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Of course reputable workmen were free from suspicion, it being only those mediocre craftsmen and irregular apprentices who would engage in such traffic. It was not until 1772 that any sculptor was permitted to paint or gild for profit, nor was any painter allowed to model.
But when thou speakest of genii and the bowels of the earth, thou wilt not, I hope, take it amiss if I crave better proof than thy word that the devil has taken to glass-making. For glass, and nothing else, credit me, thy jewel is." "And the gold?" gasped Otto. "There is just as much gold in thy ring as sufficeth to gild handsomely a like superficies of brass, which is not saying much."
For the slayer by a cruel death of their captive father, Ragnar's sons act the blood-eagle on Ella, and salt his flesh. But the story of Daxo and of Ref's gild show that for such wrongs were-gilds were sometimes exacted, and that they were considered highly honourable to the exactor. Among OFFENCES NOT BOOTLESS, and left to individual pursuit, are:
The gild, a closely compacted brotherhood, existing partly for religious and educational purposes and partly for the control of handicrafts and the exchange of goods, became the center of middle-class energy, and in thousands of instances hedged in the lives of the humbler artisans.
One hour's rapid progress, however, sufficed to disperse the gloomy fancies that had clouded the young man's bright anticipations; and the hitherto unfelt pleasure of freedom a pleasure which is sweet even to those who have never known dependence seemed to Raoul to gild not only Heaven and earth, but especially that blue but dim horizon of life we call the future.
Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core. Them will I gild with my treasure; them will I feed with my meat; But the others the misfits, the failures I trample them under my feet." And in order that readers may have other testimony than that of the author on the question of the need for strong men, let me quote words written by the Hon.
I know that the proposal coming from me, is madness I know that you will reject my suit with disdain yet hear me Julia; I am an old, rich and solitary man I need some gentle ray of sunshine to gild my few remaining years I need some beautiful creature, like yourself, to preside over my gloomy household, and cheer me in my loneliness by her delightful society and the music of her voice.
If I can baffle this Glenvarloch, or slay him If I can spoil him of his honour or his life, I shall go down to Scotland with credit sufficient to gild over past mischances. I know my dear countrymen they never quarrel with any one who brings them home either gold or martial glory, much more if he has both gold and laurels."
The principal occupation of the peasants is robbery, and the traveller does well not to leave any of his effects alone for a moment. I got to St. Petersburg just as the first rays of the sun began to gild the horizon.
How many aching hearts and weary brains are waiting and watching for the dawning of the day the coming of the bright rays of the morning, which shall dispel the gloom and despair of their narrow chamber, and gild with golden beauty the darkened corners where, in the solemn hours of the night, lurk the grim specters that were born of their remorse or their fears.
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