And when the [monks] of a convent[2] desire to make a feast to their god, they send for all those consecrated damsels and make them sing and dance before the idol with great festivity.
Here the King used to take his pleasure in company with those damsels of his; some in carriages, some on horseback, whilst no man was permitted to enter.
This is performed by these damsels several times every year until they are married.
In English: Behold me landed now on Saxon ground, Where lovely damsels on the trees are found.
On which all the pretty damsels smiled at him and each other.
Now, look you," said Little John, "I cannot see such dainty damselsas ye are carrying baskets along a highroad.
It hath cost Thee pains, to please thy damsels with this white And red of cheeks that never face the light!
Then he turned to a damsel of the damsels and said to her, "Who am I?
So he sported and joyance waxed on him and he bestowed dresses of honour on the damsels and gave and bestowed, challenging this one and kissing that and toying with a third, plying one with wine and another with meat, till the night fell down.
And he gave not over calling upon the slave-girls till his mother heard him calling upon strange damsels and rising, came to him and said, "The name of God encompass thee!
Then he arose and sat up, whilst thedamsels laughed at him and hid [their laughter] from him; and he was confounded in his wit and bit upon his finger.
But Julia Girdwood had been stepping too long on the flags of the Fifth Avenue, to be externally distinguished from the proudest damsels of that aristocratic street.
On couches ranged in rows shall they recline; and to the damsels with large dark eyes will we wed them.
Therein shall be the damsels with retiring glances, whom nor man nor djinn hath touched before them: Which, etc.
I go on a message from a young ensign in the keep, to one of the Scottish damsels in yonder tower.
Bestow the prize, therefore, upon one of thy fair damsels whose small wrist, peradventure, it may be of size to suit.
The church had been taken, with its jolly architect before the door; the nuns with their pupils; sundry damsels in the ancient and singularly unbecoming robes of tapa; and Father Orens in the midst of a group of his parishioners.
Her curse was fulfilled, for soon many Athenian damsels hanged themselves for no obvious reason.
The dames and damsels say that he would not be king for that he had no mind to die so soon.
The ladies and damselsare mounted to the windows of the great houses and make great joy, and say the one to another, 'Look at the new king here that they are leading in.
At last their sonorous voices could no more be heard; the light dresses of the damsels were no longer to be seen; it was night.
On my life," said he, "here are some damsels not much afraid of the night-dews!
It is from the mountain parishes that all those cherries are brought which may be seen spread out on straw at the Leon festivals, and with which the young men fill their great beaver hats for the damselsof their choice.
This affair had not been long adjusted, when five damsels were introduced in a very gay dishabille, and our hero was complimented with the privilege of choosing his Amanda from the whole bevy.
Yet there was something meritorious in her appearance, as it denoted her an indefatigable minister to the pleasure of mankind, and as it formed an agreeable contrast with the beauty and youth of the fair damsels that wantoned in her train.
Unlike Signorelli, Bazzi felt a deep artistic sympathy with female beauty; and the most attractive fresco in the whole series is that in which the evil monk Florentius brings a bevy of fair damsels to the convent.
Musicians following with great barony And jesters through the land his state have brought, With dames and damsels whereso rideth he.
Mr. Hamleigh and the two damsels now appeared, summoned by the gong, and they all went into the dining-room.
Brazen as the two damsels were the feeling of self-respect was not altogether extinct in their natures.
Christabel speedily found, however, that these damsels were not exacting in the matter of attention from herself.
Mr. Hamleigh's efforts to escape from the two damsels who had marked him for their own, were futile: nothing less than sheer brutality would have set him free.
And all the young things murmured, "Stay, and you will find sweet rep- aration for the folks at home in Damsels of Dieppe.
If scep- tical, ask ancient ladies, once theDamsels of Dieppe.
He rallied them in French, in which he had the gift of rep- artee, and sunnily they smiled, the Damsels of Dieppe.
He belongs to the age of lily-like damsels in sad-colored frocks, and knights of high degree on bended knee and their armor hung to the rafters.
Then took the Myrmidons Those splendid gifts which in the tent they lodged Of swift Achilles, and the damsels led Each to a seat, while others of his train Drove forth the steeds to pasture with his herd.
In Hellas and in Phthia may be found Fair damsels many, daughters of the Chiefs Who guard our cities; I may choose of them, 495 And make the loveliest of them all my own.
The duty of conducting all strayed damsels into the right path is, as matters go in this good city, rather too weighty an undertaking for your youth and inexperience.
Gud nodded to him approvingly, whereupon five beautiful damsels entered dancing to flats and sharps, and flute and cymbal.
So the discussion of relativity was forgotten, as all things of the intellect are forgotten, when damsels young and beautiful dance to lute and timbrel.
And Gud made answer and said: "These damsels be the daughters of the Pope, but I know not whence they came.
He rallied them in French, in which he had the gift of rep- -artee, and sunnily they smiled, the Damsels of Dieppe.
And, while he wobbled on the waves, be sure they never slep', While waiting for their Lionel, the Damsels of Dieppe.
Don't believe that, Harry; one of our home-bred damsels would give them a distance and beat them in the race for a husband.
Send sixty damsels with her, and sixty noble youths each bringing two horses and a servant.
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