His commands were obeyed: both were basely killed while at morning prayers, and the head of Abdalasis was embalmed and sent in a casket to Syria, to the court of the Calif.
The unfortunate Musa was in attendance at the court, and when the casket arrived the Calif took out the head of Abdalasis and held it up before his victim: "Dost thou know this head?
One such object is a woodencasket in the form of a bullock's head, with two hands jutting out of the forehead and grasping the horns of the animal.
In design, according to Ling Roth, this casket "is bold and artistic; the high relief of the bizarre face and the zigzag conventionalized serpents and tadpoles being well thrown up by enchasing of the ground work.
The casket is supported by a pedestal of appropriate size and is decorated to represent cowries.
As another example of this same sort of thing, we may take the description of another object, a curious metal casket brought to Europe by a member of the Punitive Expedition.
The casket lies buried in the Abbey of Melrose, but Douglas's body was laid in his own church.
Douglas had this heart enclosed in a silver casket and carried it hung about his neck.
The Earl listened with incredulous attention until the name of Demetrius was mentioned, and then suddenly called to his secretary to bring him a certain casket which contained papers of importance.
He took a purse of gold from the strong casket which stood before him.
No man shall abuse or insult my prisoners; they are my jewels, and I lock them in safe casket accordingly.
And as for her guilt, the famous Casket Letters were, of course, a vile forgery.
Barkilphedro, smiling, bowed, placed the casketunder his cloak, and left the room.
We must not forget the casket that Barkilphedro had taken with him.
Barkilphedro touched the casketon the table with his forefinger.
My lord, this casket contains two thousand guineas which her gracious Majesty the Queen has sent you for your present wants.
There came one day an old woman to the stuff-bazar, with a casket of mighty fine workmanship, containing trinkets, and she was accompanied by a young baggage big with child.
It happened one day the king gave her a string of pearls and a casket of jewels.
Then he brought out the casket of jewellery and showed it to experts, who told him that the trinkets were gilt and that their worth was but an hundred dirhams.
The kází on seeing her beautiful face was suddenly plunged in the sea of love, and declared that her forehead was of polished silver, her eyes were sparkling diamonds, her mouth a ruby casketcontaining a bracelet of pearls.
She opened the casket and showed him that which was therein and he found it full of trinkets of price; so he trusted her with the goods and she farewelled him and carrying the stuffs to the girl who was with her, went her way.
The draper answered with "To hear is to obey" and going forth from the Deputy's presence, betook himself to his shop and brought out thence the casket and a somewhat making a great display, which he removed to his house.
I nerved myself to the task I had before me, and within an hour the fair casket of what had been Zara lay on an open bier in the little chapel, lights burning round it, and flowers strewn above it in mournful profusion.
Crawley and Harve Crose drove to Glenville in Harve's wagon to meet the train, prepared to haul the casket to the cemetery, where Mr. Marks was to conduct short services.
He chooses three out of the whole number; their names are thrown into a golden casketprovided for that purpose by a former emperor of China.
Author of Mary Queen of Scots and the Casket Letters; &c.
The servant placed a small iron casketin the hands of his master; a folded packet accompanied it; and retired.
And yet it might be that the casket contained matter hostile to his desires, rather than tending to assist them.
Next morning I found upon my table a little casket containing a magnificent emerald ring, along with a small slip of paper on which was written, 'Amalia to her cousin--Silence and Fidelity.
In his beautiful production of The Merchant of Venice Henry Irving restored the fifth act, the jailer scene, and the casket scenes in full, and the piece was acted with strict fidelity to Shakespeare.
The repressed ardour, the glowing suspense, the beautiful modesty and candour with which she awaited the decision of the casket scene, showed her to be indeed all woman, and worthy of a true man's love.
O Lychorida, bid Nestor bring me spices, ink, and paper, my casket and my jewels, and bid Nicandor bring me the satin coffin.
The casket was covered with flowers while the family and friends rode in ox carts, horse-drawn wagons, horseback, and with still many on foot they made their way towards the river.
Within the George's parlors there had been Bible passages read, prayers offered up and hymns sung, now the casket was placed in a wagon drawn by two horses.
