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Now Ulysses already held the bow and turned it round and round, trying it here and there to see if worms had gnawed the horn while its lord was far away. And glancing at his neighbor one would say, "A sort of fancier and a trickster with the bow this fellow is. No doubt at home he has himself a bow like that, or means to make one like it.
The great majority of the world's inhabitants live with less consciousness of this Spirit than flies or worms they build up religions in which they prate of God and immortality as children prattle, without the smallest effort to understand either, and at the Change which they call death, they pass out of this life without having taken the trouble to discover, acknowledge or use the greatest gift God has bestowed upon them.
The goodness of the dear good mother gone was in him for assurance of a breast of goodness to receive her, whatever the nature of the eternal secret may be. The good life gone lives on in the mind; the bad has but a life in the body, and that not lasting, it extends, dispreads, it worms away, it perishes.
He was taught by a wise man to cut off the dead limbs, keep off the worms, and warn away all people seeking to break off branches even for Yule-tide, which came at our Christmas time. Once when some hunters had chased a young she-aurochs, with her two calves, into the king's park, the prince, though he was then only a boy, ran out and drove the rough fellows away.
"Then let's go." "No, my lads, I'm not going to give you leave," said the keeper, with a twinkle in his eyes; "but there's a couple o' rods and lines all right, under the thatch of the boat-house." "Yes, Bob, but what about bait?" "Oh, I don't know 'bout bait. P'r'aps there's some big worms in the moss in that old tin pot in the corner."
Marshal Coigny, who was under orders to defend it, had been enticed in the direction of Worms, by false moves on the part of Prince Charles of Lorraine, and had found great difficulty in recrossing the frontier. "Here we are on the eve of a great crisis," writes Louis XV. on the 7th of July. It was at once decided that the king must move on Elsass to defend his threatened provinces.
I do but hide Under these words, like embers, every spark Of that which has consumed me. Quick and dark The grave is yawning; as its roof shall cover My limbs with dust and worms, under and over, So let oblivion hide this grief. Julian and Maddalo.
Among the choice dishes mentioned by one paper as selected to figure at the first public banquet of M. Lespars are a plate of white worms, a bushel of grasshoppers, and a broil of magpies seasoned with the slugs that infest certain green berries.
"I don't care a snap of my fingers for any of the poor worms, though I wouldn't needlessly set foot on 'em. As for justifications I have a whole bag of them up my sleeve ready to spill out like a pack of cards when the time comes. You don't have to concern yourself in the least about them. Your business is to propose.
The green fields were gone, the lawn where he found his worms, the flower-beds where he caught his insects, all had disappeared, and a broad, white, sparkling covering lay over everything. What was it? what could it mean? The Blackbird had no one to explain it all to him, so he thought he would just take a short flight and find out for himself.
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