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...ious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his beard and skin. The Green Knight offers to allow anyone to strike him with his axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a year and a day. Gawain accepts, and beheads him in one blow, only to have the Green Knight stand up, pick up his head, and remind Gawain to meet him at the appointed time. Th...

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...Life Now SALUT AU MONDE! SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY SONG OF THE ANSWERER OUR OLD FEUILLAGE A SONG OF JOYS SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE SONG OF THE EXPOSITION SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT BIRDS OF PASSAGE Song of the Universal Pioneers! O Pioneers! To You France, Mysel...

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...e Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the en... ...e who give to themselves the credit due to others. The Two Travelers and the Axe TWO MEN were journeying together. One of them picked up an axe that l... ...of them picked up an axe that lay upon the path, and said, “I have found an axe.” “Nay, my friend,” replied the other, “do not say ‘I,’ but ‘We’ have... ...“Nay, my friend,” replied the other, “do not say ‘I,’ but ‘We’ have found an axe.” They had not gone far before they saw the owner of the axe pursuing... ...e they saw the owner of the axe pursuing them, and he who had picked up the axe said, “We are undone.” “Nay,” replied the other, “keep to your first ... ...e, as of all the trees that grow we are the most continually in peril of the axe.” Jupiter made answer: “You have only to thank yourselves for the mis... ...and prove yourselves so serviceable to the carpenters and the farm ers, the axe would not so frequently be laid to your roots.” The Hare and the Hou... ...g the trunk. The Oak said with a sigh, “I do not care about the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by these w... ... does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous. The Trees and the Axe A MAN came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide him a handle ...

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... led to the scaffold, where an execu- tioner with a block and a tremendous axe was always ready in case he should be wanted. But we must now revert to... ...e she saw Bulbo laying his head on the block!!! The executioner raised his axe, but at that moment the Prin- cess came panting up and cried ‘Reprieve!... ...oward. I challenge him to meet me, with fists or with pistols, with battle-axe or sword, with blunderbuss or singlestick, alone or at the head of his ... ...nd dealt Prince Giglio a prodigious crack over the sconce with his battle- axe, a most enormous weapon, which had cut down I don’t know how many regim... ...impression than if Padella had struck him with a pat of butter: his battle-axe crumpled up in Padella’s hand, and the Royal Giglio laughed for very sc...

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...VIII. Four men-at-arms came at their backs, With halbert, bill, and battle-axe: They bore Lord Marmion’s lance so strong, And led his sumpter-mules al... ...enitence to dwell, When he, for cowl and beads, laid down The Saxon battle-axe and crown. This den, which, chilling every sense Of feeling, hearing... ...the Danish war; Himself he saw, amid the field, On high his brandished war-axe wield, And strike proud Haco from his car, While all around the shad... ... strength and weight, On Flemish steeds of bone and height, With battle-axe and spear. Young knights and squires, a lighter train, Practised their ... ...y days’ provision bore, As feudal statutes tell. His arms were halbert, axe, or spear, A crossbow there, a hagbut here, A dagger-knife, and bran... ...ngland bore. The Islesmen carried at their backs The ancient Danish battle-axe. They raised a wild and wondering cry As with his guide rode Marmion by... ...oiled the swarthy smith, to wheel The bar that arms the charger’s heel; Or axe or falchion to the side Of jarring grindstone was applied. Page, groom,... ...e which now we see In spring-tide bloom so lavishly, Had then from many an axe its doom, T o give the marching columns room. 181 Sir Walter Scott XX....

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.... . However, the supports of the bridge had been destroyed. ‘But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied, And now the bridge hangs tottering... ...embroidered, sat on ivory chairs, and were followed by lictors carrying an axe in a bundle of rods for the execution of justice. In their own chamber ... ... the foremost climbers as they set foot on the rampart. One, who raised an axe to strike, lost his arm by one stroke of Manlius’ short Roman sword; th... ...t; a stern and powerful man, fierce and passionate, and with many a Danish axe at his command. Nay, only lately for a few rude jests, he caused some o... ...signed to his master to take the guitar, and began to dance. The old man’s axe was in an open cupboard at the other end of the room, and after many ga... ...em. Ivan at last knocked off the clog and the chains on the wrist with the axe, but he could not break the chains round the legs, and could only faste... ...otion terrible labour. It was only on the second night that Ivan, with his axe, succeeded in break- ing through the fastenings, and by that time the M... ...n to him in his captivity, deemed it mercy to give him a deathblow with an axe. The English maintained that Aelfeg had died to save his flock from cru... ...hou ‘rt wise,’ the false groom cries, And aims a murderous blow; His pole-axe long, his arm so strong, Must lay young Albrecht low. 163 Yo n g e Se...

