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...e from the Buytenhof appeared at the extremity of the street along which the carriage was to proceed, and its stream moved roaring and rapid, as if la... ...ind the courageous Rosa. They went to close the great gate, at least as well as it would close, considering that it was half demolished. It was easy t... ...ched at the head of his Commit- tee carrying an enormous nosegay, like that which a hun- dred and twenty-one years later, Monsieur de Robespierre disp... ...lent music with which the gentle- men of the town councils generously treated the assem- blage at every halt. Every eye was looking eagerly for the he... ...among the crowd, for more than anything he dreaded to descry there the pale face of the pretty Frisian girl. She would have been a spectre spoiling th... ...e of his hopes, lay senseless on the ground. When they raised him, and examined his pulse and his heart, he was quite dead. This incident did not much...

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... The Prelude of 1850 Kept holiday, a never ending show, With music, incense, festival, and flowers! 585 Here must we pause: this only let me add, From ... ...held our way, direct through hamlets, towns, 350 Gaudy with reliques of that festival, Flowers left to wither on triumphal arcs, And window garlands. ... ...re, Mobs, riots, or rejoicings? From these sights 675 Take one,—that ancient festival, the Fair, Holden where martyrs suffered in past time, And named... ...es, And here and there a stranger interspersed. 10 They hold a rustic fair—a festival, Such as, on this side now, and now on that, Repeated through hi... ..., and no star Of wildest course but treads back his own steps; For the spent hurricane the air provides 80 As fierce a successor; the tide retreats But...

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...rton House. Lord St. Erme is always send- ing cases home, and it is such a festival day to go up and see them unpacked, and Caroline and Annette go an... ...osing it and the doors. ‘I shall be gone in a moment, and you may let in a hurricane if you like. Have you seen my cigar-case!’ ‘It was on the ledge o... ...ent from it, and you will find it come.’ ‘ Ah! I have missed all the great festivals this year. I have not stayed to the full service since I was at R... ...o excited her imagination, and to whom she had been introduced at a school festival. She seemed to have realized all Emma’s ex- pectations, and had no...

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...rehended within its circuit the beginning and the end of this unparalleled hurricane. In 1834, the first light augury of mischief skirted the horizon—... ...its weight in gold, was discovered by mere accident, on occa- sion of some festival solemnity in the year 1612. V . To what I said, in the first scene... ...magnificent dress remains yet to be mentioned, viz. the dress of honor, or festival dress—which answers in every re- spect to the modern CAFTAN. This ... ...venly palace with the length of his train, 10 Another distinction of this festival robe, was the ordinary fulness and length of the sleeves; these de... ...esent made by the native princes to distinguished officers. The Caftan, or festival robe of the Hebrews, was, in my opinion, the [Greek T ext: Peaelos... ... compass, and equally dis- tinguished for its splendor. 4. Like the Hebrew festival garment, the palla was a vestis seposita, and reserved for rare so...

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...ation of un- certain danger and troubles; and if I could have foreseen the hurricane and perfect hail-storm of affliction which soon fell upon me, wel... ...rkness a sort of rehearsal whilst waking, a crowd of ladies, and perhaps a festival and dances. And I heard it said, or I said to myself, “These are E...

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...hings on the occasion, which I shall not now repeat. “In the midst of this hurricane the good doctor came to dine with Mrs. Harris, and at my desire d... ...thought the best husbands had looked on their wives’ lying-in as a time of festival and jollity. What! did you not even get drunk in the time of your ... ...of sorrow. “My father, besides those prescribed by our religion, kept five festivals every year. These were on his wedding-day, and on the birthday of...

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...Haidee’s learned reference is to the behavior of an actor in the Dionysian festivals. — Ed. 178 The Count of Monte Cristo to Constantinople resounded... ... cloud of dust he raised, like the genius of the simoom and the god of the hurricane. “I never knew till now the delight of speed,” said Morcerf, and ... ...ied in a week, and in three days there is to be a grand feast, a betrothal festival. We are all invited, my father, Madame de Villefort, and I — at le...

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...ass last Sunday—had proposed to entertain the visiting priests at the next festival of Ploumar! It was a triumph for the Church and for the good cause... ...stood in a calm resonant and disquieting, like the calm in the centre of a hurricane. On stormy nights, when the tide was out, the bay of Fougere, fif... ...ash- ing down about him, like solid walls do before the fierce breath of a hurricane. He stared, shaking in every limb, while he felt the destructive ...

