-appearing till the family were departed for church. Fast- ing... ...reat cause of alarm that Heathcliff should take a moonlight saunter on the moors, or even lie too sulky to speak to us in the hay-loft. I’ll engage he... ...replied her husband; ‘and I only see two white spots on the whole range of moors: the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks... ...s an unnatural dream! The sun set behind the Grange as we turned on to the moors; by that, I judged it to be six o’clock; and my companion halted half... ...the limits of his park and grounds; only varied by solitary rambles on the moors, and visits to the grave of his wife, mostly at evening, or early mor... ...I answered, hastily, ‘that they are not worth the trouble of visiting. The moors, where you ramble with him, are much nicer; and Thrushcross Park is t...

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...ad patois, I own. I learned it in Barbary, when I was a prisoner among the Moors. In anno 1609, bin ick aldus ghekledt gheghaen. Ha! you doubt me: loo...

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...commandeered an old opera-glass from his uncle who farmed at Leet over the moors, he had bought a cheap paper planisphere and Whitaker’s Almanac, and ... ..., “and we’re going to level all these slums—and shift into tents on to the moors;” and he began to tell me of many things that were being arranged, th... ...he garden and the garden was too small for me; I went out to wander on the moors. “The past is past,” I cried, and all the while across the gulf of fi... ...ass in front of the house, and the purpose I had of getting alone upon the moors, and how somebody passing me said something about a hat. I had come o... ... any more. Nettie was already back in my mind then… . Then I am out on the moors. I avoided the crests where the bonfires were being piled, and sought...

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...nd dismal fanatics, the Sweet Singers, haggard from long expo- sure on the moors, sat day and night with ‘tearful psalmns’ to see Edinburgh consumed w... ...nting verse, to all who lost their lives in that conten- tion. There is no moorsman shot in a snow shower beside Irongray or Co’monell; there is not o...

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...r, He, in good time, must his lieutenant be, And I—God bless the mark!—his Moorship’s ancient. RODERIGO: By heaven, I rather would have been his hang... ...shalt see an answerable sequestration:— put but money in thy purse. These Moors are change able in their wills: fill thy purse with money: —the food...

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...ards, and lived almost like a peas- ant in his little granite manor on the moors. . . I have said I would add nothing of my own to this bald statement...

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...rmany, and to our southern provinces, which have lived in concubinage with Moors, Spaniards, and all other nationalities that adjoined them. This pure... ...were born with the human races. Chaldea, India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, the Moors, have transmitted from one to another Magic, the highest of all the o...

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...ge, and now and then a skirmish of some foraging party; but in general the Moors launched their spears and fled without staying for combat. Many who h...

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...bleaker and wilder, until it be came as bare and desolate as any Scottish moors. Soon after dark, we halted for the night, at the osteria of La Scala...

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...ut I still affected to be gay. I had taken my last ramble with Mary on the moors, my last walk in the garden, and round the house; I had fed, with her...

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...ple, all the more like our Arab tribes because they are descended from the Moors. Seeing that they were about to fall into the clutches of civilizatio...

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...first the horrors of the streets of Manchester, and then the bare, immense moors on the outskirts of the town, and then the scrubby little house in wh... ...insisted upon the existence of people know- ing Persian. “I know there are moors there, because I read about them in a book the other day,” said Katha...

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...gainst them.” “T rue,” answered Front-de-Boeuf; “were they black T urks or Moors, Sir T emplar, or the craven peasants of France, most valiant De Brac... ...the throne of Boabdil the Saracen; for less cruel are the cruelties of the Moors unto the race of Jacob, than the cruelties of the Nazarenes of Englan...

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...resid- ing near the Wells. They measured the distance between Cronidge and Moorsedge, the two houses, as for half an hour on horseback. Nesta told her... ...to them personally. Have you ever known me personally fail? Fredi stays at Moorsedge for a month or two. Dorothea and Virginia Duvidney will give her ... ...ning to their ‘views,’ he had deferentially with- drawn from the ladies of Moorsedge, and had then beheld their strangely-hatted lieutenants and the r... ... painted, colours and details, that she might get a vision of the scene at Moorsedge. She did her best to feel an omen and sound it, in his question ‘... ...ess. That was uttered within a few minutes of midnight, when the ladies of Moorsedge themselves, after an exhausting re- sistance to their dearest rel... ...that something was wrong in the establishment. For most of the servants at Moorsedge were prostrated by a fash- ionable epidemic; a slight attack, the... ...lute-duets, he gained fire from concert. The distance between Cronidge and Moorsedge was two miles and a quarter. Instead of the delay of a whole week... ...a read the young reporter’s ver- sion, with shrieks. She led the ladies of Moorsedge to dis- cover amusement in it. At first, as her letter to her mot... ...patching a telegram to Mr. Dudley Sowerby at Cronidge, and one to Nesta at Moorsedge, did she become stoutly nerved. The former was requested to meet ...

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...stories of travellers who had lost their way in such weather on heaths and moors; and to love a warm hearth more than ever. The dwarf’s humour, as we ...

