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...nts, how to supplicate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...snowy peaks...whispering groves...the hunting cry...” Warming my feet on a warmi... ... the meaning it has for my forefathers, men who slept in the valley, with peaked cypresses above their graves. Dust fanned over us as we followed a... ... shield inscribed AFTER DEFEAT VICTORY. We spent a morning among spears, pikes, swords, scabbards, helmets, bows and arrows, arquebuses...standards... ... Like our ship Revenge I am surrounded by an armada of enemies, all my pikes splintered. In the beginning of the fight I had a hundred for me; vo... ...t been burning?” “Maybe an hour...” The flames seemed to meet in a giant peak, a peak that had at the top a great tree of smoke. It was raining har...

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...r from land, though that the sea could have ever swept in and covered mountain peaks so lofty at a comparatively recent date is a matter impossible of... ...enland, because the shores of that country were characterized by high mountain peaks, and rugged and bleak scenery, while the land before them was lev... ...stretched away into the distance, there were outlined against the sky mountain peaks and the snow-covered volcanoes of Pococatapetl and Iztaccihuatl,... ...d to pieces in sport, children were carried about the streets on the points of pikes and lances and other equally revolting atrocities characterized t... ... On the 27th, several large canoes carrying about twenty men each, armed with pikes, bows and arrows, and harpoons, approached the ship with great co... ...land on both sides rose up in perpendicular walls to a vast height until their peaks were white with the snows that never melted. The weather, too, wa...

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... MOTHER AND CHILD ............................................................................................................... 131 CHAPTER XVI THE PEAK CAVERN ................................................................................................................. 146 CHAPTER XVII THE EBBING WELL .....................................................................

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......................................................... 131 CHAPTER XVI THE PEAK CA VERN ................................................................. ...er the influence of the sun- beams, gazing up at the purple heights of the Peak, where a few lines of snow still lingered in the crevices, trying to t... ... bounds the more freely in the fresh breeze,” she said, gazing towards the Peak. “I love the scent of the dew. Didst get into trouble, child? Methough... ...HAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI THE P THE P THE P THE P THE PEAK CA EAK CA EAK CA EAK CA EAK CAVERN VERN VERN VERN VERN IT WAS QUITE TR... ...rea- son for declining it. The Eyres, then holding the royal castle of the Peak, were suspected of being secretly Roman Catho- lics, and though the Ea... ...if she hath the high courage she boasteth of, would soon cause the Spanish pikes to use small ceremony with her! Why should I concern myself about poo...

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... miles apart, and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill, whose peak was still buried in the fog. All three seemed sharp and conical in fig... ...e, sir, here it is. I get a rough answer, do I not? Well, if I speak back, pikes will be going in two shakes; if I don’t, Silver will see there’s some... ...obert Louis Stevenson open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks shining vividly in the sun. I now felt for the first time the joy of ... ...g any notice, I had drawn near to the foot of the little hill with the two peaks and had got into a part of the island where the live-oaks grew more w... ...nough, there was the Jolly Roger—the black flag of piracy —flying from her peak. Even as I looked, there came an- other red flash and another report t... ...trayed from the truck to the waterline, the Jolly Roger hang- ing from her peak. Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-sheets— him I coul...

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...o spake he in prayer, and Phoebus Apollo heard him, and came down from the peaks of Olympus wroth at heart, bear ing on his shoulders his bow and cov... ...ronos’ son of the far sounding voice sitting apart from all on the topmost peak of many ridged Olympus. So she sat before his face and with her left h... ...bright eyed goddess Athene disregarded not; but went darting down from the peaks of Olympus, and came with speed to the fleet ships of the Achaians. T... ...ve land. Even as ravaging fire kindleth a boundless forest on a mountain’s peaks, and the blaze is seen from afar, even so as they marched went the da... ...hey found the son of Kronos sitting apart from all the gods on the topmost peak of many ridged Olympus. Then the white armed goddess Hera stayed her h... ...ariots, but the Achaians climbing up aloft, from the black ships with long pikes that they had lying in the ships for battle at sea, jointed pikes sho...

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...ows Foot; their Heads, with Patrick’s Hand, were brought and put upon five Pikes on the Pleasaunce-Port… . Mr. Renwick told me also that it was the fi... ... figure in a panorama. By way of an outpost, you can single out the little peak-roofed lodge, over which Rizzio’s murderers made their escape and wher... ...th distance. Of the Pentlands themselves, you see a field of wild heathery peaks with a pond gleaming in the midst; and to that side the view is as de...

