I saw th' obsequious seraphim Their rosyfleece of fire bestow, For well they now can spare their wings, Since Heaven itself lies here below.
Forbear, said I, be not too bold; Your fleeceis white, but 'tis too cold.
My love with me to spy: For thou likewise didst love, though now unthought, And for a fleece of wooll, which privily The Latmian shepherd once unto thee brought, His pleasures with thee wrought.
But the flesh of the horse, the ass, and the mule is not consumed by man, and the sheep is reared rather for its fleece than for food.
And the child being a man grown sailed with Jason after the fleece of gold, and won himself great praise of all men living; and when the tribes of the north and west made war upon Aetolia, he fought against their army and scattered it.
In the ears of the world It is sung, it is told, And the light thereof hurled And the noise thereof rolled From the Acroceraunian snow to the ford of the fleece of gold.
He got up, dragging after him the thick Munzaram's fleece off his bed, and, opening the door, flung it out into the snow.
He put away the dried kingfisher which his mother had wrapped in the fleece to keep it sweet, and buttoned the ivory buttons, and skipped about nimbly over his cooking in that.
Doomed 'mid the common flock, with branded fleece Bleating to enter Heaven!
Scatter flower petals, like the wings Of fluttering butterflies, to streak The dove-gray day with daisy gold, And turn the silver mist to fleece of gold.
Here rest the sires of millions, sleeping round, The Argonauts, the golden fleece that found.
The foraging for provisions will suspend the collecting of cotton; then, next day or the day after, the scraping will be resumed on the same stalk, on the same leaf, if the fleece be not exhausted.
The second is straddled across his animal, which is lying with its hind legs hobbled on a low stage under an elm, in a state of stoical resignation, as its fleece is deftly nipped from under its chin.
Don't you think you ought to be very grateful to that poor sheep, Ethel, for giving up her nice warm fleece on purpose to make a frock for you?
In honour of his return nurse had dressed Caroline in her new white muslin; and Daisy, after being carefully washed till her soft fleece was as white as snow, had been decorated with a beautiful wreath of flowers.
We now consign him to such repose as the best bedroom in the Golden Fleece can afford, and conclude the chapter.
The result of this self-conference was a determination to leave the Golden Fleece by the earliest conveyance which went to that great object and emporium of all his plans and thoughts, London.
Gideon providing thefleece identifies himself with it.
A fleece which is to be wet one morning while the threshing-floor is dry, and dry next morning while the threshing-floor is wet supplies the means of testing the Divine presence and approval.
The Order of the Golden Fleece was established at Bruges by Philip the Good at the time of his marriage to Princess Isabella of Portugal.
In the eighteenth century, the order of the Golden Fleece was divided into two branches, those of Austria and Spain.
One of his journeys was made to Portugal, where he painted the portrait of Princess Isabella, who afterward became the second wife of the Duke, and in whose honour the Order of the Golden Fleece was founded.
The Golden Fleece suggested the importance of Bruges as the center of the trade in wool, while the story of Jason embodied the principles of chivalry.
And then for a dry fleece, and the fleece would be dry.
He would ask for a wet fleece, and the fleece would be wet.
Hark ye, friend of mine, answered the other; with the fleece of these your fine Rouen cloth is to be made; your Leominster superfine wool is mine arse to it; mere flock in comparison.
He dines commonly on counsellors, mischief-mongers, multipliers of lawsuits, such as wrest and pervert right and law and grind and fleece the poor; he never fears to want any of these.
The mother will fleece you out of every farthing you have, while the daughter--well I do not know her, so will not say what she may do; only keep clear of them both and shun that crafty woman as you would the plague.
If you are after flesh send for the Butcher, who will end my misery; but if it is only wool that you want, send for the Shearer, who will clip my fleece without drawing my blood.
Here he sacrificed the ram, and nailed the fleeceto an oak in the grove of Mars, where it was guarded by a sleepless dragon.
Pelias consented only on condition that Jason should first capture and bring to him the golden fleeceof the ram which had carried Phrix'us and Hel'le when they fled from their stepmother I'no.
Certainly it was not merely his dress, which consisted wholly of velvet, silk, and satin, with the gold of the Fleece that hung below the lace ruff at his throat.
It was the sodden fleece of the old ewe, which had been drifted against the head-gate and held there to her death.
The boys were at work now upon an elderly ewe, while Dorothy stood on the brink of the stream braced against an ash sapling, dragging forward by the fleece a beautiful but reluctant yearling.
