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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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Collected Poems of Alexander Pope : The Reader's Library, Volume 12

By: Alexander Pope; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...Book XIII The Fourth Battle Continued, in Which Neptune Assists the Greeks. The Acts of Idomeneus The Iliad: Book XIV Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus The Iliad: Book XV The Fifth Battle, at the Ships; and the Acts of Ajax The Iliad: Book XVI The Sixth Battle: The Acts and Death of Patroclus The Iliad: Book XVII The Seventh Battle, for the Body of Patr...

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Sacred Books

By: M. Winternitz

...e­ headed, 26, 57; the black antelope skin, the skin of A., 12, 38; A.'s girdle, 41, 236; to her belongs the upper region, 26, 5 I ; the bounty of ...

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Shamati

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...s it is written, “and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.” Girdles refer to forces of the body that joined in the form a sh... ...ing that there is the strength for concealment of the Upper Light. Hence, girdles that come from the side of the fig leaves, which is from the sin o...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...ane eases her back to the ground, his fingers warm on her lower back as he girdles her waist with both hands. He makes lazy circular motions against h...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty: Volume II

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The w...

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An Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology

By: James Hampton Belton

...78 Hercules and the Argonauts...............................................................................................................179 The Girdle of Hippolyte....................................................................................................................180 The Oxen of Geryones....................................................................

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...montaigne/2vi.htm (3 of 10)4/10/2005 4:16:13 AM Montaigne's Essays me, my girdle broken, with no more motion or sense in me than a stocke. It is the ... ...weare for this purpose, whereof some made shirts, and some waste-bands or girdles, to torment their reines. A prince told me not long since, that bei...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...d soldiers are clothed in the same color of gold, though of silk stuff, and a girdle wrought in gold and silver, which is given them with a pair of s... ..., but could not be induced to draw nearer until the quartermaster took off his girdle and held it up in an enticing way, at which, one of the canoes c... ...pped up, and spread at full length upon the ground before the priests. It is a girdle about five yards long and fifteen inches broad, and from its nam...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...lid firmness, melt itself into the sea and, other times, to see the beach girdle the ocean...” “There is a history in all men’s lives, figuring the ... ...s. Henley Street June 3, 1615 Alone, following the Roman wall, as it girdled London, I used to speculate where the Roman gods had gone; thinkin...

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The Black Tulip

By: Alexandre Dumas

...Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arter- ies with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their kni...

...d Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him b...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

... of a serpent’s skin, and thereon were letters of gold and silver. And the girdle was but poorly to come to, and not able to sustain such a rich sword... ... to hang by, he shall not be shamed in no place while he is girt with this girdle, nor never none be so hardy to do away this girdle; for it ought not... ...ake a marvellous sheath. And when ye have made all this I shall let make a girdle thereto, such as shall please me. All this King Solomon did let make... ...the bed’s head, covered with silk, and laid the sword at the feet, and the girdles were of hemp, and there- with the king was angry. Sir, wit ye well,... ...w, said Galahad, where shall we find the gentle- woman that shall make new girdles to the sword? Fair sir, said Percivale’s sister, dismay you not, fo... ...ivale’s sister, dismay you not, for by the leave of God I shall let make a girdle to the sword, such one as shall long thereto. And then she opened a ... ...d, such one as shall long thereto. And then she opened a box, and took out girdles which were seemly wrought with golden threads, and upon that were s... ...precious stones, and a rich buckle of gold. Lo, lords, said she, here is a girdle that ought to be set about the sword. And wit ye well the greatest p... ...ought to be set about the sword. And wit ye well the greatest part of this girdle was made of my hair, which I loved well while that I was a woman of ...

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The New Atlantis

By: Francis Bacon

...his under garment was of excellent white linen down to the foot, girt with a girdle of the same; and a sindon or tippet of the same about his neck. He... ... ships and boats for going under water and brook ing of seas, also swimming girdles and supporters. We The New Atlantis – Bacon 37 have divers curi...

