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...alcyon harmony with nature execrably disparaged in the vehement winds of a hurricane--the trees along the river, which had offered protection now torn... ..."Here have an early Songkran," it said. Songkran was the New Year's water festival in the hottest month of April. The month was really March of the... ... Styrofoam sailed onto the river for good fortune during each Loi krathong festival, or Buddhist rosaries and necklaces to old women during religious ... ...gift for her brother-in-law in celebration of the Songkran Thai New Year's festival --And what gift did he present to the man as they drank tea and co... ...re definitely a divergent species of animal. He thought about Songkran Festivals. All of his grandparents were deceased early into his boyhood. ... ...just being. He thought of the time that he and Noppawan were in a Songkran Festival water fight in Banglampool. Both were unlucky enough to have both...

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... to herd it between two bonfires in what became known as the Beltane (or Belltane) festival. The Romans honored the spring goddess Flora on May Day... ...rangement of rose petals, mollusc shells, sunflower florets, spirals of pine cones, hurricanes, fractals, the breeding patterns of rabbits, the stru...

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... happy harmony into the shop, which was the first stop on the way to the festival already underway outside. Inside the shop, the recipients of the ... ... actually turned out to be an historic event without TV. On September 11, Hurricane Iniki stormed into our peaceful Hawaii, and everyone on the isla... ...ll It Anything If Yo II Thillk It Needs a Nallle • 113 up, just after the hurricane passed. I used a cheap plastic razor­ I had forgotten that in the...

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...he ecological level, including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, fires, intense heat waves, and cold spells. All these will com... .... The friends commented on that and said, “o ne does not wed a woman on a festival, but one does sanctify, lest another will come before him with me... ... the army?” “Would you be spoken for to the king,” since that day was the festival of the first day of the year, and the day when Malchut of the fir...

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...loudy and inclement skies? And whence the forked lightning and smiting thunderbolt, the hurricane, the volcano, and the wild tornado? And whence the... ... of religion, went forward; continual sacrifice, prayer at its set times, fasts, solemn festivals, the sabbath, &c. all was scrupulously observed, i...

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...s she noticed a spider crawling onto her hand, which held the pen. When the hurricane of all the air from her lungs was not enough to release it from... ...nd only pellucid to meteorologists, and of empathy it had none. Men died in hurricanes, typhoons, lightning strikes, floods, and heat strokes. She wo... ...rnal shapes of the ice sculptures that she and Kato had made during the snow festivals of Sapporo. With her fingers she traced these suds-sculptures ...

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... -- Consecration of the corpse -- Procuring the sacrifice -- The dead house -- Festivals at which numbers of humans are sacrificed -- Differences in d... ...of a change in weather; the stormy petrel followed his bark during the wildest hurricane; the albatross brought him calm. He carried the idea further:... ...He is curiously inconsistent, for while a ship named for a saint is lucky, the festival of the saint is an unlucky day, and if he can help himself he ... .... Peter is the patron of fishermen and sailors, and desires that they keep his festival as a holiday. He has a horror of the thirteenth; of each month... ... attended by forty of her ladies, she submitted to the rite, and another great festival was held. Never had the like been known, for besides adding th... ...the Natche at Tonge-taboo, I mentioned that, on the approaching sequel of that festival, we had been told that ten men were to be sacrificed. This may...

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...plitness Chapter One: The Universe 33 You can see it In the energy of hurricanes and typhoons You can see it in... ...oes not have to be a physical blow to the infrastructure of that system like a hurricane, or a flood. It can also be a mental-emotional trauma of it... ... What happened to Fort Comfort? It burned to the ground. It was rebuilt. A hurricane washed it away. It was rebuilt again. Another hurricane des... ...o know. Dylan first sang his fucking mocking death song at the Newport Jazz festival: it didn’t sell up north, so they tried it down South on a TV...

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...like that of heart, *“The same thing”:—Thus, in the calendar of the Church Festivals, the discovery of the true cross (by Helen, the mother of Constan... ...everie. The month was August; in the middle of which lay my own birthday—a festival to every thoughtful man suggesting solemn and often sigh-born* tho... ...orth daily. At this par- ticular season also of the assizes, that dreadful hurricane of flight and pursuit, as it might have seemed to a stranger, whi... ...l summons on the great deeps of life carries a man, as if running before a hurricane, up to the giddy crest of some tumultuous crisis from which lie t... ... ever mill-race we ran past them in our inexorable flight. Oh, rav- ing of hurricanes that must have sounded in their young ears at the moment of our ... ... girl, adorned with a garland of white roses about her head for some great festival, running along the solitary strand in extremity of haste. Her runn... ...t round every angle. Like rivers in flood wheeling round head- lands, like hurricanes that ride into the secrets of forests, faster than ever light un... ...ies, rose again to the voice of perfect joy, did ye indeed mingle with the festivals of Death? Lo! as I looked back for seventy leagues through the mi... ..., saw the pomp of forests in which her childhood had wandered. That Easter festival which man had denied to her languishing heart— that resurrection o...

