Full Text Search Details
...from which the sun flashed in blinding brilliancy, and with heads covered with plumes that gave them both a wild and martial appearance. The blast of ... ...with barbaric music, preceding native warriors gayly decorated with variegated plumes, and clothed in the splendors of half civilization. Among the ot... ...thousand of the principal inhabitants, each of whom was provided with a waving plume and clad in the most exquisitely embroidered mantle. They came to... ... was provided with a waving plume and clad in the most exquisitely embroidered mantle. They came to announce the approach of their beloved Emperor, wh... ... on the shoulders of four noblemen, while from the top spread out six gigantic plumes of various colors. Immediately before the palanquin three office... ...rown of gold, which, being open at the top, permitted a beautiful headdress of plumes to project. Over his shoulders he carried a mantle that was embr... ...ed a beautiful headdress of plumes to project. Over his shoulders he carried a mantle that was embroidered with costly ornaments, and was brought tog... ... him a son, whose instruction had been his constant care, in the hope that his mantle might in time descend upon him. In the midst of these pleasant a...

Full Text Search Details
...arkness. The only illumination came from the flickering candles filled the mantle and a velvet-draped table. It was little enough light to see you... ...t of his son’s stewpot helmet and the fluttering tip of his ostrich feather plume. The battering of his wooden sword against unlucky chair legs, th... ...rned to be satisfied with far less in the letters her mother sent her. The mantle clock chimed nine, three hours until she could see him again. No... ...his father, he paused to salute him by bringing the tip of his sword to his plumed helmet and bowing deeply. “The Christmas Knight honors us with h... ...ust it at her. Morgan turned it over in her hand. An unsmiling woman in a plumed hat gazed solemnly up at her. “My mother, Rose O’Driscoll Conno...

Full Text Search Details
...lly here he was now in his own sad concoction of family as one diminishing plume of smoke begot another. And there on hardened benches or pews with th... ...ress cover then and there, he pulled down a package of cigarettes from the mantle of the bed. He put a cigarette into his mouth but not able to find t... ...mouth but not able to find the lighter from the groping of his hand on the mantle, and seeing that it was not on the bed stand, he just let the firele...

Full Text Search Details
...l. Which part of the earth did our ancestors copy? The crust, the inorganic mantle; the tectonic plates of the earth: the most superficial part of... ...re no longer revered unquestioningly. They had lost the protective, covering mantle of the sacred superior holiness of the church, which they had e... ...g money instead of their god. And then hiding in their mansions and under the mantle Jewish religious-cultural superiority; the superiority of oldne... ...: the more beautiful we consider it to be. Human females wear feathers, high plumes, extravagant plumage and fancy birdlike costumes on stage, in m... ...f Africa explode over and over again from the ignition sparks of flint in its mantle and in its volcanoes. As a result, it exploded this negative m...

Excerpt Details
...opose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur?s Court when they were reduced to the ordeal of the mantle....

Full Text Search Details
...the ladies of Arthur’s Court when they were reduced to the or- deal of the mantle. There are plain reasons why the Comic poet is not a fre- quent appa... ...ies that soar in the realms of Rose-Pink, whose language wears the nodding plumes of intellectual conceit, are traceable to Philaminte and Belise of t... ...ness of Shelley, give him a vein of Heinrich Heine, and cover him with the mantle of the Anti-Jacobin, adding (that there may be some Irish in him) a ... ...ilkes for leading man in a country constantly plunging into war under some plumed Lamachus, with enemies periodically firing the land up to the gates ...

