Or how deemest thou I may tear thy friend Viridis from thee, when she hath just found thee?
If thou deemest me evil, as I think thou dost, there are worser than I, I tell thee, there are worser.
But tell me, deemest thou surely that thou canst find it again?
Then he said: If thou deemest thou hast somewhat to reward me for, I have a boon to ask of thee, and granting that, we shall be quits again.
Deemest thou that thou wilt slay me as lightly as the dun deer, and thou with thy bow unstrung at thy back?
Laughed the Knight in his turn, and said: "What, thou deemest this no very lordly castle for him who hath to withstand barons and portes and kings?
And they turned about both and looked down on Wethermel, and Stephen cast his arm abroad and spake: "Best-beloved of all men, how long deemest thou it shall be ere thou seest this again?
For belike thou deemest me old, but I am a young man, only I am haggard with the battle between life and death as I lay wounded yonder.
The path of rescue, little as thou deemest it, shall first open from a Grecian town.
Deemest thou the ashes care for that, or the ghost within the tomb?
I want to know whether thou deemest that there is any such thing as chance at all, and, if so, what it is.
Here is one whom thoudeemest the perfection of justice and scrupulous integrity; to all-knowing Providence it seems far otherwise.
For if thoudeemest it received from without, thou mayst esteem that which gives more excellent than that which has received.
Hallblithe wondered and laughed, and said: "Who art thou thatdeemest me so dear?
Hallblithe filled, and gave to him, and the old man drank and said: "Thou deemest us all liars in the Isle of Ransom because of thy beguiling by the Puny Fox: but therein thou errest.
Or wheredeemest thou was the garden wherein thou sawest her standing on the page of the book in that dream of the night?
Belike thou deemest it but dreary with its black rocks and black sand, and treeless wind-swept dales; but I know it in summer and winter, and sun and shade, in storm and calm.
Belike thou deemest that thou shalt not be met this even, and that there is no free alien in the island to draw sword against thee.
At this Shimas the Wazir bowed his head groundwards awhile and presently raising it, smiled; so the King said to him, "What deemest thou, O Shimas?
Then came Halimah and said to her lover, "How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?
Then said they to him, "How is it with thee, O King, and how deemestthou for thyself of these thy dolours?
Deemest thou not that He is able to turn His creatures from this disobedience and compel them eternally to hold the Truth?
But since, O man, thou deemest me this ill deme, henceforth I will never again break with thee bread nor drain with thee drink, for I loathe thee with the loathing of prohibition.
And as for my service, thou mayst need it; for indeed I deem thee not so safe as thou deemest thyself in this Burg.
Said Ralph: "What deemest thou to lie beyond them?
Now the carle said: "Thou hast a tale which thou deemestunmeet for my ears, as it well may be.
But if thou deemest I have brought thee all these riders it is not wholly so.
Deemest thou, friend, that this is the meaning of thy wise she-friend?
If thou deemest that thou art verily free, ride off on the backward road when we go forward; I warrant me thou shalt presently meet with an adventure, and be brought in a captive for the second time.
And whereas it beareth naught else, that cometh of my lord's will: for deemest thou that he should suffer a rich land betwixt him and Goldburg, that it might sustain an host big enough to deal with him?
So they looked long and wondered; and Ursula said: "Deemest thou, my friend, that any have come thus far and forborne to drink?
But as to the tales of Swevenham, what deemest thou of them?
But tell me, knight, how deemestthou of thy tilting to-morrow?
Of the wealth, wherewith our army the Creator did endow, Take in thine hand whatever thou deemest good to choose.
And moreover thou art so hushed, and so fearsome in thy mail, that I think thou yet deemest me to be a Wight of the Waste, such as Stone-face thy Fosterer told thee tales of, and forewarned thee.
Hall-ward said: 'In a few days belike we shall be wending home to Burgdale: when deemest thou that the Bride may travel, if it were but on a litter?
Or deemest thou that we shall never see Silver-dale again?
Therefore I say, take these guests and me together, or put us all to the door together; and if thou wilt take them, then show them to such places as thou deemest meet.
But deemest thou by that token that we shall be vanquished?
How couldest thou think it, when the Fathers and the kindred have made this body that thou lovest, and the voice of their songs is in the speech thou deemest sweet?
He shook his head and said: 'Even so thou deemest now; but one day it shall be otherwise.
FN#109] Then Abou Sabir foregathered with his wife and said to her, 'How deemestthou of the fruit of patience and its sweetness and the fruit of haste and its bitterness?
When the morning morrowed and the king sat on the throne of his kingship, he summoned the chief of his viziers and said to him, "What deemest thou of this that yonder robber-youth hath done?
Quoth the king, 'Dost thou call thyself a cavalier and a man of learning and deemest that victory is in abundance of troops?
Deemest thou an angel would have touched thee, without blasting thee?
Deemest thou it possible to clasp the plague and to evade the contagion?
She answers, "No glory is it for such a great warrior as thou deemest thyself, to slay a mannikin like that; I will show thee a greater deed, if thine heart is so great that thou must needs try thyself.
She said: "Not altogether a fool is he who can be silent; but so it fares not with thee: thou deemest thyself cunning, and art minded to bind thy lie on my back.
So he searched through the place, and found him not, and she said, "Why dost thou not take him then, since thou deemest the thing so sure?
Thorir answered, "My mind goes fully with thine in that thou deemest ill of outlawed men: and thou wilt have heard tell of me as of a man-slayer and a misdoer, but not as of a doer of such foul deeds as to betray my master.
He answers, "Somewhat do I misdoubt me that thou holdest some man or other whom thou deemest better than I be.
I wot thou deemest him of far fairer voice than I be.
They said, "Why deemest thou us such shameful men as that we should reward that deed but with good?
But now command and devise all things that thou deemest might be good for thee, and I will let seek and array them, whatsoever they may cost me.
So she called her cousin to her and said: "How deemest thou of me?
And deemest thou that I accept the boon, Craven, like these my subjects?
O our lord the Sultan,' replied Ali, 'that thoudeemest good is good.
It befalls of thy pride belike, in that thoudeemest thyself the first of men.
Sigurd said, "As one under a spell art thou, if thou deemest that there is aught cruel in my heart against thee; but thou hast him for husband whom thou didst choose.
Good talk," says Gudrun, "let us do even so; what kings deemest thou to have been the first of all men?
How deemest thou, O King, of fetching El Abbas and drawing up the contract of marriage between Mariyeh and him?
So he smelt it and she said to him, "How deemest thou?
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