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The Fovrth Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...y doe partake Herein, as thus. It lately so befell, That Satyran a girdle did vptake, Well knowne to appertaine to Florimell, Whic... ... And of them all she that is fayrest found, Shall haue that golden girdle for reward, And of those Knights who is most stout on ground,... ...efell, Of that great turney, which was blazed brode, For that rich girdle of faire Florimell, The prize of her, which did in beautie mo... ...f the darke, He open shewd, that all men it mote marke. A gorgeous girdle, curiously embost With pearle & precious stone, worth many a ... ... a whyle. The Faerie Queene : Book IV. 58 Canto V . The Ladies for the Girdle striue of famous Florimell: Scudamour comming to Cares h... ...e grace; In which to her that doth the most excell, Shall fall the girdle of faire Florimell: That many wish to win for glorie vaine, ... ...ntaine, Which Ladies ought to loue, and seeke for to obtaine. That girdle gaue the vertue of chast loue, And wiuehood true, to all that... ...a sunder teare. Whilome it was (as Faeries wont report) Dame Venus girdle, by her steemed deare, What time she vsd to liue in wiuely so... ..., As like can not be seene from East to West, Cannot find one this girdle to inuest. Fie on the man, that did it first inuent, To ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...more than this very tunic; which, if it sate close, did not even require a girdle. The same remark applies to the He- brew women, who, during the noma... ...o prevent their interfering with the free mo- tions of the limbs, a superb GIRDLE was bound about the hips. Here, if anywhere, the Hebrew ladies endea... ...s, and from the costume of the High Priest. Great as the cost was of these girdles, it would have been far greater had the knot been exchanged for a c... ...y were accumulated upon this conspicuous centre of the dress. Latterly the girdles were fitted up with beautiful chains, by means of which they could ... ...ture. In conclusion, I must remark, that in Palestine, as else- where, the girdle was sometimes used as a purse: whether it were that the girdle itsel... ...rdle itself was made hollow (as is expressly affirmed of the High Priest’s girdle), or that, without being hollow, its numerous foldings afforded a se... ...he face, and other bagatelles of personal convenience, in the folds of the girdle. However, the richer and more distinguished classes in Palestine app... ...ilver), or of the softest leather, &c. which was attached by a lace to the girdle, or kept amongst its folds, and which, even in the eyes of Isaiah, w... ...ts, they carried about with them the price of a consider- able estate. The girdle, however, still continued to be the appropriate depository for the n...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...Samite, silk stuff with gold or silver threads Sangreal, Holy Grail Sarps, girdles Saw, proverb Scathes, harms, hurts Icripture, writing Search, probe...

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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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The Life of Tymon of Athens

By: William Shakespeare

...es. 1222 Tim. Knocke me downe with ’em, cleaue mee to the 1223 Girdle. 1224 Luc. Alas, my Lord. 1225 Tim. Cut my heart in ... ... 1504 Tim. Let me looke backe vpon thee. O thou Wall 1505 That girdles in those Wolues, diue in the earth, 1506 And fence not Athens. ...

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The Iliad

By: Samuel Butler

...n warrior, Oenomaus, Helenus the son of Oenops, and Oresbius of the gleaming girdle, who was possessed of great wealth, and dwelt by the Cephisian lak... ...allas Minerva drove the spear into the pit of Mars’s stomach where his under girdle went round him. There Diomed wounded him, tearing his fair flesh a... ...ed sword with its sheath and leathern baldric, and in return Ajax gave him a girdle dyed with purple. Thus they parted, the one going to the host of t... ... his shield, his two spears and his helmet; beside him also lay the gleaming girdle with which the old man girded himself when he armed to lead his pe... ... one another, the son of Atreus missed his aim, and Iphidamas hit him on the girdle below the cuirass and then flung himself upon him, trusting to his... ...uirass and then flung himself upon him, trusting to his strength of arm; the girdle, however, was not pierced, nor nearly so, for the point of the spe... ...ed Hippomachus the son of Antimachus by striking him with his spear upon the girdle. He then drew his sword and sprang first upon Antiphates whom he k... ...astened it about her bosom with golden clasps, and she girded herself with a girdle that had a hundred tassels: then she fastened her earrings, three ... ...ur king.” As she spoke she loosed from her bosom the curi ously embroidered girdle into which all her charms had been wrought—love, desire, and that ...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

... of a serpent’s skin, and thereon were letters of gold and silver. And the girdle was but poorly to come to, and not able to sustain such a rich sword... ... to hang by, he shall not be shamed in no place while he is girt with this girdle, nor never none be so hardy to do away this girdle; for it ought not... ...ake a marvellous sheath. And when ye have made all this I shall let make a girdle thereto, such as shall please me. All this King Solomon did let make... ...the bed’s head, covered with silk, and laid the sword at the feet, and the girdles were of hemp, and there- with the king was angry. Sir, wit ye well,... ...w, said Galahad, where shall we find the gentle- woman that shall make new girdles to the sword? Fair sir, said Percivale’s sister, dismay you not, fo... ...ivale’s sister, dismay you not, for by the leave of God I shall let make a girdle to the sword, such one as shall long thereto. And then she opened a ... ...d, such one as shall long thereto. And then she opened a box, and took out girdles which were seemly wrought with golden threads, and upon that were s... ...precious stones, and a rich buckle of gold. Lo, lords, said she, here is a girdle that ought to be set about the sword. And wit ye well the greatest p... ...ought to be set about the sword. And wit ye well the greatest part of this girdle was made of my hair, which I loved well while that I was a woman of ...

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