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...s for’er stay buried. Tho’ longing for their abode o’er cloud nine, Anacamptic sound of harps in their hearts, They can’t evade it, but must lay supine, Unable to outsmart the Cupid’s darts. Knowing not what picking up this cherry Entails, they moan: Enjoy life, be merry! ...

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...rise again, the very thing he had intended never to be, Kane found himself supine on the Oriental carpet, staring up at the beige ceiling, his mawla l...

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...n sleeve and collar, exacerbating the musty odor of her blouse, while she, supine and splayed, with head propped against a tree, was ready to relinqu... ...ago before we married? I remember the sheen of the burly frame naked and supine on the bed. And we were intimate then...for a time—I mean more than...

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...lt beside him and pushed, rolled. A quarter-turn, a half-turn, prostrate to supine and back to prostrate, the old man's jaw slack, the rest of him a...

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...” the girl snapped. “He’s the one who has to answer.” Peter’s hands had laid supine outside his thin cover- ing; now a small pulsing blue ball formed ...

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...Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.’ ‘My feet are at Moorgate, and my he...

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... forth my hands In adoration, cry aloud and soar In spirit, high above the supine lands And the low caves of mortal things, and flee 46 New Poems by ... ...e light of love; But ever climbing, climb above Man’s one poor star, man’s supine lands, Into the azure steadfastness of death, My life shall no wise ...

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...eyes were partly opened now, but they did not seem to see anything. He was supine. The digni- fied person next him, with short side whiskers and a car... ...les gave a soft laugh. We got up and went out on the verandah, leaving the supine stranger to be dealt with by the Chinamen. The last thing I saw they...

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... the ponderous stone, Burst the strong nerves, and crash’d the solid bone. Supine he tumbles on the crimson sands, Before his helpless friends, and na... ...ith a groan Thus pour’d his plaints before the immortal throne: “Can Jove, supine, flagitious facts survey, 143 Pope And brook the furies of this dar... ... way his breast assailed, Nor aught the warrior’s thundering mace avail’d. Supine he fell: those arms which Mars before Had given the vanquish’d, now ... ...r race.” This said, Pisander from the car he cast, And pierced his breast: supine he breathed his last. His brother leap’d to earth; but, as he lay, T... ...w vein, that to the neck extends Along the chine, his eager javelin rends: Supine he falls, and to his social train Spreads his imploring arms, but sp... ...) 282 The Iliad of Homer Struck through the belly’s rim, the warrior lies Supine, and shades eternal veil his eyes. An arduous battle rose around the... ... margin of his ample shield He struck his hasty foot: his heels up-sprung; Supine he fell; his brazen helmet rung. On the fallen chief the invading T ... ...d spreads its honours on the ground, Thus fell the king; and laid on earth supine, Before his chariot stretch’d his form divine: He grasp’d the dust d... ...oody arms of Hector dead.’ He spoke, Patroclus march’d, and thus he sped.” Supine, and wildly gazing on the skies, With faint, expiring breath, the ch...

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...like Jasper, impracticably like her father, odiously like that grotesquely supine creature in the chair. Was it possible to talk him over? Perhaps it ...

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...ldry and guile, And to the assembled rebels thus he spake: “Whether to lie supine and let a clique Cold-blooded, scheming, hungry, singing psalms, Dev...

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...; Then stretch’d in length o’er half the cavern’d rock, Lay senseless, and supine, amidst the flock. To seize the time, and with a sudden wound T o fi... ...then nodding with the fumes of wine Droop’d his huge head, and snoring lay supine. His neck obliquely o’er his shoulders hung, Press’d with the weight... ...rd each quarter as the tempests blow. There lay the king, and all the rest supine; All, but the careful master of the swine: Forth hasted he to tend h...

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...rassing both; until he sank and pressed The couch his fate had made for him; supine, Save when the stings of viperous remorse, Trying their strength, ...

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...ilosophy, thoughtless to soothe, Lifts, if thou wilt, or there leaves thee supine. Thy condition, good sooth, has no seeming of sweet; It walks our fi... ... of what nourishment Her dark sustainer subterrene Supplied her, stretched supine on the rack, Alive in the shrewd nerves, the seething brains, Under ...

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... 1. 1. It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky, Upon the cloudy mountain-peak supine; Below, far lands are seen tremblingly; Its horror and its beauty ar...

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...y and worm, start ceiling-high (balkenhock), and thence fall shattered and supine, to be borne home on shutters, not without indignation, when he prov...

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... good opinion, and perhaps in his own. He wakened up from the listless and supine life which he had been leading; was always riding to and fro in cons...

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...s old, stark naked, and a 215 Robert Louis Stevenson model of young human beauty. And there will always be the favourite and perhaps two other wives ...

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...g and confusion and a momentary feeling of darkness. I let my spirit float supine over that chaos. A phrase of Edward Garnett’s is, as a matter of fac...

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...otice that nothing was more fatal to the inhabitants of this city than the supine negligence of the people themselves, who, during the long notice or ...