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...cked _55 With weeping flowers, or votive cypress wreath, The lone couch of his everlasting sleep:— Gentle, and brave, and ge... ...waste deep; T wilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O’er the fair front and radiant eyes of day; Nigh... ... monstrous sight! For in the air do I behold indeed An Eagle and a Serpent wreathed in fight:— And now, relaxing its impetuous flight, Before the aeri... ...eager head, with beak 70 V olume One And talon unremittingly assailed The wreathed Serpent, who did ever seek _215 Upon ... ... _275 Paused not, its lustre hung: she watching aye The foam-wreaths which the faint tide wove below Upon the spangled sands, groaned he... ...nd all the chief nobility of Rome. And he has bidden me and my pale Mother Attire ourselves in festival array. Poor lady! She expects some happy chang...

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...re bandaged and rebandaged, layer upon layer, until they looked like solid black logs. These weird apparitions had been handsome youths, clad in fashi... ...s the Rhine; The summit of the mountain hearkens In evening sunshine line. The most beautiful Maiden entrances Above wonderfully there, Her beautiful ... ...pas further has placed us on the summit of the Furka; and exactly in front of us, at a hopow of only fifteen miles, this magnificent mountain lifts it... ...y the brightest of Les Étoiles were still shining; the sky was cloudless overhead, though small curling mists lay thousands of feet below us in the va... ... of blooming flowers. Across the front of the house, and up the spreading eaves and along the fanciful railings of the shallow porch, are elaborate ca... ...il. A little later the Matterhorn took to himself the semblance of 233 A Tramp Abroad a volcano; he was stripped naked to his apex—around this circle... ...nd destroys it; she attacks its Hand and destroys her also; she attacks the Fishwife’s Leg and destroys her also; she attacks its Body and consumes hi...

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... SP THIRD SP THIRD SPIRIT IRIT IRIT IRIT IRIT: : : : : Peace! the abyss is wreathed with scorn At your presumption, atom-born! What is Heaven? and wha... ...oil of Heaven did rise, Wrapped in sweet wild melodies— Like an exhalation wreathing _5 To the sound of air ... ... _15 As in the sculptor’s thought; and there The wreaths of stony myrtle, ivy, and pine, Like winter leaves o’ergrown by mou... ...sil and mignonette? Embleming love and health, which never yet In the same wreath might be. Alas, and they are wet! ... ... her maidens soon _100 195 Shelley Changed her attire for the afternoon, And left her at her own request to keep An hour o... ...Works”, 1839, 1st edition. ‘What art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest The wreath to mighty poets only due, Even whilst like a forgotten moon thou wan...

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... goyle) narrowed as it rose, and there was a disused limestone quarry, all wreathed over with creeping plants, a birch tree growing up all white and s... ... sailor hat!” “Y ou don’t expect people to drive about the country in silk attire?” “Well, perhaps she is not out! Sister, do you know I am seventeen?... ...ivated meetings and partings, abun- dant excitement in “nods and becks and wreathed smiles,” and now and then in the gift of a flower. Paula on the ot... ...make when the birds are once killed?” “W ell, she did give us those lovely wreaths of lilies,” said Paula. “Of course, but nothing to make them stylis... ...to both that it was no wonder that under the broad shady hat with the lily wreath she was nod- ding in the gentle breeze, the lapping of the waves, an... ...herself entertained by surreptitiously popping the blossoms, and trying to wreath her hat with wild roses. Thekla meantime admired from the opposite b... ... had never made to look liveable. Emilia Brown was there, very fashionably attired, but eager for news of Vale Leston, and the Merrifields soon arrive...

