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"No time like the present, Sir Knight," replied the gallant Tartar, who was arrayed in armour of rare and curious workmanship, studded all over with gold and precious gems. "If he presses me it must be done."
The moon, whose dull broad disk had risen among the evening mists arrayed in gloomy red, had now topped the highest of the exhalations of earth, and beamed in the wide heaven, adorned once more in her pale, accustomed hue.
At all events, and be the cause of difference what it might, when the storm of the Revolution burst over the land, the brothers were found arrayed on opposite sides the two younger, the fathers of Roland and Edith, instantly taking up arms in the popular cause, while nothing, perhaps, but helpless feebleness and bodily infirmities, the results of wounds received in Braddock's war, throughout which he had fought at the head of a battalion of "Buckskins," or Virginia Rangers, prevented the elder brother from arming as zealously in the cause of his king.
Arrayed in a new calico dress, with clean, white apron, and high, well-starched turban, her black polished face glowing with satisfaction, she lingered, with needless punctiliousness, around the arrangements of the table, merely as an excuse for talking a little to her mistress. "Laws, now! won't it look natural to him?" she said. "Thar, I set his plate just whar he likes it round by the fire.
On reaching the palace half-an-hour before dinner-time, Dr Tempest found that other guests were expected, and on descending to the great yellow drawing-room, which was used only on state occasions, he encountered Mrs Proudie and two of her daughters arrayed in a full panoply of female armour.
I shall never forget the sweetness of the air, the something of sadness in the thought of love, even in this form. The sun was singing its evensong, as were the birds. But Peter blessings or curses upon him! was arrayed as only he could array himself when he wished to look absolutely disconcerting more like an unwashed, uncombed tramp who had been sleeping out for weeks, than anything else.
The victors, arrayed in iron from head to foot, lost no one, the peasants did not count. If the vanquished was taken, he was not massacred, because chivalry had established a fraternity of arms between noblemen, the mounted warriors of different nations, and ransom replaced death. If we have spoken especially of the infantry fight, it is because it was the most serious.
Or think'st thou, that e'en in the regions of bliss, There's a landscape more truly Elysian than this? Behold the dark sumac in crimson arrayed, Whose veins with the deadliest poison are rife! And, side by her side, on the edge of the glade, The sassafras laurel, restorer of life!
All these actions arrayed themselves before my detached observation. Paralyzing self-analysis preoccupied me. I kissed her upon the brow, the eyes, with pressure and strength upon the lips. I was not acting; I was thinking out these demonstrations. The consciousness that I was deceiving Isabel broke my emotional concentration. Could she sense that my heart was beating, but with terror?
Philibert ran again into the woods and disappeared. "There is too much loss of blood too much," the surgeon remarked gravely. Lecour, wondering and agitated, divined, while the others were occupied, the identity of the visitant. Lecour had succeeded for a time in baffling the forces arrayed against him.
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