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...e up to town, where, it may be veraciously recorded he was the king of the beasts of the year. No advancement was ever more rapid, no exaltation more ... ..., considered that she had secured a prime attraction, a creature of almost heraldic oddity. Nothing 20 The Death of the Lion could exceed her enthusi...

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...ith marble-edged flower borders on either side, and these two huge velvety beasts were playing there 8 The Door in the Wall and other stories with a ... ...d,” said the flatterer. Under Capricorn, two negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits, for love of one another, crouched together in a ca... ...id, and soon—in their upper reaches —with swirling trees and the bodies of beasts and men. They rose steadily, steadily in the ghostly brilliance, and... ...wn marketable value, and his infrequent words were carved and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. Holroyd tried to elucidate his religious beliefs, a... ...pread over all the valley space. The settlers did well indeed there. Their beasts did well and multiplied, and but one thing marred their happiness. Y... ...ll the world, with neither thorns nor briers, with no evil insects nor any beasts save the gentle breed of llamas they had lugged and thrust and follo...

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...t Gothic doorway is let into the rusty- red brick-work, and strange little beasts crouch at the angles of the windows, which are surmounted by a tall ... ...vely images, strange and ingenious devices, prime among which is the great heraldic salamander of Francis I. The sala- mander is everywhere at Blois,—... ...g angels; at the foot of the quiet couple are a lion and a greyhound, with heraldic devices. At each of 81 Henry James the angles of the table is a l... ...the echo of smashing blows, of riven armor, of howling victims and roaring beasts. The spot is, 150 A Little Tour in France in short, one of the swee... ...surrounded by little angels, by great apostles, by 151 Henry James winged beasts, by a hundred sacred symbols and gro- tesque ornaments. It is a dens...

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...hose master’s carriage was pursued by wolves, and who sprang out among the beasts, sacrificing his own life willingly to slake their fury for a few mi... ...g with elephants, namely, to leave lanes in their columns where these huge beasts might advance harmlessly; instead of which, the ranks were thrust an... ... the pits and dens round the arena were thrown open, and absolutely savage beasts were let loose upon one another—rhinoceroses and tigers, bulls and l... ... wine, that the perfume might overpower the scent of slaughter below. Wild beasts tearing each other to pieces might, one would think, satisfy any tas... ...ror on his throne. Persecution came to an end, and no more martyrs fed the beasts in the Coliseum. The Christian emperors endeavored to prevent any mo... ...littering steel armor, covered with surcoats richly embroidered with their heraldic bearings; his stout men-at- arms, each of whom was attended by thr...

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...ad—most richly wrought, you see faces in relief of knight and dame, lords, heraldic animals; some story, very likely, told, almost revelling in Gothic... ...ad passed out of this scene had gone all the perils of wild men and savage beasts, dwarfs, witches, leaving nature, not ef fete, but only disarmed of... ... your countrymen have no adequate idea of the sacredness of pedigrees, and heraldic distinctions, and would change their own names at pleasure, and va... ... also yew trees clipped into strange shapes of bird and beast, and uncouth heraldic figures, among which of course the leopard’s head grinned triumpha...

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...p to sword and fire, and absolutely hunted down by blood- hounds like wild beasts. Argyll and the Campbells, on the one hand, Montrose, with the Graha... ...f who, see on i. 528 above. The MS. has “stab him down.” 153. Pale. In the heraldic sense of “a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon.” See Wb. ... ... Strafford: ‘It was true, we gave laws to hares and deer, because they are beasts of chase; but it was never accounted either cruelty or foul play to ... ...o knock foxes or wolves on the head as they can be found, because they are beasts of prey. In a word, the law and humanity were alike: the one being m...

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...h, as on a Faust’s Mantle, or rather like the Sheet of clean and un- clean beasts in the Apostle’s Dream; and without such Sheet or Mantle, would sink... ...les, the entrails of worms, the hides of oxen or seals, the felt of furred beasts; and walk abroad a moving Rag-screen, overheaped with shreds and tat... ...rt, this once-fair world of his; wherein is heard only the howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men; and no Pillar of Clo... ...of the Godlike. Under a like category, too, stand, or stood, the stupidest heraldic Coats-of-arms; military Banners everywhere; and generally all nati...

