His features were scarred withancient scars and a piece of his mouth was missing--and perhaps a tooth or two as well, if one could have seen through his thick grizzled moustache.
She was no blood relation of the family but, as an ancient companion to a former mistress of the house, had long eaten the bread of charity under that roof.
They were, in a high degree, warlike, handling the bow and arrow with the skill and dexterity of the ancient Thracians and Parthians.
Pipes were also made from clay, tempered with some siliceous or felspathique material, similar to that used in their ancient earthenware.
My Indian guide would have this color to be the result of the ancient Indian war paint.
These mounds are conspicuous features in the landscape, from their regularity, and position on elevated grounds, as well as from their connection with the ancient Indian history of the valley.
This idea is favored by the ground being a little raised at this point, and so formed that it would have admitted the ancient circular Indian palisade.
The only portions of the ancient wall yet remaining, are indicated by the letters B.
There are but two words left in our geography, supposed to be of the ancient Alleghan language.
Vestiges of anAncient Elliptical Work at Canandaigua.
Its occurrence, the present year, in the ancient fort grounds and cemeteries of Onondaga, identifies the epochs of the ancient Indian settlements of Ohio and western New-York, and furnishes a hint of the value of these investigations.
This ancient ornament was also disclosed in my visit to the Beverly bone deposits of Canada in 1843.
In this manner the introduction of European arts, one after another, speedily overturned and supplanted the ancient Indian arts, and transferred them, at the end of but a few generations, from useful objects to the class of antiquities.
Other observed localities and facts derived from other witnesses, illustrating the character of this fort, and of the ancient Indian settlements in the Kasonda valley, are marked H in the annexed sketch.
The shape of this warlike instrument resembled strongly theancient crossbill.
There appear to have been two or three nations, who supplied very early visitors or residents to ancient Onondaga, namely, the Dutch, French and Spanish, the latter as merely temporary visitors or explorers.
This goddess at all times played a prominent part in ancient Babylonian religion, especially with the rulers before the dynasty of Hammurabi.
The Religion of the Ancient Babylonians, by Professor A.
Thus were theancient ones made perfectly comfortable.
Near it stands anancient and venerable temple, in which is placed the river-god Clitumnus clothed in the usual robe of state; and indeed the prophetic oracles here delivered sufficiently testify the immediate presence of that divinity.
The ancient Greeks and Romans did not sit up at the table as we do, but rtelined round it on couches, three and sometimes even four occupying one conch, at least this latter was thc custom among the Romans.
If we impartially examine this prosecution of the Christians, we shall find it to have been grounded on the ancient constitution of the state, and not to have proceeded from a cruel or arbitrary temper in Trajan.
Let us rather persevere in the ancient customs observed in this province, of employing the public slaves for that purpose; and the fidelity with which they shall execute their duty will depend much upon your care and strict discipline.
Parents throughout the entire ancient world had the right to expose their children and leave them to their fate.
A province in Asia, bordering upon the Black Sea, and by some ancient geographers considered as one province with Bithynia.
Revere the gods their founders; their ancient glory, and even that very antiquity itself which, venerable in men, is sacred in states.
You could imagine you were listening to some worthy ofancient times!
He tells us that one race is a vessel to honor, and another to dishonor; and that he has seen on ancient Egyptian monuments the negro represented as “a hewer of wood and a drawer of water.
The plan of “counting the chickens before they are hatched” is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.
The chief of one of the tribes one day discovered an ancient shirt of chain-mail which hung in one of my cases of antique armor.
She professed to be a member of the Baptist church, talking much in her way on religious subjects, and she sang a variety of ancient hymns.
What ancient monarch was he, either in history or in fable, who offered half his kingdom (the price of box tickets and choice seats in those days) for the invention of an original sensation, or the discovery of a fresh pleasure?
Upon resuming his seat in the carriage, Sherman laughed immoderately, although he evidently felt somewhat chagrined by this second mistake in searching for ancient castles.
Infant Drummer-boy beat a tattoo; and the Aztec children were shown and described as specimens of a remarkable and ancient race in Mexico and Central America.
The Cavaliere Favorine, or Favarone, her father, was descended from the ancient and powerful houses of Scifi and Fiumi.
They will ever manifest, with sincerest gratitude, that it is to this great order, so ancient and so celebrated in the Church, that they are indebted for their first establishment, and for many other benefits.
The most ancient records of the Order assure us that after some months' residence in Egypt, the holy Patriarch went to Palestine, and visited the holy places, but they enter into no particulars.
