No, certainly, good Heinz; yet I would fain know by what tokens thou knewest his death.
And I wouldfain be on my good steed's back once again!
I have more to say to him, and I would fain hear his views of the storm.
Christina would fain have slipped out unperceived, but the king was already removing his cap from his fair curling locks, and bending his head as he said, "The Frau Freiherrinn von Adlerstein?
And I would fain give my child a mother who would deal well with her.
He would fain watch his arms in the moonlight in the Dome Kirk!
Christina, her eyes swimming in tears, "I would fain have striven to be a comforter, or to weep together.
Craven as thou art, not even with spirit to accept my feud, I would fain not have the trouble of sweeping thee from my path.
Yet I would fain ride to that hostel and make inquiries!
The phrase would then apply to his immediate followers, who were one with him in peril, and whom he would fain have one with him in trust.
To His foes that face is dreadful, and they would fain cower away from its light; His friends sun themselves in its brightness.
The psalmist would fain cry to God, that he may be heard.
He fainwould lift his voice to God, but dark thoughts make him dumb for supplication, and eloquent only in self-pitying monologue.
It is the cry of the homeless soul, which, like the dove from the ark, finds no resting-place in a world full of carrion, and would fain return whence it came.
At bottom he loathed and despised the whole Umlimo hierarchy as a pack of rank impostors, but it suited him now to cultivate them, for he was an arrant schemer, and would fain see every white man in the country cut to pieces.
Sick at heart, he would fain be lying where he had fallen--a battered, lifeless heap at the base of the great dwala.
But now am I weary, and would fain go to join my kindred that have gone before me.
Valhalla calls to me," said he, "and my weary spirit would fain be at rest.
Nobody, he said, had taken it up so zealously as Gerard Godfrey, who seemed as if he would fain throw everything up, and spend his whole life in some direct service as a home missionary or something of the kind.
She would fain have lived, and, according to her obedient nature, had submitted to all the silence and stillness enforced on her; but she had told Dr.
The tricks of the law I would fain withdraw, That it may be alike to each degree: And I fain would have such As do meddle so much, With the King and the church agree.
The Long Parliament next came all to the block, And they this untameable palfrey would ride; But she would not bear all that numerous flock, At which they were fain themselves to divide.
At one end of the street you would think there was a whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep on the further side.
But the just Fates threw these four out, Which made the loyal party shout; The Pope would fain have had the stock, And with these cards have whipt his dock.
Fain would I know if, henceforth, ever, These eyes shall read in hers again, That light of love which faded never, Though dimmed so long with secret pain.
I fain would rest a little while: Where can I find a stay, Till dawn upon the hills shall smile, And show some trodden way?
That may be," said Grettir; "but I would fain hear the rest of the story.
The elder sister meant what she said, with just the settled precision that demonstrated itself upon even the most trivial occasions; and Theo was fain to submit now, as she would have done in any smaller matter.
Fain was she that he also prayed in that wise to her God, that naught might be apart in their minds.
And I thought that they and I were slain also, and I cried to this one who seemed to be one of Odin's maidens that I too would fain be stayed up with Cadwal and the rest, that I might have part in victory.
But at last she told me that she had escaped from the burning of the king's town, and would fain be taken across the sea into some place of peace.
After him Goldberga looked wistfully, for she was forgiving, and had fainthat he had spoken one word of sorrow.
Yet I think that those who would fain have lived to see the victory had their share in it, as they stood in their grim and silent ranks behind us.
And then, unbidden, Arngeir followed, for he too loved Havelok, and would fain be his brother indeed.
Now one may know what the wonder and pity of my mother was, and she would fain have gone to her.
But Goldberga had no more to say, for she was past speaking, and the king was fain to call her ladies.
Ask me no more why Roarers wear Their hair extant below their ear; For having morgag'd all their Land, They'd fain oblige the appearing Band.
For all this while there was no blowes, yet still their tongues was talking; And very fain would yellow hose have had her fists a walking.
Unto a publique feast, or common route, Where those that are without, would fain get in, And those that are within would faine get out.
You had one Day a Tenant, and wou'd fain Your Eyes might one day see that Day again.
Whereupon, his Master perceiving he was over-reacht by his man, was fain to send for his cloak againe, and pay the money.