Full Text Search Details
...ht bring The plumage of the raven’s wing; And seldom o’er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the folds combined Above... ... And there the wild-cat’s brindled hide The frontlet of the elk adorns, Or mantles o’er the bison’s horns; Pennons and flags defaced and stained, That... ...nd and foe,— I shuddered at his brow of gloom, His shadowy plaid and sable plume; A maiden grown, I ill could bear His haughty mien and lordly air: Bu... ... bared. XXXV . Ere yet the brands aloft were flung, Margaret on Roderick’s mantle hung, And Malcolm heard his Ellen’s scream, As faltered through terr... ...ter Scott For heath-bell with her purple bloom Supplied the bonnet and the plume. All night, in this sad glen the maid Sat shrouded in her mantle’s sh... ...et and the plume. All night, in this sad glen the maid Sat shrouded in her mantle’s shade: She said no shepherd sought her side, No hunter’s hand her ... ... clansmen made: Some sat, some stood, some slowly strayer): But most, with mantles folded round, Were couched to rest upon the ground, Scarce to be kn... ...ade. But when, advancing through the gloom, They saw the Chieftain’s eagle plume, Their shout of welcome, shrill and wide, Shook the steep mountain’s ... ...spy. Her brow was wreathed with gaudy broom; With gesture wild she waved a plume Of feathers, which the eagles fling T o crag and cliff from dusky win...

Full Text Search Details
...of gold, with a long foot or stalk. The herald and children are clothed with mantles of sea water green satin; but the herald’s mantle is streamed wit... ...lue velvet; and hats of blue velvet, with The New Atlantis – Bacon 29 fine plumes of divers colors, set round like hat bands. Next before the chario... ...hat we saw him wear in the chariot; but instead of his gown, he had on him a mantle with a cape, of the same fine black, fastened about him. When we c...

Full Text Search Details
... dagger “White Haft.” The Dream of Rhonabwy 20 describes his carpet (or mantle), “White,” which had the property of retaining no colour but its own... ..., for a horrible thing it seemed in their eyes that a monk should wear the mantle of a king. Vortigern, purposing evil in his heart, took horse, and r... ...side. Hengist was seated very close the king. He held the king fast by his mantle, so that this murder passed him by. But those who gripped the knives... ... But those who gripped the knives thrust the keen blades through cloak and mantle, breast and bowels, till there lay upon back or belly in that place ... ...s, but kept their armour as a spoil, so that they left the realm without a mantle to their bodies, or a sword for their defence. The Saxons set out ac... ...night whose praise was bruited abroad, but went in harness and raiment and plume of one and the self same hue. The colour of surcoat and armour in the... ...irer strife of swords, never a more courteous con tention of valiant men. Plume and helmet were abased to the dust, shields were cloven, the hauberk ...

Full Text Search Details
...eir summer hill, Stray sadly by Glenkinnon’s rill: The shepherd shifts his mantle’s fold, And wraps him closer from the cold; His dogs no merry circle... ... again, In all his arms, with all his train, Shield, lance, and brand, and plume, and scarf, Fay, giant, dragon, squire, and dwarf, And wizard with hi... ...moned Palmer came in place; His sable cowl o’erhung his face; In his black mantle was he clad, With Peter’s keys, in cloth of red, On his broad sho... ...ined as if disgrace and ill, And shameful death, were near. He drew his mantle past his face, Between it and the band, And rested with his head ... ...r brow, and armed her eyes! No more of virgin terror speaks The blood that mantles in her cheeks: Fierce and unfeminine, are there, Frenzy for joy, fo... ...t, in his wizard habit strange, Came forth—a quaint and fearful sight: His mantle lined with fox-skins white; His high and wrinkled forehead bore A po... ...woke, In moonbeam half, and half in gloom, Stood a tall form, with nodding plume; But ere his dagger Eustace drew, His master Marmion’s voice he knew.... ... he paced; His cap of maintenance was graced With the proud heron-plume. From his steed’s shoulder, loin, and breast, Silk housings ... ...h armed, on foot, with faces bare, For vizor they wore none, Nor waving plume, nor crest of knight; But burnished were their corslets bright, Their...

Full Text Search Details
...entle atmosphere, _350 Glows in the fruits, and mantles on the stream; No storms deform the beaming brow of heaven, Nor sca... ...bly blended. The Serpent’s mailed and many-coloured skin Shone through the plumes its coils were twined within By many a swoln and knotted fold, and h... ... _220 Hung gathered; in the void air, far away, Floated the shattered plumes; bright scales did leap, Where’er the Eagle’s talons made their way,... ...t not alone from wisdom’s tower, _845 A minister of truth, these plumes young Laon bore. 21 21 21 21 21. An orphan with my parents lived, wh... ... _1380 For my light head was hollowed in his lap, And my bare limbs his mantle did enwrap, Fearing it was a fiend: at last, he bent O’er me his age... ...woven there, _2825 Thus in her lips and cheeks the vital spirit Mantled, and in her eyes, an atmosphere Of health, and hope; and sorrow lan... ...I with fear did note His purpose, proffering my own food to him, The eager plumes subsided on his throat— _3070 He came where that bri... ...iseries in which she was an ac- tor and a sufferer are as the mask and the mantle in which circumstances clothed her for her impersonation on the scen... ...eep at his decree; A friend who should weave counsel, as I now, But as the mantle of some selfish guile; A father who is all a tyrant seems, ...

