Of all the minorcreatures of mythology the fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable in literature.
And instinct prompts all wild creatures when away from man's control to return to their former shyness, but hawks certainly retain their tameness for a long time, and their memory is remarkably retentive.
High as man is placed above the creatures around him, there is a higher and far more exalted position within his view; and the ways are infinite in which he occupies his thoughts about the fears, or hopes, or expectations of a future life.
With them she underwent the customary two days' jealousy, and then entered fully into the heritage of kindliness which every Indian woman squeezes, drop by drop, from her arid life and lavishes on the creatures who are gentle with her.
Wild creatures seem to be sensitive to telepathic influences.
And in spiritual creatures it is their own constant building up by true knowledge and continuous reasoning to higher perfection, and the singleness and straight-forwardness of their tendencies to more complete communion with God.
It is clear, therefore, that there is a standard of dignity in the pleasures and passions themselves, by which we also class the creatures capable of, or suffering them.
But from the lips of an heavenly King, who had not where to lay his head, we were taught what lesson we have to learn from those higher creatures who sow not, nor reap, nor gather into barns, for their Heavenly Father feedeth them.
These creatures are excellent fellows, enjoying themselves on liquor that has not paid the city duty, and perhaps I may seize upon some point that favors my system among spirits so frank and clamorous.
These phenomena, as you call them, are no more than the final deposits which nature has made in the cases of those creatures in which matter has completely overcome its rival, mind.
As these unsophisticated young creatures were attended by no jealous duennas, their proceedings were altogether informal, and void of artificial restraint.
Judge ye then, reader, what beautiful creatures they must have been.
For who could think of tumbling these artless creatures overboard, when they had swum miles to welcome us?
These repulsive-looking creatures appeared to have lost the use of their lower limbs altogether; sitting upon the floor cross-legged in a state of torpor.
Ridiculous, indeed, that the lovely creatures should be obliged to paddle about in the water, like so many ducks, while a parcel of great strapping fellows skimmed over its surface in their canoes.
I involuntarily closed my mouth, and the poor creatures being enveloped in inner darkness, must in their consternation have stumbled over my palate, and been precipitated into the gulf beneath.
I was on the alert at once, and discovered, on going out, that the provokingcreatures had chosen the top of a tree about thirty feet high to settle on.
My wife declared that I was quite a poet, and the beehive was duly installed near the flower plots, that the delicatecreatures might have the full benefit of the honeysuckle and mignonette.
I do not wish to write of the personal habits of these strange creatures solely, but also of certain curious details of various kinds concerning them, which, belonging only to their private life, have never crept into print.
And yet these creatures were ignorant and unlettered-barbarians themselves and the offspring of barbarians, who knew not the light of philosophy and science.
All but these two simpler creatures were abashed at the indecorum of suggesting in words the commonplaces of the theatre and of art.
We arecreatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another; and only one interest at a time fills these.
I know it isn't any real help, but such things take the poor creatures out of themselves for the time being, don't you think?
I wonder if that's the attitude the Almighty intended His respectable creatures to take toward one another!
I was thinking of some other favourite pursuits of yours--of handsomer and more dangerous creatures than Red Lancer--though I suppose he is a picture of a horse, and it always makes me shiver to see him rear.
Can you form any idea of the horror and confusion that ensue, when hundreds of human creatures wake from perfect security, to find themselves face to face with death?
The entreaties of these young creatures went to my heart.
If these two creatures should ever come to Sprucehill, I know you will all stand by me in what I say--but then every one of you would be turned out of meeting if you only looked at a race-horse through a spy-glass.
I always thought the creatureswere awfully inhuman," says I; "nothing but a jackal can be worse.
What she said to him there I cannot tell, but by and by they came back to the hotel, the sneakiest-looking creatures you ever set your two eyes on.
The meat of those creatures is just delicious--what there is of it.
Since then, I have learned that these little creatures are a great help to gardeners, and that wise men foster them with kindness and care.
If horses could gamble I should call these two beautiful creatures black-legs, and the gayest of gamboliers; but as they can't do it themselves men and women do it for them.