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...here to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and The O... ...bed time. People should go away early and not keep late hours at a religious festival.” Thus spoke the daughter of Jove, and they obeyed her saying. M... ...car ried overboard a long way off. He let go the helm, and the force of the hurricane was so great that it broke the mast half way up, and both sail ... ...he other hand, I swim further in search of some shelving beach or harbour, a hurricane may carry me out to sea again sorely against my will, or heaven... ...stars had shifted their places, Jove raised a great gale of wind that flew a hurricane so that land and sea were covered with thick clouds, and night ... ...m on his way, but even so he was not to reach home, for to his great grief a hurricane carried him out to sea again; how he went on to the Laestrygoni... ...f the livelong day , nor should we ever have left off if Jove had not sent a hurricane to stay us. Then, when we had borne you to the ships out of the...

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...gh, Cast on the rout a wondering eye, Till far beyond her piercing ken The hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Return... ...t poetically for the rocky point which the falcon takes as a look-out. 69. Hurricane. A metaphor for the wild rush of the hunt. 71. Linn. Literally, a... ...utlaw and his band was a favorite frolic at such 208 The Lady of the Lake festivals as we are describing. This sporting, in which kings did not disda...

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... CUTS A VERY DASHING FIGURE IN THE WORLD. TWO YEARS HAVE ELAPSED since the festival at Richmond, which, begun so peaceably, ended in such general upro... ... of a colonel), that our noblemen and gentry ea- gerly press for it. Frank Hurricane was sent out as registrar of Tobago, or Sago, or Ticonderago; in ... ...; that I can bring her out at the Palace, and at every concert and musical festival in England; that I am obliged to teach her every single note that ...

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...e was going to have it on the very day that St. Milburga’s Guild has their festival! Just as if it was on purpose!” “Did you ask her to keep clear of ... ...y told you?” “Oh, yes; but Polly seemed bent on its not clashing with some festival at St. Kenelm’s.” “Therefore I had not fixed the day till I had he... ...violent gusts of wind and hail, though not at the very nearest, and such a hurricane of wind and rain ensued that the two watchers concluded that 61 ...

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... himself his own life in the mean- while, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort of ... ... in itself, but by its circumstances. For a few bright days in England the hurricane must break forth and the North Sea pay a toll of populous ships. ...

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...n. No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to... ...n 115 might not impend over me and my devoted family! Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me...

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... the mountains, and he that comes to me Like eagle must win, and like hurricane woo me. And another, reclining on a couch buried in dusky silks, ... ... Then commenced that fes- tival which lasted forty days, and is termed the Festival of the honours of hospitality to the Sons of Aldis, wherein the 2...

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...ially defaced the up- per end of the dancing place, and asserted that “The Festival of the Awakening” was in progress. “Myriads are taking holiday or ... ... like a window in a well built brightly lit house flung open suddenly to a hurricane. The dark hurry and tumult, the stress and vehemence of the battl...

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...lgrims, or those orien- tal ones crossing the Red Sea towards Mecca in the festival month, there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and for... ... say for a walk? My arm, and let’s a turn. They are to have dancing on the hurricane-deck to-night. I shall fling them off a Scotch jig, while, to sav...

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...ty round of petty duties, the rare and bar- ren pleasures—the library, the festival, the few concerts, the trivial plays. How easy it was to be good a... ...ry good time Sunday afternoon.” 97 Frank Norris He referred to the Easter festival at his mission school. Laura had left rather early, alleging neura... ... the avalanche, the undiked Ocean of the Wheat, leaping to the lash of the hurricane, struck him fairly in the face. He heard it now, he heard nothing...

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...onversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foun- 23 Herman Melville dered ship weltering there wi... ...s! See yonder Chilian! he snorts to think of it. Stand up amid the general hurricane, thy one tost sapling cannot, Starbuck! And what is it? Reckon it... ...is, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the... ...ar!” And with one blast of his breath he extinguished the flame. As in the hurricane that sweeps the plain, men fly the neigh- borhood of some lone, g...

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...onversed upon the subject. The picture represents a Cape Horner in a great hurricane; the half foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantl... ...s! See yonder Chilian! he snorts to think of it. Stand up amid the general hurricane, thy one teste sapling cannot, Starbuck! And what is it? Reckon i... ...ois, the midwinter sacrifice of the sacred White Dog was by far the holiest festival of their theology, that spotless, faithful creature being held the... ...he Candles 481 one blast of his breath he extinguished the flame. As in the hurricane that sweeps the plain, men fly the neighborhood of some lone, giga...