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...Cathy, for she has turned their dull frontier life into a sort of continuous festival; also they know her for a stanch and steady friend, a friend who... ... see him hobbling around on his severed legs; the whole vast house goes into hurricanes of laughter over it; I have laughed till the tears ran down my... ...o see it all, hear it all, and feel it: and get yourself blown away with the hurricane huzza that swept the place as a finish. When we rode away, our ...

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..., saw the pomp of forests in which her childhood had wandered. That Easter festival, which man had denied to her languishing heart— that resurrection ... ...found reverie. The month 122 was August, in which lay my own birth-day; a festival to every thoughtful man suggesting solemn and often sigh-born thou... ... forth daily. At this particular season also of the assizes, that dreadful hurricane of flight and pursuit, as it might have seemed to a stranger, tha... ...ul crisis on the great deeps of life carries a man, as if running before a hurricane, up to the giddy crest of some mountainous wave, from which accor... ...st them faster than ever mill-race in our inexorable flight. Oh, raving of hurricanes that must have sounded in their young ears at the moment of our ... ...a girl adorned with a garland of white roses about her head for some great festival, running along the solitary strand with extremity of haste. Her ru... ... round every angle. Like rivers in flood, wheel- ing round headlands; like hurricanes that side into the se- crets of forests; faster than ever light ...

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...ow- der-magazine; he is wonderfully preserved in mountain ava- lanches and hurricanes; reins up his horse on the verge of an abyss; falls through ice ... ..., the daily interests of a self-governing municipal- ity, and the numerous festivals, both secular and religious, were an unconscious education, even ... ...st mountain village on the other, but she never seen more of life than the festival at the wake the hermitage chapel there on Midsummer-day. The only ... ...nd indeed the hermit was a layman, and the church was only served on great festivals by a monk from the convent of St. Ruprecht, on the distant side o... ...going man, who came prepared to do any office that came in his way on such festival days at the villages round; and peasant marriages at such times we... ...she had often been one—the sub- sequent attentions of the betrothed on all festival days, the piles of linen and all plenishings accumulated since bab...

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...ur cardinal winds, (Boreas, Aquilo, Notus, &c.) and others as levanters or hurricanes, (Circius, &c.) Thus far he did no more than indulge a blameless... ...the conversation of a friend or two, pleased him better than all the court festivals; and among festivals, or anniversary celebrations, he preferred t... ...umena—conceded all demands whatever. His journey to Rome was one continued festival: and the whole population of Rome turned out to welcome him. At th... ...xecution of the vengeance projected by Maternus, was reserved for a public festival, exactly corresponding to the modern carni- val; and from an expre... ...ly under the most extensive de- moralization of the public mind, succeeded festivals of gor- geous pomp, and amphitheatrical exhibitions, upon a scale...

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...: why came these two to Saint-Cloud, where his Majesty was hunting, on the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul; and waited there, in antechambers, a wo... ... it; and speak fear- lessly according to that faith;—whom the thick-coming hurricanes will sweep away. With them, let a new military Theodore Lameth b... ...rest Gallies? And then, Whether, being liberated, they shall have a public Festival, or only private ones? Theroigne, as we saw, spoke; and Collot too... ...ourt, not for conscience’ sake, contributing some- thing; and their Public Festival shall be next Sunday. Next Sunday accordingly it is. (Newspapers o... ...rty which loves Liberty yet not more than Monarchy, will likewise have its Festival: Festival of Simonneau, unfortunate Mayor of Etampes, who died for... ...; being trampled down with his Red Flag in the riot about grains. At which Festival the Public again assists, unapplausive: not we. On the whole, Fest...

