On receiving the letter and reading it through, he at once put down his glass, girded on his sword, and telling his comrades that he was about to take a little stroll, he mounted his horse and vanished from the town.
Both were girded with great swords, and full-charged quivers were upon their backs, and six-foot bows of white wood were in their hands.
And he swore, by the ten-grasp sword that was girded on him, and after that he swore by the jewels in her hair.
He was girded with a sword that ten men could not lift.
In the spring-time he girded up his robe and went forth to see the cherry blossom, making merry enough, and writing a poem upon gilded paper, which he hung to a cherry-tree branch to flutter in the wind.
But this one girded his august garments and pushed the boat before him, till he was thigh-deep in the water.
The Roman knights, wearing their swords openly, and clad in their girded tunics only, mustered around the steps which led to the colonnade and doors of the temple, a voluntary guard to the good consul.
Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday?
Before I began preaching, I went round to see a most remarkable cave, which very much displayed the exquisite workmanship of Him, who in 'his strength setteth fast the mountains, and is girded about with power.
The adjacent promontories, and the vastness of the rock of Gibraltar, aided in the enlargement of the ideas of the preacher as to Him, who "in his strength setteth fast the mountains, and is girded about with power.
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
And Joab's garment that he had put on was girdedunto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
Then the pious Abraham forsook his nightly repose, with no resistance at all to the command of the Saviour, but the holy man girded himself with his grey sword 2865 and declared that the fear of the Keeper of Spirits dwelt in his breast.
Thereupon the Guardian of Glory, our Creator, girded them with clothing; the Lord bade them cover their nakedness with some simple garments, and bade them set forth and depart from paradise into a harder life.
After a few days the lad girded on his sword, and bearing his bow and arrow, took leave of the Giant, saying that he would go on a month's journey.
He rose, girdedon his magic sword, and taking his bow and arrow, began to walk about and to keep watch.
Having received this message, on the next day the youth put on his princely garments, girded his magic sword, and taking his bow and arrows, mounted his horse of lightning.
Mirza girded on his magic sword, took his bow and arrows, and began his watch.
Toronto, on its island-girded bay, Full well protected from the storms which blow Across the lake, stands proudly, as well may The capital of all Ontario.
It has a hood which can be drawn over the head at pleasure, and is girded by a cord.
His dress was of the usual material and fashion of a countryman of the age and colony, though a short broadsword, that was thrust through a wampum belt which girded his body, might have attracted observation.
And they two girded themselves to slay the steers, proud Ancaeus and Heracles.
His magic sword girded to his side, his cloak of darkness, not worn but rolled up behind him, lest the absence of his usual extensive shadow should disturb his horse, he rode at the head of his men to meet the enemy.
So when she saw Priam, how he had girded himself with armour as a youth, she cried to him and said, "What hath bewitched thee, that thou girdest thyself with armour?
Also he bade his comrades have a care of his father and his son, and of the household Gods, and girded him again with arms, and so passed into the city.
Then he took to himself the helmet and shield of Androgeos, and also girded his sword upon him.
She is girded with a quiver, and is clothed with the skin of a spotted lynx, or, may be, she hunts a wild boar with horn and hound.
What he needed was a jealous God, an implacable God, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, girded with thunder and manifesting Himself only to chastise the terrified world.
It was Thy grace that girded my loins as with armour for battle; Thy grace was indeed my armour, my courage, the support of my soul, that kept me erect, beyond weakness.
Edna put the letter out of sight, and girded herself for a desperate battle with her famishing heart, which bounded wildly at the tempting joys spread almost within react.
Was she, an unknown and inexperienced girl, worthy to be girded with the ephod that draped so royally the Levites of literature?
Girded by prayer, the girl went down resolutely into the flames of the furnace, and the ordeal was terrible indeed.
He girded on his sword, and with his trusty spear, stood guard all night in the stable to catch the mortal robber, as he supposed he must be.
In the twinkling of an eye, thousands of warriors sprang up, seized their armor, girded their swords, or seized their spears.
He might appropriately have been girded with iron hoops and set aside as a filled hogshead when the last drop trickled within his vast interior.
It grieves me to admit my belief that steel girdedbreasts are uniformly more steadfast to their principles than those enveloped within the robe and cowl.
Behind him the deep shadows of Sutton Ambien Wood served picturesquely to emphasize the flash and glitter of the plated and richly inlaid armor that girded him from head to toe.
His mystic veil was perfumed with musk; two crowns [231] were placed on his head; two cimeters were girded to his side, as the symbols of a double reign over the East and West.
So he put about him his breastplate, and girded on his sword, and fitted the helmet to his head, and sent him away.
Some preliminary prayers are chanted, and the pontiff, putting off the cope, but retaining his mitre, is girded with an apron, and ascends the platform.
She looked at the stone walls by which she was inclosed, and invoked them to fall upon her and crush her--and she rushed towards the massive and iron-girded door, as if she would dash herself against it with impotent fury.
He then indued a cumbrous back-piece to match, buckled the shoulder-straps without assistance, andgirded the whole tightly together with an embroidered belt round his waist.
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