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Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city: Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

The recipient took out a single rose and examined its stem. Thorns! She had never seen sharper ones and not one had been removed. But the rose itself was perfection. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Gray were the last to leave the city, after the house-party.

And here was I, going like a gull into the snare! Once more, what could I have been thinking of?" "It is so difficult to be on guard against certain appearances." "You need not tell me so, my dear Morok, you need not tell me so." During this mysterious conversation, Dagobert was on thorns; he saw vaguely that a violent storm was about to burst.

On the vault between the first and second cupolas are represented the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ, with the usual series of intermediate scenes, the treason of Judas, the judgment of Pilate, the crowning with thorns, the descent into Hades, the visit of the women to the sepulchre, and the apparition to Mary Magdalene.

Grammar, Grammar, which had been a synonyme for all that was dry, irksome, useless, a beating of the wind, the crackling of thorns under a pot, Grammar even assumed for her a charm, a wonder, a glory.

Nor would it be too great a stretch of liberality, to suppose that the green hedge of impervious thorns had kept out the vices of their race, and that the little area within was a sphere where all the virtues of the native African had been put in daily practice.

It is the country of the calosomes with golden ends; of the Goliaths of Guinea and of the Gabon, whose feet are furnished with thorns; of the sacred Egyptian ateuchus, that the Egyptians of Upper Egypt venerated as gods.

"The holy Mother, Teresa of Jesus, had these imaginary visions for many years, seeing our Lord continually present before her in great beauty, risen from the dead, with His wounds and the crown of thorns. Anton. a Sp. Sancto, Direct. Mystic. tr. iii. disp. 5, section I, n. 315: "Visio corporea est infima, visio imaginaria est media, visio intellectualis est suprema."

The only reason given for these astonishing garments is that they are cooler and freer to walk in. That I can believe. But they allow ticks and other insects to crawl up, mosquitoes to bite, thorns to tear, and assorted troubles to enter. And I can vouch by experience that ordinary breeches are not uncomfortably hot or tight. Indeed, one does not get especially hot in the legs anyway.

When he had done this, he took not the slightest further notice of it. On examining him, I found that his coat was much torn, and so were his feet, with thorns and briars, and I had little doubt that he had been travelling all night to find me.