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...d her hair was hanging all about her flushed face, and her new christening attire was very much dishevelled, that any pause took place in the confusio... ...t mentioned was a cheerful-looking, ha- zel-eyed elderly bachelor: gravely attired, as to his upper man, in black; and as to his legs, in pepper-and-s... ...hortly afterwards, Mrs Blimber appeared, looking lovely, Paul thought; and attired in such a number of skirts that it was quite an excursion to walk r... ...which he only wore on extraordinary occasions. The Captain being at length attired to his own complete satisfaction, and having glanced at himself fro... ...nt of a youthful group upon the turf, through some intervening boughs,—and wreathing flow- ers for the head of one little creature among them who was ... ... himself to smoke, looked for it in the red glow from the bowl, and in the wreaths of vapour that curled upward from his lips; but there was not so mu... ...agitated voice upon the stairs. ‘My dearest Dombey!’ and the short sleeves wreath them- selves about the happy couple in turn, and embrace them. Flore... ...iful and proud, and as disdainful and defiant of them all as if the bridal wreath upon her head had been a garland of steel spikes put on to force con... ... composure on her face, that there had been when she was dressing; and the wreath upon her head encircled the same cold and steady brow. But it would ...

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...he same time, a strik- ing contrast with the martial simplicity of his own attire. They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric in... ...rtions be- twixt the richness of their master’s, and the coarse and simple attire of Gurth the swine-herd, watched the looks and waited the commands o... ...e upper end of which was attached a branch of palm, completed the palmer’s attire. He followed modestly the last of the train which entered the hall, ... ..., with a long retinue of their squires, In gaudy liveries march and quaint attires; One laced the helm, another held the lance, A third the shining bu... ...ntial bur- gesses and yeomen of merry England, formed, in their more plain attire, a dark fringe, or border, around this circle of bril- liant embroid... ...used a moment, and then firmly added, “ And upon brows more worthy could a wreath of chiv- alry never be placed!” The knight stooped his head, and kis...

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...d human orders was so profanely reared. The ill-as- sorted and injudicious attire of the individual only served to render his awkwardness more conspic... ...th a view to conceal- ment. Many corps of American riflemen have been thus attired, and the dress is one of the most striking of modern times. The hun... ... the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weather-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual,... ... of the trembling sisters, but his own. The rich ornaments of his military attire had indeed been repeatedly handled by different individuals of the t... ... seen glittering, like the fabled organs of the basilisk through the dusty wreath by which he was enveloped, and he read by those short and deadly gla... ... sides of the lake and valley, clouds of light vapor were rising in spiral wreaths from the uninhabited woods, looking like the smoke of hidden cottag... ...ng glare of light flashed across the scene, the fog rolled upward in thick wreaths, and several cannons belched across the plain, and the roar was thr... ...e rushed toward them, think- ing to rifle the unprotected sisters of their attire, and bear away their scalps; but when they found this strange and un... ...owner as though all had inhaled an impurity at the same instant. The smoke wreathed above their heads in little eddies, and curling in a spiral form i...

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... and reveal themselves; the water is glass smooth, gives off spectral little wreaths of white mist, there is not the faintest breath of wind, nor stir... ...t; and blest!—yes, I say blest! blest above all the myriads that go in silk attire and walk the empty artificial round of social folly—but just you p... ...them, Tupper, much penciled; also, “Friendship’s Offering,” and “Affection’s Wreath,” with their sappy inanities illustrated in die away mezzotints; a... ...ymn; On a Lone Barren Isle (St. Helena); The Last Link is Broken; She wore a Wreath of Roses the Night when last we Life on the Mississippi Mark T ... ...membrancer in the coarse and ugly but indestructible “immortelle”—which is a wreath or cross or some such emblem, made of rosettes of black linen, wit... ...s lips. He walked with a light and quick step. His forehead was bound with a wreath of sweet grass, in place of a warrior’s frontlet, and he carried a...