For eighty leagues, the banks were peopled with friendly tribes; then the course of the river lay between desert mountains, and they were fain to feed upon herbs and parched corn, not even finding a place where they could fish.
Ridgeway would fain rear upon it, while it differs too radically from the cults he attacks to be used as an argument against them; the one is based upon Death, the other on Life.
The Lone Trail Ye who know the Lone Trail fainwould follow it, Though it lead to glory or the darkness of the pit.
The Governor of the Company--a man of extraordinary energy and success in developing the resources of the sterile domains over which he ruled--was fain to admit at last that the trade of Ungava would not pay.
I would fain run and romp and be gay like other boys, but I must engage in constant manual exercise, or we will have no bread to eat, and I have not seen a pie since papa perished in the moist and moaning sea.
Now, Isabel," said Constance, "prithee do me to wit of divers matters I would fain know.
If so be, child, I were fain to dwell a season on middle earth.
Well--if the Duke's Grace would fain pick up ducats even in the mire, mayhap he shall find them as plenty in England as otherwhere.
Master Warine," said Hugh Calverley's voice behind him, "the day may come when thou and I would be full fain to creep into Heaven at the heels of the Lutterworth parson.
Tis neither for our own sake, neither for our cousin of Kent, but for yours, that we would fain sway you unto a better mind.
Thou and the priest may walk handed [walk hand in hand] up to that Bar, but methinks he will be full fain to leave thee to bide the whipping.
I have played the damosel [person of rank--used of the younger nobility of both sexes] so long time, I would fain be a little maid a season.
But an' I could meet with one that wist to read, and that were my true friend, I would fain cause her to tell me what I would know thereabout.
I would fain have a small maid of some twelve or thirteen years.
Why, the King's Highness keepeth his Christmas at Eltham; and certain of the Council would fain have the Queen's Bohemians sent forth, but I misdoubt if it shall be done.
Fain for his son he looked around, But desolate the cell he found.
Fain would I pay that offering high Wherein the horse is doomed to die, With Rishyaśring his aid to lend, And with your glory to befriend.
When I would fain have stayed the maid, a sense Of due decorum checked my bold design: Though I have stirred not, yet my mien betrays My eagerness to follow on her steps.
Say it again--the Queen, My peerless mistress, fain would know from me.
Yet would the pious chieftain fain Oblations offer to the slain: But, needing water for the rite, He looked and there was none in sight.
That night the queen, a son to gain, With calm and steady heart was fain By the dead charger's side to stay From evening till the break of day.
Vain is the hope of meeting her in dreams, For slumber night by night forsakes my couch: And now that I would fain assuage my grief By gazing on her portrait here before me, Tears of despairing love obscure my sight.
It seemed as if the post-horn in the distance would fain accompany my song.
I would fain have had some explanation regarding the man, and have asked who he was, but I knew not to whom to address myself, for I was almost more afraid of the gentlemen's servants than of the served gentlemen.
And fain it would stoop downward To the mirrored lake below; And fain it would soar upward In the evening's crimson glow.
The company would fain have reclined upon the sward on the slope of the hill, opposite to the outstretched landscape, had they not feared the dampness of the earth.
O fain would I, rocked on his bosom, In the sleep of eternity lie; That death were indeed the most blissful, In the rapture of weeping to die.
All the gay visions of command, and power, and independence, in which I had indulged my fancy during the voyage, vanished like the shadows of a dream I fain would recall, but could not.
Some of the youngest and best-looking of the foretop-men would also very fain indulge in the feminine foppery of ear-rings; but in the British Navy this is absolutely forbidden.
No, my dear MacGilp; but the fools of academicians would fain make us so.
He had shouldered his own little valise, and was trudging off, scattering a cloud of commissionaires, who would fain have spared him the trouble.
I became so faint with terror, that I stopped, and would fain have returned.
The reader will be glad, at last, to come to the conclusion that we would faindraw from all these descriptions--why does this immorality exist?
Do not then accuse me of negligence: if my correspondence has not always that regularity which I would faingive it, attribute the fault solely to the whirlwind in which I live, and which carries me hither and thither at its will.
The arbiter of peace and war was fain to send superb ambassadors to kick their heels in Dutch shopkeepers' ante-chambers.
