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...lsteinn’s house and gave him a severe wound. All the people who were present started up and attacked Asgrim. He defended himself vigorously and escape... ...sent him to fetch Thorgeir’s head. This man hid himself in the boatshed. One morning when Thorgeir was preparing to row out with two other men, one of... ...time and the Kaldbak people were getting the best of it. Most of them had no weapons but the axes with which they were cutting up the whale and short ... ...these doings: “Hard were the blows which were dealt at Rifsker; no weapons they had but steaks of the whale. They belaboured each other... ...t he would play a trick upon Keingala to pay her out for her wanderings. One morning early he came to the stables, opened the door and found Keingala ... ...und thought it very strange that no change came in the weather. On the third morning he went himself to the horses and on seeing Keingala he said: “II... ...t about seeking for a time. Suddenly, when Grettir least expected it, Skeggi started running with all his might along the moor and picked up the sack.... ...e provisions and a little wadmal. Grettir asked him to give him some sort of weapon. Asmund answered: “You have never been obedient to me. Nor do I kn... ...gged off his shield and threw it down the cliff. Bjorn woke up, not a little startled, took to his heels and ran off home, narrowly escaping the bear’...

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...ore wood, upon which tall poles had been erected to support an awning. One morning, just before sunrise, the tetrarch, Herod- Antipas, came out alone ... ...re treatment, endowed with the power to di- vine the future by reading the stars, had succeeded in com- manding a certain degree of respect. “What is ... ...nitions of war sufficient for forty thousand men. He had accumulated these weapons in anticipation of an alliance against him among his enemies. But h... ... with painful anticipation for what might happen. A deep groan, hollow and startling, rose from the pit. Herodias heard it from the farther end of the... ... the voice from the dungeon; the neighbouring hills gave back an echo with startling effect, and Machaerus seemed actually surrounded and showered wit... ...of the month, he said, he had been 24 Flaubert studying the heavens every morning before daybreak, when the constellation of Perseus was at the zenit... ... another by the elderly female slave whom the tetrarch had observed in the morning on the balcony of a neighbouring house, and later in the chamber of...

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...French, still regarded many things as impossible. The small bands that had started their activities long before and had al- ready observed the French ... ... was with his group at the height of the guerrilla enthusiasm. Since early morning he and his party had been on the move. All day long he had been wat... ...coming to the very edge, but never losing sight of the moving French. That morning, Cossacks of Denisov’s party had seized and carried off into the fo... ...t he had to capture a “tongue”— that is, a man from the enemy column. That morning’s attack on the wagons had been made so hastily that the Frenchmen ... ...ight he would go out for booty and always brought back French clothing and weapons, and when told to would bring in French captives also. Denisov then... ...jumped up quickly and lightly.) “‘Come along to the colo- nel,’ I said. He starts yelling, and suddenly there were four of 20 War and Peace – Book Fo... ...heir numbers,” said Dolokhov. “It will be necessary to go there. W e can’t start the affair without knowing for certain how many there are. I like to ...

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...ngth, in dead of night, the ghost appears Of her unhappy lord: the specter stares, And, with erected eyes, his bloody bosom bares. The cruel altars an... ...28 The rains arise, and fires their warmth dispense, And fix’d and erring stars dispose their influence; What shakes the solid earth; what cause dela... ... fierce Achilles, with his matchless force; At length, as fate and her ill stars requir’d, T o hear the series of the war desir’d. “Relate at large, m... ...n graze the flow’ry field, And wanton goats without a keeper stray’d. With weapons we the welcome prey invade, Then call the gods for partners of our ... ...ey, as commanded, for the fight provide, And in the grass their glitt’ring weapons hide; Then, when along the crooked shore we hear Their clatt’ring w... ...e piercing steel, with reeking purple dyed: Clogg’d in the wound the cruel weapon stands; The spouting blood came streaming on her hands. Her sad atte... ...s thy kind compassion of our woes, The Aeneid Virgil 193 Shalt share my morning song and ev’ning vows. But, O be present to thy people’s aid, And f... ... disdainful soul came rushing thro’ the wound. BOOK XI Scarce had the rosy Morning rais’d her head Above the waves, and left her wat’ry bed; The pious... ...eid Virgil 283 And the promiscuous blaze to heav’n aspires. Now had the morning thrice renew’d the light, And thrice dispell’d the shadows of the n...