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...sermon at cock-crow doth preach, On sweet Prosperity—or greed. ‘Lo! as the beasts feed, each for each, God’s blessings let us take, and feed!’ XXV Ung... ...ity feasts; From City riches mainly rise: ’Tis well to hear them, when the beasts That die for us they eulogize! XXXVIII But these, of all the liverie... ...m throbbing shall you see Central in complexity; From her pasture ‘mid the beasts Rise to her ethereal feasts, Not, though lightnings track your wit S... ...an Be waspish, irascible, rude, He is oftener friendly to man, And ever to beasts and their brood. For the which did she love him well, She said, and ... ...ad is her face to their cries. Intelligence pushing to taste A lesson from beasts might heed. They scatter a voice in the waste, Where any dry swish o... ...lls of his escalading triumphs pealed In crashes on a choral chant severe, Heraldic of the authentic Charlemagne, Globe, sceptre, sword, to enfold, to...

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...the Canongate family to devour the substance of their own house like brute beasts out of mere gluttonie and Epicurishnesse, so I need only warn mine d... ... triumph not in the enjoyment of an existence which levelled thee with the beasts that perish. Bethink thee how this poor man’s vanity gave at least b... ...ation; but the sign was strong and new, and brightly painted, displaying a heraldic shield (three shuttles in a field diapre), a web partly unfolded f... ... pass so pleasant a spot?” “It’s ower near Dalmally, my leddy, to corn the beasts; it would bring their dinner ower near their breakfast, poor things.... ... Squire, with one of your countrymen behind them. They were something less beasts than your drove—doddies most of them. A big man was with them. None ... ...em at the Christenbury Crag, and I overtook you at the Hollan Bush. If his beasts be leg-weary, he will be maybe selling bargains.” “Na, na, Hughie Mo...

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... into his room and handed him a small triangular note, sealed with a thick heraldic crest. ‘I hope,’ he found in the note, ‘that you as a man of honou... ...he young mistress, being told by the laun- dry-maids that she took pity on beasts of all sorts. He was not wrong in his reckoning. Elena had given him...

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...III AT LAST, ONE MORNING, in a clear spot of a glassy horizon charged with heraldic masses of black vapours, the island grew out from the sea, showing... ...s or very clever men who can manage to have mules or any other four-footed beasts and the wherewithal to keep them. But what this valiant mariner want...

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...e on foot, across 12 Reprinted Pieces trackless deserts, infested by wild beasts and cruel savages, to the Dutch settlements at the Cape of Good Hope... ...ed, but triumphant. There is no parallel in public combats between men and beasts, because nobody can answer for the particular beast—unless it were a... ... wonderments from this exhibition. I have wondered ever since, Whether the beasts ever do get used to those small places of confinement; Whether the m... ...he level sur face, it is often extremely difficult of approach. Then, the beasts have to be worried, and goaded, and pronged, and tail twisted, for a... ...e ‘back hair’ of an untidy woman, who won’t be shod, and who makes himself heraldic by clattering across the street on his hind legs, while twenty voi...

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...the key of the fields, comrade,’ said he. ‘Sans Rancune!’ At this my horror redoubled. Here had we two expatri- ated Frenchmen engaged in an ill-regul... ... naked body, soiled with blood. Some one had covered him with his blanket; but as he lay there in agony, he had partly thrown it off. ‘This is murder!... ...d yet I cannot find it in my heart to tell you. O, be persuaded, and go!’ ‘I believe I know the worst. But I was never one to set an undue value on li... ...have notticed that stone,’ touching it at the same time with a goodly oak staff. I followed the indication. The stone, which had been built sideways i...

