We can fancy he sings to charm our own particular ear--to please us descends into silence--for our sakes erects his crest as he walks confidingly near our feet.
The gorcock unalarmed crows among the moors and mosses--the blackbird whistles in the birken shaw--and the cony erects his ears at the mouth of his burrow, and whisks away frolicsome among the whins or heather.
He who erects a bank creates a subject of commerce in its bills: so does he who makes a bushel of wheat, or digs a dollar out of the mines.
Wingate, in 1658, erects this false translation into a maxim of the common law, copying the words of Finch, but citing Prisot.
Then the drag ceases again to act upon the chain and the catgut; the spring in the neck comes into play: it becomes straight, erects the neck of the animal, and turns the rollers 13 and 14, back into their first position.
God erects a tribunal in his word, wherein he judgeth men.
He erects his tribunal of justice in the world for this end, that all flesh might once be convicted before him, and therefore he cites, as it were, and summons all men to present themselves and appear before his tribunal, to be judged.
I believe that when he has done any great wrong to any very distinguished horse, deceased, he gets up a subscription to have an awkward likeness of him made, and erects it in a public place, to be generally venerated.
It must be regarded as a part of the inconsistency of man, that he erects no statues to the donkeys--who, though far inferior animals to ourselves, have great claims upon him.
The long facade, consisting only of balconied windows deeply recessed, erects itself on the summit of a considerable hill, which gives a fine, plunging movement to its foundations.
The open gateway admits you to the court, beyond which the melancholy mansion erects itself, decorated also with turrets, with fine old windows, and with a beautiful tone of faded red brick and rusty stone.
It is under this point of view that he erects Habere into a distinct Category.
Upon this foundation he erects the superstructure of Science; the universal propositions acquired through Induction, and applied again to particulars or to lower generalities, through the rules of the deductive Syllogism.
The stem meanwhile is adding to its length throughout; it erects itself, and, seeking the light, brings the seed up out of the ground.
Some are automatic and are connected with dichogamy (339): the style of Sabbatia and of large-flowered species of Epilobium bends over strongly to one side or turns downward when the blossom opens, but slowly erects itself a day or two later.
Should a suspicious object present itself, one of them presently erects himself and emits a warning cry, on hearing which they all rise together, raise their necks to their full stretch, and carefully inspect the ground.
Hugh de Puisac, erects a shrine at Durham, for the bones of Bede and others, xl.
Thus, for example, he is a devout believer in physiognomy, and not only in its obvious sense; he erects it into an occult science.
As De Foe says, in a different sense-- Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there.
He has five or six long narrow black feathers on the back of his head, which he erects at pleasure.
No light reaches eyes which regard blindness as clear-sightedness; no remorse affects a soul which erects barbarism into patriotism, and which sanctions murder with duty.
Beyond their crowd and the club it distinguishes nothing, while in the vagueness and confusion of the distance it erects the hollow idols of its own Utopia.
A typical village in Behar is a heterogeneous collection of thatched huts, apparently set down at random--as indeed it is, for every one erects his hut wherever whim or caprice leads him, or wherever he can get a piece of vacant land.
He fixes on a high dry ridge of land, where he runs up a few grass huts for himself and men, and there he erects lines of grass and bamboo screens, behind which his cattle take shelter at night from the cold south-east wind.
He takes possession of the shore for Queen Elizabeth, christens it New Albion, and erects a monument.
He lands and erects a cross, and christens the place Puerta de San Lucas (Port of Saint Luke), taking possession for the King of Spain.
The supple-jack erects its slender black stems among the tall trees, and the bush-lawyer drapes fuchsias and tree-ferns with festoons of green; but it is all far less luxuriant than the Westland bush.
Abrahah of Sana’a, erects the Kilis to outshine the Ka’abah, i.
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