In a similar manner, the bridegroom was asked to give audience to a stranger on his wedding day, and disappeared from the face of the earth from that moment.
Wherefore hath our mother earth brought out poisons (saith Pliny) in so great a quantity, but that men in distress might make away themselves?
Anaximander the Milesian asserted that the primitive animals were formed of earth and water mixed together, heated and animated by the solar rays; these aquatic creatures became amphibious, and were gradually transformed into the human races.
Heaven and Earthhad formed his father, who had united his destinies with Clymene, one of the Oceanides.
All these deductions are both unjust and unwise; for, as I have already said, if physicians only possessed the means of affording relief, their mission upon earth is of the utmost importance.
Darwin tells us that he saw a young lady about ten years of age that used to fill her stomach with earth out of a flowerpot, and then vomited it up, with small stones, bits of wood, and wings of various insects.
Prometheus strove impiously to possess himself of Divine knowledge, and created man with a base amalgam of earth and the bones of animals, vivified by the celestial fire he had obtained.
I do not blush at what might be called my superstition any more than I should blush in acknowledging that my senses inform me that the earth does not move.
The savage may be compared to the former, which range the earth uncontrolled by man; civilized people to the domesticated breeds of the same species, whose diversities of form and colour are endless.
Poor Lucy wondered what on earth could have happened that Carrie Cockayne avoided her: and what those furtive nods of the head and stolen smiles at her could mean?
Only ten days ago Caroline murmured those delicious sounds at the altar, which announce a heaven upon earth to man.
I see you smile, you rogue, as you read this, but I repeat it--that announce a heaven upon earth to man.
What on earth has La Belle Jardinière got to do with cheap trowsers, Mr. Cockayne?
She said--"I could have sunk to the earth when I saw you with Bertram--of all men in the world.
We know that even a dying sinner's heart may repent and be softened; the thought that he is perishing from the earth nursing a deadly sin at his heart would do much; he would never dare die so.
Sarah, leave off that racket among the cups and saucers; what on earth are you at, girl?
The helicopter hummed and droned, and Kreynborg grinned and searched the earth below him for a sign of the man and girl who had been the only danger to his plan and now were unarmed fugitives.
They fled down a tiny water-course, midget figures in an infinity of earth and sky, scurrying frenziedly from a red slug-like thing that lay askew in a mountain valley.
Two thousand feet up and a mile away, the unearthly green blaze of a hexynitrate explosion lit the whole earth with unbearable brilliance.
Two hundred yards from them the most formidable fighting force the world had ever seen littered the earth with gossamer-seeming cellate wings and streamlined bodies at all angles to each other.
Note: the speed, course, and time of report of this traffic checks with Com-Pub observations of moving objects approaching Earth from Mars.
He knows the General would have brought it toearth opposite us, to question us!
The helicopter went slowly overhead, and they saw Kreynborg gazing down at the earth below him.
The days of man were shortened upon earth by reason of the wickedness the Creator saw.
The stream that bursts from the fountain, and seems to rush forward headlong and self-willed, still turns hither and thither, according to the shape of its mother-earth over which it flows.
There is no sure remedy for disappointed affection but vital religion; that giving of the heart to God which enables a disciple to say, "Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and there is none on earth that I desire in comparison of Thee.
But, in all this, it has shaped its course and followed out its career, from babbling infancy at the fountain to its termination in the great reservoir of waters, according to the channel which its parent earth has provided.
She should, say their sacred books, have no other god on earththan her husband.
I reckon, as Mary said, nobody on earth knew what she'd been through, livin' with a man like Harvey.
When they began packin' up their things, grandmother took up this rose and put it in an iron kittle and laid plenty of good rich earth around the roots.
It is like that period when the earth was "without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Then suddenly, as if the very earth had been blasted away from beneath them, the batteries of big guns belched forth fire, smoke and shell.
And so with a storm of shot and shell, manmade thunders and lightnings, and bolts of death from the earth below and the air above, the great battle opened and advanced.
All he could see, stationed behind the lines, was a vast cataclysm of smoke and fire, and his ears were deafened by so vast a sound that it was comparable to nothing on this earth ever heard before.
And there aren't any braver or more lovable people on the face of the earth than these same French.
But if we want the true period of the moon round the earth as referred to a star, it is much shorter than this, amounting to only 27 days and nearly one-third.
This is the base line, and the angle which a radius of the earth as seen from the center of the moon fills, or subtends, is the moon's parallax.
We ought first to understand what is meant by the manifestation here on the earth called life, and agree concerning the conditions that render it possible.
As the earth is a dark body it must cast a black shadow on the side away from the sun, and it is the moon's passing into this shadow or some part of it that causes a lunar eclipse.
At new moon here we should be enjoying full earth there, and full moon here would be coincident with new or darkearth there.
The origin of these bodies being cosmic, meteors may be expected to fall upon the earth without reference to latitude, or season, or day and night, or weather.
If one were to go to the opposite side of the moon, he would lose sight of the earth until he came back to the side which is always turned toward the earth.
The earth set in the midst of the wonders of the sky was the reason for it all.
First she married Mr. Smyth, although what on earth he ever saw to admire about her I cannot imagine.
Bless my soul, young man, how on earth did you know me?
What on earth would we do if it should stay asleep for years?