We have witnessed these favors renewed in 1723 by Innocent XIII, of happy memory, the fifth Pope of the ancient and illustrious house of the Counts of Segni, to which Innocent III belonged.
The following is the way in which this matter is related in the ancient legend which is followed by St. Antoninus.
Like the ancient paladins, he has only undertaken this war to obtain a look from his lady love.
Milady, in that harmonious voice which, like that of the ancient enchantresses, charmed all whom she wished to destroy.
With that sum you can extricate yourself from your present difficulties; and when you are full of money again, you can redeem it, and take it back cleansed from its ancient stains, as it will have passed through the hands of usurers.
The image of devastation and death," as the ancient poet says, "reigned as over a field of battle.
The ancient Church had its "selection of fundamentals"--a kind of simple and limited expansion of the Apostles' Creed for doctrine and Apostolic practice for discipline.
Remember, we have no ancient customs nor time-hallowed usages to make up for personal indifference and apathy; we have no momentum to carry on the machine.
My costume, when I go ashore, is an old Crimean shirt, a very ancient wide-awake.
I have Maine's Book of "Ancient Law" among the half-dozen books I have brought on shore, and it is extremely interesting to read here.
I tried Maine's "Ancient Law," but it is too tough for the tropics, unless I chance to feel very fresh.
The doctrine of the Atonement was never in ancient times, I believe, drawn out in the form in which Luther, Calvin, Wesley, and others have lately stated it.
I do long for a venerable building and for the sound of ancient chants and psalms.
This most ancient plant speaks of the old, untouched land of which large stretches still remain in the south of England--land too poor to have been worth cultivating, and that has therefore for centuries endured human contempt.
Did the mere love of these creatures make a bond between her soul and theirs, or was the ancient dream true and could she at times move in the same vibration?
They stood about the feet of the ancient Brahmin sage, he who had tutored the Queen in her childhood and given her wisdom as the crest-jeweled of her loveliness.
Strange--beyond all strangeness that that story of an ancientsorrow should have made us what we were to each other--should have opened to me the gates of that Country where she wandered content.
Let us take counsel with the ancient Brahman, thy guru [teacher], for he is very wise.
The valley beneath us was littered with enormous boulders spilt from the ancient hollows of the hills.
Beyond it the moon was shining on the ancient Hindu remains close to the new temple, and as I stood on the bridge I could see the figure of a man in deepest meditation by the ruins.
Beneath the great rose window it stood, at the upper end of the room, strangely out of place, a cold and massive work, the ancient throne of the Kradendas.
Where, above all, was that ancient scoundrel of a poet and in what disguise, and why was he not present at the scene?
I feel sure, that exquisite tact which as the great Court historian Brasaldo says, is the exclusive birthright of ancient and honourable families.
We owe to an ancient custom of Italy that so much has been preserved, to throw in the aggregate no small amount of light on the domestic life of the family in which Columbus was the oldest born.
The polarity of the magnet, an ancient possession of the Chinese, had been known perhaps for three hundred years, when this new spirit of discovery awoke in the fifteenth century.
It is by no means certain that Columbus knew anything of this ancient lore of the early Mediterranean people.
Ancient art was revivified in the discovery of its most significant remains.
There was at this time a circle of geographers working at Vienna, reediting the ancient cosmographers, and bringing them into relations with the new results of discovery.
These ancient mines must have yielded the gold which covered the great Temple.
Torfaeus quotes Torlacius as saying that this map of Stephanius's was drawn from ancient Icelandic records.
From an ancientmedallion given in Buckingham Smith's Coleccion.
In the baptismal service the articles of belief are stated to be in the Apostles' Creed, but nowhere--in this Church is it defined how their ancient language is to be interpreted.
But while stronger men are honest," she objected, "are not your ancient vows and ancient Creeds continually making weaker men casuists?
What is the result of proclaiming Christianity in terms of an ancient science and theology which awaken no quickening response in the minds and hearts of to-day?
Ancient Greek philosophy called this decree, this meaning of life, the Logos, and the Nicene Creed is a confession of faith in that philosophy.
Indeed there are many who interpret them by modern thought--which is closer to the teachings of Christ than ancient thought--whose honesty cannot be questioned.
My former, ancient presentation of Christianity left men and women cold.
The Jews, at the time the Gospels were written, and before, had forgotten their ancient Hebrew.
He also drew up the elaborate claim of Miss Lennox of Woodhead to the ancientearldom of Lennox, an interesting production, but based on a fallacy.
