Full Text Search Details
...: I. Non-consensual consumption of human flesh post- mortem For example, when the corpses of prisoners of war are devoured by their captors. This ... ... as his dead body, does he "own" it, does the state have any rights in it? Does the corpse stll retain its previous occupant's "personhood"? Are cad... ...s, or to the interaction between the world and said observers. Thus, Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been observed by millions in differen... ...h a strong hallucinogen. At a given moment, all the people in the world see a huge flying saucer. What can we say about this saucer? Is it true? ... ...an that it cannot exist and, therefore, is untrue? In this case (of the illusionary flying saucer), the statement that remains unsaid is a true stat... ...ns. Christopher Sanderson, of The Future Laboratory and Richard Brindley, of the Royal Institute of British Architects describe smaller flats wit... ... class (Bali, Papua New Guinea, Polynesian and Melanesian islands). In others, the Royal House started a tradition of incestuous marriages, which w... ... regarded with horror and revulsion. The incestuous marriages among members of the royal households of Europe were intended to preserve the famili... ...n discarded. Many killers often have sex - the ultimate form of intimacy - with the corpses of their victims. Objectification and mutilation allow f...

Full Text Search Details
...hich bore an emerald vine on each of their six golden faces, belonged to a corps composed exclusively of young patricians of the tallest stature. They... ...ill rest later, will you not? When they pull off your cuirass to cast your corpse to the vultures! or perhaps blind, lame, and weak you will go, leani... ...dst of the dishes. Drunken soldiers snored open-mouthed by the side of the corpses, and those who were not asleep lowered their heads dazzled by the l... ...ted one another in that language. It was usual to place a few Carthaginian officers in the Bar- barian armies to act as interpreters; after the war th... ...pon them. Indeed, the soldiers remembered a great shout; Spendius, who was flying at the head of the columns, had not heard it. Then the corpses were ... ... foot, arrived in the town, pale, breathless, and mad with fear. They were flying before the army. It had accomplished the journey from Sicca in three... ...each of his steps; the streets cleared at his approach, and the torrent of flying men streamed on both sides up to the tops of the walls. Everywhere h... ... military maj- esty of the Republic, governed themselves. He reduced their officers to the ranks; he treated them harshly , made them run, leap, ascen... ...ness, for they seemed to take up more room than on another human face. His royal fillet, which was half unfastened, trailed with his white hair in the...

Full Text Search Details
...f Henry IV . The jokes at a country wedding are trifles compared with this royal coarse- ness. Le Moyen de Parvenir is nothing but a tissue and a mass... .... Some of the most ribald songs are actually the work of Princesses of the royal House. It is, therefore, altogether unjust to make Rabelais the scape... ... drinking scenes, junkettings, gormandizing, battles, scuffles, wounds and corpses, magic, witches, speeches, repeated enumerations, lengthiness, and ... ...h figures, as harpies, satyrs, bridled geese, horned hares, saddled ducks, flying goats, thiller harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at ... ...n its beacon come. Then shall the breeding mares, that benumb’d were, Like royal palfreys ride trium- phant there. And this continue shall from time t... ...lling men as Diomedes did the Thracians, or as Ulysses did in throwing the corpses of his enemies at his horse’s feet, as Homer saith, but by putting ... ...h him. So fled these people destitute of wit, without knowing any cause of flying, only pursued by a panic terror which in their minds they had concei... ... dead, and got upon the rock again, passing his time to see the enemy thus flying and to tumble himself amongst the dead bodies, only that he suffered... ...elly that the chamber was all dyed with blood. Afterwards he appointed the corpse of Rashcalf to be honourably buried, and that of Touchfaucet to be c...

