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It was now sunset; the boats were all hoisted up; no shore-boat was near, and there was no mode of conveyance but a la nage, which Mr Talbot himself had suggested only as proving its utter impracticability; but he did not know me half so well at the time as he did afterwards.
'Gif hwa gefeohte on Cyninges huse sy he scyldig ealles his yrfes, and sy on Cyninges dome hwsether he lif age de nage: si quis in regis domo pugnet, perdat omnem suam ha; reditatem, et in regis sit arbitrio, possideat vitarn an non possideat. LI. Inae. 6. &c. * 25 E 3. st. 5. c. 2; 7 W. 3. c. 3, § 2.
From out the bowl there was stealing a perfume which overmastered his will and led him captive to the lugubrious glade of the Druids.... Comme d'autres esprits voguent sur la musique, Le míen, ô mon amour! nage sur ton parfum. He was not dreaming, for he saw the woman at the bowl, saw her apartment. But the interior of his brain was as melancholy as a lighted cathedral.
Seeing a decent-looking man engaged in sawing a piece of wood by the roadside, I asked him in Welsh whether the house with the wheel was a flour mill. "Nage," said he, "it is a pandy, fulling mill." "Can you tell me the name of a river," said I, "which I have left about a mile behind me. Is it the Sawdde? "Nage," said he, "it is the Lleidach."
"My friends," commenced Cavalier anew, "As I a short time since descended into the plains and valley of Nage, it appeared to me singularly enigmatical, that in so many places I met with coldness, disapprobation, and a strange backwardness in the best and most faithful. Unheard of and wilful barbarities were spoken of, said to have been practised by our party.
As the people were going out I said to the farmer in Welsh: "A bad affair this." "Drwg iawn" very bad indeed, he replied. "Did these fellows speak truth?" said I. "Nage Dim ond celwydd" not they! nothing but lies. "Dear me!" said I to myself, "what an ill-treated individual!" Machynlleth Remarkable Events Ode to Glendower Dafydd Gam Lawdden's Hatchet.
At ease on soft couches, in hanging gardens set with fountains, these beings feasted with every refinement of cruelty. Kneeling slaves were their living tables; while for their food Tous les oiseaux de l'air, tous les poissons de l'onde, Tout ce qui vole ou nage ou rampe dans le monde, Mourant pour leur plaisir des plus cruels trepas De sanglantes savours composent leurs repas. . . .
How far we went, I do not exactly know; but we succeeded in turning the boat into an eddy below. "'Cre Dieu," said Bazil Lajeunesse, as he arrived immediately after us, "Je crois bien que j'ai nage un demi mile." He had owed his life to his skill as a swimmer, and I determined to take him and two others on board, and trust to skill and fortune to reach the other end in safety.
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