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  • At the time he was absent in Munster, as the Vicar of the aged Primate, engaged in a mission of peace, when the crozier and the dying message of his predecessor were delivered to him.

  • Scott's own diary at this time contains the statement: "The Crozier party returned last night after enduring for five weeks the hardest conditions on record.

  • Of the crevasses met in the morning Bowers wrote: "So far nobody has dropped down the length of his harness, as I did on the Cape Crozier journey.

  • She surveyed the face of the Barrier as she went from Cape Crozier to longitude 170° W.

  • This was quite a good march--and Cape Crozier is 67 miles from Cape Evans!

  • Turning left handed we headed towards the sea-ice, knowing that there were some two miles of pressure between us and Cape Crozier itself.

  • The Emperors must be somewhere round that shoulder of the Knoll which hides Cape Crozier itself from our view.

  • We have heard of Cape Crozier as being the eastern extremity of Ross Island, discovered by Ross and named after the captain of the Terror.

  • When, and under what conditions, the Cape Crozier rookery was eventually visited and Emperor eggs secured is graphically told in The Winter Journey.

  • Cape Crozier is a focus for wind and storm, where every breath is converted, by the configuration of Mounts Erebus and Terror, into a regular drifting blizzard full of snow.

  • In the Discovery days the pressure just where it hit Cape Crozier formed a small bay, and on the sea-ice frozen in this bay the men of the Discovery found the only Emperor penguin rookery which had ever been seen.

  • And the crozier that Deglan had in his hand, when performing that miracle, its name was "Feardhacht Deglan.

  • The saint was beating Bolan Mor with the crozier until he killed him.

  • And Deglan followed the sea with his crozier in his hand, and his disciples followed him, and there was a cry and a great sounding from the sea and from the monsters departing.

  • He raised his crozier and made the sign of Christ between himself and the bull.

  • He stripped off his clothes, and with his crozier in his hand he leapt into the water and began swimming to the island.

  • He was playing with Rusty Crozier one day: Rusty's a mighty good player: and he was fiddling over his ball on a tee when Rusty began swinging his club behind Sandy.

  • Legend has it that, as he was performing that ceremony, the Saint, without knowing it, drove the spiked end of his crozier through the King's foot.

  • Aengus said never a word, nor made complaint, thinking it part of the rite; but when the Saint went to take up his crozier and saw what he had done, he blessed the King and promised that none of that royal stock should die of wounds forever.

  • Lo, I come forth, to ride side by side with my brother, bareheaded, the crozier in my hand.

  • High wheels in air the great mace of William; bright by the slaughterers flashes the crozier of the Church.

  • High, through all, rose the club of the Conqueror; high, through all, shone the crozier of the Churchman.

  • Each of these emits from its summit a cylindrical tube, generally flexuous, but always more or less bent in a crozier shape, sometimes attenuated at the extremity.

  • Sometimes this special branch terminates in a crozier shape, which is involved in the bent part of another crozier which terminates a neighbouring filament.

  • In his hands, he held a crozier, which was a staff borrowed from shepherds, who tended sheep; and with the crozier he helped the lambs over rough places; but the crozier of Santa Klaas was tipped with gold.

  • Captain Crozier perceived that it was impossible to proceed in this manner, so all the baggage was looked through again and every unnecessary article was discarded.

  • The carpenter had plenty of work, and Captain Crozier knew the funeral service by heart.

  • Captain Crozier was the second in command and captain of the Terror, while Franklin hoisted his flag on the Erebus, where Captain James was under him.

  • A moment later Mrs. Crozier and the Young Doctor entered the dining-room and sat down at a motion from her.

  • It was Augustus Burlingame, whose face as he saw Mona Crozier took on an ironical smile.

  • These were the words which Kitty was so fond of using, and the girl had a thrill of triumph now as she saw the woman from whom Crozier had fled looking at the card.

  • As she said, he must play the game--play it as Crozier of Lammis would have played it.

  • Mrs. Crozier asked almost mechanically, her face gone pale and a little haggard.

  • But she'll let us know in the letter how Crozier is, won't she?

  • It was clear that the arrival of Mrs. Crozier had brought him no relief, for Crozier's face was not that of a man who had found and opened a casket of good fortune.

  • He's to be called Shiel--Shiel Crozier Bulrush, that's to be his name.

  • Come to my room if you have business with me," Crozier said sharply.

  • Kitty asked, and held it out for Mrs. Crozier to see.

  • He was thinking of Crozier and Kitty; but Kitty was thinking of Crozier, and meaning John Sibley.

  • Crozier looked out towards the northwestern horizon, and in the distance was a woman riding as hard as her horse could go, with a man galloping hard after her.

  • She saw that Mrs. Crozier loved her husband now, whatever she had done in the past.

  • He saw that she meant Crozier and his wife.

  • But if Aspen Vale hasn't given him what he wanted, then Mr. Shiel Crozier will still be an exile from home and the angel in the house.

  • Lieutenant Crozier accompanied the boats to Low and Walden Islands, where depots of provisions were made.

  • The crozier leant against an oaken case in the corner; and a great cross was against the heavy table where the Bishop sat.

  • I may also add, in passing, that the crozier borne by Romanist bishops is a reproduction of the Etruscan lituus, the augurs' or diviners' staff of office.

  • The Christian crozier is the Etruscan and Roman lituus, or "divining staff.

  • My copy of Crozier disappeared some time before I left New York, and so far I have been unable to replace it.

  • The twenty-five minutes was not a flat loss: he had got Crozier by it.

  • Crozier got out with others to see what was the matter.

  • One of them represents a prelate, who holds a crozier in his left hand, while the first two fingers of the right are elevated in the action of giving the blessing.

  • At that very moment the Bishop of Bister's crozier lay on the table of a London mansion.

  • This was duly opened, and Mr. Kassala had then the pleasure of inspecting the crozier presented by the ladies of the county.

  • The old crozier of the see is now kept in our chapter house.

  • He spent the evening alone with Paley, and about eleven o'clock, with firm determination on his face, he forced the lock of the crozier case.

  • In place of the crozier of ebony, gold, and jewels, the present of the ladies of the county, there reposed in the purple velvet lining a common bedroom poker!

  • Mr. Jones, I wonder if you would mind bringing my crozier from the library?

  • By the burglary of the Bishop of Bister's crozier Lord Ribston's subscription has been paid for the next two years," said one of the men, making a cypher note in a book.

  • Notwithstanding the ambiguity of its victory, the Crozier has won.

  • For a moment longer Crozier remained silent, getting strength, as it were, and saying to himself, "What does he know?

  • Crozier bowed and turned, again grasping the rail of the witness-box with one hand, while with an air of cogitation and suspense he stroked his chin with the long fingers of the other hand.

  • Crozier was about to step down when Burlingame rose.

  • But in the daytime she was quite happy, and though there was haunting, it was Shiel Crozier who, first helpless, then convalescent, was haunted by her presence.

  • They had met on the highway, as it were, many times since Crozier had come to Askatoon, and Crozier knew his man.

  • Were you a legitimate son of John Gathorne Crozier and his wife?

  • Sibley said to himself, and stepped forward to Crozier with a friendly exclamation.

  • Backing horses ruined him," said Sibley in reply; and he looked at Crozier admiringly.

  • That's all right, but I am staying to see Mr. Crozier through.


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