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It is such an eloquent pantomime of terror; and to see such a number of terrified creatures taking sanctuary in every nook along the shore is enough to infect a silly human with alarm. Perhaps they are only a-cold, and no wonder, standing waist deep in the stream. Or, perhaps, they have never got accustomed to the speed and fury of the river's flux, or the miracle of its continuous body.
But the bulk of the references relating to the possession of Mainy occur further on in the same scene: "Fool. This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. "Edgar. Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array: Tom's a-cold. "Lear. What hast thou been? "Edgar.
She will not love the hot fire!" "Nonsense, children, nonsense, nonsense!" cried the father, half vexed, half laughing at what he considered their foolish obstinacy. "Run into the house, this moment! It is too late to play any longer, now. I must take care of this little girl immediately, or she will catch her death a-cold!"
"'The owl, for all his feathers was a-cold," murmured Lydia. "Where'd you get that and what's the rest of it?" asked Levine. "Selected Gems," replied Lydia. "It's a book at school. "'St. Agnes Eve Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl for all his feathers was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through the frozen grass And silent was the flock in woolly fold. I forget the rest."
The kiss of our love awakened That which slept, the fire of our love warmed That which was a-cold! We defied the holy Gods, worshipping them not, but rather each the other, for we knew that as the Gods we were eternal. And the Gods were angered against us and drew us up into their presence.
How have we been so long a-cold, so long slack in setting forth so wholesome a precept of the church of England, where we be so hot in all things that have any gains in them, albeit they be neither commanded us, nor yet given us by counsel; as though we had lever the abuse of things should tarry still than, it taken away, lose our profit?
"Bold beyond measure," Quoth they, "is the base-born!" Out from the sheath Drew they the sheath-steel, And the glaives' edges played For the pleasure of hell; By the third part they minished The might that they had, Their young kin they let lie A-cold on the earth.
"'Stepmother, cried Loa one day, she whom her mother had called the little bird, 'we are a-cold because of our rags. Our mother would have woven blue cloth for us and made it into garments. "'Your mother is where she will weave no cloth! said the stepmother, and she laughed many times. "All in the cold and still of that night, the stepmother wakened, and she knew not why.
During that neo-feudal period the architect prospered, having his place at the baronial table; but now poor Tom's a-cold on a war-swept heath, with food only for reflection.
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