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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Lahiri Mahasaya's words were mild and healing, even when he was forced to speak openly of a chela's faults," Sri Yukteswar once told me. He added ruefully, "No disciple ever fled from our master's barbs." I could not help laughing, but I truthfully assured Sri Yukteswar that, sharp or not, his every word was music to my ears.
Doubtless they had had an affair here and there, over the broad face of the world, but there had never been any barbs on the arrows, thus easily plucked out. "Sometimes, knowing that I shall never be rich, I have desired a title," remarked Fitzgerald humorously. "And what would you do with it?" curiously. "Oh, I'd use it against porters, and waiters, and officials. There's nothing like it.
but still, I believe that even a fish knows a dumb agony from the barbs of the hook which would take somewhat from the captor's joy if he could but realize it. There was, of course, a time when the Hydraulic and the Reservoirs were not where they afterwards appeared always to have been.
They did so; Grettir got off his horse. He had a helmet on his head, a short sword by his side, and a great spear in his hand without barbs and inlaid with silver at the socket. He sat down and knocked out the rivet which fastened the head in order to prevent Thorbjorn from returning the spear upon him. Thorbjorn said: "This is a big man.
The world was beginning to feel its convictions moving slowly in that direction, when it exclaimed: 'Behold how these Christians love one another! The alienation of Christians has given barbs and feathers to its arrows of scorn. But it is 'the unity of the Spirit, not that of a, great corporation, that Christ's prayer desires.
What gave you the impulse to be a sculptor, Barbs?" She laughed gayly. "The statues in the Metropolitan that have lost their arms and heads and legs. I felt very sorry for them. I was very young and foolish, and I invented a game to play. I'd select a statue that needed an arm, say, and then I'd hunt among the other statues for an arm that would fit, or for a head or whatever else was missing.
A really prime skin is white and clear, and you can see that this one is just a little blue along the back. That isn't a good sign to me." Rob's guess as to the fur soon proved to be correct. For four more nights they watched their klipsie trap without success. On the fifth morning they found another dead fox in the trap, with the barbs through his back.
The spears were well made; one of them had a single barb of wood fixed on with gum, the other had two large barbs cut out of the solid wood, and it was as finely brought to a point as if it had been made with the sharpest instrument.
This Minister had made numerous enemies by the strict discharge of his duty, and yet, notwithstanding his rigid probity, he sunk under the accusation of having endangered the safety of the State by weakness of character. At this period even Madame de Stael said, in a party where the firmness of M. Barbs Marbois was the topic of conversation "What, he inflexible? He is only a reed bronzed!"
Before reaching it, we passed five or six gullies; but beyond it the country, for two or three miles from the river, was comparatively smooth. From its hard, sharp point a series of minute barbs are laid back, and give the seed a hold wherever it enters: the slightest touch gives it an entering motion, and the little hooks prevent its working out.
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