Full Text Search Details
...! He picks opening night of all nights.” One foot still tangled in the knotted magician’s scarves that had betrayed and humiliated her father, ... ...e watched as her fingers worked at the studs of his cuffs then moved to the knot of his cravat. “Morgan, stop. This is not fair to you.” His ha... ...orm-fitting bodice of the gown. In her hurry to undo the laces, Morgan had knotted them into a hopeless tangle. Chagrin and frustration blurred he... ... tears and made her fingers tremble while she struggled with the unyielding knots. The muffled but angry voices from the foyer became all too clear ... ... piece to scowl and fuss about. From the arched, ruby-glass windows to the trefoil motif trimming the porch like a baby’s bib tucked neatly about th... .... She misunderstood his hesitation, and slipped her fingers through the knots, unraveling them. He kissed each square of flesh as she exposed i...

Full Text Search Details
...beene, I had not bin able to wade through: and had he not dissolved these knottes, none had, few could. The other (my onelie dearest and in love-sypa... ... will, and a match ordinarily concluded to other ends: A thousand strange knots are therein commonly to be unknit, able to break the web, and troubl... ...red bond: nor seeme their mindes strong enough to endure the pulling of a knot so hard so fast, and durable. And truly, if without that, such a genui... ...ff both their heads; leaving their bodies for ever tied in so honourable a knot, and their wounds so joined, that they lovingly drew and suckt each o... ...58. You will say haply I my bonds have quit, Why so the striving dog the knot hath bit; Yet when he flies, much chaine doth follow it. We carry our... ...s, and Coats have no more certaintie than surnames. I beare Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce. Or armed Gules. What privilege hath this C...

Full Text Search Details
...who had written a book about petals. A wonderful woman in her way was Miss Trefoil. Mr Finnie, the attorney, with his wife, was to be seen, much to th... ... beauty when time should have ripened it. And so the room became full, and knots were formed, and every new comer paid his respects to my lord and pas... ...would do just as well. And then Mr Slope de- scended with the learned Miss Trefoil on his arm. Could she tell him, he asked, whether the ferns of Bars... ...time, Dr Fillgrave and Mr Rerechild were do- ing their best; and poor Miss Trefoil sat at the head of her father’s bed, longing, as in such cases daug... ... choral with a very solemn air; ‘of course you are. So are we all. Poor Dr Trefoil; the best of men but—’ ‘It’s the most comfortable dean’s residence ... ...aplain’s arm, himself called at the deanery door. Mrs Proudie sent to Miss Trefoil all manner of offers of assistance. The Miss Proudies sent also, an... ...fine edges, while those not so highly tempered sever the every-day Gordian knots of the world’s struggle, and win wealth and renown? Steel too highly ... ...ht save a journey by measuring some of the rooms and win- dows; so I got a knot of tape from Bobbins. Bobbins is as civil as you please, now. ’ ‘I wou... ...or an hour. ‘And mind, Arabin, ’ said he, ‘no one but myself shall tie the knot. We’ll get Eleanor out to Plumstead, and it shall come off there. I’ll...

Full Text Search Details
...leys Lock her struggling limbs in leash. Feathery grasses, flowery mosses, Knot themselves to make her trip; Sprays and stubborn sprigs outstretching ... ...e waken envy of our happy lot. Fast, sweet, and golden, shows the marriage-knot. Dear guests, you now have seen Love’s corpse-light shine. XVIII Here ... ...is master jumped For fury of wrath, and laid on With the length of a tough knotted staff, Fit to drive the life flying like chaff, And leave a sheer c... ...ad their pool of vision through, Back to hours when mind was mud; Nigh the knot, which did untwine Timelessly to drowsy suns; Seeing Earth a slimy spi... ...ears me to her pillow under white rose-wreaths. * * * Yellow with birdfoot-trefoil are the grass-glades; Yellow with cinquefoil of the dew-grey leaf: ... ...pun their plots, Old Kraken stood the sword: As sharp his wits for cutting knots Of babble he abhorred. VII He reverenced her name and line, Nor other...

Full Text Search Details
... on this point, a feature of the orna- mentation would dissipate them. The trefoils of the hotel du Guaisnic have four leaves instead of three. This d... ...from a calyx, and could fling back the curls of her head into the jewelled knot behind her head, Beatrix would hold her own victoriously with ideal be... ...atures softened by the shadow of a rice-straw hat, on which were tufts and knots of scarlet ribbon. She wore a muslin gown with a pattern of flowers, ... ...er women who want to be caught, and who trust to chance to cut the Gordian knot of their indecision. So to Les Touches we went. It is enchanting, in a... ...f courage without assertion. She hesitated to see the count again; but the knot of her hesitation was cut by a decisive event. Beatrix had taken the t...