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... can be seen a peak of the Balkans, wonderfully white and beautiful in the starlit snow. The interior of the room is not like anything to be seen in t... ...eep. 9 Shaw RAINA (coming in). I sent her away. I wanted to be alone. The stars are so beautiful! What is the mat- ter? CATHERINE. Such news. There h... ...y hero! (A distant shot breaks the quiet of the night outside. She starts, listening; and two more shots, much nearer, follow, startling h... ...l take care that nobody comes in and sees you without it. This is a better weapon than the pistol. (He throws the pistol down on the ottoman.) RAINA (... ...He throws the pistol down on the ottoman.) RAINA (revolted). It is not the weapon of a gentle- man! MAN. It’s good enough for a man with only you to s... ...f March, 1886. In the garden of major Petkoff’s house. It is a fine spring morning; and the garden looks fresh and pretty. Beyond the paling the tops ... ...an at Phillipopolis who used to wet himself all over with cold water every morning when he got up. Disgust- ing! It all comes from the English: their ... ...d lady was equally fascinated; and the fugitive was sent on his way in the morning, disguised in an old coat belonging to the master of the house, who... ...s a cavalry man’s proposal. I’m in the artillery; and I have the choice of weapons. If I go, I shall take a machine gun. And there shall be no mistake...

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... music, and he perhaps had before him the works of those Cyclic Poets whose stars had paled before the sun. We have practically no external evidence ... ...her: Penthesileia far outshone them all. As when in the broad sky amidst the stars The moon rides over all pre eminent, When through the thunderclouds... ...mile was ravishing: beneath her brows Her love enkindling eyes shone like to stars, And with the crimson rose of shamefastness Bright were her cheeks,... ...arp of either blade, Which terrible Eris gave to Ares’ child To be her Titan weapon in the strife That raveneth souls of men. Laughing for glee There... ...e Fall of Troy 16 The weaving wool, the distaff far they flung, And to grim weapons stretched their eager hands. And now without the city these had d... ...n o’er precipitous crests of mountain walls Leapt up broad heaven the bright morning star Who rouseth to their toils from slumber sweet The binders of... ...T roy, scarce drawing breath, And moaning in his pain. Nor left his men The weapons of their lord, but gathered up All from the plain, and bare them ... ... was the throng dispersed, and to the ships They scattered hungering for the morning meat Which strengtheneth man’s heart. So when they ceased From e... ...ps With ravening fire, and slay the Argive host. Ah, but his hope was as the morning breeze Delusive: hard beside him stood the Fates Laughing to scor...

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...sary to order an attack, and it was fixed for the fifth of October. On the morning of the fourth of October Kutuzov signed the dispositions. Toll read... ...ion that the action had begun. But all was still quiet. A damp dull autumn morning was just dawning. On approaching Tarutino Kutuzov noticed cavalryme... ...y of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got some- 18 War and Peac... ...rteen where, but not to their appointed places. As always happens the men, starting cheerfully, began to halt; murmurs were heard, there was a sense o... ...ich who asked permission to advance. “We couldn’t take Murat prisoner this morning or get to the place in time, and nothing can be done now!” he repli... ...ild and trampling un- derfoot the provender which might have saved it from starva- tion, disintegrated and perished with each additional day it re- ma... ...y (which he feared most of all) that Napoleon might fight him with his own weapon and remain in Moscow awaiting him. Kutuzov even imagined that Napole...

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... these unfavourable circumstances that my ‘Zarathustra’ origi- nated. In the morning I used to start out in a southerly direction up the glorious road... ...e circumstances that my ‘Zarathustra’ origi- nated. In the morning I used to start out in a southerly direction up the glorious road to Zoagli, which ... ...ten years did not weary of it. But at last his heart changed,—and rising one morning with the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto i... ...th the rosy dawn, he went before the sun, and spake thus unto it: Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou s... ... eagle, and my serpent. 20 Thus Spake Zarathustra But we awaited thee every morning, took from thee thine overflow and blessed thee for it. Lo! I am ... ...st behind the sea, and givest light also to the nether-world, thou exuberant star! Like thee must I go down, as men say, to whom I shall descend. Bles... ...Good and evil, and rich and poor, and high and low, and all names of values: weapons shall they be, and sounding signs, that life must again and again... ...e, a low one. Conflicting moral codes have been no more than the conflicting weapons of different classes of men; for in mankind there is a continual ... ... last line of the discourse, which has so frequently been used by women as a weapon against Nietzsche’s views concerning them, was suggested to Nietzs...

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...d, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face. He spoke in t... ...s the thing can be arranged. It shall be on your family’s behalf that I’ll start my apprenticeship as old maid.” CHAPTER II ANNA P A VLOVNA’S drawing ... ...o saw her; and the vicomte lifted his shoulders and dropped his eyes as if startled by something extraordinary when she took her seat opposite and bea... ...ht enough to see a long way in the deserted street and it seemed more like morning or evening than night. On the way Pierre remembered that Anatole Ku... ...vs—the mother and the youngest daughter— both named Nataly. Ever since the morning, carriages with six horses had been coming and going continually, b... ...ions. The German doctor went up to Lorrain. “Do you think he can last till morning?” asked the Ger- man, addressing Lorrain in French which he pronoun... ...e to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men wit... ...fficers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed till its ... ... gal- loping. Rostov heard the thud of their hoofs and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and even their faces, more and...

