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Updated: June 28, 2025


Suddenly Sah-luma looked up, his bright face alit with laughter. "Now by the Sacred Veil," he said gayly, addressing himself to the King "Your Majesty considers this venerable gentleman with too much gravity!

No, Signora Evelina can never restore what he has lost to Signor Odoardo. For the dead give no kisses, no caresses, and the living long to be caressed and kissed. Who talks of kisses? Here is one that has alit, all soft and warm, on Signor Odoardo's lips, rousing him with a start. Ah!...Is it you, Doretta? It is Doretta, who says nothing, but who is longing to make it up with her daddy.

Pile a few more fragments of drift-wood upon the fire in the great chimney, little maiden, and then couch yourself before it, that I may have your glowing childhood as a foreground for those heaped relics of shipwreck and despair. You seem, in your scarlet boating-dress, Annie, like some bright tropic bird, alit for a moment beside that other bird of the tropics, flame.

This was his reason, as far as he consciously had any reason, not that his friend might have twelve thralls in Hades. After the pyre is alit Achilles drenches it all night with wine, and, when the flame dies down, the dead hero's bones are collected and placed in the covered cup of gold. We must note another trait. Myers renders the words "with a linen veil." For other cases, cf.

And then he turned again unto Sir Melias, and there he alit and dressed him softly on his horse tofore him, for the truncheon of his spear was in his body; and Sir Galahad start up behind him, and held him in his arms, and so brought him to the abbey, and there unarmed him and brought him to his chamber. And then he asked his Saviour.

The words were scarcely uttered when he tossed the bird up into the air, and certainly, after flying about for a few yards, he alit, and tottering against the wind towards Raymond, stretched out his neck, as if he wished to be again taken up by him. "I see," said the priest, "but answer me where did you spend last night now?"

And on a Saturday they found an old chapel, the which was wasted that there seemed no man thither repaired; and there they alit, and set their spears at the door, and in they entered into the chapel, and there made their orisons a great while, and set them down in the sieges of the chapel.

Come on, said he, here is one fast by; and so long they rode till they saw a fair tower, and afore it there seemed an old feeble chapel. And then they alit both, and put him into a tomb of marble. Now leave we him here, said the good man, and go we to our harbour till to-morrow; we will come here again to do him service. Sir, said Bors, be ye a priest? Yea forsooth, said he.

Her tall slim figure bent gracefully as a poplar to the breezy west, and her gait, goddess-like, was as that of a winged angel new alit from heaven's high floor; the pearly fairness of her complexion was stained by a pure suffusion; her voice resembled the low, subdued tenor of a flute. It is easiest perhaps to describe by contrast.

Sir Ector knew the sword and marvelled, but his look was stern as he gazed into the crafty eyes of his son. 'Come ye with me, he said, and all three rode to the church, and alit from their horses and went in. Sir Ector strode up the aisle to the altar, and turning to his son, said sternly: 'Now, swear on God's book and the holy relics how thou didst get this sword.

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