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"Rain, Adam, and wind, and plenty of it!" said he. "Ah! so I think, sir, driving storm, and thrashing tempest!" "Well, Adam?" "Well, sir, p'raps you've never seen w'ot driving rain, an' raging wind, can do among the 'op-bines, sir. All I wish is that they 'ops was all safe picked an' gathered, sir!"
Belloo sir, an' Master Georgy!" "Well, Adam, how are the hops?" "'Ops sir, there never was such 'ops, no, not in all Kent, sir. All I'm wishin' is that they was all safe picked, an' gathered. W'ot do you make o' them clouds, sir, over there, jest over the p'int o' the oast-house?" Bellew turned, and cast a comprehensive, sailor-like glance in the direction indicated.
But the memory or the imagination of this land far behind, upon which Heaven's light for ever falls, the Asgard of the Goths, the Akkadian dream of Sin-land ruled by the Yellow Emperor, the reign of Saturn and of Ops, diminishes in power and living energy as the ages advance, and, perishing at last, is embalmed in the cold and crystal loveliness of poetry.
She was the daughter of Ops, son of Peisenor, and Laertes bought her on a time with his wealth, while as yet she was in her first youth, and gave for her the worth of twenty oxen. And he honoured her even as he honoured his dear wife in the halls, but he never lay with her, for he shunned the wrath of his lady.
But the good lady Eurycleia, daughter of Ops son of Peisenor, called aloud to her maidens: 'Come hither, let some of you go busily and sweep the hall, and sprinkle it, and on the fair-fashioned seats throw purple coverlets, and others with sponges wipe all the tables clean, and cleanse the mixing bowls and well-wrought double beakers, and others again go for water to the well, and return with it right speedily.
He also seized the public treasure which Caesar had deposited in the temple of Ops, amounting to above four millions and a half of our money, and with this he won over Dolabella, who had seized the consulship on the death of Caesar, and the greater part of the army.
Although, in truth, that action was, as you used to say, an advantage to every one who was not willing to be a slave, still it was so to you above all men, who are not merely not a slave, but are actually a king; who delivered yourself from an enormous burden of debt at the temple of Ops; who, by your dealings with the account books, there squandered a countless sum of money; who have had such vast treasures brought to you from Caesar's house; at whose own house there is set up a most lucrative manufactory of false memoranda and autographs, and a most iniquitous market of lands, and towns, and exemptions, and revenues.
Fill your pipe, and, while you smoke, confide your cares to me, put me wise, or, as your French cousins would say, make me 'au fait." "Well," began Adam, when his pipe was well alight, "in the first place, Mr. Belloo sir, I begs to remind you, as Miss Anthea sold her furnitur' to raise enough money as with what the 'ops will bring, might go to pay off the mortgage, for good an' all, sir." "Yes."
If a belle of the blood of the chieftains of a tribe in the western Caucasus, she may be worth as much as two hundred and fifty pieces of merchandise, valued at one dollar each, besides eight or ten horses and four or five serf-girls, which is more than the price formerly paid by Homer's heroes, as in the case of the Daughter of Ops, the just Pisenor's son, For twenty beeves by great Laertes won.
A foxy cove who can't be fooled with faked symptoms. Mess tin A combination teapot, fry pan, and plate. Military cross An officer's decoration for bravery. Military medal A decoration for bravery given to enlisted men. Mills The most commonly used hand grenade. Minnies German trench mortar projectiles. Napper The head. Night 'ops A much hated practice manoeuvre done at night.
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