Full Text Search Details
...ndmarks of a memorable felicity; in which the ruin travels faster than the flying showers upon the moun- tain-side, faster ‘than a musician scatters s... ... first or last’—‘How so?’ I interrupted him; ‘surely they don’t detain the corpses of prisoners?’ ‘Ay, but mind you — put case that he or that she sho... ...ion. More energetically, more scornfully, to express that determination of flying in the face of public opinion and censure, four days before my awake... ... trace us by any thing in our appearance: for we passed all objects at too flying a pace, and through darkness too profound, to allow of any one featu... ... proofs and at- testations direct and collateral. From the archives of the Royal Marine at Seville, from the autobiography or the heroine, from contem... ...ch of water utterly ruins it, taking its life, and leaving a caput mortuum corpse! Upon this caput Kate breakfasted, though her case was worse than mi... .... The ship had been merely bringing stores to the station of Paita; and no corps of the royal armies was readily to be reached, whilst some- thing mus... ...d been merely bringing stores to the station of Paita; and no corps of the royal armies was readily to be reached, whilst some- thing must be done at ... ...yours and mine. Bless you, Sir, she would scorn to look at us. I tell you, royalties are languishing to see her, or soon will be. But how can this com...

Full Text Search Details
...rcibly entered it, for the purpose of defiling its altar with the bones of corpses. Several of his companions, less agile than he, had been caught and... ...ement of political intrigues; they were a part of the fatal inheritance of royal houses; and in the family of Herodias nothing was more common. Then s... ...nd their glittering sword-hilts threw out glancing golden rays. The doves, flying from their cotes, circled above the heads of the multitude. It was t... ...im speak no more!” But the prisoner continued in louder tones: “Beside the corpses of their mothers, thy little ones shall drag themselves over the as... ...nann then poured forth invectives against him for pre- suming to aspire to royalty. “There is no other king than the Eternal God!” he cried; and he cu... ...ng him to the impious Ahab. Antipas broke the slender cord attached to the royal seal that he wore around his neck, and throwing the seal into the pit... ... tetrarch ’s pavilion were the tables at which were seated his priests and officers; also a number of persons from Jerusalem, and the more important m... ...und the table where Antipas the tetrarch was seated. He leaned towards the flying figure, and in a voice half choked with the voluptuous sighs of a ma...

Full Text Search Details
...ian building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace; and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern En- glish o... ...ilized than modern En- glish officers: for example, they do not dig up the corpses of their dead enemies and mutilate them, as we dug up Cromwell and ... ... made half a day’s journey on our way back when we came upon a city rabble flying from his legions, whose land- ing they had gone out to withstand. BE... ...he guards, led by Belzanor, shoulder their way into the palace through the flying crowd of women, who escape through the courtyard gate. FTATATEETA (s... ...e not been collected for a whole year. CAESAR. Yes they have, Pothinus. My officers have been col- lecting them all the morning. (Renewed whisper and ... ...The kings and queens of Egypt 30 Shaw may not marry except with their own royal blood. Ptolemy and Cleopatra are born king and consort just as they a... ...been defeated before and may be defeated again. A few weeks ago Caesar was flying for his life before Pompey: a few months hence he may be flying for ... ...t. FTATATEETA. What whim is this? You cannot go on the water except in the royal barge. APOLLODORUS. Royalty, Ftatateeta, lies not in the barge but in... ...jesty’s foot on the gunwale of the meanest boat in the harbor will make it royal. (He turns to the harbor and calls seaward) Ho there, boatman! Pull i...

Full Text Search Details
...t a certain document of the last impor- tance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The indi- vidual who purloined it is known; this beyond a... ...to be frank—had been re- ceived by the personage robbed while alone in the royal bou- doir. During its perusal she was suddenly interrupted by the ent... ...selves with a mere shake, ac- cording to the fashion of some of our police officers. W e also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the mos... ...inister, diminutive and feminine; there the superscrip- tion, to a certain royal personage, was markedly bold and decided; the size alone formed a poi... ... magicians, by means of a fluid that no- body ever yet saw, could make the corpses of his friends brandish their arms, kick out their legs, fight, or ... ... it is impossible to say. We careered round and round for perhaps an hour, flying rather than floating, getting gradually more and more into the middl... ...is pillow and expired. I noticed that in less than a minute afterward his corpse had all the stern rigidity of stone. His brow was of the coldness of... ...d my mind. At one period I thought 86 Poe in Five V olumes of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire. At another, I re... ...d to be almost inconveniently crowded, had all the appearance of veritable flying-fish. It was almost impossible to believe that they were not absolut...

