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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

... room SamitS N silk stuff with gold or threads Sangreal, Holy Grail Sarps, girdles Saw, proverb Scathes, harms, hurts Scripture, writing Search, probe...

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A Ride Across Palestine

By: Anthony Trollope

...ars of age, with a well-grown beard de- scending on his breast, and at his girdle he carried a brace of pistols. But never in my life had I seen bodil...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...pect, with coaling for the Antipodes; he was washing decks barefoot, with the breast of his red shirt open to the blast, though it was sharper than th... ...s ‘pow,’ attended by Mrs. Anderson. John is over-ostentatious of the frost upon his raiment, and wears a curious and, you would say, an almost unneces... ...re, are the long monotonous miles of canal, with the great Dutch-built barges garishly painted, and the tow- ing girls, sometimes harnessed by the for... ...my eyes, occasioned screaming. Next, I walk among the quiet lofts of stores—of sails, spars, rig- ging, ships’ boats—determined to believe that somebo... ...ing salt water where they stand; all pelted by weather, Charles Dickens 300 besmeared with grease, and blackened by the sooty rigging. Each man’s kni...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

... but of a conductress. A fair young woman, with a pouch suspended from her girdle, had command of the platform; and as soon as the car was full she jo... ...on relates that Saint Martha tamed with her own hands, and attached to her girdle, a dreadful dragon, who was known as the Tarasque, and is reported t... ...that Lyons was in extreme commotion. The Rhone and the Saone, which form a girdle for the splendid town, were almost in the streets, as I could easily...

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The Pathfinder

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...e Sergeant’s daughter here, a horn of powder against a wampum-belt for her girdle, that her father’s rijiment should march by this embankment of ours ... ... so again.” “Hugh! The Mingos are squaws! Three of their scalps hang at my girdle. They do not know how to strike the Great Ser- pent of the Delawares... ...hat brained the insensible Jennie; and her reeking hair was hanging at his girdle as a trophy in less than two min- utes after she had quitted the blo... ...the eye the Tuscarora looked about him; then thrust a hand beneath his own girdle, drew forth a concealed knife, and, in the twinkling of an eye, buri... ... and Pathfinder remarked that he carried a fresh and bleeding scalp at his girdle. No one asked any questions; and the former, although perfectly sati... ...d them, one after another, with his knife, and had their six scalps at his girdle, in about the time it takes me to tell you the story. Oh, he’s a val...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...and his snow-white beard fell 141 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. below his girdle. He carried no arms whatever, nothing but a rosary of beads bigger t... ...for Sancho that the duke’s crowns and those he brought from home were in a girdle that he wore round him; but for all that these good 364 Don Quixote... ...Sancho Panza, but he ordered them to desist and was at once obeyed, so the girdle escaped. He wondered to see the lance leaning against the tree, the ... ...g out for him as for the showers of May; and she taking hold of him by the girdle on one side, and his wife by the hand, while the daughter led Dapple...

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The Life of Henry the Fifth

By: William Shakespeare

...pt, 19 On your imaginarie Forces worke. 20 Suppose within the Girdle of these Walls 21 Are now confin’d two mightie Monarchies, ...

...a crooked Figure may Attest in little place a Million, And let us, Cyphers to this great Accompt, On your imaginarie Forces worke. Suppose within the Girdle of these Walls Are now confin?d two mightie Monarchies, Whose high, up- reared, and abutting Fronts, The perillous narrow Ocean parts asunder. Peece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divid...

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The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

By: Various

...raight. 4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then w...

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Kenilworth

By: Sir Walter Scott

..., displayed a handsome jerkin over- laid with lace, and belted with a buff girdle, which sustained a broadsword and a pair of pistols. “You ride well ... ...er! Yes, such a thing as thou wouldst make of me should wear a book at his girdle instead of a poniard, and might just be suspected of manhood enough ... ...nd Saturn threatens misfortune; and when you returned, the buckles of your girdle were brought forward, and your step was quick and hasty, and all thi... ... was long and white, and reached over his black doublet down to his silken girdle. His hair was of the same venerable hue. But his eyebrows were as da... ...ht say some little thing for myself. She thinks she hath my head under her girdle now, but she is deceived. Where is Doctor Alasco?” “In his laborator... ...tiful woman, clad in a watchet- coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews. Her ... ... close jerkin of white velvet, embroidered with silver and seed-pearl, his girdle and the scab- bard of his sword of white velvet with golden buckles;...

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The Caged Lion

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... you have.’ John smiled his ironical smile, produced from the pouch at his girdle a small packet bound with rose-coloured silk, and said: ‘The Nightin...