If we did our duty, and taught little children that even thoughtless cruelty is a sin, and that the fun which comes out of pain to any of God's creatures is a crime, there would not be much for Mr. Bergh and his noble society to do.
Hadn't I hunted up birds' nests, and driven the pretty creatures distracted by handling their eggs, till at last the nests were broken up?
Why, if one of your mountain trout streams could have run through New York, it would have boiled over and cooked the poor little speckled creatures that live in its waves.
I thank God that one brave spirit is found ready and able to protect the dumb creatures that are given us for blessings, not for victims.
Did you never close your eyes, half go to sleep, and listen to them, with a lazy consciousness that you could rest and enjoy, while those little, busy creatures were singing at their work?
Or even if none of these things or creatures existed, we could trust to Barnum to make them out of hand.
And (so much are we the creatures of our conditions!
But my far greater fancy for wild, queer, useless, mischievous, and even disgusting creatures often got me into trouble.
I allow that I am justly punished; but what have these innocent creatures done?
When the canoe was taken out of the storehouse to be put into the canal, these half-naked, ebony-skinned creatures swarmed about it like bees.
This danger was hardly passed, when suddenly the waters around me seethed and foamed, and the short waves parted and closed, as great creatures rose from the deep into the air several feet, and then fell heavily into the sea.
Every one of these creatures is a complex result of very complex conditions, among which you must never forget to reckon the previous existence and interaction of all the antecedent ones.
But even if there are such, which planetoscopists doubt, they must be very different creatures in form and function from any we know on this one small world of ours.
Many an unemployed soldier, or bully who called himself soldier, would bestow, or impose, his protection upon some one of these frail creatures in the time of her prosperity, exacting from her the means of livelihood.
Millicent's fancy peopled the shades with sleeping giants, goblins, witches, dragons, and all the creatures of the old tales of fairies and knights errant.
Indeed, the foundation of my knowledge of the ways of the wild creatureswas laid when I was a farm boy, quite unconscious of the natural-history value of my observations.
But strange to see, when women and men herein, that live all the season in these waters, that cannot but be parboiled, and look like the creatures of the bath!
It could not therefore regard any class of beings or creatures as essentially bad, or any class of actions as essentially wrong, since all sprang from a common Root.
Man has to find and to feel his true relation to other creatures and to the whole of which he is a part, and has to use his brain to further this.
In it the Virgin is seated beneath a portico, breathing, as such creatures must breathe, the vast greenness, the deep evening breeze.
The central lions are well preserved, highly realistic, but also decorative; one of them is crushing a large ram, another an ox, both creaturessplendidly rendered.
Visions of superhuman creatures were among the most undisputed articles of his belief, and among the commonest subjects of his art.
These nameless feline creatures hold what appear to be portions of sheep, one of them having at its flank a curious excrescence like the stinging scorpion of the Mithra groups.
Sometimes they woke, and went to sleep again; and those that stayed awake for long and listened heard heavy two-footed creatures pad through the night on paws.
And down the bank of the Flavro he fluttered low, like to a hawk over a new-cut cornfield when the little creatures of the corn are shelterless, and at the same time down the other bank the Death from the gods went mowing.
I claim consideration for the comfort, convenience, and refreshment of the sober; and you presently make platform proclamation that I have a depraved desire to turn Heaven's creatures into swine and wild beasts!
The vain little creatures of the forest, grown bold and reckless and almost fearless during the years that they had been unmolested, did not have half a chance, and learned that they must exert their utmost to escape this cruel forager.
This sweet and subtle fragrance blowing in his nostrils, sent its solace straight to his embittered heart and gave him the comfort and confidence that he would soon be one of the little furrycreatures scampering in the woodsy haven.
HE Nature was cruel in allowing her creatures to survive the period of physical expansion.
Have you not resolved, in your narrow masculine pride, to undo the work of your ancestors and to reduce to the position of mean and lesser men these creatures who used to dominate you with all their beauty and with all their tenderness?
There are no noble human creatures but those who are in love with themselves and study to extract from their natures all the vain happiness contained in them.
They are admirable creatures of pleasure, but the pride that is natural to them makes them selfish.
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