Full Text Search Details
...d Bulba greet his two sons, who had been absent for their education at the Royal Seminary of Kief, and had now returned home to their father. His sons... ... thoughts were far away: before him passed his youth, his years— the swift-flying years, over which the Cossack always weeps, wishing that his life mi... ...lare of burning reeds along pools or river-bank; and dark flights of swans flying to the north were suddenly lit up by the silvery, rose-coloured glea... ...ry first encounter and fled on their swift horses. However, several of the royal commanders, who had conquered in former battles, resolved to unite th... ... vulture, nor the vul- ture the dove, and no one knowing how far he may be flying from destruction. Ostap had long since attended to his duties and go... ...the gleam of the distant dawn lighted up only her eyes, dull as those of a corpse. He plucked her by the sleeve, and both went on together, glancing b... ...les who had equipped themselves, some with their own ducats, some from the royal treasury, some with money obtained from the Jews, by pawning everythi... ...fs captured from the enemy. Others, who were fresher, began to inspect the corpses and to pay them the last honours. They dug graves with swords and s... ... which has flown hither from Polish soil. I will bring you, though it be a corpse, to the Ukraine!” Thus spoke his faithful companion. He rode without...

Full Text Search Details
... What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran? And what see I on any side but the ... ... But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you con- tradict somewhat you have stated in th... ...ly Earth amid the balls That hurry through the eternal halls, A makeweight flying to the void, Supplemental asteroid, Or compensatory spark, Shoots ac... ... regards a horse as a run- ning man, a fish as a swimming man, a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man. Each new form repeats not only the main... ...ry thing to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colo... ...rson, however neglected in the passing, have a grace in the past. Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the hou... ...ion of families, the impressiveness of death, and a thousand other things, royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will. To make habituall... ...nd its intrinsic 83 Emerson date. It must go with all Walpole’s Noble and Royal Au- thors to its fate. Blackmore, Kotzebue, or Pollok may en- dure fo... ...This fact, as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable, the flying Perfect, around which the hands of man can never meet, at once the i...

Full Text Search Details
...rpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy ... ... and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young as... ...ts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. 5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will ... ...sand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned,... ...ring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness. 18 Violence shall no more... ...name. 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsake...

Full Text Search Details
... one! Why, you’ll kill him,” cried Alyosha. He ran forward and met the flying stones to screen the solitary boy. Three or four ceased throwing for... ...t my breath,’ says she, ‘is clean, and yours is unclean.’ ‘You ask all the officers whether my breath is un- clean.’ And ever since then I had it in m... ... you go on?” The man sang again: What do I care for royal wealth If but my dear one be in health? ... ...shall be put to shame, that the weak will rise up again, and will rend her royal purple and will strip naked her loathsome body . But then I will stan... ... around him at the fields, at the hills, at the trees, at a flock of geese flying high overhead in the bright sky. And all of a sudden he felt very ha... ...ep him here.” They suggested I should be sent to Pe- tersburg to the Cadet Corps, that I might afterwards enter the Imperial Guard. My mother hesitate... ...for my happiness. She brought me to Peters- burg and put me into the Cadet Corps, and I never saw her again. For she too died three years afterwards. ... ...n will be seen in the heav- ens…. But, until then, we must keep the banner flying. Some- times even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to... ...eased and those whose duty it was from their position began to lay out the corpse according to the ancient ritual, and all the monks gathered together...

