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Plumed and plumeless, we all return to something, what though we may have registered the most solemn vows to remain away." He delivered his last phrases with an accent, he punctuated them with a glance, in which there may have lurked an intention. But the Duchessa did not appear to notice it. "Yes true so we do," she assented vaguely.
'To the rescue! cried bold King Richard, and on rushed the crusaders to Aymer's help; when lo! and suddenly the ranks severed, and the black steed emerged! Aymer still on the selle, but motionless, and his helm battered and plumeless, his brand broken, his arm drooping. On came man and horse, on, charging on, not against Infidel but Christian.
There were there chasseurs, cuirassiers, lancers, hussars, infantry of the line and of the guard, all mingled together, with torn uniforms, broken shakos, and plumeless helmets, and all seemingly famished. Two or three dragoons stood on the wall near a pot of burning pitch, their arms crossed on their long white cloaks, covered from head to foot with blood, like butchers.
In the entry he paused to think, then hurried up the stairs, seized his plumeless cap, and rushed out of doors.
In the entry he paused to think, then hurried up the stairs, seized his plumeless cap, and rushed out of doors.
The "Noli me tangere," on the right, is spoiled from Giotto, and others before him; a peacock, woefully plumeless and colourless, a fountain, an ill drawn toy-horse, and two toy-children gathering flowers, are emaciate remains of Greek symbols. He has taken pains with the vegetation, but in vain. Yet Taddeo Gaddi was a true painter, a very beautiful designer, and a very amiable person.
"Be night's dark word as the word of a wizard, Be the word of dawn as a god's glad word, Like heads of the spirits of darkness visored That see not for ever, nor ever have heard, These basnets, plumed as for fight or plumeless, Crowned by the storm and by storm discrowned, Keep word of the lists where the dead lie tombless And the tale of them is not found!"
In the entry he paused to think, then hurried up the stairs, seized his plumeless cap, and rushed out of doors.
'Her flower-soft lips were meek and passionate, For love upon them like a shadow sat, Patient, a foreseen vision of sweet things, A dream with eyes fast shut and plumeless wings, That know not what man's love or life shall be." On the last line his voice deepened to an impassioned tone that brought an anxious crease to Quita's forehead.
'To the rescue! cried bold King Richard, and on rushed the crusaders to Aymer's help; when lo! and suddenly the ranks severed, and the black steed emerged! Aymer still on the selle, but motionless, and his helm battered and plumeless, his brand broken, his arm drooping. On came man and horse, on, charging on, not against Infidel but Christian.
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