Full Text Search Details
...rned after her former husband, her city , and her parents. She threw a white mantle over her head, and hurried from her room, weeping as she went, not... ...ot killed him.” With this he flew at Alexandrus, caught him by the horsehair plume of his helmet, and began drag ging him towards the Achæans. The st... ... you shall come to a bad end.” At this Helen was frightened. She wrapped her mantle about her and went in silence, following the goddess and unnoticed... ...tent of ægis bearing Jove. On her head she set her helmet of gold, with four plumes, and coming to a peak both in front and behind—decked with the emb... ...’s bosom, scared at the sight of his father’s armour, and at the horse hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet. His father and mother laughed... ...and mine above all others of them that have been born in Ilius.” He took his plumed helmet from the ground, and his wife went back again to her house,... ...in stay it that it can come no further, though all else is wrapped as with a mantle so heavy are the heavens with snow—even thus thickly did the stone... ...or yet of the Argives, but that we two might be alone left to tear aside the mantle that veils the brow of Troy.” Thus did they converse. But Ajax cou... ...t length as the Morning Star was beginning to herald the light which saffron mantled Dawn was soon to suffuse over the sea, the flames fell and the fi...

Full Text Search Details
...e to drink King Charles’s health, and Prince Rupert—I remember his scarlet mantle and white plume— patted my head, and called me his little cavalier.”... ...harles’s health, and Prince Rupert—I remember his scarlet mantle and white plume— patted my head, and called me his little cavalier.” 7 Yo n g e “We ... ... a second glance, he changed his mind, for though there was neither scarf, plume, nor any badge of party, the long locks, the set of the hat, and the ... ...ed for. Then she arranged the large horseman’s cloak, the hay, and his own mantle, so well as to form, he said, the most luxurious resting place he ha... ...t is only some nonsense,” said Eleanor, gravely, for she was rather apt to plume herself on being steadier than her elder sister. “It is no nonsense,”... ...e preserved all the old stores of rich farthingales of brocade, and velvet mantles, which had been heirlooms from one Dame of Mowbray to another, till...

Full Text Search Details
...lind: Booming a distant chorus to the shrieks Preluding him: then he, His mantle streaming thunderingly behind, Across the yellow realm of stiffened ... ...g Honours from aught about thee. Light the young. Thy frame is as a dusty mantle hung, O grey one! pendant on a loosened peg. Thou art for this our l... ...tretches in his golden bath: Mossy-footed squirrels leap Soft as winnowing plumes of Sleep: Yaffles on a chuckle skim Low to laugh from branches dim: ... ... of the torch in the blood, Though her stature had reached the height When mantles a tender rud 204 In maids that of youths have sight, If maids of o... ...hat was a moment when a shock Through the procession ran, And thrilled the plumes, and stayed the clock, Yet smiled Archduchess Anne. X No touch gave ... ...he news for snuff, His smacking lips for salt. XV Count Louis’ wavy cock’s plumes led His troops of black-haired manes, A rebel; and old Kraken sped T... ...as it terror of her lord? Was she childish? was she sly? Was it the bright mantle’s dye Drained her blood to hues of grief Like the ash that shoots th... ... fought, though shattered: Pushed and met repulses sharp, Till our Raven’s plumes were scattered: All, save old Aneurin’s harp. Hear it wailing like a... ... seared; Heeled upon earth, lie clusters rimed. II Where were skies of the mantle stained Orange and scarlet, a coat of frieze T ravels from North til...