Full Text Search Details
...ers had died about eleven in the forenoon, in violent convulsions; and the corpse presented in a few minutes after death one of the most horrid and lo... ...me on with great fury, and the design was aban- doned for the present. The corpse, left to itself, was washed into the larboard scuppers, where it sti... ...k, and I the other. Having secured these, we stripped off the shirt of the corpse and dropped the body overboard. Peters and myself then went below, l... ...as, that she had no other sails set than her foremast and mainsail, with a flying jib—of course she came down but slowly, and our impatience amounted ... ...tupefied, arose lazily from the body upon which it had been feasting, and, flying directly above our deck, hov- ered there a while with a portion of c... ...Penguins are very plenty, and of these there are four different kinds. The royal penguin, so called from its size and beautiful plumage, is the larges... ...ceive the spectator at a casual glance or in the gloom of the evening. The royal penguins which we met with on Kerguelen’s Land were rather larger tha... ...They are not at all shy, and, when properly cooked, are palatable food. In flying they sometimes sail very close to the surface of the water, with the... ...790, Cap- tain Manuel de Oyarvido,, in the ship Princess, belonging to the Royal Philippine Company, sailed, as he asserts, directly among them. In 17...

Full Text Search Details
...ge 21, is but a literal copy of Peter Wilkins’ account of the wings of his flying islanders. This simple fact should have induced suspi- cion, at leas... ...towers above all others, and lies to the eastward of what I take to be the royal palace.” That is the new Temple of the Sun, who is adored in Syria un... ...strolling one night down a long dirty street in the vicinity of the Palais Royal. Being both, apparently, occupied with thought, neither of us had spo... ...re-place, a search was made in the chimney, and (horrible to relate!) the; corpse of the daughter, head downward, was dragged there- from; it having b... ...Poe in Five V olumes paved yard in the rear of the building, where lay the corpse of the old lady, with her throat so entirely cut that, upon an at- t... ...d there. The deceased and her daughter had occupied the house in which the corpses were found, for more than six years. It was formerly occupied by a ... ...of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesti... ...The At- lantic crossed in Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason’s Flying Machine ! —Arrival at Sullivan’s Island, near Charlestown, S.C., of... ...k Sheppard,” &c. ; and Mr. Henson, the projector of the late unsuccessful flying machine - with two seamen from Woolwich—in all, eight persons. The ...

Full Text Search Details
...ing off with a clatter and a whistling like riggers straight for Labrador, flying against the stiff gale with reefed wings, or else circling round fir... ...seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry, with silken streamers flying, and the course of our lives to wind on before us like a green lane ... ... amused to read how Ben Jonson engaged, that the dull masks with which the royal family and nobility were to be enter tained should be “grounded upon... .... From time to time we scared up a kingfisher or a summer duck, the former flying rather by vigorous impulses than by steady and patient steering with... ...o contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen. Our uninquiring corpses lie more low Than our life’s curiosity doth go. Y et these men h... ...hem out for that purpose,” understood their origin and use better than the Royal Society, who in their T ransactions, in the last century, speaking of... ...avid M’Clary, also citizens of Londonderry, were “distinguished and brave” officers.—”Major Andrew M’Clary, a native of this town [Epsom], fell at the... ...y years ago, as the story goes, an old woman who went out to gather penny royal, tript her foot in the bail of a small brass kettle in the dead grass...

Full Text Search Details
...ance into Provence so that the silver grey olive leaves appeared like hair flying in the wind, and the tufts of rosemary crept into the iron rocks tha... ... the many tables; the black screen round the door with three golden cranes flying upward on each panel; the palm-tree in the centre of the room; the s... ...ded that economy, or even noticed it. At any rate, our joint dinner to the Royal Personage gradually assumed the aspect of a yearly function. Indeed, ... ...east mean to say that we were the sort of persons who aspired to mix “with royalty.” We didn’t; we hadn’t any claims; we were just “good people.” But ... ...e just “good people.” But the Grand Duke was a pleasant, af- fable sort of royalty, like the late King Edward VII, and it was pleas- ant to hear him t... ...dows; from the gilt signs of apothecaries; from the ensigns of the student corps high up in the mountains; from the helmets of the funny little soldie... ..., to spare poor dear Edward’s feelings. He never could bear the sight of a corpse. And, since she never gave him an idea that Maisie had written to he... ...at I seemed to see poor Florence die ten times a day—a little, pale, frail corpse. Why, I would as soon have thought of entering her room without her ... ...at Edward was much too gen- erous to his tenants; the wives of his brother officers remonstrated with her in private; his large subscriptions made it ...