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... and there had been one in especial, dated from the Alhambra and entitled ‘Moors and Moonlight,’ which 405 Henry James generally passed for her maste...

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... excited -- A great story teller -- Traffic with the people -- Commerce of the Moors in India -- Offerings of presents to his majesty -- Exchanging ma... ...e South Seas -- His departure on a pirating cruise - - In trouble with Barbary Moors -- Capture of a Spanish vessel -- A strange sight witnessed on th... ... with India and China, until their own country wag invaded by the Norsemen and Moors in about 412 A.D. when Rome capitulated. The Romans continued to ... ...essages were sent that da Gama concluded to land. Along the coast of India the Moors had for many years been the ruling commercial power. Ages before ... ...them. Their condition was hopeless, so they readily entered the service of the Moors or Arabs as soldiers, and speedily found their circumstances grea... ...e hoped for had they remained Pariahs. By the employment of these outcasts the Moors had acquired considerable military, as well as commercial, power ... ... an Arab" was a proverb in Calecut. Although their influence was so great, the Moors were intensely jealous of any interference with their monopoly, a... ...ad been briskly conducted by the men of the fleet, to the great disgust of the Moors, who watched with jealous eyes the progress of their rivals. But ... ...r the capture of the entire fleet, he having learned of its coming through the Moors, who in their light vessels everywhere went before the Portuguese...

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...gh the pollarded garden, its cy- presses like stone columns: we walked the moors until Christmas cold sent us shivering to the big fireplaces where w... ...test diamond is somewhat small, speak to us and it will be remem- bered in moors, fens, and locks. If your crown, coming from a woman’s head, needs a...

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...been killed with brimstone, in reality fly to Barbary and lull the captive Moors to sleep with their drowsy songs? Or is it,’ he added, dropping his v...

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...night of Berwick and the Canon of Durham 31 Yo n g e on the wide northern moors; but Sir Patrick, on starting in the morning of the day when they wer...

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...third man at the least might be set down as a foreigner. Lascars, Chinese, Moors, Negroes, were met at every step. And apart from the manifold ruffian...

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...y from the town. It may be that it was frightened and made its way on to the moors, where it is still hiding in terror. There are some who look with...

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...ce pleased him much. The repast was long and sumptuous; excellent Spanish wine, fine Morbihan oysters, exquisite fish from the mouth of the Loire, eno...

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...yield, and were carried all prisoners into Sallee, a port belonging to the Moors. The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first I appre- hende... ...to go out in this boat, either for pleasure or for fish, with two or three Moors of some distinction in that place, and for whom he had pro- vided ext... ...reabouts, for we saw no people. Yet such was the fright I had taken of the Moors, and the dreadful apprehensions I had of falling into their hands, th... ...ts; the negroes having abandoned it and gone farther south for fear of the Moors, and the Moors not thinking it worth inhabiting by reason of its barr... ...ns, leopards, and other furious creatures which harbour there; so that the Moors use it for their hunting only , where they go like an army , two or t... ...him I was an Englishman, that I had made my escape out of slavery from the Moors, at Sallee; they then 29 Daniel Defoe bade me come on board, and ver... ...ometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some T urks at Sallee, for the Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did; of these moustachios, or whi... ...y of the month that I first made my escape in the long-boat from among the Moors of Sallee. In this vessel, after a long voyage, I arrived in England ...

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...ing, therefore, always remains for a rent to the landlord. The most desert moors in Norway and Scotland produce some sort of pasture for cattle, of wh... ... such land employed in tillage. The cattle bred upon the most uncultivated moors, when brought to the same market, are, in proportion to their weight ... ...ose which are reared upon the most improved land. The proprietors of those moors profit by it, and raise the rent of their land in proportion to the p... ...y, and all those provinces of Spain which were under the government of the Moors. The cities of Italy seem to have been the first in Europe which were... ...- teenth century, to find out by sea a way to the countries from which the Moors brought them ivory and gold dust across the desert. They 450 The Wea...

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...ome Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, 205 With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wishe...

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...ing on my head,” said Gerald; “I shall get out and walk—a good rush on the moors.” “Wait at least to allow your head to take in my scheme,” said Cleme...

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...by the roughness and barrenness of those parts, and by the incursions of the Moors, who made captives many of the pilgrims. The canons of St. Eloy aft...

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... rocky summit, T urned his glances to the north west, Toward the Northland moors and marshes; There appeared the Tapio mansion. All the doors were gol... ... How to live in ease and pleasure, How to rest in full contentment, In the moors and in the marshes, On the borders of the woodlands; How unshod to wa...

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...or me. Well, what is our business here in the Sierra Nevada, chosen by the Moors as the fairest spot in Spain? Is it to discuss abstruse questions of ...

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...eming some Island, oft, as Sea men tell, With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night Invests the Sea, and wished ...

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... air that took you by the throat, unearthly harpings of the wind along the moors; and for centre piece to all these features and influences, John wind...