Full Text Search Details
...bove the knee; large scarlet rosettes were in his white shoes, a scar- let knot adorned his little sword, and his velvet cap of the same colour bore a... ... all it led to was certain outer receptacles of fra- grant Spanish gloves, knots of ribbon, and kerchiefs strewn over with rose leaves and lavender. H... ...en mantelpiece culminated in a shield bearing a cross boutonnee, i.e. with trefoil terminations. It was sup- ported between a merman with a whelk shel... ...e could not help colouring till his cheeks rivaled the colour of his sword-knot. ‘I want just to know if she is here. I know not if she be called Mada... ...had caught her he would have his revenge, and win her rose- coloured break-knot. Another gentleman stood by, laugh- ing, and keeping guard in the walk... ...Here is my gage, Monsieur Sidney,’ she said, and held out a rose- coloured knot of ribbon; then, as he came near enough, she whispered imploringly thr...

Full Text Search Details
...ose pleasant ligatures—[Les nouements d’aiguillettes, as they were called, knots tied by some one, at a wedding, on a strip of leather, cotton, or sil... ...inhabit there. Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them,— [Plutarch, T rea... ..., an easy and natural negligence does well. I no more like a web where the knots and seams are to be seen, than a fine figure, so delicate, that a man... ...dued with constancy of mind, to sustain the pinch of so hard and durable a knot. And doubtless, if with- out this, there could be such a free and volu... ...ith bridle in your hand, with prudence and circumspection, for in them the knot is not so sure that a man may not half suspect it will slip. “Love him... ...hem.” Arms have no more security than surnames. I bear azure powdered with trefoils or, with a lion’s paw of the same armed gules in fesse. What privi...

Full Text Search Details
...ld it be? Beatrice, with her furious dark eyes, and her black hair loosely knot- ted back, came to his mind as she had been the previous day, flaring ... ...fringe. They lay down in the dry grass, upon the gold bits of bird’s- foot trefoil of the cliff ’s edge, and looked out to sea. A warm, drowsy calm dr... ...e as Helena’s lover, yet he felt a physical sensation of defeat, a kind of knot in his breast which neither reason, nor dialectics, nor circumstance, ... ...bject. Is it any good my going if I leave her behind? What an inextricable knot this is! But what will she do?’ It was a question she had aroused befo...

Full Text Search Details
...ssenger boys ran back and forth at top speed, dodging in and out among the knots of clerks and traders, collid- ing with one another, and without inte... ...hemselves. The horse-chestnut bourgeons burst their sheaths to spread into trefoils and flame-shaped leaves. The elms, maples, and cottonwoods followe... ...e jing- bang of that Crookes crowd in one hand and”—his large fist swiftly knotted as he spoke the words—”scrunch it up like an eggshell, by George.” ...

Full Text Search Details
...mbermen call a konchus tree, which they ascertain with their axes, or by the knots. I did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It remind... ...’s assis tance measured it carefully, the greatest distances first, making a knot each time. The painter being wanted, I reduced these measures that n... ...ctions of my umbrella, beginning with the smallest measures, and untying the knots as I proceeded; and when we arrived at Chesuncook the next day, find... ... a moment, a very neat, tough, and flexible string, which he could tie into a knot, or make into a fish line even. It is said that in Norway and Sweden ... ...bra and alba, wet carries (red and white cohosh), Desmodium Canadense (tick trefoil), sorrel. The handsomest and most interesting flowers were the gre... ...ow), by river and log paths, and Smith’s. Desmodium Canadense (Canadian tick trefoil), not uncommon. Oxalis acetosella (common wood sorrel), still out...

Full Text Search Details
...suddenly came in behind her. He pulled out from his wool cap with grey top-knots a letter wrapped up in a rag and presented it gingerly to Charles, wh... ...reasts, clinked on bare arms. The hair, well-smoothed over the temples and knotted at the nape, bore crowns, or bunches, or sprays of mytosotis, jasmi... ...n a raised dias, nor from the flashing of precious stones and the shoulder-knots of liveries. The lad from the posting house who came to groom the mar... ...dle with great tassels, and her small garnet coloured slippers had a large knot of ribbon that fell over her instep. She had bought herself a blotting... ...wn over about a third of the low windows, whose coarse convex glasses have knots in the middle like the bottoms of bottles. Against the plaster wall d... ...s of the grey stones; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell- turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with...