Full Text Search Details
...at, without a word gave Maximov a violent punch in the breast and sent him flying. It was quite by chance he did not fall. “Drive on!” Ivan shoute... ... earth and fly off into the un- known, or at least one of them, and before flying off or going to ruin he comes to someone else and says, ‘Do this for... ...iced from the window. At least, Alyosha heard a noise, caught the sound of flying footsteps and rustling skirts. T wo or three women, perhaps, had run... ...t my breath,’ says she, ‘is clean, and yours is unclean.’ ‘You ask all the officers whether my breath is un- clean.’ And ever since then I had it in m... ... you go on?” The man sang again: What do I care for royal wealth If but my dear one be in health? ... ...shall be put to shame, that the weak will rise up again, and will rend her royal purple and will strip naked her loathsome body . But then I will stan... ...ep him here.” They suggested I should be sent to Pe- tersburg to the Cadet Corps, that I might afterwards enter the Imperial Guard. My mother hesitate... ...for my happiness. She brought me to Peters- burg and put me into the Cadet Corps, and I never saw her again. For she too died three years afterwards. ... ...eased and those whose duty it was from their position began to lay out the corpse according to the ancient ritual, and all the monks gathered together...

Full Text Search Details
... naked, sandaled, saunters along the Mediterranean, gulls and pelicans flying, surf and gull sounds in early morning yellow. 9 Villa Po... ...is morning, making the sky a sky of motion. They flew almost all morning, flying toward the mainland. I watched them from a bridge in town, leaning ... ... these thick walls and the glazed tiles—a strong house. Mama gave me his royal flute, said to be carved from a bull’s leg, but it has been years si... ...ht ignited inside the water and phospho- rescence added to the brilliance. Flying fish sprang free. His body was so dark, mine so white...la, the rou... ...pes, pastries, glacés, Vouvray. I am partial to grapes and someone on the royal staff hunts them up for me. Sometimes I find five or six silver dish... ...all this place Le Clos-Luce, and it is a bright enclosure. I think of the royalty who have lived here through the years, the many mistresses who cam... ...e Arno roared throughout that night, as we mourned his death. Many of us. Corpses lodged against supports of the Puente Vecchio. Plagues. Madness. W... ...r a man to work with other men and achieve. September 2, 1863 A drum corps passes the White House. I listen. I must ask myself some questions ... ... judgment of others. I study a war map and realize I am studying a map of corpses, men, women, and children. I wake in the middle of the night. T...

Full Text Search Details
... one week at West Point. Persons acquainted with the Academy know that the corps of cadets is divided into four companies for the purpose of military ... ...y lieutenants were appointed to captaincies to fill vacancies in the staff corps. If they should reach a captaincy in the line before they arrived at ... ...he flutter of wings overhead, and in an instant I saw two or three turkeys flying away. These were soon followed by more, then more, and more, until a... ... of nearly the same color and general appearance for his team. With a full corps of assis- tants, other teamsters, he would then proceed to get his mu... ...et cross- ings that my horse was under fire, but these I crossed at such a flying rate that generally I was past and under cover of the next block of ... ...d attacked with vigor, carrying the enemy’s position easily, sending Gregg flying from the field not to appear against our front again until we met at... ...e in North Carolina; Beaufort, Folly and Morris islands, Hilton Head, Port Royal and Fort Pulaski in South Carolina and Georgia; Fernandina, St. Augus... ...of the navy in chang- ing our base of supplies from Fredericksburg to Port Royal, on the Rappahannock. Up to this time I had received no reinforcement... ...ouse, on the Pamunkey. The wagon train and guards moved directly from Port Royal to White House. Supplies moved around by water, guarded by the navy. ...

