United States or Iran ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


By no means, for the narrative goes on immediately to say linking the two things together by a simple 'and' that 'the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty. So life springs side by side with death. There are cradles as well as graves. 'The individual withers, And the race is more and more. Leaves drop and new leaves come.

"The buxom fellow that was in the Reeve's garden this morning." "Why then," quoth Beltane, turning away, "go you not to the Reeve's garden, Giles." All day long Beltane kept the wall, eating not at all, wherefore his gloom waxed the more profound; so spake he to few men and oft exposed himself to shaft and missile.

It waxed until he could put down his watch and read the hands by it. And he found it was past six o'clock.

He was politeness itself to all; but he withstood Lady Tyrrell's earnest entreaties to come in and see some Florentine photographs, growing stiffer and graver each moment, while his wife waxed more wrathful at the treatment which she knew was wounding her friend, and began almost to glory in having incurred his displeasure herself.

Even Mary found no fault with him, and as my appreciation for anything is plainly evident in my manner, both Mary and the janitor felt that in me they had found a friend, and they waxed confidential withal. One day he came up to clean windows, and when he mentioned the "parlour," I said: "Don't call this room a parlour. I have neither parlour nor drawing-room.

He dined with the preacher and talked infant psychology with the teacher; he bet Charlie Granger ten dollars on a dog-fight over which he waxed red faced and enthusiastic; he got himself catalogued by the saloon loungers as a hot sport; he evinced a warm interest in the country races to be run in the Spring.

Their weaving does not differ from that previously described, but a peculiar type of decoration has been developed by this tribe, and from them has spread somewhat to their neighbors. Waxed threads are used to work designs into cloth so that when the fabric is placed in dye the liquid will not reach the portions thus covered.

And I was aware, besides, of us two as of a pair of tiny and solitary dolls under the vast frosty cupola of the midnight; the rooms decked, the moon burnished, the least of the stars lighted, the floor swept and waxed, and nothing wanting but for the band to strike up and the dancing to begin. In the exhilaration of my heart I took the music on myself

He could not even reserve his own private time for his art, but as he waxed higher in the estimation of the King, the supervision of Court ceremonies, entrusted to him as an honour, deprived him of leisure, and at last brought his life prematurely to a close. From the time when Velasquez entered the service of the King, he painted exclusively for the Court.

In front of it was a piece of garden ground, wherein waxed potherbs, and a little deal of wheat; and therein was a goodly row of bee- skeps; and all without it was the pleasant greensward aforesaid, wherein stood three great ancient oaks, and divers thorns, which also were ancient after their kind.