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...ter of Danaus, wedded to Poseidon, bare Nauplius, who surpassed all men in naval skill. The Argonautica 11 (ll. 139 145) Idmon came last of all them... ...n bear, and wielding in his right hand a huge two edged battleaxe. For his armour his grandsire had hidden in the house’s innermost recess, to see if ... ...rs among the clouds; and each man as he saw them speeding along with their armour would say: (ll. 242 246) “King Zeus, what is the purpose of Pelias?... ...ater nymph Oenoe bore to Thoas. Now for all the women to tend kine, to don armour of bronze, and to cleave with the plough share the wheat bearing fie... ... Pelasgian war men of the Macrians had landed. Therefore they donned their armour and raised their hands against them. And with clashing of ashen spea... ...hair, they and the Dollones. Then three times round his tomb they paced in armour of bronze and performed funeral rites and celebrated games, as was m...

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...cy. Take, for instance, Gustave Dore’s drawing of Don Quixote watching his armour in the inn-yard. Whether or not the Venta de Quesada on the Seville ... ...primitive draw-well in the corner that he meant Don Quixote to deposit his armour. Gustave Dore makes it an elaborate fountain such as no arriero ever... ... he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice him... ...put his scheme into execution. The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages ly... ... country, and did honour to it in taking his surname from it. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christene... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n...

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...annot foresee. I am a part, not a whole; I am a little instru- ment in the armoury of Change. If I were to burn all these papers, before a score of ye... ...fic upon the world’s roads was instantaneous. In three years the frightful armoured monsters that had hooted and smoked and thundered about the world ... ...nt of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland upon the German naval establishments at the mouth of the Elbe, were integral parts of the o... ...ver and victory enthroned. Then 57 H G Wells perhaps this harshness, this armour would be put aside and the gods might unbend. Her eyelids drooped…. ... ...crease whatever in the ability to escape. Every sort of passive de- fence, armour, fortifications, and so forth, was being outmastered by this tremend... ...science. All the huge expenditure that had hitherto gone into unproductive naval and military preparations, must now, he declared, place research upon...

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...meet, eye to eye, the valorous giant Brandabarbaran, Lord of Arabia, whose armour is made of the skin of a dragon, and whose shield, strapped to his a... ... I dare say there would have been no difficulty in finding my way into the Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grinding at Ger... ... to offer explanations; but the truth is that what I had in view was not a naval career, but the sea. There seemed no way open to it but through Franc...

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...o meet eye to eye the valorous giant Brandabarbaran, Lord of Arabia, whose armour is made of the skin of a dragon, and whose shield, strapped to his a... ... dare say there would have been no dif- ficulty in finding my way into the Naval School at Pola. It would have meant six months’ extra grind- ing at G... ...on to offer expla- nations; the truth is that what I had in view was not a naval career, but the sea. There seemed no way open to it but through Franc...

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...e to be thrown off in a sigh. In the way of literary talk, it is true, the Naval Officer—an excellent fellow, who came into the office with me, and we... ...raits, representing the fore fathers of the Bellingham lineage, some with armour on their breasts, and others with stately ruffs and robes of peace. ... ..., but of the most modern date; for it had been manu factured by a skilful armourer in London, the same year in which Governor Bellingham came over to... ...sman and ruler. Little Pearl, who was as greatly pleased with the gleaming armour as she had been with the glittering frontispiece of the house, spent... ..., tremulous, but powerful, insomuch that the hall re echoed and the hollow armour rang with it—”truth in what Hester says, and in the feeling which in... ...o her former mood by the shimmer of the sunshine on the weapons and bright armour of the military company, which followed after the music, and formed ...

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...del of his church from the most rampant of its enemies; to put on his good armour in the best of fights; and secure, if pos- sible, the comforts of hi... ...branches, to resent injuries, or as members of a church militant to put on armour against its enemies. But the boys stood their ground like heroes, an... ...ns controlled, judges instructed in law, generals in strategy, admirals in naval tactics, and orange-women in the management of their barrows?’ ‘Yes, ...

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... 182 The Rescue clung closer to his soul—like a garment of light— like an armour of fire. He was unwilling to face the facts. All his life—till that ... ... the rails of its verandah and visible from head to foot two figures in an armour of chain mail with pointed steel helmets crested with white and blac... ...er, and had brought the captives into the lagoon. But the two men in chain armour on watch outside the door of the small house were Belarab’s two part... ...et them fall. Lingard sat down on the breech of a heavy piece mounted on a naval carriage so as to command the lagoon. He folded his arms on his breas... ...ith her face wet with tears, out of a vivid dream of Lingard in chain-mail armour and vaguely recalling a Crusader, but bare-headed and walking away f...