Full Text Search Details
...sition. This general, hating Barclay, rode to visit a friend of his own, a corps commander, and, having spent the day with him, returned to Barclay an... ...ntain the French troupe was costing the government as much as a whole army corps. The progress of the war was eagerly followed, and only the reports m... ...das.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says that Platov’s corps is join- ing up with the main army and that Kutuzov has been ap- poin... ... smiling, staggering, and singing some incoherent song, and approached the officers. “Fine fellows!” said Rostov laughing. “Is there any hay here?” “A... ...low me to act as your escort.” And bowing respectfully, as if to a lady of royal blood, he moved toward the door. Rostov’s deferential tone seemed to ... ...sometimes forward, and the cavalry dashed without orders in pursuit of the flying Russians. In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Sem... ...ing about. As soon as they left the place where the balls and bullets were flying about, their superiors, located in the background, re-formed them an... ...h weary ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distin- guishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of 161 Tolstoy the reports, glanced at... ...d age, would have been devoted, in company with the Empress and during the royal apprentice- ship of my son, to leisurely visiting, with our own horse...

Full Text Search Details
...d in, the supplies of ammuni- tion replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men... ...a field of battle they consid- ered it impossible to hold? The lower-grade officers and even the soldiers (who too reason) also considered the positio... ...t him in the darkness. He was continually imagining that a cannon ball was flying toward him with a terrific whizz, and then he shuddered and sat up. ... ...you up! Mavra Kuzminichna has sent me: they have brought some wounded here—officers. Will you let them come? They have nowhere to go. I knew you’d let... ...isked his life everywhere at the head of the troops, I can assure you. Our corps was stationed on a hillside. Y ou can imagine!” And Berg related all ... ...illed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses. The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood ce... ...-drawn, measured death rattle did the crowd around his prostrate, bleeding corpse begin rapidly to change places. Each one came up, glanced at what ha... .... “Just look! See what it’s doing now. O Lord! Y ou can even see the crows flying. Lord have mercy on us sinners!” “They’ll put it out, no fear!” “Who... ...rb to the Kremlin, and was now sitting in a very gloomy frame of mind in a royal study in the Kremlin, giving detailed and exact orders as to measures...

Full Text Search Details
...the arms of its rightful king,” she concluded, trying to be amiable to the royalist emigrant. “That is doubtful,” said Prince Andrew . “Monsieur le Vi... ...m by his arms; but he was so strong that everyone who touched him was sent flying. “No, you’ll never manage him that way,” said Anatole. “W ait a bit ... ... her lip which made her much prettier. Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper. The eldest princess paused in her read- ing and silently... ...o the Guards he had already gained a step on his old comrades of the Cadet Corps; how in war- time the company commander might get killed and he, as s... ...d faster; lightly , more lightly , and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, tu... ...with his hand bandaged. In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. With Prince Hippolyte Kuragin, who was a secretary to the embassy, B... ...e knew was that at the com- mencement of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and hitting men and that afterwards someone ha... ... desperate efforts to com- bat it. Since the intimacy of his wife with the royal prince, Pierre had unexpectedly been made a gentleman of the bedchamb... ...k his head, with its long hair curling to his shoulders, in a majestically royal manner, and looked inquiringly at the French colo- nel. The colonel r...

Full Text Search Details
...ces, and to arrange a public procession, preceded by the cross and banners flying; but he was soon com- pelled to desist from the attempt. When, a yea... ...unity of gratifying it was not long wanting. 71 Friedrich Schiller In the Royal Letter which the Bohemians had extorted from Rodolph II., as well as ... ...towns, because they looked upon the ecclesiastical property as part of the royal demesnes. In the little town of Klostergrab, subject to the Arch- bis... ... of May, 1618, the deputies ap- peared armed, and in great numbers, at the royal palace, and forced their way into the hall where the Commissioners St... ...e Elector of Brandenburg had already opened the fortress of Custrin to the flying Imperialists, and closed the gates against their pursuers. If now Gu... ...; the soldiers were deficient in discipline and obedience; the scat- tered corps in combined operation; the states in attachment to the cause; the lea... ...l, who were able, to raise troops at their own expense. Who- ever raised a corps at his own cost was to be its commander. In the appointment of office... ...ience to his requisitions, the Duke of Weimar had hastily drawn together a corps from the garrisons in Lower Saxony and Thuringia, which, at Schweinfu... ... breathed his last amidst the plundering hands of the Croats. His charger, flying without its rider, and cov- ered with blood, soon made known to the ...