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...h a delight of its own for me. He was never away on the Sunday. Both of us attired in our best, we walked along the streets hand in hand; my father le... ...a mother alive who perpetually fanned her face and wore a ball-dress and a wreath; things that I remem- bered of my mother. The ladies observed that i... ...dy brought down a young man from London to measure me, so that my mourning attire might be in the perfect cut of fashion. ‘The child’s papa would stri... ...…. And I am now Harry’s mama, he has me.’ I looked on her forehead for the wreath of white flowers my mother used to wear, and thought of my father’s ... ... we received the captain’s compliments, as being gentlemen who knew how to attire ourselves to suit an occa- sion. The occasion, Squire Gregory said, ... ...demoiselle had free space to trot ahead of us. We saw a tall-sitting lady, attired in sables, raise a finger to her, and nip her chin. Away the little... ...great twenty-first, she and a line of damsels dressed in white and wearing wreaths, and I had claimed the privilege of saluting her. The chief superin... ...cent sea, when the waves opened to white hollows with frayed white ridges, wreaths of hissing silver, her eyelids closed, and her hand wandered over t... ...grasp the meaning, subtle as odour, in these words. Innumerable mean- ings wreathed away unattainable to thought. The finer senses could just perceive...

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...bluntly disregarded her wishes; not unfrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire; and he was still “her own darling.” I dared commit no fault: I stro... ...ertain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rose- buds, had been wont to stir in me a most ent... ...arrangement connected with the establishment of Lowood: plain fare, simple attire, unsophis- ticated accommodations, hardy and active habits; such is ... ...dressed well, and had a presence and port calcu- lated to set off handsome attire. Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined ... ...little sooner to have heard his lecture on dress, for they were splendidly attired in velvet, silk, and furs. The two younger of the trio (fine girls ... ...rds picking at ripe cherries, of wren’s nests enclos- ing pearl-like eggs, wreathed about with young ivy sprays. I examined, too, in thought, the poss... ...r the glassiness of despair, alone were visible. Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consiste... ... it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stoc... ...; and, while looking to the right hand and left, to find whence these blue wreaths issued, I became further aware of a strong smell of burning. Someth...

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...being run over by the vessel in her course, catching at the bob-stays, and wreathing their slender forms about the ropes, hung suspended in the air. A... ...ing and struggling to escape from his clutches. The next moment a delicate wreath of smoke curls spirally into the air, the heap of dusty particles gl... ...aintly carved bowl, and every few moments languishingly giving forth light wreaths of vapour from her mouth and nostrils, looked still more engaging. ... ...uld have sunk into utter insignificance beside the exquisite simplicity of attire adopted by the nymphs of the vale on this festive occasion. I should... ... to them to bring some of their handywork to me; and in an instant a dozen wreaths were at my disposal. One of them I put round the 186 Typee apology... ...king through the groves I observed bread- fruit and cocoanut trees, with a wreath of leaves twined in a peculiar fashion about their trunks. This was ...

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...lip into the drawing-room. His uncle was writing letters of thanks for the wreaths which had been sent. One of them, which had arrived too late for th... ...erical. The boys looked upon him as rather a dog. He left off his clerical attire during the holidays and had been seen in Swit- zerland in gay tweeds... ...ed life! In a minute Mr. Carey gave a cough, and stood up. He pointed to a wreath at the foot of the bed. “That’s from the Squire,” he said. He spoke ... ...at twelve funerals gave her a new dress.” Then he told Philip who had sent wreaths; there were twenty-four of them already; when Mrs. Rawlingson, wife... ...Chapel people are always ready to give money . ” “I see that Holden sent a wreath.” Holden was the dissenting minister, and, though for Christ’s sake ... ... to him. “I think it was very pushing,” he remarked. “There were forty-one wreaths. Y ours was beau- tiful. Philip and I admired it very much.” “Don’t...

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... chest-of-drawers carved cunningly with 9 Hawthorne shapes of animals and wreaths of foliage, a table with multi- tudinous legs, a family record in f... ...ont of his own wedding-waistcoat and the silken skirt of his wife’s bridal attire, which his eldest granddaughter had taken from the carved chest-of-d... ...then (as their hopes faded, and their life kept growing shadier, and their attire took a sombre hue) sober gray and great fragments of funereal black,...

