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Time and neglect, the ravages of war, and the encroaching powers of Nature have destroyed these settlements, and nothing now remains of the three cities but Ravenna. It would seem that in classical times Ravenna stood, like modern Venice, in the centre of a huge lagune, the fresh waters of the Ronco and the Po mixing with the salt waves of the Adriatic round its very walls.
In these and similar things the community itself was restricted from encroaching on the burgess, nor was this restriction merely ideal; it found its expression and its practical application in the constitutional veto of the senate, which was certainly entitled and bound to annul any resolution of the community contravening such an original right.
At last our destination is reached, through fields of sugar-cane and plantations of coffee, past luxuriant fruit trees, rustling, broad-leafed bananas and encroaching greenery of all sorts, to a clearing where a really handsome house stands, with hospitable, wide-open doors, awaiting us. How green and fragrant and still it all is!
The town in which it was situated possessed in a high degree the associations and the architectural features which throw a mediaeval shadow over many northern cities, causing even the encroaching paint- brush of modern progress to move in old-fashioned lines of subdued colour. In northern lands antiquity is not associated with the presence of dirt, as it is in the south.
Here it says to an encroaching prerogative, "Your sceptre has its length; you cannot add an hair to your head, or a gem to your crown, but what an eternal law has given to it." Here it says to an overweening peerage, "Your pride finds banks that it cannot overflow": here to a tumultuous and giddy people, "There is a bound to the raging of the sea."
Guiding his horse half abstractedly in this direction, his progress was presently checked by the splashing of the animal's hoofs in the water. But the turf below was firm, and a salt drop that had spattered to his lips told him that it was only the encroaching of the tide in the meadow. With his eyes on the light, he again urged his horse forward.
He appears in it commissioning 'his great uncle, an elder brother, that is, of his mother, to go and rule, as marquis of Shan, and chief or president of the states in the south of the kingdom, to defend the borders against the encroaching hordes of the south, headed by the princes of Khu, whose lords bad been rebellious against the middle states even in the time of the Shang dynasty; see the last of the Sacrificial Odes of Shang.
Say, that car turned off to the right back here some miles.... But, worse luck, the I.W.W.'s can work at night." "We'll watch at night, too," replied Dorn. Lenore was conscious of anger encroaching upon the melancholy splendor of her emotions, and the change was bitter.
If Englishmen are sober minded, what about American women? Do they lose their heads easily?" "No. That's why " She stopped abruptly. "What is it you want to say to me? What are you trying to say?" "Nothing!" she answered. And her voice sounded almost sulky. The bar of lemon light over the sea narrowed. Clouds, with gold tinted edges, were encroaching upon it.
"I won't," she said, faintly. "I have made all the arrangements," said Johnny's grandfather. "I simply told ah, the people who know about him, that I was going to take him." He was standing, switching his cane behind him; it hit an encroaching table leg and he apologized profusely. "Mary was badly scared. As if I could not manage a thing like that! I like to scare him" the new Mr.
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