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They were seated on a large table between two trees, and all around them the village maidens and the young men, locked arm in arm in one long chain of youth, danced the Hora, turning round and round. Ghitza had been away to town, trading. When he came to the inn, the dance was already on.
Engage the carriage by the hour." So Rollo went out of the court, and soon found a carriage. Before he got into it, he said to the coachman, "Per hora!" This means, By the hour. At the same time Rollo held up his watch to the coachman, in order to let him see what o'clock it was. "Si, signore," said the coachman. Si, signore, is the Italian for Yes, sir.
Among his wives were Astarte, Rhea, Dione, Eimarmene, and Hora, of whom the first three were his sisters. There is no need to pursue this mythological tangle. If it meant anything to the initiated, the meaning is wholly lost; and the stories, gravely as they are related by the ancient historian, to the modern, who has no key to them, are almost wholly valueless.
To the office again, my head running on this pretty girl, and there till noon, when Creed and Sheres come and dined with me; and we had a great deal of pretty discourse of the ceremoniousness of the Spaniards, whose ceremonies are so many and so known, that, Sheres tells me, upon all occasions of joy or sorrow in a Grandee's family, my Lord Embassador is fain to send one with an 'en hora buena', if it be upon a marriage, or birth of a child, or a 'pesa me', if it be upon the death of a child, or so.
"You have guessed right, most learned sir; we are, as you say, wanderers seeking our fortunes, and trust yet to find them still we have a weary journey before us. `Haustus hora somni sumendum, as Aristotle hath it; which I need not translate to so learned a person as yourself." "Nay, indeed, there is no occasion; yet am I pleased to meet with one who hath scholarship," replied the other.
These cliques for one cannot call them parties are innumerable, called, for the most part, after one man, of whom no one has heard except his particular friends, Un Señor muy conocido en su casa, sobre todo á la hora de comer, as their saying is: "A gentleman very well known in his own house, especially at dinner-time."
I can spin and weave linen with thread of various colours; I can imitate flowers and embroider ornaments on stuffs; I can even, when you are tired by your work and overcome by the heat of the day, delight you with song, harp, or lute." "Hora, you are welcome to my dwelling," said the young man.
"Horologe!" repeated Christopher slowly. "You don't suppose that word has anything to do with the Latin hora, meaning hour, do you?" "I suppose it has a good deal," McPhearson returned with a dry smile. "Really!" Plainly Christopher was delighted by this discovery. "Well, well! Old Cæsar, Esquire, isn't so bad, after all. Hora!
Then she opened the book that lay face down on the table and began to read on, from the point at which she had laid it down two hours before. "'Erat autem hora tertia: et crucifixerunt eum. And it was the third hour and they crucified him ... And with him they crucify two thieves, the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
I wished to open it softly that the bell should not betray my coming, but Father Fromm was waiting for me. He was extremely angry: he stopped my way. "Discipulus negligens! Do you know 'quote hora? Decem. Every day to wander out of doors till after nine, hoc non pergit. Scio, scio, what you wish to say. You were at the P. C.'s. That is 'unum et idem' for me.
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