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As the imposing host formed on the sea side, a white hare, according to an English chronicler, leapt from a neighbouring hedge, and was immediately caught and presented to the King as an omen of victory. Prophecies, pagan and Christian quatrains fathered on Saint Moling and triads attributed to Merlin were freely showered in his path.
As the imposing host formed on the sea side, a white hare, according to an English chronicler, leapt from a neighbouring hedge, and was immediately caught and presented to the King as an omen of victory. Prophecies, pagan and Christian quatrains fathered on Saint Moling and triads attributed to Merlin were freely showered in his path.
The power of the clerical order, in these ages of Pagan warfare, had very far declined from what it was, when Adamnan caused the law to be enacted to prevent women going to battle, when Moling obtained the abolition of the Leinster tribute, and Columbkill the recognition of Scottish independence.
Moling, many hundred years agone, made prophecy that Englishmen should conquer Ireland; and said that the said Englishmen should keep the land in prosperity as long as they should keep their own laws; and as soon as they should leave and fall to Irish order, then they should decay." Harris, p. 88. Report on the State of Ireland, 1515: State Papers, Vol. II. pp. 17, 18.
"Say, Song, you see something makee you flaid this moling?" said Stella, imitating Song's pidgin English. "Oh, yes, me lookee out, plenty jump in." "What you see?" "Plenty wolf. He sneakee lound side house. I lun like devil." "What wolf look like?" "Plenty big wolf. When he see me he lise up on hind legee, and lun likee man." "Ah ha! There's your clew," said Stella, turning to Ted.
Finnacta fell in battle in the 20th year of his long and glorious reign; and is commemorated as a saint in the Irish calendar. St. Moling survived him three years, and St. Adamnan, so intimately connected with his reign, ten years.
I pleaded that he was a bit exacting, that the Curator had a very cold scent to puzzle out, and that he had tried plodding about from ruins to ruins, moling and sapping and mining, not to speak of writing to the Rhodesian Press. Afterwards I shouldered my knapsack, sought counsel with my carriers as to ways and means, crossed the river and took the Ruins road.
We have seen the legislative success which attended the measures of Columbkill, Moling, and Adamnan; in other reforms of minor importance the paramount influence of the clerical order may be easily traced.
The power of the clerical order, in these ages of Pagan warfare, had very far declined from what it was, when Adamnan caused the law to be enacted to prevent women going to battle, when Moling obtained the abolition of the Leinster tribute, and Columbkill the recognition of Scottish independence.
"A little more folderol!" exclaimed Mr. Gryce, losing his temper. "No, sir; the hour for moling has passed; something decisive has got to be done now; though, to be sure, if I could find the one missing link I want " "Missing link? What is that?" "The immediate motive of the tragedy; a bit of proof that Mr. Leavenworth threatened his niece with his displeasure, or Mr.
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