Darius lay as I had last seen him; and him we buried in the maize clearing at the back, with the ember glow for funeral lights.
The Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays of these weeks are the Ember days distinctively, the following Sundays being the days of ordination.
The observance of the Ember days is confined to the Western Church, and had its origin as an ecclesiastical ordinance in Rome.
From Rome theEmber days gradually spread through the whole of Western Christendom.
The present rule which fixes the ordination of clergy in the Ember weeks cannot be traced farther back than the time of Pope Gelasius, A.
EMBER DAYS and EMBER WEEKS, the four seasons set apart by the Western Church for special prayer and fasting, and the ordination of clergy, known in the medieval Church as quatuor tempora, or jejunia quatuor temporum.
O swallow, sister, O fleeting swallow, My heart in me is a molten ember And over my head the waves have met.
All the flowers are dead, the tender blossoms, All are taken away; the season wasted, Like anember among the fallen ashes.
As the glimpse of a burnt-out ember Recalls a regret of the sun, I remember, forget, and remember What Love saw done and undone.
Therefore the fast of certain months, which are called Ember days, are unfittingly kept in the Church.
The Church keeps theEmber fasts, neither at the very same time as the Jews, nor for the same reasons.
Each fast of the Ember days is composed of three days, on account of the number of months in each season: or on account of the number of Holy orders which are conferred at these times.
And so Mother Wit had evolved what she called "Ember Night," and the young people who helped carry the thing through were delighted with the idea.
But although Laura stuck to the post of duty, her heart was no longer in the ceremonies of Ember Night.
And later they tried Ember Night in Lumberport and Keyport.
Plans for Ember Night were swiftly made, and it was arranged to hold the fête the next Tuesday evening, providing the weather was clear.
Brand quotes from an old work in regard to the Ember Days: "They were so called 'because that our elder fathers wolde on these days ete no brede but cakes made under ashes.
Humanity gleamed in him like an ember under the crust of a clotted briar pipe.
And Mr. Lamson had heard it, and could not quite hide a brief flare of gratification, a thin spear of flame shooting up from an ember behind his eyes.
The Master jumped to earth and stood confronting the lurid stretch of ash and ember with, here and there, a bush stump still crackling merrily.
The thin line of bushes and other undergrowth at the hillock's foot were quickly consumed; leaving only a broad bed of ember and spark.
An ember caught to flame and, smoldering, began to rise.
And his mother, too, was like a distant figure, his affection for her a dying ember that the fearful walls of her religion kept any living breeze from ever fanning.
Mr. Winston and I exchanged glances and smilingly watched the ember slowly die.
The drying is quickly done by holding a live ember or firebrand close to the surface of the wet bark.
But it needs only the opportunity to rouse the dull ember into flame, to stir the venom of the serpent.
The venom of the serpent spread, the ember grew into a flame.
You, who are dead, whom I cannot forget; You, for whose sake all my heart is an ember Covered with ashes of dreams and regret.
Example: Titus on an ember day consults all the sources of information he has to discover whether it is a fast day; but all he can learn is that some vigils are fast days, others are not.
Fridays, Ember Days, Lent, vigils), and they are so distributed as to sanctify by mortification each week and each season of the year.
I think," said I then, "that Ellen Ember is first.
But it does look as if poor Ellen Ember came into the world empty-handed.
But Delia More did not answer, and at this I was puzzled, for I think that Calliope has lived in Friendship since the beginning, when she and Liddy Emberwere partners in their little "modiste" shop.
She stood, her head held up as if she were singing, as Liddy Ember had said of her, her arms tightly folded, her cheeks flushing with her fear that we would not understand.
And there, in the smoky little tent, Ellen Ember began to dance, with her quite surprising grace--as Pierrette might have danced in Carnival.
But I think that, in the wish to do honour to so distinguished an occasion, the temper of Mis' Sykes, and perhaps of Ellen Ember too, was the secret temper of all the village.
An' only two weeks to do anything in, an' only Liddy Ember for dressmaker, an' it takes her two weeks to make a dress.
But Ellen Ember sat crying, her face buried in her hands.
Still Parish Thornton had not come home and Dorothy standing back of the open window pressed both hands over eyes that burned ember hot in their sockets.
Charley Seguis, grabbing bales and passing them with both hands, suddenly brushed a six-inch ember from the pack of otter in front of him with a curse, and looked up.
Perhaps, the uneasy foot of a sleeper, perhaps a gust of wind between the chinks, had sent an ember underneath the inflammable logging of the walls.
Illustration] "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Lucifer, and an internal glow suffused his sooty hide, as the light of a fading ember is revived by breathing upon it.
If you fast once in a week it is enough, besides Vigils and Ember days out of Lent.
The author states that he desires to instruct the “many young men” who every Ember time come up to York for ordination in their duties.
We inhabit a dead ember swimming wide in the blank of space, dizzily spinning as it swims, and lighted up from several million miles away by a more horrible hell-fire than was ever conceived by the theological imagination.
Yet the dead ember is a green, commodious dwelling- place; and the reverberation of this hell-fire ripens flower and fruit and mildly warms us on summer eves upon the lawn.
But Ferias in Advent, and in Lent, in Passiontide, Paschal time and September Ember days have proper antiphons.
Non-privileged feriae are the feriae of Lent and Advent, Quarter Tense or Ember days and Rogation Monday.
The spread of the observance of Ember days was slow; but they were fixed definitely and the fast prescribed for the whole Church by Gregory VII.
