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But they came to the statue of the Cardinal holding the double cross towards the desert like a weapon. And she looked at it and saw the Christ. "Boris," she whispered, "there is the Christ. Let us think only of that tonight." She saw him look at it steadily. "You remember," she said, at the bottom of the avenue of cypresses "at El-Largani Factus obediens usque ad mortem Crucis?" "Yes, Domini."
"With this intention Hardquanonne performed on him the operation, Bucca fissa usque ad aures, which stamps an everlasting laugh upon the face. "The child, by means known only to Hardquanonne, was put to sleep and made insensible during its performance, knowing nothing of the operation which he underwent. "He does not know that he is Lord Clancharlie. "He answers to the name of Gwynplaine.
Then, without waiting for an answer, he turned to Mme. Couture and Victorine with a "Ladies, you seem melancholy." "Is dinner ready?" cried Horace Bianchon, a medical student, and a friend of Rastignac's; "my stomach is sinking usque ad talones." "There is an uncommon frozerama outside," said Vautrin. "Make room there, Father Goriot! Confound it, your foot covers the whole front of the stove."
Anyhow, Milton was sent away from college for a time, in the year 1627, in consequence of something unpleasant which had occurred. That it was something of which he was not ashamed is clear, from his alluding to it himself in the lines written at the time, Nec duri libet usque minas perferre magistri Caeteraque ingenio non subeunda meo.
But, in the meantime, there are surely signs of the approaching ruin of Popery, more certain than any speculations on the mystic numbers of the Revelation. We should point to recent books not to books which merely expose Rome, that has been done long ago, usque ad nauseam but to books which do her justice: to Mr.
And more high upon that mountain is the chapel of Elijah the prophet; and that place they clepe Horeb, whereof holy writ speaketh, ET AMBULAVIT IN FORTITUDINE CIBI ILLIUS USQUE, AD MONTEM OREB; that is to say, 'And he went in strength of that meat unto the hill of God, Horeb. And there nigh is the vine that Saint John the Evangelist planted that men clepe raisins of Staphis.
"All dainty meats I do defy Which feed men fat as swine; He is a frugal man, indeed, That on a leaf can dine. "He needs no napkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe." And so on, the singers of succeeding years, usque ad nauseam, a loathing equalled only by that of the earlier writers for the plant, now so lauded.
Happily the old saying, Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret, still holds true, and the reaction that has been gaining force for some time will doubtless ere long brush aside the cobwebs with which those who have a vested interest in Mr. Darwin's reputation as a philosopher still try to fog our outlook. Professor Mivart was, as I have said, among the first to awaken us to Mr.
To follow the dream, and again to follow the dream and so ewig usque ad finem. . . ." The whisper of his conviction seemed to open before me a vast and uncertain expanse, as of a crepuscular horizon on a plain at dawn or was it, perchance, at the coming of the night?
Ex abiete factus est, ait ille, terebinthinum olet Carbunculus inest, ait uxor. Mortuus est nasus, respondit hospes. Vivus est ait illa, et si ipsa vivam tangam. Votum feci sancto Nicolao, ait peregrinus, nasum meum intactum fore usque ad Quodnam tempus? illico respondit illa. Slawkenbergius's Tale
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