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...d, and before the men had had food and sleep. And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russi... ... and now had the government offices removed; now distributed quite useless weapons to the drunken rabble; now had processions dis- playing the icons, ... ...mid general silence, said in her gruff voice: “So wives of living men have started marrying again! Perhaps you think you have invented a novelty? Y ou... ...hich appeared to her unan- swerable, she drove to her daughter’s early one morning so as to find her alone. Having listened to her mother’s objections... ... stable yards, delightful to Pierre at that moment. He could see the clear starry sky be- tween the dark roofs of two penthouses. “Thank God, there is... ...drove to see the Moscow commander in chief. Count Rostopchin had only that morning returned to town from his summer villa at Sokolniki. The anteroom a... ... prison and I expect it will go hard with him.” An old gentleman wearing a star and another official, a Ger- man wearing a cross round his neck, appro... ...ookshops. Prices too that day indicated the state of affairs. The price of weapons, of gold, of carts and horses, kept ris- ing, but the value of pape... ...him and then ran downstairs. Petya was in the porch, engaged in giving out weapons to the servants who were to leave Moscow. The loaded carts were sti...

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...e belief? — if from Protes- 25 Friedrich Schiller tants they borrowed the weapons against Prot- estants? — if, in the midst of this clashing of opini... ...ure. The Union was thus verging to its fall, at the moment when the League started to oppose it in the vigour of its strength. Want of supplies disabl... ...any longer keep- ing the field. And yet it was dangerous to lay down their weapons in the sight of an armed enemy. To secure themselves at least on on... ... who might easily have been tempted to employ against his brother the same weapons which the latter had successfully directed against him—namely, an u... ...he event of a defeat, he could always secure a re- treat. Eager to get the start of his competitor, the King of Denmark hastened to take the field. Ap... ...his imperious spirit like a child in leading strings. Seni had read in the stars, that his master’s brilliant career was not 152 The History of the T... ... his sol- diers; every regiment was ordered to form round its chaplain for morning and evening prayers. 159 Friedrich Schiller In all these points th... ...Both citizens and soldiers left their posts upon the ramparts early in the morning, to indulge themselves, after their long toils, with the refreshmen... ...sault, citing the example of Maestricht, which had been taken early in the morning, while the citizens and soldiers were reposing themselves. The atta...

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...g sent to Smolensk?” asked Princess Mary. “Oh, yes, he has been waiting to start for some time.” 13 Tolstoy CHAPTER III WHEN MICHAEL IV ANOVICH retur... ... the enemy. “Women, women! Women’s fuss!” muttered Alpatych to himself and started on his journey, looking round at the fields of yellow rye and the s... ...ned a jacket he wore only in town and went out on business. It was a sunny morning and by eight o’clock it was already hot. “A good day for harvesting... ...” thought Alpatych. From beyond the town firing had been heard since early morning. At eight o’clock the booming of cannon was added to the sound of m... ...the prince is unwell my advice is that they should go to Moscow. I am just starting myself. Inform them…” But the Governor did not finish: a dusty per... ... his soul he was glad she was remaining at home and had not gone away. The morning after little Nicholas had left, the old prince donned his full unif... ...temptations of the devil and Princess Mary knew it. She knew that the sole weapon against him was prayer, and she tried to pray. She assumed an attitu... ... French, but that as many of the inhabitants of Moscow wished to be armed, weapons were ready for them at the arsenal: sabers, pistols, and muskets wh...

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...e now—I’ll think it all out later on!” But the later on never came. In the morning, on an empty stomach, all the old questions appeared as insoluble a... ...number, a list of whom he gave to Princess Mary. Metivier, who came in the morning with his felicitations, con- sidered it proper in his quality of do... ...old Princess Mary, and went in to see the prince. It happened that on that morning of his name day the prince was *To force the guard. 12 War and Pea... ...man fingered the hand of the girl in white, obviously awaiting the beat to start singing with her. They sang together and every- one in the theater be... ...s she saw Anatole Kuragin with an arm thrown across the back of his chair, staring at her. She was pleased to see that he was captivated by her and it... .... Y ou know, we love one another! Sonya, darling, he writes… Sonya…” Sonya stared open-eyed at Natasha, unable to believe her ears. “And Bolkonski?” s... ... walls of which were hung to the ceiling with Persian rugs, bearskins, and weapons, sat Dolokhov in a traveling cloak and high boots, at an open desk ...