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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Then I went on board the waiting ship, and prospering breezes carried us without delays to Crete. "Idomeneus received me joyfully, and entertained me most royally in his palace; and for nine days we feasted and made all things ready for the hunt. But, lo! on the evening of the last day, a vision came to me. Gold-winged Iris, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, stood before me.
As regards Karna, though slain and pierced with gold-winged shafts whetted on stone and equipped with feathers and dyed in blood and sped from Gandiva, yet that hero, lying on the ground, looked resplendent like the Sun himself of bright rays.
Some harmonious messenger had fluttered to her for a second the gold-winged bird of peace. In this sensuous exaltation her nerves vibrated like the strings of a violin. When Mr. Stone woke it was past three o'clock and Bianca at once handed him another cup of strong beef-tea. He swallowed it, and said: "What is this?" "Beef-tea." Mr. Stone looked at the empty cup. "I must not drink it.
Fear you I! Why! do you not know that I could kill you where you stand as easily as I could wring the neck of any one of those gold-winged orioles that flew above your head to-day, and who have more right to live than you, for they do at least labor in their own fashion for their food, and their drink, and their dwelling? Dieu de Dieu!
After a few weeks phoebe is seldom seen, except as she darts from her moss-covered nest beneath some bridge or shelving cliff. Another April comer, who arrives shortly after Robin-redbreast, with whom he associates both at this season and in the autumn, is the gold-winged woodpecker, alias "high-hole," alias "flicker," alias "yarup."
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