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A fairer apparition I have seldom seen, stately, pale, and fragile as a lily blond hair, that rippled round a forehead of ivory a cheek of waxen purity on which the fitful colour went and came not with the flush of southern blood, or flower-bloom of English beauty, but rather with a cool radiance, as of "northern streamers" on the snows of her native hills, eyes of a dusky blue, and lips of that rare tint which lines the conch-shell.
And whatever of mobile and immobile objects thou hast seen in the world, everything hath been ordained by my Soul which is the Spring of all existence. The grandsire of all creatures is half my body; I am called Narayana, and I am bearer of the conch-shell, the discus and the mace.
He had never heard it before; but either because of this quality, or for some other more occult reason, he conceived a most decided liking for it. It's owner now became visible. She was a delicate-looking girl, with a pale, conch-shell complexion, brown hair as fine as silk, and pleasant, serene, gray eyes.
Our hotel at Kandy was opposite and very near to the old shrine, and night was made hideous for us by the senseless howling of the priests and the notes of the drum, cymbals, and fife, supplemented now and again by the blowing of blasts upon a conch-shell, more shrill and piercing than a fishhorn signaling in a fog.
They wear their own costumes; but they have done more than any others for the prosperity of the place," said Lord Tremlyn. "They are the speculators in cottons and other goods, and many of them have immense wealth. The Buniahs are always intelligent, and somewhat aristocratic. You may know one of them by his tall turban, like a shako, though sometimes it is rolled like a conch-shell.
But as for a wooden idol, I wouldn't put that on the mantelpiece, and I am of the same opinion as to the conch-shell. "'But it's a king conch-shell, said the captain. "'I don't care, said she; 'king or queen, it would be all the same to me. But if I were you I think I'd be most of the time in the boat.
Look at the sweetly beautiful conch-shell, with the splendid gem resting so softly on its pink, polished side. And let me tell you what I think.
He's going to let those chaps know there's another boat out here, and that they don't own the earth, that's what." And that was just what Frank meant to do. Seizing the conch-shell, from which the point had been cut, he blew a piercing blast that could have been heard a mile off.
Going thither, O Bharata, Maya brought back the club and the conch-shell and the various crystalline articles that had belonged to king Vrishaparva. And the great Asura, Maya, having gone thither, possessed himself of the whole of the great wealth which was guarded by Yakshas and Rakshasas.
And hearing that sound which seemed like the rumbling of a mass of big clouds, the great Nagas, Chitra and Airavata, were shaken with fear. And seeing them unsteady that lad shining with sun-like refulgence held them with both his hands. And holding an excellent conch-shell with two of his hands, that mighty being began to blow it to the great terror of even the most powerful creatures.
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