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...ung trophies of the fight or chase: A target there, a bugle here, A battle-axe, a hunting-spear, And broadswords, bows, and arrows store, With the tus... ...e torrent’s roar: His right hand high the crosslet bore, His left the pole-axe grasped, to guide And stay his footing in the tide. He stumbled twice,—... ...to the bridegroom’s tongue. All while he stripped the wild-rose spray, His axe and bow beside him lay, For on a pass ‘twixt lake and wood A wakeful se... ... is singing; On the beech’s pride, and oak’s brown side, Lord Richard’s axe is ringing. Up spoke the moody Elfin King, Who woned within the hill... ...sh sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willow-wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life ‘T o plaided warrior arme... ...reign bled; And thou, O sad and fatal mound! That oft hast heard the death-axe sound. As on the noblest of the land Fell the stern headsmen’s bloody h... ...fetters’ din; Through rugged vaults, where, loosely stored, Lay wheel, and axe, and headsmen’s sword, And many a hideous engine grim, For wrenching jo... ...greater part of Scot- land. 60. Halberd. A combination of spear and battle-axe. See Wb. 63. Holytide. Holiday. For tide = time, see on iii. 478 above.... ...rvant to demand access, was denied the same by a tall fellow with a battle-axe, who stood porter at the gate, telling there could be no access till di...

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...tands there; the Doctor’s Idea has become Oak and Iron; the huge cyclopean axe ‘falls in its grooves like the ram of the Pile-engine,’ swiftly snuffin... ...s; but there is no return: On- wards! That fair hindhead is cleft with the axe; the neck is severed. That fair body is cut in fragments; with indigni-... ...worth, stooping, bespeaks him: “Son of Saint Louis, ascend to Heaven.” The Axe clanks down; a King’s Life is shorn away. It is Monday the 21st of Janu... ... the side of an ecclesiastic, with whom he seems to speak earnestly, ’—the axe now glittering high. He could weep, in old years, this man, and ‘fall o... ...towards the Place de la Revolution; glanced upwards at the clear suspended axe; then mounted 172 The French Revolution - V olume Three swiftly aloft,... ... index of the general velocity of the Repub- lic. The clanking of its huge axe, rising and falling there, in horrid systole-diastole, is portion of th... ...! The yet Living chant there; the chorus so rapidly wearing weak! Samson’s axe is rapid; one head per minute, or little less. The chorus is worn out; ... ...l Towns and Townships as quick as the guillotine may go, so quick goes the axe and the wrench: sacristies, lutrins, altar-rails are pulled down; the M... ... and he lie in the Abbaye; wending, one may fear, towards Tinville and the Axe; and ‘people say to me’—what seems to be proving true! Bazire’s blood w...

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...new from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains—for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achæans bear it... ...” And Alexandrus answered, “Hector, your rebuke is just. You are hard as the axe which a shipwright wields at his work, and cleaves the timber to his ... ... shipwright wields at his work, and cleaves the timber to his liking. As the axe in his hand, so keen is the edge of your scorn. Still, taunt me not w... ...some mere, and its top is thick with branches. Then the wheelwright lays his axe to its roots that he may fashion a felloe for the wheel of some goodl... ...s drew his sword and sprang upon him. Pisander then seized the bronze battle axe, with its long and pol ished handle of olive wood that hung by his s... ...rough his belt into the lower part of his belly . As when some sturdy youth, axe in hand, deals his blow behind the horns of an ox and severs the tend...

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...ur Kitchell could keep back no longer. “Come on!” he cried, catching up an axe; “rot the differ- ence.” All the plundering instincts of the man were a... ...r interfere with what Kitchell was doing. The Captain put the blade of the axe in the chink of the secretary’s door and wrenched it free. It opened do... ...nd two small doors, both locked. These latter Kitchell smashed in with the axe-head. Then he seated himself in the swivel chair and began to rifle the... ... bark. Kitchell was rag- ing to and fro in the cabin in a frenzy of drink, axe in hand, smashing glassware, hacking into the wood-work, singing the wh... ...lbur had a momentary glimpse of Kitchell, hacking at the lanyards with his axe. Then the “Lady Letty” capsized, going over till her masts were flat wi...

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...emselves, nor knew There dwelt an iron nature in the grain: The glittering axe was broken in their arms, Their arms were shattered to the shoulder bla... ... other side Hortensia spoke against the tax; behind, A train of dames: by axe and eagle sat, With all their foreheads drawn in Roman scowls, And half...

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...to shorten the sufferings of the good man) struck him dead with his battle axe. If Ethelred had had the heart to emulate the courage of this noble arc... ... covered by his shield, and bearing in his hand his dreaded English battle axe. On an opposite hill, in three lines, archers, foot soldiers, horsemen,... ... strong; some had fallen of themselves; some were felled by the forester’s axe; some were hol low, and the rabbits burrowed at their roots; some few ... ...e King himself was taken prisoner, after bravely fighting until his battle axe and sword were broken, and was carried into strict confinement at Glouc... ...bourer. Long and long after he was quiet in his grave, his terrible battle axe, with twenty English pounds of English steel in its mighty head, was a ... ...night, riding about before his army on a little horse, with a light battle axe in his hand, and a crown of gold on his head. This English Knight, who ... ... heavy spear. Bruce par ried the thrust, and with one blow of his battle axe split his skull. The Scottish men did not forget this, next day when th... ...ntil they came up with the French King, fighting fiercely with his battle axe, and, when all his nobles had forsaken him, attended faithfully to the ... ...or take the English King. One of them struck him such a blow with a battle axe that he reeled and fell upon his knees; but, his faithful men, immediat...