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...in the daedal earth; lightning, and rain, Earthquake, and fiery flood, and hurricane, The torpor of the year when feeble dreams Visit the hidden buds,... ... _235 Padua, thou within whose walls Those mute guests at festivals, Son and Mother, Death and Sin, Played at dice for Ezzelin, Till ... ... _15 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. Hearest thou the festival din Of Death, and Destruction, and Sin, And Wealth crying “Havoc!”... ..., Mixed with the clash of the lashing rain, Hurried on by the might of the hurricane: The hurricane came from the west, and passed on _100 By th... ...he mountains its columns be. The triumphal arch through which I march With hurricane, fire, and snow, When the Powers of the air are chained to my cha... ... _20 The red swift clouds of the hurricane Yon declining sun have overtaken, The clash of the hail sweeps ov... ...ured i’ the instant;—so Gherardi’s hall Laughed in the mirth of its lord’s festival, Till some one asked—’Where is the Bride?’ And then A bridesmaid w...

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...that he would not take me out for anything,—and sharks, and volcanoes, and hurricanes.’ ‘I don’t think they eat people there now.’ ‘It’s bad enough if... ...ext Monday because Aunt Jane is wanted to address the girls at the G.F .S. festival on T uesday.’ ‘Aunt Jane seems to have taken to public speaking,’ ... ...om Mrs. Blackburn to ask if I will be so very kind as to let them have the festival here. They had reckoned upon Tillington Park, where they have alwa... ...n to tell her how disappointed she was not to have seen more of her at the Festival. ‘But those curates would not let me alone. I was obliged to atten... ...y from a relation.’ ‘Yes, but I tell you she did keep back a letter on the festival day till she had looked at it. Poor Dolores saw it come, and she s... ...tuppy kind of face and tone wherewith she had talked to the curates at the festival. Dolores began to find this very dull, and to feel ne- glected, pe...

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...e chapter devoted to “Legends of Frankfort,” I find the following: “THE KNAVE OF BERGEN” “In Frankfort at the Romer was a great mask-ball, at the coro... ...ecognizable. Proud and yet modest he advanced to the Em- press; bowed on one knee before her seat, and begged for the favor of a waltz with the Queen ... ...cks; and whenever the cur- tain fell they rose to their feet, in one solid mighty multi- tude, and the air was snowed thick with waving handker- chief... ...its leap of two hundred and fifty feet in a most magnificent frenzy, while the trees which cling to its rocky sides swayed to and fro in the violence ... ...tain of Mont Blanc”—that title belonged to none other. The “king” was as good as his word—he overtook that long procession of tourists and went by it ... ...ow falls heavily and without interruption. The guides take no rest. EVENING. My Dear Hessie, we have been two days on Mont Blanc, in the midst of a te...

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...less through the agency of the Methodists.”* In the Autumn came an immense hurricane; with new and indeed quite perilous experiences of West-Indian li... ...oom were now giving way; and I suppose it was about nine o’clock, when the hurricane burst them in, as if it had been a discharge from a battery of he... ...he cellar win- dow, and placed her in comparative safety. The force of the hurricane was, by this time, a good deal diminished, or it would have been ... ...ive them a good deal of consolation. “Before I could make my way back, the hurricane became as bad as at first; and I was obliged to take shelter for ... ...ur property, while their own poor houses were flying like chaff before the hurricane. There are few White people here who can say as much for their Bl... ...— 147 Thomas Carlyle “January 22d, 1839.—On Friday last there was a great Festival at St. Peter’s; the only one I have seen. The Church was decorated... ...It was a fine piece of state-show; though, as there are three or four such Festivals yearly, of course there is none of the eager interest which break...

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...he absence of all that is customary in En- gland on these occasions (great festivals), though I dare not say how far the loss of all these privileges ... ... the depot among the islands, a splendid harbour, safe both from trade and hurricane winds, plenty of water, abundantly supplied with provisions, bein... ...ointing the Lesson and its teaching. ‘The sermon was on the thought of the Festival: “And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts ... ...ttle wood, putting up a house instead of one that had been blown down by a hurricane, and he had sent his few faithful pupils to get grass for the tha... ...during the five winter months. It is not wise to sail about in the summer, hurricanes being prevalent then. ‘5. As I can only make one return from the... ... bit about the weddings seems appropriate:— ‘These wedding days were great festivals, especially before many had been seen. The Chapel was dressed wit...

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...raordinary fact. He had been thrown, when little more than a boy, into the hurricane of Napoleon’s wars; his life had been spent on fields of battle. ... ...on the balcony of the Tuileries with the Royal Family, it was one of those festival days that are long remembered. She looked supremely beautiful in h... ...life through feeling, and is adorned in all her glory only for love’s high festivals. The General left his post before sunrise, but not before he had ...