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...ting of prayers. They were large brown nuts or seeds, and hanging from his girdle with his pen and ink-horn they clashed when he walked. His place was...

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...an to cry; for here, where a great cypress interrupted the monotony of the girdle of olives, she had sat with Gino one afternoon in March, her head up...

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...played her ex- quisitely moulded arms to perfection, and was fastened by a girdle of emeralds over a yellow satin frock. Pink gauze trou- sers spangle... ...ull) from the jaws of those who had fallen by the terrible tomahawk at his girdle. His moccasins, and his blanket, which was draped on his arm and fel...

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...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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...ance, he gave an orange every morning. And they lasted him right round the girdle of this mighty globe of ours. When they were at North Cape, even, he...

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...y all that I have left unsaid, and yet most deeply feel. Let it, putting a girdle round the earth, comprehend both sides of the Atlantic at once in th...

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...dash of the mother mayhap somewhere. This was his Puck-manner of pulling a girdle round about from what was foremost in his head to the se- cret of hi...

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...From her swift steed, with fierce resolve to wrest With his strong hands the Girdle Marvellous From the Amazon Queen, while quailing shrank away The M... ...he tireless steeds Sprang, and sped onward like a thunderbolt That lightning girdled leaps through the wide air From Zeus’s hands unconquerable — the ...

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...er face was very pale, and her dark eyes were sleepless; the jewels of her girdle gleamed with sombre fires; and her dress was of colours that have lo...

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... them that the soldiers were about to roast the old man, naked, on his own girdle. This was too much for them to stand, and they repaired immediately ... ...er than herself. She was tall, being almost of a height with Paradou; full-girdled, point- 177 Lay Morals device in every form, with an exquisite del...

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...g something, accompanied by quick gestures, to a gipsy man in a blue coat, girdled tightly below the waist. Next the gipsy man, a soldier sat on the g... ...hort-legged, black-eyed, hideous woman, who had her cloak tucked up in her girdle. This was Koroshavka. The next was a pregnant woman, who dragged her... ...nd I did not even struggle, but gave in at once. He bound my arms with his girdle, and threw me into the sledge, and took me straight to the police st... ... pray to a hole,” said the driver, shoving the handle of his whip into his girdle, pulling straight the harness on one of the horses. Some one laughed...

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...hey say of Venus, “Cyprus-born Goddess, weaver of deceits” Or Homer of the girdle called the Cestus, “Persuasiveness cheating e’en the subtlest mind.”...

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... point of self-respect; Villon followed, whistling, with his thumbs in his girdle. “God pity you,” said the lord of Brisetout at the door. “Good-bye, ...

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...save one that makes love in the hearts of men,” said Krishna, knotting his girdle. “It is but a little time to wait, and ye shall know if I lie.” “Tru...

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...ght be seen the Savage Man, well known in heraldry, hairy as a baboon, and girdled with green leaves. By his side a noble figure, but still a counterf... ...respect to God and man; while the enthusiast, in her robe of sackcloth and girdle of knotted cord, had as evi- dently violated the duties of the prese... ... report generally diffused. The story ran through the town like fire among girdled trees, and became so much the universal talk that nobody could tell...

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...ir round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unhound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your ...

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... just seated herself thereon, 264 Joseph Andrews and had laid hold of the girdle which her lover wore for that purpose, when the wise beast, who conc...

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...ble, fitly pleaded. A second scaling of her window—no, night’s black hills girdle the scene with hoarse echoes; the moon rushes out of her clouds grim...

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...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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...perils to virtue. He learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition. A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a r...

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...d- ice a pleated chamisette with three gold buttons. Her belt was a corded girdle with great tassels, and her small garnet coloured slippers had a lar...

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...iss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness of a placid boxer, took off that girdle or cestus as before, and laid it on the table. T aking the table to ...

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...e she stepped downstairs straight to the cellar, carrying a lantern at her girdle. She could not only load, but present and fire. Dandy was foremost i...

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...the earth. Laetitia had long thirsted both for a dowering money-bag at her girdle, and the wings to fly abroad over 485 George Meredith lands which h...