Full Text Search Details
...ll advanced. Gisco held out his arms; Spendius tied his wrists with a slip knot; another knocked him down, and he disappeared amid the disorder of the... ...ics. The capitals were laden with pomegranates and coloquintidas. T wining knots, lozenges, and rows of pearls alternated on the walls, and a hedge of... ...p to the air-hole, made his way into it and disappeared. Then Matho felt a knot- ted cord—that one which Spendius had rolled around his body before en... ...blage of small beams, with amethysts and topazes amid their gilding in the knots of the wood. On both the great sides of the apartment there stretched... ... to a set of pigeon-holes in the wall, and from the midst of them took out knotted cords, strips of linen or papyrus, and sheeps’ shoulder-blades insc... ... taller than a dwarf. However, Autaritus recognised a shield shaped like a trefoil on his left arm. “A Carthaginian!” he exclaimed, and immediately th...

Full Text Search Details
...ride thou at my side; Thou art the kingliest of all kitchen-knaves. ‘“O trefoil, sparkling on the rainy plain, O rainbow with three colours after r... ...warrior in his dreams; Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And ... ...with hairy-fibred arms, And sucked the joining of the stones, and looked A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove. And while he waited in the cas... ...loping down to make Arms for his chair, while all the rest of them Through knots and loops and folds innumerable Fled ever through the woodwork, till ... ...t each other, while the Queen, who sat With lips severely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen Crushed the wild passion... ...t the last it seemed Better to leave Excalibur concealed There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode ...

Full Text Search Details
...an otherwise. July 25. This morning the gale had diminished to a mere ten- knot breeze, and the sea had gone down with it so consider- ably that we we... ...ted from his journal of that date. “The wind soon fresh- ened to an eleven-knot breeze, and we embraced this oppor- tunity of making to the west,; bei... ...er, after one or two unsuccessful and dangerous at- tempts at reaching the knot (having to hold on with his left hand while he labored to undo the fas... ...n the quivering of a leaf—in the hue of a blade of grass—in the shape of a trefoil—in the humming of a bee—in the gleaming of a dew-drop—in the breath... ... me, in fact, to a T. The clergyman, who merely pretended to tie the fatal knot, was a boon companion of Talbot’s, and no priest. He was an excellent ...

Full Text Search Details
... with top-boots, pistachio-colored kerseymere small clothes adorned with a knot of ribbon; and beheld themselves in the costumes of their youth. Elder... ...ent to a discriminat- ing palate, that, bachelor as he was, he had cut the knot of the problem by dining out every day. Now, in the time of the Empire... ...al resemblance to a prison door; a re- semblance further heightened by the trefoil-shaped iron- work, the formidable hinges, the clumsy nail-heads. A ... ... own; she wore a cheap, hideously ugly cotton gown, a bandana handkerchief knotted over hair which she still continued to put in curl papers (using fo... ...ing much more common than is generally supposed; but greed was like a slip-knot drawn more and more tightly about his heart, till reason at length was... ...ooking under the pillow, found the handkerchief with the key of the bureau knotted to one cor- ner; and this so much the more easily because Pons pur-...

Full Text Search Details
...ere a country tale, When earthy night had drunk his body in; But one small knot grass growing by the pool Sang where — unnecessary cruel voice — Old s... ...he had seen, Roads full of beggars, cattle in the fields, But never saw the trefoil stained with blood, The avenging leaf those fields raised up against...

Full Text Search Details
...l. And with his grain he scattered the seeds of the dandelion and the wild trefoil over the meadows, mingling his English flowers with the wild native... ...en the Indians were about to upset his barrel of turpentine, seized a pine knot and flourishing it, swore so resolutely that he would kill the first w...

Full Text Search Details
...r ever so fast. She pulled up the stick, I’m sure she did, for I can tie a knot as well as Pete.” “So you could not get away?” “No, and we’d got nothi... ...when Allen lighted on a bed of wood-sorrel, with its scarlet stems, lovely trefoil leaves, and purple striped blossoms like insect’s wings, she absolu... ...erself be held by it. She hoped to kiss his brow, and escape; but the poor knotted fingers which had once been so strong, would not let her go, and sh... ...ut Essie is much nicer as she is.” Meantime, Fordham’s fingers were on the knot of the string of his parcel. “Oh, you are going to peep in? I am so gl...