Gods of the burnt-out hearth, the wandered wind, Gods of pale dawns that vanished long ago, Gods of the barren tree, the withered leaf.
Now not a lustre of pain, nor an ocean of tears Nor pangs of death, nor any other thing That the old tristful gods on our heads may bring Can rob us of this one hour in the midst of the years.
For there far up among the hills The great storms come and go In a most proud processional Of cloud and rain and snow: There light and darkness only are A changing benison Of the old gods who wrought the world And shaped the moon and sun.
Nay, rather pray the seven gods To launch the latest pain; For there be many things to do Ere we see peace again.
The Temple to the Gods of Land and Grain and the Temple for Rain are sacred places to the Chinese.
In the Temple for Sickness, in Canton, where multitudes of sufferers pray to the gods for healing, we saw an old woman kneeling before a statue of Buddha, holding aloft two blocks of wood and then throwing them to the floor.
Here and there were medallions of heads of gods or rulers of the land.
Sure, and I belave that the great big sthone gods shticking up all over the place gets to hear what's said and whishpers it again to the captin, who always knows everything that goes on.
At that time his household gods consisted of a wife and two daughters;--but the wife had died before the time came at which she could have taken on herself the name of Lady Underwood.
The gods are just, and our pleasant vices make instruments to scourge us.
If 'mid the gods I ask which has the better showing, Ronsard is their delight: I, but their image glowing.
In fact, it is only when we assume for man this independence of the gods and of fatality that the Epicurean theory of life becomes possible.
But these gods have not on their shoulders the burden of upholding and governing the world.
Each human being is in the first instance a citizen of his own nation or commonwealth; but he is also a member of the great city of gods and men, whereof the city political is only a copy in miniature.
With the dress one may perhaps compare the apparel of the gods Marduk and Adad, for which see A.
That there are gods Epicurus never dreams of denying.
In The Tempest this tragi-comic scheme is fitted to the tales brought by explorers of far isles, wild men, strange gods and airy music.
This indeed is that which makes gods and men indignant and feel that heaven and earth will never pardon nor allow such to triumph long.
It was in recognition of these gracious favours of the gods that the memorialist ventured to prefer this request, which was accordingly granted.
No," she said, "I cannot speak of this thing, for if it be of sufficient importance to elicit the interest of the gods then indeed would I be subject to the wrath of my father should I discuss it.
Tailless, therefore, must be the race ofgods that spring from his loins.
When gods mingle with mortals," replied Tarzan, "they are no less vulnerable than mortals.
Jad-ben-Otho is tailless, therefore it is not strange that Ko-tan should suspect that only the gods are thus.
The god of the sky has brought the woman and has brought the child, and on the face of the child is set the light of the moon that the Hopi people will never again doubt that the gods can do these things.
The great kings made sacrifices for them, and planted prayer plumes before them--for they were called the new gods of the water and the sunrise.
We are yet young, Po-tzah, when we are older we will know whether the way of the gods is the way for this people.
The complete man is both mind and body--and all of him must work when the gods are called upon for work, and by fasting and exhaustion must the spirit path be made clear for dreams.
They say the Ancient Star will send earth troubles until such sacrifice is made, some of the clans must donate a member unless the gods send a substitute--their preference is for a young and comely youth or maiden.
He must not let himself think that the adverse spirits were less than men in strength--for man needed all the medicine of the gods to war against evil!
He knew now that his magic was to be strong magic, for his faith had been great--and he had followed the faith, and found the bird of the strong gods waiting his coming!
But when the gods are caught in the leaves of a book, is when they no longer speak in silence to the hearts of men.
If I am very good, and say very many prayers, and wait on the gods very carefully, will the wise men of the medicine orders tell me of the deerskin records some day?
He then recalled how he had flown into the sky in pursuit of the being who carried off Pundarika, and passing by the wondering gods in their heavenly cars, he had reached the world of the moon.
And this spray comes from the parijata tree, [267] which rose when the Milky Ocean was churned by gods and demons.
His fame wandered, so that the world echoed with it throughout the ten regions, making fair the world of gods and demons, like a streak of foam of the stream of milk tossed by Mandara, ambrosial sweet.
Therefore the birth of gods among mortals is not hard of belief.
For it is not on us that the gods are wont to bestow their favours.
It has come within the range of our hearing, usually directed to auspicious knowledge, that there are in the abode of the gods maidens called Apsarases.
A hundred famous temples, raised as so many monuments of gratitude to the tutelar gods of all the cities, were the first, as well as the most illustrious testimonies of his victories.
If a continuaunce of Gods procreacion were not, immediatlie a ruine and ende would ensue of thinges.
Even though we have inscribed the whole pantheon with His name, the other gods have been in it.
Even Minna keeps, in her girlish enthusiasm, some touch of Freydis in the saga of Eric the Red: for her the old gods and the old years are not wholly exiled and impotent.
For know, that this ground is sacred to the Gods of old Valhalla.
I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before Me.
And thinke you not that I did willingly procure this anguish and sorrow unto you, I call the gods to witnesse.
What, have you not heard, that it is a custome among men to sweare by the puissance of the Gods, and the Gods do sweare by the majesty of the river Stix?
When she came upon the sea she began to cal the gods and goddesses, who were obedient at her voyce.
When I had ended this orison, and discovered my plaints to the Goddesse, I fortuned to fall asleepe, and by and by appeared unto me a divine and venerable face, worshipped even of the Gods themselves.
This idea of the supernatural origin of the arts permeates the ancient mythology which everywhere teaches that men were taught the sacred arts of medicine and chemistry by gods and demigods.
Did not other gods dwell there, as those old people in the islands on the other side of the world dreamed?
There was a vague, confused idea of gods and goddesses, that she had gathered from the Latin verses that she no more understood than the language.
Was it true that the old people M'sieu Ralph had read about, the Greeks, had seen their gods and goddesses taken up to the sky and set in the blue?
There were gods of the waters, of the trees, of the winds, and the Indians are much like them.
In that country there were gods everywhere, by the streams, where one named Pan played on pipes.
But you are like a wonderful flower one finds now and then, and dares not gather it lest the godsof the woods and trees should be angry.
The Romans very wisely reserved in the Capitol a place for the gods of the nations they conquered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
