United States or Liechtenstein ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
So greatly did men value him that when the news came that he was dead and his body removed to Hringariki and intended for burial there, the chief men from Raumariki and Westfold and Heithmörk came and all requested that they might take his body with them and bury it in their various provinces; they thought that it would bring abundance to those who obtained it.
But I neither reject nor despise them; each of them counts one; each serves to fill a place on my solitaire board, each hurries on that dreadful possible time coming when my collection shall be complete, and I shall have nothing to do but break my collecting rod and bury it fathoms deep.
"I saw a fellow in the Morgue one day, a poor wretch who had drowned himself a week or two before. Great God, how horrible he looked! If there was any certainty they would find one immediately, and bury one decently, there'd be no particular horror in that kind of death.
"My lord hath Xeres wine that is the very original nectar of the gods, and he drinks it from goblets worth a king's ransom. We have heard a deal to-day about burying hatchets: bury thine for the nonce, Ralph Percy, and come drink with us." "Not I," I said. "I would sooner drink with some one else." He laughed. "Here's my lord himself shall persuade you."
On their left the river, high with melted snows from the north, moved in slow eddies near the shore, quicker eddies away from the shore, steady and swift flow in the middle a changing, fascinating panorama. There fell a long silence before she turned to the young man beside her. "Well, Mr. Native," she began, smiling, "I hope you don't mean to bury yourself this morning!
Every day science is getting closer to the control of metabolism. In the trance the body functions are so slowed as to simulate death. You have heard of the Indian fakirs who bury themselves alive and are dug up days later? You have doubted it. But there is nothing improbable in it.
We merely content ourselves with saying in the most solemn words that we can use, that, awful and disastrous as is the war that is now raging throughout the greatest part of the old world, it is our firm belief that, behind the smoke-clouds of battle, and beneath the surface of visible events, there is working a secret power, possibly greater than any which has yet been called into action, and which at an unexpected moment may suddenly put forth its strength, upheave the foundations of Society, and bury existing institutions in the ruins of Civilisation.
I'm telling you the truth, Your Honor. Do what you like with me; I'm ready." Half of the jury were blowing their noses violently to keep from crying. The women in the courtroom were sobbing. The president asked her: "Where did you bury the other one?" "The one that you have?" she asked. "Why, this one this one was in the artichokes."
But to the sexton he is a perfect pest, for if a grave be made during his absence he will importune until he get the name of the departed. 'Graves, says I, 'where do they bury these unfortunate women who die off so, here in Charleston? 'Bless you, my friend, says Graves, accompanying his words with an idiotic laugh, 'why, there's three stacks of them, yonder.
And thus upon a night there came a vision to Sir Lancelot, and charged him in remission of his sins, to haste him unto Almesbury and by then thou come there, thou shalt find Queen Guinevere dead, and therefore take thy fellows with thee, and purvey thee of an horse-bier, and fetch thou the corpse of her, and bury her by her husband, the noble King Arthur.
Word Of The Day