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When it had performed three or four revolutions, four young dancing boys, very beautiful, with loose, flowing tresses, entered the assembly, and began to sing and play. Such was the scene, and such the melody, that had Tan-Sen been present at that hour, he would have forgot his strains; and Baiju-Ba,ora would have gone mad.
Might his whole life, of which they knew nought, be forgiven him; might he enter, stranger though he was, in triumph into the Kingdom of God! "Christe, exaudi nos." "Ora pro nobis, sancta Dei Genitrix." Father Massias had pulled out the silver needle from which hung a drop of Holy Oil.
Ora il Moro fa la danza Viva San Marco e il re di Franzia. Milan fell a prey to Louis XII., and all northern Italy passed under the French yoke. The Pope rewarded the bearer of the news with a present of one hundred ducats, and at once seized Cardinal Ascanio's palace with its art treasures. The Cardinal was captured near Rivolta by the Venetians, who delivered him to the French.
Ardent victrices, et flammae pectora praebent, Imponuntque suis ora perusta viris." The day being come, she mounts on horseback, dressed as fine as at her wedding, and with a cheerful countenance says she is going to sleep with her spouse, holding a looking-glass in her left hand and an arrow in the other.
The Middle Ages summoned up the business of life in the words, 'Ora et Labora. They are beautiful words, and after this lapse of time we take the meaning out for ourselves, in other words, 'Think and Act." The woman's laughter from the next room became louder, and then they heard chairs pushed back, and the noise of departure.
... Lucent genialibus altis Aurea fulcra toris, epulaeque ante ora paratae Regifico luxu: Furiarum maxima juxta Accubat, et manibus prohibet contingere mensas; Exurgitque facem attollens, atque intonat ore.
Nurses and children were making their way out, and soon those who lingered would hear stentorian shouts from the gardeners, "Ora si chiude!" and they too would leave by one or other of the gates. Olive climbed down into the arena. Mamie was nowhere in sight, and Daisy Vereker and her maid were gone too.
"But with all that, Lilie had the voice of a schoolgirl, of some little innocent creature who still uses a skipping-rope and wears short dresses, and had that clear, innocent laugh which reminds people of wedding bells. Sometimes, for fun, I would kneel down before her, like before the statue of a saint, and clasping my hands as if in prayer, I used to say: 'Sancta Lilie, ora pro nobis!
They were standing together side by side now, and remained so for some seconds, silently surveying the scene; and then the Tenor all unconsciously began again to sing: "Sancta Maria," he entreated, "Sancta Dei Genetrix, Sancta Virgo virginum, ora pro nobis." The girl had been wandering off again, but at the first note of the supplication she stopped. A chord of memory stirred.
"Ia ora na oe!" I reply. "All goes well?" "By cripe' yais; dam' goo'!" she answers, and goes humming on her way to her shanty in the yard. She is the maid of my chamber, gentle, willing, but never to be found for service.
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