Full Text Search Details
...unced that breakfast was ready. In the din- ing-room, they met three other officers of lower rank: a lieutenant, Otto von Grossling, and two sub-lieut... ...othed, but all wearing caps, the cap constituting the whole uniform of the corps. They were armed with their old, rusty guns, guns that had hung on ch... ...nt name, following it up with all his titles. Then he returned to his army corps and, drawing ten francs out of his pocket, said: “Now, my friends, go... ...ith towers, with slender belfries to which spiral stair- cases ascend. The flying buttresses raise strange heads that bristle with chimeras. with devi... ... power! And the camel, what suppleness! But the butterfly, you will say, a flying flower! I dream of one that should be as large as a hun- dred worlds... ...o scream and to shriek, and ran away. “But it was necessary to recover the corpse of the dead. I attached the boy securely by the loins to the end of ... ...arly every minute, now he, now I, aimed rapidly as soon as the shadow of a flying flock appeared above the rushes. And Pierrot and Plongeon, out of br... ...ty-four.’ “I bowed to the three women as if I were being presented to some Royal Highness, and turning to the priest I said: ‘You are an excellent man... ...doing, and maintained intimate relations with the Tuileries and the Palais Royal at the same time; sometimes she went to London for a short time, or h...

Full Text Search Details
...s while the pious prince his fate bewails, Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails, And rent the sheets; the raging billows rise, The Aeneid Vi... ...And then you shall be taught obedience to my reign. Hence! to your lord my royal mandate bear The realms of ocean and the fields of air Are mine, not... ...n time, with kindly throes, Shall at a birth two goodly boys disclose. The royal babes a tawny wolf shall drain: Then Romulus his grandsire’s throne s... ...tands unmov’d with pray’r. Thrice round the Trojan walls Achilles drew The corpse of Hector, whom in fight he slew. The Aeneid Virgil 19 Here Priam... ...h wand’ring foliage and rich flow’rs entwine. But, far above the rest, the royal dame, (Already doom’d to love’s disastrous flame,) With eyes insatiat... ...peckled tails advance to steer their course, And on the sounding shore the flying billows force. And now the strand, and now the plain they held; Thei... ...rthrown. Make haste to save the poor remaining crew, And give this useless corpse a long adieu. These weak old hands suffice to stop my breath; At lea... ...readful words ensued: ‘Why dost thou thus my buried body rend? O spare the corpse of thy unhappy friend! Spare to pollute thy pious hands with blood: ... ... winds to please, And one coal black, to calm the stormy seas. Ere this, a flying rumor had been spread That fierce Idomeneus from Crete was fled, Exp...

Full Text Search Details
...phlets and weekly papers against those very measures. Not only many of the officers of government, who obeyed the dictates of personal interest, but o... ... can place the militia under one plan of discipline, and, by putting their officers in a proper line of subordination to the Chief Magistrate, will, a... ...ation to the Chief Magistrate, will, as it were, consolidate them into one corps, and thereby ren- der them more efficient than if divided into thirte... ...people. There have been, if I may so express it, almost as many popular as royal wars. The cries of the nation and the impor- tunities of their repres... ...ways have ended in their favor, and in the abridgment or subversion of the royal authority. This is not an assertion founded merely in speculation or ... ...ined an appointment to enforce it. He soon appeared before the city with a corps of ten thousand troops, and finding it a fit occasion, as he had secr... ... The world has accordingly been witness to few examples of this species of royal prostitution, though there have been abundant specimens of every othe... ...be furnished by occasional detachments from the mili- tia, or by permanent corps in the pay of the government. The first is impracticable; and if prac... ...tice lies, what better umpires could be desired by two violent fac- tions, flying to arms, and tearing a State to pieces, than the representatives of ...