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...tern waves of ebbing day Rolled o’er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a set... ... on high, His boughs athwart the narrowed sky. Highest of all, where white peaks glanced, Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer’s ... ...bold Sir Roderick’s bannered Pine. Nearer and nearer as they bear, Spears, pikes, and axes flash in air. Now might you see the tartars brave, And plai... ...len’s hand. Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descending; In twilight copse the glow-worm lights her... .... Brianchoil. A promontory on the northern shore of the lake. 342. Spears, pikes, and axes. The 1st ed. and that of 1821 have Spears, but all the rece... ...ar.” 443. T wilight wood. Cf. 403 above. “The appearance of the spears and pikes was such that in the twilight they might have been mistaken at a dist...

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... some particular months, and some ponds, apted for it by nature, do become Pikes. But, doubtless, divers Pikes are bred after this manner, or are brou... .... But of this no more; but that it is observed, that the old or very great Pikes have in them more of state than goodness; the smaller or middle sized... ...ikes have in them more of state than goodness; the smaller or middle sized Pikes being, by the most and choicest palates, observed to be the best meat... ...d, contrary, the Eel is observed to be the better for age and bigness. All Pikes that live long prove chargeable to their keep ers, because their lif... ...gest it by degrees after, which is called chewing the cud. And, doubtless, Pikes will bite when they are not hungry; but, as some think, even for very... ...n Chester vaunts her holy Dee; York many wonders of her Ouse can tell; The Peak, her Dove, whose banks so fertile be, And Kent will say her Medway dot...

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...a manly respectful voice. This, too, was a novel and touching sight to me. Peaked ridges of purple mountains rose to the left of the ship,—Finisterre ... ...churches, and buildings that no doubt were hermitages once, upon the sharp peaks of the hills, shone brightly in the sun. The sight was delightfully c... ...st-named famous corsair (a most truculent little scimi- tar), thousands of pikes and halberts, little old cannons and wall-pieces, helmets and cuirass... .... And here likewise are kept many thou- sand muskets, swords, and boarding-pikes for daily use, and 36 Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cair... ...nd died, and butchered here in vain. But to manufacture European iron into pikes and helmets was a waste of metal:in the shape of piston-rods and furn... ...ere on a tower, from which the descent would be very easy, but for the big peak of the saddle. A good way for the inexperienced is to put a stick or u... ... way for the inexperienced is to put a stick or umbrella across the saddle peak again, so that it is next to im- possible to go over your horse’s neck...

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... _125 And where the burning wheels Eddied above the mountain’s loftiest peak Was traced a line of lightning. Now far above a rock the utmost verge ... ...dream of unremaining glory, From visions of despair I rose, and scaled The peak of an aerial promontory, _130 Whose... ...3. 13. 13. 13. 13. Within a cave upon the hill were found A bundle of rude pikes, the instrument Of those who war but on their native ground ... ...y of thy name—Liberty! They heard!—As o’er the mountains of the earth From peak to peak leap on the beams of Morning’s birth: _3495 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. ‘... ..._4810 I saw its marge of snow-bright mountains rear 174 V olume One Their peaks aloft, I saw each radiant isle, And in the midst, afar, even like a s... ...its blast of war, The Balearic fisher, driven from shore, Hanging upon the peaked wave afar, Then saw their lamp from Laian’s turret gleam, Piercing t...

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...e. On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind—decked with the emblems of a hundred cities... ...d of great stature. The Iliad – Book VI 85 The spear struck the projecting peak of his helmet: its bronze point then went through his forehead into ... ...tars shine clear, and the moon is bright—there is not a breath of air, not a peak nor glade nor jutting headland but it stands out in the ineffable ra... ...n at his ship) and on his head he set a helmet of bull’s hide without either peak or crest; it is called a skull cap and is a common head gear. Merio... ...ent in and out among one another. On his head Agamemnon set a helmet, with a peak before and behind, and four plumes of horse hair that nodded menacin... ...chariots, and the Achæans climbing up into their ships and wielding the long pikes that were lying on the decks ready for use in a sea fight, jointed ...

