Then my lord got quickly well, When he was his charmerto wed; And Catskin, before a twelvemonth, Of a young lord was brought to bed.
My lord did again, the next day, Declare to his mother his mind, That he never more happy should be, Unless he his charmer should find.
Of which old Merlin thus foretold, That he his wish should have, And so this son of stature small The charmer to him gave.
Then it happened one day that he could not find his principal charmer Madanamanchuka anywhere in the female apartments, nor could her attendants find her either.
How happy could I be with either Were t'other dear charmer away.
An exuberant rustic charmer has been entertaining a fashionable visitor in a granary; a party of rustics, mounting the ladder, have disturbed the interview.
The moment I got on land I hastened to the house of Mr. Vernon, to see the charmer of my soul.
Of course the poor serpent-charmer never came to life again.
In Madras, a few years ago, a noted serpent-charmer chanced one morning to get hold of a Cobra of considerable size, which he got conveyed to his home.
Reinette” became the accepted name of the woodland charmer and the hunt for Reinette bushes in the more devious paths of the wood a daily occupation.
My charmer has no passions; that is to say, none of the passions that I want her to have.
With regret I speak it of the charmer of my soul, that irreconcilableness is her family-fault--the less excusable indeed for her, as she herself suffers by it in so high a degree from her own relations.
Away flew the charmer with this half permission--and no doubt thought that she had an escape--nor without reason.
I awoke, as thou mayest believe, in great disorder, and rejoiced to find my charmer in the next room, and Dorcas honest.
And so thou wilt not wait upon the charmer of my heart, but upon terms and conditions!
Here we have a charmer such as the Primitives were, a charmer such as the Impressionists are, like Massys and Manet, like Dürer and Degas, like all who have looked nature in the face.
If a Gauria saw an Ojha snake-charmer carrying a damru he would consider himself entitled to take it from the Ojha forcibly if he could.
The snake-charmer then begins to name various gods and goddesses and to play upon the plate, which emits, it is said, a very melancholy sound.
Dark Chloe now my homage owns, Skilled on the banjo and the bones; For whom I would not fear to die, If death would pass my charmer by.
And two fair clubs, O royal child, One Charmer and one Pointed styled With flame of lambent fire aglow, On thee, O Chieftain, I bestow.
The story is told in Book I, Canto LXIII, but the charmer there is called Menaká.
Hardy's supreme care for Charmer had lost him the strategic moment, but he fired straight at Rebecca.
Almost at once Charmer came to the spot pointed out to me, reared her full length upon the rails and let out a new note; long, musical, fretful, overjoyed.
Neither of them saw Luke or Rebecca; the sun was in their eyes and at that instant Charmer and Dandy, having met some momentary delay, once more bayed joyously and sprang into view.
Charmer and Dandy had climbed directly over it, scampered through the corn, and were waking every echo in a swamp beyond.
We had skirted the branch a full mile, beating its margin thoroughly, and were in deep woods again, when all at once Charmer let out a glad peal.
The merest fraction of a note from the horn brought the two free dogs to their master, and before he could lift Dandy over the fence Charmer was on the trail.
Looking for its effect, I saw Euonymus trying to swim and Charmer quitting the chase.
Horatio, by the most passionate expressions, testified how dearly he prized what she had seemed to think of so little value, when the expected charmer of his soul drew near the grate.
Marry your charmer and be damned; and if you'll serve me by taking her thus in hand, I'll pay you twenty pounds upon your wedding-day.
I run acrost a couple I knowed out there the first thing--it was Watty and the snake-charmer woman.
They are the fellers that stands out in front and gets you all excited about the Siamese twins or the bearded lady or the snake-charmer or the Circassian beauties or whatever it is inside the tent, as represented upon the canvas.
Watty had a snake-charmer woman, with an awful long, bony kind of neck, working fur him, and another feller that was her husband and eat glass.
He was frantically in love, and before many days had passed vowed that he would shoot himself if his charmer refused to smile on him.
Having ascertained, from slight marks which their practised eyes easily discover, that a Serpent is hidden in some crevice, the charmer plays upon his flute, and in a short time the snake is sure to make its appearance.
I visited the Charmer to-day, and stayed an unconscionably long time.
I had about half an hour of the Charmer to myself--her husband is the Naval Attache.
Not one word did Harry, he so fluent of conversation ordinarily, change with his charmer on that day.
More selfish than you: more eager and headstrong than you: they will rush on their destiny when the doomed charmer makes her appearance.
I shall never forget the day when the snake-charmer called at our house and asked whether we should like to see two big snakes he had caught that day.
When I brought it out, moving and wriggling about in my hand, the charmer took to flight.
Nagoo was a snake-charmer and by nature a gipsy, and this treatment rankled in his dark bosom.
As soon as the cobra shows itself the charmer catches it by the tail with one hand, and, running the other swiftly along its body, grips it firmly just behind the jaws, so that it cannot turn and bite.
The snake-charmer keeps all sorts of them, but chiefly cobras.
What the snake-charmer is by race or origin ethnologists may determine when they have done with the gipsy.
But to a stranger the snake-charmer himself is a better tamasha than anything he can show.
But the snake-charmer seems safe from that kind of competition.
No missionary will find any difficulty in getting a snake-charmer to appreciate that Scripture text about the deaf adder which will not listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
To these two occupations the snake-charmer adds that of a medicine man, for who should know the occult potencies of herbs and trees so well as he?
The tamasha which the snake-charmer promises the sahib will include serpent dances, a fight between a cobra and a mungoose, the inevitable mango tree, and other tricks of juggling.
But the snake-charmer is the best known and most widely spread of them all.
You don't want to marry any of those girls as long as your heart's set on that unknowncharmer of yours.