Full Text Search Details
...persons or things to which they were joined. We see the motion of Hector’s plumes in the epithet Korythaiolos, the landscape of Mount Neritus in that ... ...ears. First on his limbs a slender vest he drew, Around him next the regal mantle threw, The embroider’d sandals on his feet were tied; The starry fal... ...y harvests bend: Thus o’er the field the moving host appears, With nodding plumes and groves of waving spears. The gathering murmur spreads, their tra... ...s aside: A parley Hector asks, a message bears; We know him by the various plume he wears.” Awed by his high command the Greeks attend, The tumult sil... ...l mourn my fall.” He said, nor Hector to the chief replies, But shakes his plume, and fierce to combat flies; Swift as a whirlwind, drives the scatter... ...d seek the power, With offer’d vows, in Ilion’s topmost tower. The largest mantle her rich wardrobes hold, Most prized for art, and labour’d o’er with... ... go! a spotless train, And burn rich odours in Minerva’s fane. The largest mantle your full wardrobes hold, Most prized for art, and labour’d o’er wit... ...at yet remains to save the afflicted state. He rose, and first he cast his mantle round, Next on his feet the shining sandals bound; A lion’s yellow s... ...rable warrior rose; The shining greaves his manly legs enclose; His purple mantle golden buckles join’d, Warm with the softest wool, and doubly lined....

Full Text Search Details
...sword and dagger; dainty buskins on his feet, with red heels; and on his head a jaunty crimson cap, with drooping plumes fastened with a great sparkli... ...elonged to the true prince—a recent present from Madam Parr the Queen. Tom put on the greaves, the gauntlets, the plumed helmet, and such other pieces... ...lve French gentle- men, in splendid habiliments, consisting of pourpoints of white damask barred with gold, short mantles of crim- son velvet lined wi... ...-gold, and a cloak of crimson satin flowered with gold, and ribanded with nets of silver. ’ He turned, doffed his plumed cap, bent his body in a low r... ...ith a front-piece of purple cloth-of-tissue, pow- dered with diamonds, and edged with ermine. Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounc... ... faded and threadbare, and their gold-lace adornments were sadly tarnished; his ruff was rumpled and damaged; the plume in his slouched hat was broken... ... poor boy recognised that he was still a captive and a king. The room was filled with courtiers clothed in purple mantles—the mourning colour—and with... ...yal. When he at length emerged from this master’s hands, he was a gracious figure and as pretty as a girl, in his mantle and trunks of purple satin, a... ...r’s hands, he was a gracious figure and as pretty as a girl, in his mantle and trunks of purple satin, and purple-plumed cap. He now moved in state to...

Full Text Search Details
...ch had hitherto been used amongst them. “Arise,” he continued, “put on thy mantle; speak not, but tread lightly, and follow me.” Sir Kenneth arose, an... ...d the anchorite stripping his shoulders with frantic haste of their shaggy mantle, and ere he could shut the frail door which separated the two compar... ...ched the point at which he had seen the last slight wave of the T emplar’s mantle—”I have, in truth, raised the devil with a vengeance! Who would have... ...ilver, and drank his Tokay and Rhenish wines from a cup of gold. His ducal mantle was splendidly adorned with ermine, his coronet might have equalled ... ...conclude my watch.—Here, Roswal” (calling his hound, and throwing down his mantle by the side of the standard-spear), “watch thou here, and let no one... ...oudly. On they passed, troop after troop, banners waving, spears glancing, plumes dancing, in long perspec- tive—a host composed of different nations,... ...ich stuff that he seemed to blaze with gold and silver, and the milk-white plume fas- tened in his cap by a clasp of diamonds seemed tall enough to sw... ...d, seizing the Marquis by the throat, pulled him down from the saddle. The plumed rider lay rolling on the sand, and the frightened horse fled in wild... ...ilver; the sashes were twisted with silk and gold, their rich turbans were plumed and jewelled, and their sabres and pon- iards, of Damascene steel, w...

