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Squire be a high man, and I ha' never dared lift up my voice to him oothout axen. But 'tis to be. I ha' summat to tell him, low born as I be; ay, I mun tell him, cost what it may." "Well, he's not a dragon. I have something to tell him too cost what it may." There was silence for a space. Then Dickon said tremulously: "Bin it a great matter, yourn, sir, I make bold to axe?"

My bow And quiver lay astern beside the helm; And just as we had reached the corner, near The Little Axen , heaven ordained it so, That from the Gotthardt's gorge, a hurricane Swept down upon us with such headlong force, That every rower's heart within him sank, And all on board looked for a watery grave.

In this moment of deadly danger, Gessler commanded them to unbind Tell, who, he knew, was an excellent boatman; and as they passed by the foot of the Axen Mountain, to the right as you come out of the Bay of Uri, Tell grasped his bow and leaped upon a flat rock there, climbed up the mountain while the boat tossed to and fro against the rocks, and fled through the land of the men of Schwyz.

Treuly, treuly, I seie to ghou, if ghe axen the Fadir ony thing in my name he schal ghyue to ghou." John xvi. 22, 23. Now, Margery had neither teacher nor commentary to interpret to her the words of Scripture; and the result was, that she never dreamed of modifying any of them, but took the words simply and literally.

"Soothly, no: it is not in the book. `Whateuer thing ye axen the Fadir in my name, I schal do that thing, saith Christ: but I hear not a word of `whatever thing ye shall ask Saint Michael, or Saint Anne." "Account you confession unto priests to be right or evil?" "It may be right I wis not; but I saw it not in the book.

The description, for instance, of his country coquette 'Wincing she was, as is a wanton colt, Sweet as a flower, and upright as a bolt. Then, again, for pathos, where will you mend the dying scene of Arcite? 'Alas, my heart's queen! alas, my wife! Giver at once, and ender of my life. What is this world? What axen men to have?

Among these triumphs are the viaduct of Grandfey; the railroads that climb the Righi and the Uetliberg; the Axen tunnel and quay; and the Gotthard tunnel, over nine miles long a solid granite bore through a mountain.

We tarried once for several days at Brunnen, and read the play upon the spot in sight of the Rütli, in the little balcony of the pension of the Golden Eagle, with the deep, calm, blue lake at our feet, and the Hacken and Axen mountains and the Selisberg shutting out the world for a time; and as we look at the play now, it recalls with the utmost minuteness the scenery and the coloring of it all: yet Schiller never was there.

'Tis at foot of the Great Axen; But looks so steep, I never could have dreamed 'Twere possible to leap it from the boat. TELL. I bade the men put forth their utmost might, Until we came before the shelving crag. For there, I said, the danger will be past!