The casket was let down into the grave without the lid being put on and everybody walked up and looked into the grave at the face of the dead woman.
She has opened the mystic casket which she was bidden to keep sealed, and now she stands helpless before the witness of her deed.
Besides these, a casket of magnificent goldwork, with the same arms as the sword and the portrait, formed a middle ornament to the mantelpiece, and assorted badly with the rest of the furniture.
Anne of Austria re-entered her apartment, and came out again almost immediately, holding a rosewood casket in her hand, with her cipher encrusted with gold.
On the altar, and beneath the portrait, was the casket containing the diamond studs.
And when she finally returned, did she bring that casket with her?
Every time I see you is a fresh diamond which I enclose in the casket of my heart.
Patrick," said the due, "bring me the casket in which the diamond studs were kept.
Besides, the casket is the more precious from being all that is left to me.
There," said he, drawing from the casket a large bow of blue ribbon all sparkling with diamonds, "there are the precious studs which I have taken an oath should be buried with me.
Governor and Mrs. Pierpont came yesterday, and I took them out to the Protestant Cemetery to look at the casket containing their son.
To the Swiss, the ostentation and the gorgeouscasket at American funerals are not only unbecoming, but a sacrilege and sin.
What connexion is there between the casket and the jewel which it encloses?
Language, for example, carries the keys of the casket wherein she keeps her treasures; and for that reason Theology hath promoted Language to great honour.
Waste not thy precious time in cavil about the structure of the casket which contains thy treasure; but unlock it once with the Key of Faith, and make thyself rich indeed.
They were like jewelers before a casket full of gems, and what they studied, weighed, examined, was a human corpse.
They now defiled past the grave, and Dantin, the first, with a hand which trembled, sprinkled upon the casket those drops of water which are for our dead the last tears.
His head bared to the cold wind, he stood like a statue while the bearers placed the casket in the funeral car, and Bernardet noticed the shaking of the head--a distressed shaking.
Bernardet saw that, despite his strong will and his wish to stand there impassive, Jacques Dantin was troubled when, with a heavy sound, the casket glided over the cords down into the grave.
The look cast at that casket lying in the bottom of that grave!
On that casket was a plate bearing the inscription: "Louis Pierre Rovere.
At length, towards her usual hour of retiring to rest, Flavia took out of a casket a golden bracelet of an antique form, and, laying it on her knee, gazed upon it thoughtfully.
The attendants obeyed; and bringing her the casket which she had mentioned, set it down beside her and retired.
His uncle forced upon him a casket of gold ere he departed, conquering his aversion to receive it by declaring that it was a debt he had owed Paulinus; and Theodore, feeling that it might be needful, made no further resistance.
From the very bottom of the casket he extracted some thin plates of a greyish metal, lead, I believe, all mouldy, stained, and ragged.
As he drew near, the veil of the temple was again lifted, and the aged priest came forward, bearing in his arms a singular casket of wood, ornamented with alternate bands of gold and ivory, carved with outlandish figures.
Thinking only of the fact that it was desirable to obtain a certain document from the brutal Count, he pounced upon the casket when the servant's back was turned.
Her mother had turned upon her with loathing, execrated Lassalle without stint, spoken scornfully of the Countess, the casket robbery, and kindred matters.
Mendelssohn, although fully sensible of the blunder that had been committed, could not desert his friend, and placed the casket in his trunk.
Oppenheim, on his way upstairs, observed a servant with the luggage of the Baroness; among other things a desk or casket of a kind commonly used to carry valuable papers.
The casket he may have seen," answered Abdul Kassim; "I begged it of my brothers in memory of my father.
Abdul Kassim marvelled at the change in the Jew's manner, but as he thought of the looks he had cast at the casket he couldn't help smiling.
One day when the fisherman went out in his boat to cast his nets, he saw a casket of crystal slowly drifting along with the stream.
High up, through the open window, the moon shone in upon him and the imitation nightingale lying in itscasket by the bed.
The same evening the new favourite of the Caliph packed all his few belongings on the horse's back, took the iron casket under his arm and, amid the cheers of the crowd, entered the palace.
But neither she nor any other ever knew that the iron casket connected with her young lord's rise and power was empty.