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...s rang, Old Norham never heard. 16 Marmion X. The guards their morrice-pikes advanced, The trumpets flourished brave, The cannon from the rampa... ... her cheek, A hectic and a fluttered streak, Like that left on the Cheviot peak, By autumn’s stormy sky; And when her silence broke at length, Stil... ...ted for the bending bow; And when the stony path began, By which the naked peak they wan, Up flew the snowy ptarmigan. 68 Marmion The noon had long b... ...closed the tented ground; Their men the warders backward drew, And carried pikes as they rode through Into its ample bound. Fast ran the Scottish w... ...ght, Their brigantines, and gorgets light, Like very silver shone. Long pikes they had for standing fight, T wo-handed swords they wore, And man...

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... ... Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” —Waller’ s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created... ...pon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever all clouds choose the loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon. Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling p... ...o named I suppose from his peculiar horn being originally mis- taken for a peaked nose. The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn av... ... be trans- planted to yon sky? Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee’s peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages?—The b... ...d then remained fixed, while the boat’s five oars were seen simultaneously peaked. Boat and crew sat motionless on the sea. Instantly the three spread... ... as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes. First: Being horizontal in its position, the Leviathan’s ta... ...skull—that is all wrinkles! But, away with child’s play; no more gaffs and pikes to-day. Look ye here!” jingling the leathern bag, as if it were full ...

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...* * * Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created t... ...pon layer were piled upon his brow, as ever all clouds choose the loftiest peaks to pile themselves upon. Nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling p... ... so named I suppose from his peculiar horn being originally mistaken for a peaked nose. The creature is some sixteen feet in length, while its horn av... ...so be transplanted to yon sky? Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee’s peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages? — The... ...and then remained fixed, while the boat’s five oars were seen simultaneously peaked. Boat and crew sat motionless on the sea. Instantly the three spread... ... as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes. First: Being horizontal in its posi tion, the Leviathan’s t... ...ull — that is all wrinkles! But, away with child’s play; no more gaffs and pikes to day. Look ye here!” jingling the leathern bag, as if it were full ...

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...ointed stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feathers, alth... ...shrubs or lesser trees 34 Sir Walter Scott of ane forest, as the puissant pikes, arranged in battalia be- hind them, correspond to the tall pines the... ...like the shaft of a halberd, with a round globe at the end with cross iron pikes, saith, ‘Here is one of the tobacco pipes, wherewith we will beat out... ...l uphold, that, according to the best usages of war, a strong battalion of pikes, drawn up in the fashion of the Lion of the North, the immortal Gusta... ... which might be di- rected on it from above, one or two resolute men, with pikes and battle-axes, could have made the pass good against hun- dreds; fo... ...ing, and his 119 Sir Walter Scott eye might have dwelt on the picturesque peak of Duniquoich, starting abruptly from the lake, and raising its scathe... ...the Region, rose high above the others, showing his glimmering and scathed peak to the distance of many miles. The followers of Montrose were men not ...

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...r abundance; our suf ferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for... ...ounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our tongues into those wounds and peak for them; so, if he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him o... ... I’ll be one. Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully: Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he Hath widow’d and unchilded many a one, Whi...

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...mains’l,” came the bellow of Captain Kitchell. “Clap on to your throat and peak halyards.” 12 Moran of the Lady Letty The Chinamen hurried aft. Wilbu... ... throat halyards. Here, Lilee of the Vallee, give a couple of pulls on y’r peak halyard purchase.” Wilbur stared at the Captain helplessly. “No can te... ...pe, sabe?” Wilbur tugged at the rope the cook indicated. “That’s well, y’r peak halyard purchase,” chanted Cap- tain Kitchell. Wilbur made the rope fa... ...cut from the spanker and rolled around the body. Then Kitchell ordered the peak halyards unrove and used as lashings to tie the canvas around the corp... ...ran immediately bound on the en- sign, union down, and broke it out at the peak. Charlie, who was at the wheel, spoke a sentence in Chi- nese, and one... ...feet long, and the blades are as sharp as razors; you couldn’t want better pikes.” “That’s an idea,” returned Moran, evidently willing to forget her o...

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...Of immolation, any phase of death, We were as prompt to spring against the pikes, Or down the fiery gulf as talk of it, To compass our dear sisters’ l... ...arkening her female field: void was her use, And she as one that climbs a peak to gaze O’er land and main, and sees a great black cloud Drag inward f...

