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She had been listening with growing excitement, her eyes fixed piercingly upon William. "He's got a beard!" she cried, alluding not to her brother, but to the fabled Iowan. "I heard Willie tell ole Mr. Genesis about it." "It seems to lie heavily on your mind," Mr. Baxter said to William.
The very mention of Rome suggests the same continually repeated series of antecedent tragedy and consequent wandering, pointing backward to the fabled siege of Troy and the flight of Aeneas, "profugus" from Asia to Italy, and forward to the quick-coming footsteps of the Northern profugi, who were eager, even this side the grave, to enter the Valhalla of their dreams.
How long shall such appeals, from such sources, be wasted upon us? Shall our baleful example enslave the world? Shall the tree of democracy, which our fathers intended for "the healing of the nations," be to them like the fabled upas, blighting all around it? The men of the North, the pioneers of the free West, and the non- slaveholders of the South must answer these questions.
They used to fight like fiends, and now she sings to him night and day to come back." Love so the Greeks fabled was the child of Chaos. In this part of the town stands the civic museum, which all readers of Gissing's "Ionian Sea" will remember as the closing note of those harmonious pages.
Considered from a critical point of view the dance was singularly devoid of grace only one couple illustrating the exception to the rule. The youth it was who was obviously beautiful, of a type as old as the fabled Endymion.
'Miss Blossom knew that we were kindred souls, same kind of chaps, I mean, you and me, you know, Tommy! Miss Blossom became more and more like the fabled peony, the crimson variety. Luckily the office boy ushered in Dr. Maitland, who, exchanging glances of surprise with Merton, over the children's heads, began to make himself agreeable. He had nearly as many tricks as Miss Maskelyne.
Like the fabled giant that sprang from an uncorked phial, the gray streak expanded with marvelous celerity, growing longer and wider and brighter until it shone like burnished silver on the hurrying tide of the river. Guy saw it and that was all. It dazzled his eyes and he closed them.
"I crave your pardon, signor. Let me see. Oh, I recollect; we were talking of Christianus Rosencrux. Well, signor, the fabled philosopher was a monk, and a very wise as well as a very good man. I am only telling you the most generally received legend, mind, and would not have you think that I believe it myself.
They came into the rue Royale just as the sun was flinging a splendor over everything on the gray cathedral spires and the square tower of Charlemagne and the gloomy Tour de Guise, and as they crossed the great stone bridge to the old quarter of St. Symphorien, the Loire flowed away beneath them like some fabled stream of molten gold.
The situation seemed purposely contrived for Corsairs. More than this, the coast was just what a pirate wants. Behind Jerba, the fabled island of the Lotus-Eaters, was an immense inland sea, commanded in the Middle Ages by castles, and affording a refuge for which the rovers had often had cause to be grateful.
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