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...dly stung as high as the elbows by the stinging plant; I was nearly hung in a tough liana—a rotten trunk giving way under my feet; it was deplorable b... ...t let us say that—but we daren’t let him go to town, and he—poor, good soul—is afraid to be let go. —Lafaele (Raphael), a strong, dull, deprecatory ma... ...at all my boys were got up for their work in moustaches and side-whiskers of some sort of blacking—I suppose wood-ash. It was a sight of joy to see th... ... sensible of having done worse than I hoped, worse than I feared; all I can do now is to do the best I can for the future, and clear the book, like a ... ...wn in Apia, and Belle in her own house cleaning, when I heard the latter calling on my name. I ran out on the verandah; and there on the lawn beheld m... ...y told me, ‘away bush all morning. ’But there they all stayed on the back verandah. I went on alone through the dining-room, and bade him stop. He did... ... I went on alone through the dining-room, and bade him stop. He did so, shouldered the axe, and began to walk away; but I called him back, walked up t... ...ncing to some craziness. Our house boys protested they were not afraid; all I know is they were all watching him round the back door and did not follo... ...ician! THURSDAY. A general, steady advance; Fanny really quite chipper and jolly—self on the rapid mend, and with my eye on forests that are to fall—a...

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...-dust was spread—the priest was ready with his book, the headsman with his axe—but there, too, mine eye found you not.” “The gibbet, then, I suppose, ... ...of its de- fences. But a stout sentinel, who mounted guard with a Lochaber-axe at the door of his apartment, gave him to un- derstand, by very signifi... ...is chamber door, and prepared to leave it, when he saw his friend with the axe advancing towards him from the distant end of the gallery, half whistli... ...rtillery, was a small enclosure, where stood a huge block, on which lay an axe. Both were smeared with recent blood, and a quantity of saw-dust strewe... ...belonging neither to Spanish pike, brown-bill, partizan, halberd, Lochaber-axe, or indeed any other modern staff- weapon whatever.” This compliment he...

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...ank to the ground; and Ancaeus struck the broad neck of the other with his axe of bronze, and shore through the mighty sinews; and it fell prone on bo... ...tius. Then Ancaeus, the dauntless son of Lycurgus, quickly seized his huge axe, and in his left hand holding a bear’s dark hide, plunged into the mids... ... the wealthy city of divine Orthomenus. For our ship Athena built and with axe of bronze cut her tim bers near the crest of Pelion, and with the godd... ...hrong. Some of the thralls were busied with a mighty bull, others with the axe were cleaving dry billets, and others heating with fire water for the b...

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...elfe must yeeld to oddes: 710 And many stroakes, though with a little Axe, 711 Hewes downe and fells the hardest- tymber’d Oake. 712 By... ...ing, 1041 And that thy Summer bred vs no increase, 1042 We set the Axe to thy vsurping Roote: 1043 And though the edge hath something hit ... ...hat torment I will free my selfe, 1705 Or hew my way out with a bloody Axe. 1706 Why I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, 1707 And cry...

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...be sure I shall,” answered Richard. “I will be called Richard of the Sharp Axe, or the Bold Spirit, I promise you, 1 Richard’s place of education was... ....’ 6 Would that I could cleave his treason- hatching skull with my battle-axe.” “So,” continued Rainulf, “they conferred together, and as words cost ... ...ding-place, and is now fast guarded in Rollo’s tower—a Dane, with a battle-axe on his shoulder, keeping guard at every turn of the stairs.” “Ha! ha!” ...

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...nd he held a basket of barley meal; sturdy Thrasymedes stood by with a sharp axe, ready to strike the heifer, while Perseus held a bucket. Then Nestor... ...hink how she could speed Ulysses on his way . So she gave him a great bronze axe that suited his hands; it was sharpened on both sides, and had a beau... ..., and the roots of the eye sputtered in the fire. As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it—for it is this that gives str...

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...min Gunn,’ says they, ‘here’s a musket,’ they says, ‘and a spade, and pick-axe. You can stay here and find Flint’s money for yourself,’ they says. “We... ...shot and the powder for the gun had been left behind, and a stroke with an axe would put it all into the possession of the evil ones abroad. “Israel w... ...; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was the haft of his pick-axe that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in m... ...erily. And by this time we had reached the gigs. The doctor, with the pick-axe, demolished one of them, and then we all got aboard the other and set o...

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...al- ways something new – men talking, children laughing, the strokes of an axe a far way ahead of him, and sometimes a sort of a quick, stealthy scurr... ...nd with them! only here and there 112 Robert Louis Stevenson Keola saw an axe swinging over against them without hands; and time and again a man of t...