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...the garden, received them in grand costume, In an old hall hung round with pikes and with bows, With old bucklers and corselets that had borne many sh... ...ttish chivalry, which the Baron told with great enthusiasm. The projecting peak of an im- pending crag which rose near it, had acquired the name of St... ...haggy crests rising among the copse-wood. Still higher, rose eminences and peaks, some bare, some clothed with wood, some round and purple with heath,... ...mber are past; The morn on our mountains is dawning at last; Glenaladale’s peaks are illumed with the rays, And the streams of Glenfinnan leap bright ...

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...e, that it might be climbed again. Should they, who were used to the snowy peaks, dark abysses, and huge glaciers of the Alps, be afraid to climb wher... ...er Gallic tribe, Caesar was forced to retreat over the Loire; and the wild peaks of volcanic Auvergne were free again. But no gallant resolution could... ... mained closely watched and guarded, and with no hope of seeing the jagged peaks and wild valleys of his own beautiful Auvergne. For well did he, like... ...d, showing the scenes of victory—the wild waste of the Cevennes, the steep peaks of Auvergne, the mighty camp of Alesia; nay, there too would be the w... ...ribes how the first execution that took place was the lopping off the long-peaked toes of the boots that the gentlemen wore chained to their knees, an... ...ds, while carried along the rough roads to Varades in an armchair upon two pikes, his 253 Yo n g e wife and her maid supporting his feet. The Bretons...

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...ted the adverseness one from the other. This mountain was named Damen. The peak was very sharp. About its flanks were rocks and precipices, whilst clo... ...p. The knights and the ser geants entered therein in their order, bearing pikes, and lead ing the fearful houses by the rein. You could watch them c...

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...nt and edge, and spears are tipped with trenchers of wood instead of steel pikes. Wert thou not with me when I said to that same gay Marquis, ‘Here we... ...s forms worn by the Crusaders of different nations, white turbans and long pikes, announcing the pres- ence of armed Saracens, and the huge deformed h... ...e a royal crown, and his feet, cased in velvet shoes (the length of which, peaks included, might be two feet), rested upon a footstool of solid silver... ...id the King, “and I will be thy safeguard.” The blacks accordingly lowered pikes and swords to King Richard, and bent their eyes on the ground, as if ...

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...ing something foolish and, when she caught him up, he politely touched the peak of his shako, and asked her the cause of her tears. “For,” he added, a... ... garrison soldier with a pike beside the flagstaff; soldiers used to carry pikes in those days. David reached the bridge and darted by the soldier who...

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... together, when Ariamenes attempted to board theirs, ran at him with their pikes, and thrust him into the sea; his body, as it floated amongst other s... ...oulders, and brought them round before them, and all at once stooped their pikes against their enemies’ shields, and considered the great strength of ... ...enemies, forced their shields out of their hands, and, striking with their pikes at the breasts and faces of the Persians, overthrew many of them; who... ... down into the enemy’s camp. There they put up marks upon some conspicuous peaks which surmount the hill called Callidromon, and returning again, they... ...hin bucklers, too narrow to cover the body, and javelins much shorter than pikes. By which means they were skillful in skirmishing at a distance, but ... ...e the mass of both armies met; the barbarians on one side fixed their long pikes, and with their shields locked close together, strove so far as in th...

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...at happily suited our disinclination to do anything. We abandoned the fore-peak altogether, and spreading an awning over the forecastle, slept, ate, a... ...n the twenty-four hours somewhere off Desolate Island, or the Devil’s-Tail Peak. Having said thus much touching the usual length of these voyages, whe... ... while his body, carved into four quarters, was with his head exposed upon pikes, and permitted to rot and fester among the public haunts of men! The ...

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...e, which will dare The worst to know it:—when the mountains rear Their peaks beneath your human foot, and there You look down o’er the preci... ...hich even those who obey would fain be thought To fly from, as from hungry pikes a roach; But since beneath it upon earth we are brought, By v...

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...nsequence of vich, they retires from the world, and shuts themselves up in pikes; partly with the view of being solitary, and partly to rewenge themse... ...lashes; a short cloak dangled at his back; the collar was cut into curious peaks, which served the goblin in lieu of ruff or neckerchief; and his shoe...

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...acedonian dialect, and took up their shields, and striking them with their pikes, gave a great shout; inviting the enemy to come on, for now they had ... ...r rank pass- ing on at equal distances in perfect order and silence, their pikes all ready in their hands. But when the signal was given, and the hors... ...brought out before the people in the Median costume, the tiara and upright peak, and Ptolemy, in boots and mantle and Macedonian cap done about with t... ...rced his litter, which was left empty, in many places with their darts and pikes. There was a great slaughter in the camp that was taken, and two thou...