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...dash threat- ening the headstroke—about the same as disabling sails in old naval engagements. That was the part for the officer; we are speaking of th... ...ontempt lodged in her mind to shadow husbands precipitating women on their armoury for a taste of vengeance. Women can always be revenged—so speedily,... ...ndefensible brazen Mrs. Amy May, who was only the daugh- ter of a half-pay naval captain, and that Marquis of Collestou, who would, they say, decorate... ... of his term of service. Entering the house, Lady Charlotte glanced at the armour and stag branches decorating corners of the hall, and straight- way ...

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...e chief mine-owner of the district, Thomas Crich, was getting married to a naval officer. ‘Let us go back,’ said Gudrun, swerving away. ‘There are all... ...ways felt vul- nerable, vulnerable, there was always a secret chink in her armour. She did not know herself what it was. It was a lack of robust self,... ...motionally he was violated by his exposure to a crowd. He looked a typical naval officer, manly, and up to his duty. Birkin came with Hermione. She ha... ... your mind?’ ‘What’s wrong with it?’ asked the bridegroom, a clean- shaven naval man, flushing sensitively. ‘Sounds as if you were going to be execute... ...he dread almost amounting to horror, was rising into being. But before the armour of his pity really broke, he would die, as an insect when its shell ...

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...r to remonstrate?’ exclaimed James, stopping. ‘Oh! you want to put on your armour! Certainly, I should never tell if I were come to remonstrate, nor s... ... tened to the confidences of Limenian beauties—talked of England to little naval cadets, more homesick than they would have chosen to avow—and felt su... ...y and Rosita were the only ladies; but there were several gentlemen, three naval officers, and Mr. Ward, who was delighted to have an opportunity of v...

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...h plen- tiful cap-puckers, there hung a passably executed half-figure of a naval officer in uniform, grasping a telescope under his left arm, who stoo... ...icate his rank, had also recorded the juvenility which a lieutenant in the naval ser- vice can retain after arriving at that position, by painting him... ...e his darling Letitia was a Catholic—Letitia, the sole daughter of a brave naval officer deceased, and in the hands of a savage uncle, who wanted to s... ...t his will, had to feel as conscious of the young man’s imaginative mental armour, as he was of his muscular physical. “The same sort of day!” mused R...

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...e of the heavy staircase beams excepting their own proper shapes, when the armour has dull lights upon it not easily to be distinguished from stealthy... ...g the beach. There was a concourse of people in one spot, surrounding some naval officers who were landing from a boat, and press ing about them with... ...Squod, with his smoky gunpowder visage, at once acts as nurse and works as armourer at his little table in a corner, often looking round and saying wi...

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...fortunes and poetical talent gained him the friendship of one T ychias, an armourer. “And up to my time,” continued the author, “the inhabit- ants sho... ...just as long on the like account. If he gives his hero a suit of celestial armour, Virgil and Tasso make the same present to theirs. Virgil has not on... ...ntercession of the am- bassadors or the gifts of the general. He lends his armour to his friend, but commands him not to engage with the chief of the ... ...he most lively despair, prepares to fight; he receives from a divinity new armour, is reconciled with his general and, thirsting for glory and revenge... ... High o’er them all a general tomb be raised; Next, to secure our camp and naval powers, Raise an embattled wall, with lofty towers; From space to spa... ...nd round the pile a general tomb they rear’d. Then, to secure the camp and naval powers, They raised embattled walls with lofty towers: 146 From space... ...orced, and bulwarks gain’d; There, on the margin of the hoary deep, (Their naval station where the Ajaces keep. And where low walls confine the beatin... ...ching dares attempt his fate: 302 The Iliad of Homer Even to the last his naval charge defends, Now shakes his spear, now lifts, and now protends; Ev... ...hands, Against the sable ships, with flaming brands, So well the chief his naval weapon sped, The luckless warrior at his stern lay dead: Full twelve,...

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...cy. Take, for instance, Gustave Dore’s drawing of Don Quixote watching his armour in the inn-yard. Whether or not the Venta de Quesada on the Seville ... ...primitive draw-well in the corner that he meant Don Quixote to deposit his armour. Gustave Dore makes it an elaborate fountain such as no arriero ever... ... he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice him... ...put his scheme into execution. The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages ly... ... country, and did honour to it in taking his surname from it. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christene... ...remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the n...