Full Text Search Details
...s, at a moment’s notice, in consideration of the crumbs that fell from the royal table. Our king, as a matter of course, retained his ‘fool.’ The fact... ...he king grew purple with rage. The courtiers smirked. Trippetta, pale as a corpse, advanced to 24 EA Poe the monarch’s seat, and, falling on her knee... ...d of his brief speech before the work of vengeance was complete. The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, 29 V olume Five hideous... ...atter of “lying quiet,” but insisted upon making immediate search for the “corpse of the murdered man.—This was the expression he employed; and Mr. Go... ...g down upon his haunches, joined lustily in the chorus, and the tabby cat, flying off at a tangent, stood up on end, and shrieked in the farthest corn... ...red an anarchy of five years, during which the republic, bereft of all its officers, had no magistracy besides the tribunes of the people, and these w... ...the fair Capo Deucato, and sprang So eagerly around about to hang Upon the flying footsteps of—deep pride—† Of her who lov’d a mortal—and so died. The... ... In its autumn tint of gold— From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by— From the thunder, and the storm— And the cloud that took the for...

Full Text Search Details
...sentation of a maiden in transparent garments and with a transparent body, flying up to the clouds. And I seemed to know that this maiden was nothing ... ...e of Catherine’s day was giving a ball and midnight supper. The diplomatic corps and the Emperor him- self were to be present. The grandee’s well-know... ...h was carpeted with red baize, and not only gendarmes but dozens of police officers and even the police master himself stood at the porch. Carriages k... ...de desperate efforts to combat it. Since the intimacy of his wife with the royal prince, Pierre had unex- pectedly been made a gentleman of the bedcha...

Full Text Search Details
... old cloaks, and some worn out military boots — evi dently taken from the corpses of Russian soldiers, At night their shackles were taken off their f... ...a flat roof. He came closer, and saw hives made of plaited straw, and bees flying about and humming. The old man was kneeling, busy doing something wi... ... took off their shoes, and squatted on their heels, side by side, near the corpse. The Mullah was in front: behind him in a row were three old men in ... ... vódka: one wrapping a cloak round him, another breaking his shackles. The officers recognized him, and rode with him to the fortress. The soldiers we... ...oming towards me like a whirlwind, snorting as it came; and I saw the snow flying up quite near me. I glanced straight before me, and there was the be... ...onger needs the boots, but that he must quickly make soft slippers for the corpse. Wait till they are ready, and bring them back with you.” That is wh... ...ive badly. As soon as he had buried his father in law, he took off all his royal robes and gave them to his wife to put away in a chest; and he again ... ... Where the needle goes the thread follows,’ said she. So she took off her royal dress, put it away in a chest, and went to the dumb girl to learn to ... .... And he copied all King Simon’s rifles and cannons, and invented a way of flying through the air to throw explosive bombs from above. King Simon set ...

Full Text Search Details
...as much soldiering and recruiting, parading, pike and gun-exercising, flag-flying, drum-beating, powder-blaz- ing, and military enthusiasm, as we can ... ...vel through the country, seeking for heroes to fill up the gaps in Cutts’s corps,—and for adventures to pass away the weary time of a country life. 6... ...rth; for his mother, whose name he took, had acted as camp-fol- lower to a Royalist regiment; had then obeyed the Parliamen- tarians; died in Scotland... ...rvice of the French as page to a nobleman; then of His Majesty’s gardes du corps; then a lieu- tenant and captain in the Bavarian service; and when, a... ...y Amelia Wilhelmina wore in her bo- som on the night of a certain ball—the corpse of a glorious hope that seemed once as if it would live for ever, so... ... most moderate calculation, ninety years of age when she went off with His Royal Highness Prince Paris of Troy? Was not Madame La V alliere ill-made, ... ... cane and periwig on the first day that thou canst read me a column of the Flying Post.” “Hang the periwig!” said Mr. Tom, testily. “Let my godfa- the... ...Count came up. Y e gods, how his embroidery glittered in the lamps! What a royal exhalation of musk and bergamot came from his wig, his handkerchief, ... ... there was something in the very name of a constable which sent them all a-flying. After running a reasonable time, Mr. Billings stopped. But the grea...