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...r than one of those living models, dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their... ... and made flexible to purposes of grace and dignity; so that Cleopatra sat attired in a garb proper to her historic and queenly state, as a daughter o... ... hollow it out again, and disclosed the full height of the gigantic column wreathed round with bas-reliefs of the old emperor’s warlike deeds. In the ... ...etween them and the line of hills that lay beyond the Tiber. A long, misty wreath, just dense enough to catch a little of the moon- shine, floated abo... ...—the crime which Donatello wrought, and Miriam accepted on the instant—had wreathed itself, as she said, like a serpent, in inextricable links about b... ...me sylvan merry-making with the scarcely veiled glory of their presence. A wreath of danc- ing figures, in admirable variety of shape and motion, was ... ...re always the vines, clambering on fig-trees, or other sturdy trunks; they wreathed themselves in huge and rich festoons from one tree to an- other, s...

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... close together, that the stranger rubbed against the gauze dress, and the wreaths of flowers, and the hair, slightly crimped, and the floating ends o... ...ing with motherly care, with a daughter’s solicitude, the spectre in human attire, who had driven us from the music-room; as she led him, she watched ...

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.... Has God, thou fool! work’d solely for thy good, Thy joy , thy pastime, thy attire, thy food? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kin... ...ropitious shine, Or deep with di’monds in the flaming mine? T win’d with the wreaths Parnassian lawrels yield, Or reap’d in iron harvests of the field...

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... put the vision of the whole business aside by talking of Nevil’s ba- nana-wreath. He desired to have Nevil out of it. He and Cecil handed Nevil in hi... ...e desired to have Nevil out of it. He and Cecil handed Nevil in his banana-wreath about to their friends. Nevil, in his banana-wreath, was set preachi... ...H Mr. Everard Romfrey may have laughed at Nevil Beauchamp with his ‘banana-wreath,’ he liked the fel- low for having volunteered for that African coas... ... to heaven: a moveless and possessing mist. It left space overhead for one wreath of high cloud mixed with touches of washed red upon moist blue, stil... ...pulsion. The common sentiment of mankind is offended by heterodoxy in mean attire; for there we see the self-convicted villain—the crimi- nal caught i... ...ome, but, like the smoke of waxing fire, he shadowed forth his presence in wreaths blacker and thicker day by day: and Everard Romfrey knew that the h...

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...s pardon, but be bore our punishment. And Jacob came cloth’d in vile harsh attire But to supplant, and with gainfull intent: God cloth’d himselfe ... ...ish all the day alone. His hand hath of my sinnes framed a yoake Which wreath’d, and cast upon my neck, hath broke My strength. The Lord unto t...

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...atience! what do you mean by the altar?” “Pile green turf,” said the friar, “wreathe it with flowers, and crown it with fruit, and we will show the no... ...odes when our foresters bring in booty: Bold Robin has robed him in ghostly attire, And forth he is gone like a holy friar, Singing, hey down, ho ... ...sounded upon the door. Robin, Marian, and the baron threw by their pilgrim’s attire, and stood in arms on the defensive. They were provided with sword... ...prudent to return in a different dis guise, they laid aside their pilgrim’s attire, and assumed the habits and appurtenances of wandering minstrels. ... ...ely moored in a nook on the opposite bank; near which a chimney sending up a wreath of smoke through the thick set willows, was the only symptom of hu... ...m of human habi tation; and Robin naturally conceiving the said chimney and wreath of smoke to be the outward signs of the inward ferry man, shouted...

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...hout a guard of knights. Siegmund and Siegelind bade deck him out in brave attire. The older knights who were acquaint with courtly custom, had him in... ...gfried, the bold, rode to court in Gunther’s land. Never had such princely attire been seen on heroes; their sword-points hung down to their spurs. Sh... ...A fair tale thou hast told me; there- fore shalt thou have as guerdon rich attire. Likewise I’ll have 56 The Nibelungenlied thee brought ten marks of... ... thirty princes at the feast. For this, too, the fair ladies vied in their attire. Giselher, the youth, was aught but idle; he and Gernot and all thei... ...land. Upon a Whitsun morning five thousand or more brave men, clad in glad attire, were seen going forth to the high festal tide. On all sides they vi... ...et” (O.F. “chaplet,” dim. of “chapel,” M.H.G. “schapel” or “schapelin”) or wreath was the headdress espe- cially of unmarried girls, the hair being wo...