Hillyer, of forty-nine guns, and theCherub of thirty-two guns.
While theCherub compared the gifts with eloquence, I drew Mariquita apart.
That was to be the rendezvous; and the Cherub would engage the verger we knew to watch the Duke’s house in the morning, bringing news of our fate to the hotel—if we did not bring it ourselves.
Immediately upon making this discovery, the Cherub had begun to move heaven and earth to obtain a box for himself, either behind, in front of, or on one side of Carmona’s box.
You will need these things,” insisted the old lady, giving the Cherub a friendly pat on the arm, as she encircled Pilar’s waist.
Pilar and the Cherub were persuaded to finish their cups of thick chocolate, flavoured with cinnamon, while Dick and I drank our strong coffee and left our aguardiente.
Pilar and Dick had gone with him, to remain in the car chaperoned by Ropes, until he should come out; so that I had no means of learning whether the Cherub had triumphed or failed.
If this could be arranged, the O’Donnels would be given the latter, in exchange for—only the Cherub knew what.
Of course all the boxes were already subscribed for the whole week by members of the aristocracy and other persons of importance in Seville; but, then, the Cherub had friends and acquaintances in every class.
The Cherub told me these things only because I insisted on hearing all; and on Wednesday evening I dragged further details from Pilar.
Now I shall never lack protection,” said she, with gentle emphasis; and it was well for me that the Cherub was showing Lady Vale-Avon some marvellous sword passes.
One little wet-nosed cherub I patted, so chubby and innocent she was; and Heaven send that the impulse profited me!
At any rate the cherubwas suggested by and represents the storm-cloud, just as the sword in Gen.
On the right of the West door, in the middle of a pyramid, is a large medallion of brass, resting on a cherub below, and suspended by another at the top.
The principal figure is represented in a dying posture, and at his feet a cherub weeping.
And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
The standard borne by the Cherub Azazel is described as having-- Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.
Cherub he appears, Not of the prime, yet such as in his face Youth smiled celestial.
She had taken much pains with her pencil drawing of a cherub in the clouds, intending it as a present for the eccentric old lady.
Her mother was a suffering angel on earth; but, happily for herself, she removed to a more congenial abode, while her cherub child was yet in infancy.
She've been the cherub aloft for me ever since I strained my eyes glazin' for the last peep o' Carnwall when us sailed.
This poor Frankenstein of a cherub watches the worm he has produced defy him and refuse absolutely to obey his most fundamental postulates or accept his axioms.
On cherub and on cherubim, Full royally he rode; And on the wings of mighty winds, Came flying all abroad.
He had no vivid conception of his cherub boy an angel in Heaven awaiting his father's arrival.
And He rode upon a cherub and did fly; Yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
The cherub Mephistopheles smiled at this joke and did not seem to care just then that his every extra word kept the procession back an extra instant.
He was, it seemed, a curious mixture of cherub and Mephistopheles in type: round faced, blue eyed, with smooth cheeks that looked pink even in the cruel electric light.
The name Cherub appears to me to signify that florid countenance which we see in girls and young men in the blossom of their age.
This in itself was a marvel, and shows that that sweet little cherub must have taken his case in hand, as, with one other exception, the Hau Haus were never known to omit tomahawking and mutilating a dead body.
High o'er the heavens wert thou borne, to stand One little cherub midst the cherub band?
That wife sits fearless by thy side, That cherub on thy knee; They do not shudder at thy looks, They do not shrink from thee.
Though winged with life through all its radiant shores, Creation flowed with unexhausted storesCherub and seraph had not yet enjoyed; For this he called thee from the quickening void!
Amity had finished tying up the harness and was backing Cherubinto the shafts as he listened to this warning.
The awful strain on the old rotten harness when Cherub pulled and the vehicle was held up, caused the frayed rope mendings to part and the eager horse hurried forward, leaving his unwelcome drag behind.
The moment she learned what had happened, and saw the driver waiting for Cherub to return, she shook a doughty fist at him and scolded well.
Even the harness would have held if you hadn't been so heavy as to make Cherub break away from the load.
This time, however, Cherub was in a great hurry to get his feed, which he was sure would be awaiting him in the barn, so he failed to respond to the usual hard yank on the reins.
Mrs. James rapped him on the shoulder to stop, and Natalie called to Rachel to hurry and get in, but Amity seemed unable to make Cherub halt and Rachel tossed her head and scorned to ask the man to let her ride.
So impressive were her speech and actions that Amity considered "discretion to be the better part of valor" this time, and jumped out to catch Cherub and bring him back to his job.
But no one was hit, and we were round the corner, where, I fear, I dropped the Cherub with considerable emphasis on his gammy leg.
The Cherub made his way to the station, and watched, as a boy watches a bird-trap.
The Cherub with his scouts went ahead to find a road.
The Cherubput the bodies back and dug several dummy graves.
The Cherub was wounded, and his two scouts killed.
When de Cherub pipes me off this afternoon dat de stunt is to be pulled to-night, I sends fer her as soon as he gets out of de way, an' she comes on de run.
The Cherub warded off her attack with a vicious sweep of his fist.
He remembered Whitie Jack's description of the Cherub in action--and it was literally true.
The Cherubhad proved a topic that had aroused an unbounded enthusiasm in Whitie Jack.
Billy Kane flung his body forward with all his weight upon the Cherub, hurling the Cherubback upon Clarkie Munn, and whirling, whipped a lightning left full into Gypsy Joe's face on the other side.
In a flash the Cherub was up from the bed, and between them.
Cherub softly, and smiled beneficently, as he sat down on the edge of the bed and calmly lighted a cigarette.
The Cherub laughed suddenly and a little noisily, as from unstrung nerves.
At the closed door of Hugh John's chamber stood two quaint little figures, clad in lawny white, one tall and slim, the other short and chubby as a painted cherub on a ceiling.
And General Napoleon Smith said grace with all the sweet innocence of a budding angel singing in the cherub choir, aiming at the same time a kick at his sister underneath the table, which overturned a footstool and damaged the leg of a chair.
Like the golden cherubim, covering the visible mercy seat in the Holy of Holies of the earthly tabernacle, he was created a guard and covering cherub to the heavenly center of Glory.
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
In verse fourteen he is called the "anointed cherub that covereth.
And truth to say, she ofttimes thought, The angels were near by, So strange a gleam was on his hair, So bright his cherub eye.
At last the mother went with him To dwell on Heaven's wide plain, Where father, mother, cherub now, Sing forth a glorious strain.