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...n stuck full of pins and roasted before the fire, was to cause Eustacie to peak and pine correspondingly. But from this measure Diane shrank. If aught... ...with folded hands, in silent thanks-giving, as he watched the sparkling of pikes and gleam- ing of helmets—and the white flag of Bourbon at length bec...

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...king they reached the foot of a high mountain which stood like an isolated peak among the others that surrounded it. Past its base there flowed a gent... ...with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes, and a few muskets and a great many bucklers. He descended the slope ... ...he three acute angles made by the three points, from which all who saw the peaked skirt concluded that it must be because of it the countess was calle...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. At the base of the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a...

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...of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, ... ...e tetrarch was weary of pondering on this troublesome matter. The mountain peaks surrounding the palace, looking like great petrified waves, the black... ...ces. The first vault opened con- tained old armour; the second was full of pikes, with long points emerging from tufts of feathers. The walls of the t...

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...arms of Schwytz, lying in the clear sunshine. On the left are observed the peaks of The Hacken, surrounded with clouds; to the right, and in the remot... ...ome to count our sheep, our cattle, To portion out the Alps, e’en to their peaks, And in our own free woods to hinder us From striking down the eagle ... ...d men Assemble unobserved, within its walls. Bear- ing about their persons pikes of steel, Which may be quickly mounted upon staves, For arms are not ... ...he gladsome boy to manhood grew, Where ev’ry brook, and tree, and mountain peak, Teems with remembrances of happy hours, In mine own native land thou ... ...those white horns— That seem to melt away into the sky? WALT. They are the peaks that thunder so at night, And send the avalanches down upon us. TELL.... ...ll beneath the avalanches. TELL. ’Tis better, child, to have these glacier peaks Behind one’s back, than evil-minded men! [They are about to pass on.]... ...ople, I can help myself. Think you, had I a mind to use my strength, These pikes of theirs should daunt me? MELCH. (to Friesshardt). Only try— Try fro...

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...d on the backs of dromedaries, while others limped along leaning on broken pikes. The drunkards carried leathern bottles, and the greedy quarters of m... ...minences lit up by the moon; then stars would tremble on the points of the pikes, the helmets would glimmer for an instant, all would disappear, and o... ...her waist was watching them. She fled screaming when she saw the soldiers’ pikes among the rocks. They were marching through a kind of large passage b... ...nts they could perceive tawny eyeballs gleaming in the shade. The piles of pikes and hanging panoplies dazzled them like mirrors. They conversed in lo... ...blinded by the blood that spurted into their faces. The con- fused heap of pikes, helmets, cuirasses and swords turned round about, widening out and c... ...it, and then departed again; here and there on the terraces the domes, the peaks of the obelisks, and the pediments of the temples there were big bird... ...saw, some more Barbarians six hundred paces to the left on the summit of a peak! In fact four hundred of the stoutest Mercenaries, Etruscans, Libyans,...

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................................................. 180 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ........................................................................ ...uestions. Parlements have been tamed, more than once. Set to perch ‘on the peaks of rocks in accessible except by litters, ’ a Parlement grows reasona... ...try of all crafts has paused;—except it be the smith’s, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener’s, cook- ing off-hand victuals... ...f them, and mounts guard. ’ Also as hinted, an order to all Smiths to make pikes with their whole soul. Heads of Districts are in fervent consultation... ...non, overhead, booms the alarm-cannon,—for the City has now got gunpowder. Pikes are fabricated; fifty thousand of them, in six-and-thirty hours: judg... ...is circulate Seven Bastille Prisoners, borne shoulder-high: seven Heads on pikes; the Keys of the Bastille; and much else. See also the Garde Francais... ...annot consent to be forced away.”—”I see!” said d’Inisdal, whisking round, peaking him- self into flame of irritancy: “we have the risk; we are to hav... ...sat till far in the night, packing jewels: but it came to nothing; in that peaked frame of irritancy the Will-o’-wisp had gone out. Little hope there ... ...er does neighbouring Saint-Antoine look on it: Saint-Antoine to whom these peaked turrets and grim donjons, all-too near her own dark dwelling, are of...