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... there!The Church of the Knights of St. John is paved over with sprawling heraldic devices of the dead gentlemen of the dead Order; as if, in the nex... ...itter with mules, a crowd of Arab horseboys and dealers accompanying their beasts to the gate; all the members of our party come up by twos and threes...

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...e, ‘get you to Hull, Nat, and take madam’s palfrey and a couple of sumpter beasts, and bring my good daughter T albot back with you as fast as she and... ...ting-place was provided for him on a sort of pannier on one of the sumpter beasts. What these animals could not carry of the household stuff was left ... ...and Scotch, and viewed the band of captives much like a caged herd of wild beasts. When on the way home Mistress Susan asked her little boy why he wou... ...to expend itself quickly, and when little George’s coffin, smothered under heraldic devices and funeral escutcheons, had been bestowed in the family v... ... satin coverlet, worked in large separate squares, innumerable shields and heraldic devices of Lorraine, Bourbon, France, Scotland, etc., round the bo... ...here was general cheerfulness, as the baggage was bestowed in carts and on beasts of burthen, and Mary, as she stood finishing her inscription on the ... ... say that, in as brief space as it will take to saddle them, there will be beasts here to bring up you and my mother and Cis, to tell my Lady Countess...

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...s bronchant, gules, charged with four grosses patee, fitched, or; with the heraldic form of a shield awarded to younger sons. Blondet deciphered the m... ... men in these parts, and he’ll pay me a fine price, too; he stuffs men and beasts. Now my boy there stands me out that that otter has got the white sp... ...r.” “How so, my old necromancer?” “Why, bless you! we are as stupid as the beasts, and so we come to understand the beasts. Now, see, this is what we’... ...er for it? And you, who are at least as rich as she, you hunt us like wild beasts, neither more nor less, and drag the poor before the courts. Well, e... ...would be a dreadful fate, for the people of this valley actually live like beasts; but Justin and our two ser- vants and I watch her carefully. Theref...

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...ing foxes and flying lemurs about here, but they are none of them very big beasts.” “There are more things in heaven and earth,” said W oodhouse— and ... ...wn marketable value, and his infrequent words were carved and wrought into heraldic grotesqueness. Holroyd tried to elucidate his religious beliefs, a... ...have fallen asleep. * * * I awoke abruptly out of a dream of strange beasts, and found myself lying on my back. Probably every one knows that di... ...ia were extraordinarily perturbed, parted for a moment, and three of these beasts became darkly visible, struggling for what was probably some fragmen... ...d,” said the flatterer. Under Capricorn, two negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits for love of one another, crouched together in a can... ...bid, and soon—in their upper reaches—with swirling trees and the bodies of beasts and men. They rose steadily, steadily in the ghostly brilliance, and...

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...hical malignant creature as a corseted stiff-mustached Emperor enhanced by heraldic black wings and a large sword—had insulted our flag. That was the ... ...le savages struck out their canine teeth, because these made them like the beasts. They declared that this was the coming of a spirit, and nothing els... ...me men and women went apart in couples, into defensive little houses, like beasts into little pits, and in these “homes” they sat down purposing to lo...

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... I find it—” They crowded into the train. Men were still yelling like wild beasts —others were asleep—soldiers were singing. “Have you really broken y... ...meat to the lions. To be sure the fire was only to be looked at: like wild beasts in the Zoo. For the house was warm from roof to floor. It was strang... .... It was a terrible business in reckitt’s blue and browny gold, with awful heraldic beasts, rather worm-wriggly, displayed in a blue field. As he lay ... ...a terrible business in reckitt’s blue and browny gold, with awful heraldic beasts, rather worm-wriggly, displayed in a blue field. As he lay thinking ...

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...’s feet, so that Dolores felt as if she had been turned into a den of wild beasts, and re- solved against ever again venturing into the court at ‘feed... ...as treated us.’ ‘ Ah! on that system, where would have been all your grand heraldic pedigrees? I’ve got them still.’ 65 Yo n g e ‘Oh! Jenny, you good...