When he arrived, he jumped in a cab, drove furiously to the house, and scared his mother-in-law into convulsions by rushing in in a frenzy and demanding what on earth had happened.
Ten minutes later a gentleman from the Fatherland might have been seen standing on the pavement in front of the theatre with a bugle under his arm and a handkerchief to his bleeding nose, wondering what on earth was the matter.
He dashed away a couple of tears; and stepping over a heap of loose earth as they began to shovel it in, he grasped Butterwick by the hand.
How on earth that man of yours ever got an idea that it was St. Augustine beats me.
Dalton had vanished as completely as if theearth had swallowed him.
Tom," answered the major as he blew a ring of smoke between himself and the shrewd eyes, "what on earth have a lot of broken-down old Confederate soldiers got to do with the management of the affairs of the city?
Were there any people on earth who could swing the pendulum like those scions of the wilderness cavaliers and do it with such dignity?
Nothing on earth is worth so much as faith--Why don't you say something?
Probably our Father Adam and Mother Eve are the only couple the Earth has seen who have not had words on this subject.
If you think that any twelve men on earth will believe that this slip of a girl assaulted the complainant, you can of course hold her for the Grand Jury.
When the Great Jahwe had completed his six days' labor and was looking it over, the Earth must have had a palpitating moment of suspense while it waited His verdict.
First, reason is to conquer the earth and the great majority is to vote reasonably--that is, the Socialist ticket.
And cold experience also shows that the labor organizations which ask for the earth don't last.
When the great ones of the earth are waiting, you cannot stop to put on shoes.
From the heights of metaphysical discussion of the Existence, the Unity, and the Attributes of God, it came nearer to earth by inquiring into Heaven and a belief in a future existence.
Sagana, the ghosts uttered dismal and piercing shrieks; and how by stealth they laid in the earth a wolf's beard, with the teeth of a spotted snake; and how a great blaze flamed forth from the waxen image?
They began to claw up the earth with their nails, and to tear a black ewe-lamb to pieces with their teeth.
But oh, by all the gods in heaven, who rule the earth and human race, what means this tumult?
The impartial earth is opened equally to the poor and to the sons of kings; nor has the life-guard ferryman of hell, bribed with gold, re-conducted the artful Prometheus.
Together with thee did I experience the [battle of] Phillippi and a precipitate flight, having shamefully enough left my shield; when valor was broken, and the most daring smote the squalidearth with their faces.
Beside this, the body, overloaded with the debauch of yesterday, depresses the mind along with it, and dashes to the earth that portion of the divine spirit.
But could riches make you wise, could they make you less covetous and mean-spirited, you well might blush, if there lived on earth one more avaricious than yourself.
What pleasure is it for you, trembling to deposit an immense weight of silver and gold in the earth dug up by stealth?
Now it is fitting to encircle the shining head either with verdant myrtle, or with such flowers as the relaxed earth produces.
Now I seem to hear of great commanders besmeared with, glorious dust, and the whole earth subdued, except the stubborn soul of Cato.
In vain has God in his wisdom divided the countries of the earth by the separating ocean, if nevertheless profane ships bound over waters not to be violated.
Thus the theory rests at last upon the question what would become of the heat reaching the earth in these differing conditions.
A layer of blackish earth about one foot in thickness 4.
During the winter of the northern hemisphere the earth is now about three million miles nearer the sun than in the summer; but the summer makes up for this distance by being about seven days longer than the winter.
The heat thus brought to the surface of the earth would add perceptibly to that radiated from it into space in ordinary times.
Thus it would appear that in Europe, as in America, the ice of the Glacial period was a most beneficent agent, preparing the face of the earth for the permanent occupation of man.
The pavement of this painted room was of marble, which was, however, removed when the earth was thrown in at the time of building the rooms above.
The mound of earth was then probably removed, and a stone or brick tower built in its place.
The pavement has been much ruined by the planting of a vineyard, and can only be seen on removing the earth which covers it.
The mound of earth here described by Strabo was probably of a conical shape, and the trees were planted on terraced ledges.
How he longed to go home, disclose himself, and run to earth that fearful fraud!
I repeat, I want no undue favor shown to McClellan Thorpe, but if he is not the guilty man, then I want you to move heaven and earth to find the real criminal.
Thus in many instances are the living sacrificed to the dead, and money that should discharge a debt, or feed an orphan, lavished in idle processions, or materials that are deposited in the earth to rot.
Under the influence of this universal prejudice, they take an uncommon method to preserve the body entire, and prevent the remains of it from being mixed with the earth that surrounds it.
The soil of this border, and of the valleys, is a blackish mould; that of the hills is different, changing as you ascend them into variously coloured earth and marl.
There is no weather on earth like Australian weather for making holiday in--that is, when it is good.
This desponding wail was doubtless heard when the young earth had scarcely commenced her career of glory, and it will be dolefully repeated by future generations to the end of time.
Where among the countries of the earth shall we find a more rapid and vigorous growth?
The earth roads were passably good when covered with the snows of winter, or when dried up in the summer sun; but even then a thaw or rain made them all but impassable.
As easily as it slips from tree to tree, it glides from earth to Orion.
I do not say this by way of complaining of my own lot; for though I acknowledge that there are certain disadvantages in my present position, what position on earth is without them?
I don't know where the woman went--it seemed as if the earth swallowed up both her and little Nan.
