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Hurl him back into the fiery lake!" Tannhäuser stands with drawn sword facing their multitude. They are advancing toward him, his doom seems sealed, when Elizabeth's body is found interposed shield-wise between him and their swords. Their hands are necessarily stayed. "What do we see?" their wondering question runs, "What? Elizabeth? The chaste virgin protecting the sinner?"
His countenance wore an expression so similar to that with which he is represented in act to smite the Python, that Nonnus judged it prudent to catch up his manuscript and hold it shield-wise before his face. "Thou doest well," said Apollo, laughing bitterly; "that rampart is indeed impenetrable to my arrows." Nonnus seemed about to fall prostrate, when a sharp rap came to the door.
Andy rescued a washing basin and ewer, by wearing the former on his head and the latter on his left arm helmet and shield-wise; except at intervals, when he took his turn at handspiking.
It represented essentially the patrician culture of Venice, and Morosini himself was already eminent as an historian; but the chief literary centre was still acknowledged to be that quaint house in Campo Agostino, of Aldo Manuzio, il vecchio, bearing, as in his day, shield-wise, its forbidding inscription, "Whoever you are, Aldo requesteth you, if you want anything, to ask it in few words and depart; unless, like Hercules, you come to lend the aid of your shoulders to the weary Atlas.
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