This act is expressly quoted and laid down as law by Sir George Mackenzie, who is, at least, our most ancient author upon the criminal law, and there is no practice or decision to the contrary.
This was the substitution of what is called the ‘drop’ for the ancient practice of the double ladder.
Deep in her nature was that intense power of feeling which belongs to complete womanhood, as music belongs to an ancient fiddle.
He was a slim fellow, however, this head raider, one with the false doctrine, as ancient as human nature, that if you succeed it matters little how.
They probably produced the same kind of impression on an ancient reader, as allusions from the works of Latin or Italian poets in Spenser or Milton produce on a modern reader.
It must be admitted by students of Latin literature that the intellectual movement and sensibility of the present time has a closer affinity with the ancient Greek than with the ancient Latin culture.
A dramatist may take the mere outline of some ancient legend and fill it with modern thought and sentiment.
From the time of his death till the extinction of ancient classical culture, there was a regular succession of rhetoricians and grammarians who lectured and wrote treatises on his various poems.
Our ancestors, the ancient Incas of Cusco, kept accounts only by means of quippus, knotted strings.
And the two young fellows saw in the hands of the score of men ringing them 'round, weapons mounted in silver and gold and ancient in appearance, yet firearms, nevertheless, it was not to be doubted.
That it is still inhabited by descendants of the ancient Incas and the Spaniards?
But this device before you is for the purpose of sending sound through the air, as if a man had a voice which could be heard from here to ancient Cusco, thousands of miles distant.
He showed us anancient Latin dictionary, and a Caesar's Gallic Wars.
For that is Patagonia, and it is not so many years ago that the last of the giant Patagonians of ancient days passed away.
Then his father explained that he had received an urgent invitation from Senor de Avilar to cast in his fortunes with him on an expedition into the fastnesses of the Bolivian mountains in search of a horde reputed buried by the ancient Incas.
Fragments of their writing have been found, and it resembled that of the ancient Egyptians.
But who would think to see that ancient ceremony of the Feast of Raymi reproduced today by the descendants of the Children of the Sun?
If their leaders knew of Cusco Hurrin, they would not seek to conquer and enslave us as did the Conquerors to ancient Cusco and Inca Atahualpa?
Now he writes me that he has come into possession of an ancient manuscript which he believes genuine.
He speaks what I expect is very ancient Spanish," Frank replied.
Well did I know how it would be with you, when I sent you that bit of ancient writing.
You see," explained Ferdinand, early in their acquaintance, "my father always has been greatly interested in the ancient history of our land.
There was already anancient town there named Byzantium, but he transformed it into a new and splendid city.
In this book there was published the poem which of all that Coleridge write is the best known, The Ancient Mariner.
The Battle of the Books rose out of a silly quarrel in which Sir William Temple had taken part as to whether the ancient or the modern writers were the best.
Childe is used in the ancient sense of knight, and the poem tells of the wanderings of a gloomy, vicious, world-worn man.
He was born in 1672 in the quaint little thatched parsonage of Milston, a Wiltshire village, not far from that strange monument of ancient days, Stonehenge.
Sometimes, too, he came across old manuscripts with ancient tales in them.
Then on they gladly sailed, the albatross following, until one day the Ancient Mariner, in a mad moment, shot the beautiful bird.
As in the winters left behind, Again our ancient games had place, The mimic picture's breathing grace, And dance and song and hoodman-blind.
The best version of The King's Quair in the ancient text is by W.
It seemed as if the English tongue was doomed to vanish before the conquering Norman, even as the ancient British tongue had vanished before the conquering English.
In Constantinople the ancient learning and literature of the Greeks had lived on year after year.
These may have been the ancient Britons whom Caesar fought when he first came to our shore.
The play might be supposed to take place in Greece or Rome or Ancient Britain, it mattered not.
But in my judgement the common terms that be daily used, be lighter to be understood than the old and ancient English.
This is a book full of the stories of Greek heroes and of the ancient town of Troy.
Giselle's gown was of point d'Alencon, old family lace as yellow as ancient parchment, but of inestimable value.
Each of them will beg you to write her a sonnet; but first of all, in virtue of our ancient friendship, I want one myself.
Who is this ancient teacher or who is his prototype if he is an ideal being?
Perhaps his own grandson, Xenophon the son of Grylus, is the prototype, and Xenophon himself a sort of ancient Victor Hugo in this matter of fondness for children.