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Bibliographical Note

By: Thomas Malory

...hen I have assayed it. Then Arthur took the sword by the sheath and by the girdle and pulled at it eagerly, but the sword would not out. Sir, said the... ...erefore ye shall assay to do what ye may. Then Balin took the sword by the girdle and sheath, and drew it out easily; and when he looked on the sword ...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...was placed at the captains’ tables among soldiers of his own na- tion. His girdle so bristled with darts that it formed a swell- ing in his ample cloa... ...e had not finished when Narr’ Havas, with a bound, drew a javelin from his girdle, and, leaning his right foot upon the edge of the table, hurled it a... ...m- parts were being carved by degrees upon the paleness of the dawn; and a girdle of white foam rocked around the Carthaginian peninsula, while the em... ...r all this misery they have given you a necklace of honour, as they hang a girdle of bells round the breast of an ass to deafen it on its journey , an... ...was painted with flowers, was bursting at the arm-pits; he wore a scarf, a girdle, and an ample black cloak with laced double-sleeves. But the abundan... ...nt to the whole length of the long white simar which hung without clasp or girdle about her. Her curved and painted sandals were hidden be- neath a he... ... Council arrived at a decision. They came to the camp without necklaces or girdles, and in open sandles like neighbours. They walked at a quiet pace, ... ...hem something. They requested everything that they thought fine: a ring, a girdle, sandals, the fringe of a robe, and when the despoiled Carthaginian ... ...em!” he added in an abrupt tone. The Ethiopian drew a long dagger from his girdle and the three heads fell. One of them rebounded among the remains of...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... as the Black Sea, with countless folds and plaits, were kept up by golden girdles from which hung long slender thongs, with tassles and other tinklin... ...hers, to work!” Thus did the Koschevoi give his orders. All bowed to their girdles, and without putting on their caps set out for their waggons and ca... ...er having taken from him his sword from its rich hilt and removed from his girdle a whole bag of ducats. Kobita, a good Cossack, though still very you... ... velvets and rich stuffs; more than once they had beaten buckles for their girdles out of se- quins. Every one of them had drunk and revelled away wha... ...k: here it is.” As he spoke he jingled a leather purse which hung from his girdle and smiled diabolically. Peter shuddered. “Ha, ha, ha! how it shines... ...said the lady, taking out a tiny watch which hung by a gold chain from her girdle. “How late it is!” “Only a minute,” said Tchartkoff innocently, with...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 1 Hell

By: Dante Aligheri

...mini. THUS I DESCENDED from the first circle down into the sec- ond, which girdles less space, and so much more woe that it goads to wailing. There ab... ...f wholly, and that discerner of sins sees what place of Hell is for it; he girdles himself with his tail so many times as the degrees he wills it shou... ...st thou? Behold Farinata who hath uprisen; thou shalt see him all from the girdle up.” I had already fixed my face on his, and he straightened himself...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio]

By: Dante Aligheri

...h that Greek whom the Muses suckled more than any other ever, in the first girdle of the blind prison. Oftentimes we discourse of the mountain 14 tha... ...n stripes all in those colors whereof the sun makes his bow, and Delia her girdle. 4 These banners to the rear were longer than my sight, and accordi... ...hey were not seen. His members were of gold so 4 Delia, the moon, and her girdle the halo. 5 “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats:...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

...hope that I may never kill him!” Rather startled, Bella made and clasped a girdle of her arms round Lizzie’ s waist, and then asked quietly , in a sof... ...ou?’ Lizzie ceased to shake her head, and pressed her hand upon her living girdle. ‘Is it through his influence that you came here?’ ‘O no! And of all... ...etch! Do you hear that? Ain’t you ashamed of your self?’ and unclasped the girdle of her arms, expressly to give herself a penitential poke in the sid...

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Wilhelm Tell

By: Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller

...send Forth to the busy scene that stirs beyond. Then may these rocks, that girdle us, extend Their giant walls impenetrably round, And this sequestere...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ng out my ideas as they were wont to hew their rocks. I could at need have girdled my waist with spikes, that physi- cal suffering might quell mental ... ... silken stocking hastily put off to please you last evening, the unclasped girdle that implies a bound- less faith in you. A whole romance lies there ... ...hat implies a bound- less faith in you. A whole romance lies there in that girdle; the woman that it used to protect exists no longer; she is yours, s...

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A Treatise on Good Works Together with the Letter of Dedication

By: Dr. Martin Luther

...t any other; so that for this reason also Isaiah xi. says that “faith is a girdle of the reins,” that is, a guard of chastity. For he who so lives tha...

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Cousin Pons

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nner, Fraisier fastened this refractory article of dress, tight- ening the girdle to define his reedy figure; then with a blow of the tongs, he effect...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...light sandals; tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell girdles; swell out in starched ruffs, buckram stuffings, and monstrous tub... ...en, I find, have Teusinke [a perhaps untranslatable article]; also a sil ver girdle, whereat hang little bells; so that when a man walks, it is with c... ... predicated of so still a man, we might call a real love. None of those bell girdles, bushel breeches, counted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of ... ...x combination of buttons, thrums and skewers; to which frequently is added a girdle of leather, of hempen or even of straw rope, round the loins. To s...

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