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"Aye," said I, staring up at the glory of stars, "but how if we come on no water? Our journey shall end the sooner, methinks." "True, Martin," said he, "but we are sure to find water soon or late " "God send it be soon!" I groaned. Here he sets himself to comfort Pluto who lay betwixt us, panting miserably, with lolling tongue or snapping fiercely at these pestilent flies.
Methinks, my little rover, thou bearest news I long to read. Another and another day passed, and again and again Rufus observed the visits of Mignon; so, taking his cross-bow one fair morning, ere the dew had left the flowers, he wandered forth in the direction of Branchimont. True to his mission, Mignon soon appears, skimming along the sky. Beautiful, beautiful bird!
It is faint, but delicious; and yet, after all, by no means agreeable. Were I to breathe it long, methinks it would make me ill. It is like the breath of a flower; but I see no flowers in the chamber." "Nor are there any," replied Giovanni, who had turned pale as the professor spoke; "nor, I think, is there any fragrance except in your worship's imagination.
"Yet methinks the son should inherit some of the father's courage." John Stevens' cheek reddened at the delicate insinuation against his courage, and he responded: "Have I not, on more than one hard-fought field, established my claim to courage?" "True, yet why shrink from this voyage?" "A soothsayer once predicted that dire calamities would overcome me, were I ever to venture upon the sea."
At a distance of perhaps half a mile they stopped and stared hard at the scene ahead of them. "Hear ye anything, Cunora?" asked the older woman. The girl's keen ears had caught a sound. "Methinks something hath aroused our people. I wonder " "Cunora!" gasped Rolla excitedly. "Think ye that Corrus and Dulnop have succeeded in growing the flower?" They ran nearer.
A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face, Eyed through Hope's deluding glass. It must not be supposed that, because these poems are concise, they are of easy production; a poet's genius may not be diminutive because his pieces are so; nor must we call them, as a fine sonnet has been called, a difficult trifle.
Methinks that, with some sand from the river bed, I shall be able to manage it with an hour's rubbing." "Now, come along, Roger. There is no time to be lost, for I dine at midday with the Earl of Talbot. Master Pemberton will show us where the armour is lying." There was, indeed, a large pile.
Thus do We send down upon you that which shall profit you and profit them that have placed their whole trust and confidence in their Lord. 108 O ye divines of the City! We came to you with the truth, whilst ye were heedless of it. Methinks ye are as dead, wrapt in the coverings of your own selves. Ye sought not Our presence, when so to do would have been better for you than all your doings.
Thus he went on; and speaking then of my Lord Sandwich, whom he professed to love exceedingly, says Creed, "I know not what, but he is a man, methinks, that I could love for himself, without other regards."... He talked very lewdly; and then took notice of my kindness to him on shipboard seven years ago, when the King was coming over, and how much he was obliged to me; but says, pray look upon this acknowledgement of a kindness in me to be a miracle; for, says he, "it is against the law at Court for a man that borrows money of me, even to buy his place with, to own it the next Sunday;" and then told us his horse was a bribe, and his boots a bribe; and told us he was made up of bribes, as an Oxford scholar is set out with other men's goods when he goes out of town, and that he makes every sort of tradesman to bribe him; and invited me home to his house, to taste of his bribe wine.
I'll assure you, Sir, she's kept, and is a great Rarity, but to a Friend, or so Sir Tim. Hum kept pray, by whom? Driv. Why, a silly Knight, Sir, that Sir Tim. Ay, ay, silly indeed a Pox upon her a silly Knight, you say Driv. Ay, Sir, one she makes a very Ass of. Sir Tim. Ay, so methinks but she's kind, and will do reason for all him. Driv. To a Friend, a Man of Quality or so. Sir Tim.
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