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Beside the zamorin was a rich throne or state chair, all of gold and jewels; and his andor, in which he had been carried from the palace was of similar richness, and stood near him. He was attended by twenty trumpeters, seventeen of whom had silver trumpets, and three of them gold, all the mouth-pieces being finely wrought and set with jewels.
But Lorenzo has the privilege of being one of the mouth-pieces of Shakespeare, and so he begins, "How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank." Two words, sweet and sleep, put in the place of calm and lies, lift the line out of prose into poetry.
Levi; he has got two young men always armed in his tent, and a little peevish dog, and gutta-percha pipes running into all the Jews' tents that are at his back like chicks after the old hen." "Oh, he is a deep one." "And he has got mouth-pieces to them, and so he could bring thirty men upon a thief in less than half a minute."
These rooms, opening one into another, are bright with Oriental hangings, with trays and dishes of gold and burnished silver, fantastic goblets, chibouques with great amber mouth-pieces, and Eastern treasure made of odorous woods." Burton liked to know that everything about him was hand-made. "It is so much better," he used to say, than the "poor, dull work of machinery."
As in the modern world there are now but two classes, with subordinate varieties, on the one side the workers to whatever category they belong, and on the other the property owners who do not work, the socialist theory of Marx leads us to this evident conclusion: since political parties are merely the echoes and the mouth-pieces of class interests no matter what the subvarieties of these classes may be there can be substantially only two political parties: the socialist labor party and the individualist party of the class in possession of the land and the other means of production.
Imbued with an idea that they are the mouth-pieces of Those Above, they listen anxiously to everything that is striking and strange, and attribute to inspiration forcible arguments as well as their own speeches and actions. So it was with the Hishtanyi Chayan.
When, also, they allowed us to smoke pipes, they held them with both hands, or fastened to the mouth-pieces wooden balls of the size of hen's eggs, for they seemed to imagine that if we were not restrained, we would choke ourselves with them.
Make known your choice, for although we travellers through the desert of life lie down to sleep, and rise again to live, to fight, to hate, and above all to love, in obedience to the will which counteth and heapeth the particles of sand upon this station, yet are we allowed, to voice our desires, being mouth-pieces of Fate.
We are first at the meet, and the old woods ring with the mellow, winding notes of our horns no twanging brass reeds in the mouth-pieces, but honest cow-horn bugles, which none but a true hunter can blow.
Once safe upon the attic floor the band who were entering with great gusto into the spirit of the occasion, arranged themselves in a half-circle about the piano, replaced their shoes, stripped their instruments of their coverings the cornetist breathing noiselessly into the mouth-pieces to thaw out the frost and stood at attention for McFudd's orders.
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