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Sometimes it is the moon; her name is Astarte or Ashtoreth, and she is a very different being from the Ashera of Canaan; the names are not the same, and the characters are opposite.
She had been seriously afraid of him of late. She felt as if he were lying in wait to seize her. But now she thought he could no longer have any power over her. She would remember to look for him towards night when the moon rose. It happened that a couple of wandering musicians came by about noon.
No more shall the White Witch stand upon the pillar point at the rising of the sun, or in the shining of the moon." "Father, I have never understood you, and I do not understand you now," said Benita. "What has this spirit to do with me?" He smiled a little, then answered slowly: "That I may not tell you; that you shall learn one day, but never here.
Night had come as it generally does, quicker than the twilight had seemed to promise. While the human eye still felt the sky as light gray, a very large and lustrous moon appearing abruptly above a bulk of roofs and trees, proved by contrast that the sky was already a very dark gray indeed.
Now I beg you the sun and the moon to behold, The one that's so bright and the other so cold. And say if two things in creation there be Better emblems of Riches and Poverty. In manner most brief, yet convincing and clear, You have told the whole truth to my wond'ring ear, And I see that 'twas God, who in all things is fair, Has assign'd us the forms, in this world which we bear.
Tonight Head Boy of Community Doctor bring chit. I watch with carefulness Dr. Ewing making reading. She look see my interest of face and say, "It will all come right, Moonflower. Tomorrow afternoon we hold council. Run along to bed, now." I give unto her good night partings and retire within my Mieng but sleep not. 5th Moon 2d day When sun glow in window I arise and make entrance into garden.
The combined lights of these singular bodies surpassed the light of our terrestrial moon, by reason of their closeness to the surface of Mars, while the more rapid motion of the inner satellite causes the most weird and beautiful changes of effect in the nocturnal glory they both lend to the Martian life. "We were sailing in a broad river-like canal, perhaps one mile or more wide.
Rome had strode forward. "Yes, boy; now's the time, right hyeh before us all!" The mother had the knife outstretched. Rome took it, and the scratch of the point on the hard steel went twice through the stillness "one more fer the young un;" the voice was the old mother's then twice again. The moon was sinking when Rome stood in the door alone.
Unlike the northern Indians, the Camanches resort to the buffalo dance only on rare occasions, but when they do undertake it, their persistence is admirable; and for this reason, the other tribes have a saying, or sort of proverb, that when the Camanches dance for "buffalo" it is a good moon to hunt, but a bad moon on the war-path.
Life was worth more to him than to other men, he thought; and perhaps he was right. He went slowly through the cool dusk, looking across the fields, up at the pale, frightened face of the moon hooded in clouds: he did not dare to look, with all his iron nerve, at the dark figure beyond him on the road. She was sitting there just where he had left her: be knew she would be.
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