Full Text Search Details
...he helms of many a warrior peer, Strong men and swift, their tossing plumes uprear. But stronger, swifter, goodlier he than they, More a... ...oice of the goddess speaking to him, and set him to run, and cast away his mantle, the which his herald gathered up, even Eurybated of Ithaca, that wa... ... of Telemachos, if I take thee not and strip from thee thy gar ments, thy mantle and tunic that cover thy nakedness, and for thyself send thee weepin... ... assured and trusty oaths.” So said they; and great Hector of the glancing plume shook the helmet, looking behind him; and quickly leapt forth the lot... ...a wrought helmet of horse hair crest, whereover 50 The Iliad of Homer the plume nodded terribly, and he took him a strong spear fitted to his grasp. ... ...d the ranks of all of them sate close together, bristling with shields and plumes and spears. Even as there spreadeth across the main the ripple of th... ...smote the crest of the helmet shaded with horse hair, close below the very plume, but Menelaos struck the other, as he came forward, on the brow, abov... ...g star goeth forth to her ald light upon the earth, the star that saffron mantled Dawn cometh after, and spreadeth over the salt sea, then grew the b... ...reon fair shining rugs and spread coverlets above and thereon to lay thick mantles to be a clothing over all. And the maids went forth from the inner ...

Full Text Search Details
...ength showed her a nook behind a mud partition, where she could spread her mantle, and at least lie down, and tell her beads unseen, if she could not ... ...ting-horn with finely-chased ornaments of tarnished silver, and an eagle’s plume was fas- tened into his cap with a large gold Italian coin. He stared... ... towards it, and shivering. Christina quickly took off her own thick cloth mantle, well lined with dressed lambskins, laid it on the floor, rolled the... ...wool: “Is that what you burgher- women wear? Father is to give me a furred mantle, if only some court dame would pass the Debateable Ford. But the Sch... ... wild catskins for thee, and may be this—this—SHE could sew them up into a mantle for thee.” “O let me see,” cried the young lady eagerly; and Sir Ebe... ...himself of his gilt spurs, gold chain, silvered belt and horn, and eagle’s plume, so as to have passed for a simple lanzknecht. “I would have had no s... ...e hermit’s cave, Christina leaning on her husband’s arm, and a fold of his mantle drawn round her to guard her from the night-breeze of the mountain, ... ...eagle of Adlerstein. Short blue cloaks and caps of the same, with an eagle plume in each, and leggings neatly fashioned of deer- skin, completed their... ... long rich robe worn on peaceful occasions, stood forth, doffing his eagle-plumed bonnet, and, as the lady turned and curtsied low, he put his knee to...

Full Text Search Details
...gh that forrest syde: But faire before the gate a spatious plaine, Mantled with greene, it selfe did spredden wyde, On which she saw si... ... : Book III. 13 And whilst he slept, she ouer him would spred Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, And her soft arme lay vndern... ...bed, And vnder the blacke vele of guilty Night, Her with a scarlot mantle couered, That was with gold and Ermines faire enueloped. The ... ...will, They him disarm’d, and spredding on the ground Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, They softly wipt away the gelly b... ... men of happinesse depriue. The Faerie Queene : Book III. 65 Vnder thy mantle blacke there hidden lye, Light shonning theft, and traiterous... ...ok III. 168 His garment neither was of silke nor say, But painted plumes, in goodly order dight, Like as the sunburnt Indians do aray ... ... aray Their tawney bodies, in their proudest plight: As those same plumes, so seemd he vaine and light, That by his gate might easily a...

Full Text Search Details
...- rials much finer than those which the rule of that order ad- mitted. His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and fell in ample, and not... ...the sleeves of this dignitary were lined and turned up with rich furs, his mantle secured at the throat with a golden 13 Sir Walter Scott clasp, and ... ...ersonage resembled that of his com- panion in shape, being a long monastic mantle; but the colour, being scarlet, showed that he did not belong to any... ...g to any of the four regular orders of monks. On the right shoulder of the mantle there was cut, in white cloth, a cross of a peculiar form. This uppe... ...ss obdurate materials. The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the k... ...battle-axe, richly inlaid with Damascene carving; on the other the rider’s plumed head-piece and hood of mail, with a long two-handed sword, used by t... ... piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes.—His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the sla... ...lf,—a ghastly figure, for his gilded armour was broken and bloody, and the plume was partly shorn away, partly burnt from his casque. “I have found th... ...e by his two esquires behind him. His face, though partly hidden by a long plume which floated down from his barrel-cap, bore a strong and mingled exp...