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...fortunes and poetical talent gained him the friendship of one T ychias, an armourer. “And up to my time,” continues the author, “the inhabitants showe... ...eep circumfluent waves embrace; A duteous people, and industrious isle, To naval arts inured, and stormy toil. Freighted with iron from my native land... ...hou to the court ascend : and to the shores (When night advances) bear the naval stores; Bread, that decaying man with strength supplies, And generous... ... goddess shoved the vessel from the shores, And stow’d within its womb the naval stores, Full in the openings of the spacious main It rides; and now d... ...here wander’d Menelaus through foreign shores Amassing gold, and gathering naval stores; While cursed Aegysthus the detested deed By fraud fulfilled, ... ... due, Prescribe directions and confirm the crew. For I alone sustain their naval cares, Who boast experience from these silver hairs; All youths the r... ...hing lids grow black; The jelly bubbles, and the fibres crack. And as when armourers temper in the ford The keen edged pole axe, or the shining sword,... ... “Meantime, forgetful of the voice divine, All dreadful bright my limbs in armour shine; High on the deck I take my dangerous stand, T wo glittering j... ...e sign: that instant, from beneath, Aloft convey the instruments of death, Armour and arms; and, if mistrust arise, Thus veil the truth in plausible d...

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...erset House. My mother, whose maiden name was Mary Griffith, belonged to a naval family. Her father had been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, a... ...the offer was passed on to him, and he ap- peared in the full glory of his naval uniform. Not much choice had been offered to him. My mother would hav... ...ion of shining curls, were our notion of perfect beauty, select the little naval cadet for her partner at the dancing master’s ball? In the first voya... ... Clarence himself. Captain Brydone was one of the rough old description of naval men, good sailors and stern discipli- narians, but wanting in any sen... ...d the trophy of swords, dirks, daggers, and pistols, chiefly relics of our naval grandfather, but reinforced by the sword, helmet, and spurs of the co... ... of having one among us who is as real and true knight as ever watched his armour - ‘“For king, for church, for lady fight!” It has all come glo- riou...

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...as two war vessels, which remain in atten- dance on him. His functions are naval. I tell you what I learn, and mix up together the more or less probab... ...d most marvellous manifest proof, alone, forsaken by all his soldiers, his armour hacked and hewed to pieces, cov- ered all over with blood and wounds... ...ght off, and the count, with the common curiosity com- ing to view it, the armour was no sooner taken off but he immediately knew him to be his own so... ...selves, put to death their brave captains newly returned triumphant from a naval victory they had obtained over the Lacedaemonians near the Arginusian... ...er, punished them in the same kind; for Chabrias, captain-general of their naval forces, having got the better of Pollis, Admiral of Sparta, at the Is... ...ide beneath iron or brass in his fear, death will pull his head out of his armour.”—Propertious iii. 18] —let us learn bravely to stand our ground, an... ... by the noise of the Cataracts.]—Smiths, millers, pewterers, forgemen, and armourers could never be able to live in the perpetual noise of their own t... ...ess the vulgar with the solid and real foundations of truth. ’T was a fine naval battle that was gained under the command of Don John of Austria a few... ...iven them a notable de- feat, the summer following he obtained over them a naval victory. The Romans fought at a very great disadvantage, in the engag...

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...of gloves worn within doors, she seemed to con- sider as at once a kind of armour against misfortune (invari- ably assuming it when in low spirits or ... ...) by his ribs only, standing on a shelf in another corner, like a piece of armour or a pair of stays. ‘Oh!’ says Mr Wegg, with a sort of sense of bein... ... two, and tries the eye-glass; but, from the impenetrable cap and snorting armour of the stoney aunt all weapons rebound powerless. Another objectiona... ...offer a suggestion to my honourable and gallant friend, whose knowledge of naval mat- ters far be it from me to impeach,’ Eugene struck in with great ...

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... one to recover; ’tis a sanguine creature; it is all abroad again before (I guess again) two minutes. It is odd how difficult in this world it is to b... ... Arab, I suppose, and was sur- rounded by seven people, fondling his limbs as he lay: he was shot through both lungs. And an orderly was sent to the t... ...the 207 V ailima Letters Curacoas. She is really a model ship, charming officers and charming seamen. They gave a ball last month, which was very rac...