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...uestions. Parlements have been tamed, more than once. Set to perch ‘on the peaks of rocks in accessible except by litters,’ a Parlement grows reasonab... ...try of all crafts has paused;—except it be the smith’s, fiercely hammering pikes; and, in a faint degree, the kitchener’s, cooking off-hand victuals; ... ...f them, and mounts guard. ’ Also as hinted, an order to all Smiths to make pikes with their whole soul. Heads of Districts are in fervent consultation... ...on, overhead, booms the alarm-cannon,— for the City has now got gunpowder. Pikes are fabricated; fifty thousand of them, in six-and-thirty hours: judg... ... circulate Seven Bastille Prison- ers, borne shoulder-high: seven Heads on pikes; the Keys of the Bastille; and much else. See also the Garde Francais... ...ll voices from the Queues, if ye had the hearts of men, ye would take your pikes and secondhand firelocks, and look into it; not leave your wives and ...

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... finding only that, will flourish aloft, Like heads of captured Pharisees on pikes, Our contradictions and discrepancies; And there are many more will... ... be silenced Out of all calm; and the night was coming. “I climb for you the peak of his infamy That you may choose your fall if you cling to it. No ...

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...and the Garonne. The rosy tints of the declining luminary were gilding the peaks and crags which lined the path, through which the horsemen wound slow... ...vious course was sombre in twilight. A few goats, hardly visible among the peaks, were cropping the scanty herbage here and there. The pipes of shephe... ...ins and i-eeled drab shoes, and beautiful snowy air. All the old women had peaked ats, and crooked cains, and chince gowns tucked into the pockits of ... ...ot wall in the mouth of the roaring cannon, over the heads of the gleaming pikes; when, with one hand seizing the sacred peishcush, or fish— which was... ...ic air, gathered up the velvet reins, and sprung into the magnificent high-peaked saddle. “Buk, buk,” said I. “It is good. In the name of the forty-ni... ...owed off a figure unrivalled for slim symmetry. His feet were covered with peaked buskins of buff leather, and a belt round his slender waist, of the ...

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...structive to the Hellepolides. They sharpened and prepared spears, staves, pikes, brown bills, halberds, long hooks, lances, zagayes, quarterstaves, e... ...es, the hacking and slashing of battle- axes, the justling and crashing of pikes, the bustling and break- ing of lances, the clamour and shrieks of th... ...589 Rabelais shaven crown, of lantern breed; a very great loitering noddy- peaked youngster, banner-bearer to the fish-eating tribe, dic- tator of mus... ... sandings. Moor-game. Haddocks. Salmons. Perches. Carps. Meagers. Loaches. Pikes. Sea-breams. Crab-fish. Bottitoes. Halibuts. Snails and whelks. Roche... ...d in the chimney, &c. Green-fish. Sea-batts. Cod’s sounds. Stock-fish. Sea-pikes. Which to concoct and digest the more easily, vinegar is mul- tiplied... ...aking ill of women, cried Panurge, thou mangy scoundrel, thou sorry, noddy-peaked shaveling monk? By the cenomanic paunch and gixy, said Epistemon, Eu... ...pox on grinning honour, say I. Go to, returned the friar, thou mangy noddy-peak! thou forlorn druggle- headed sneaksby! and may a million of black dev... ...ly tell you, I saw some certain sorts of weeds that grew and sprouted like pikes, lances, javelins, javelots, darts, dartlets, halberds, boar-spears, ...

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...miles out at sea, from the shore at Graden Wester, and far inland from the peak of Graystiel, the most eastern summit of the Caulder Hills. Bernard Hu... ...acery with a light as of many tapers, and threw out the buttresses and the peaked roof in a more intense blackness against the sky. It was plainly the... ...ately full, as though swollen by a blow or a toothache; and the smile, the peaked eyebrows, and the small, strong eyes were quaintly and almost comica... ...ns. “Your door … “ he began. “About my door?” asked the other, raising his peaked eyebrows. “A little piece of ingenuity.” And he shrugged his shoulde... ...ime enough two hours hence to throw yourself out of the window or upon the pikes of my retainers. Two hours of life are always two hours. A great many...

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...ts of the gods, Dread oath, who dwell on sacred Himalay, On the far Golden peak; enormous shapes, Who still were old when the great sea was young; On ... ...alked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me. Though lads are making pikes again For some conspiracy, And crazy rascals rage their fill At human ...

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...tched away towards the rising sun, and to the west were swelling hills and peaks, behind which many a time Harry Esmond saw the same sun setting, that... ...rtune. To run out of the reach of bill and marriage, he ran on the enemy’s pikes; and as these did not kill him he was thrown back upon t’other horn o...