I dare say Mrs. Griffin will persuade the duchess to do it.
She and Mrs. Griffin had carefully examined the county list of possible matches for Constance Hadlow; and had agreed that there was good hope of a speedy find, a capital run, and a successful finish.
Mrs. Griffin heard from Lady Mary, the Dean of Oldchester's wife, who had it from the Rector of Combe, that Lord Castlecombe was crushed by the loss of Lucius.
In the temple of Apollo Branchidae near Miletus in Asia Minor, the wingedgriffin of the capitals has leopards' heads with horns.
The best decorative employment of the griffinis found in the vertical supports of tables, of which there are two or three examples in Pompeii and others in the Vatican and the museums in Rome.
It is served by the Southern and the Central of Georgia railways, and is the southern terminus of the Griffin & Chattanooga Division of the latter.
The griffin of Scripture is probably the osprey, and the name is now given to a species of vulture.
Sir John de Mandeville, in his Travels, described a griffin as eight times larger than a lion.
No one could he find there, but a body in armor alone; Thereby the wild old griffin hard work would give him soon.
Of how their stay was ended I will speak no longer here; Now I tell you further of the rushing flight in the air, That the child with the angry griffin far away was bearing.
Because the Lord so willed it the child was not yet dead; But, none the less, he later a life of sadness led, After the harsh old griffin back to his nestlings bore him.
However much he asked them, they yet to tell were loath, How unto them it happened grim death had spared them both, When erewhiles the griffin unto his nest had brought them.
She was one of the maidens who with the griffin long her home was making.
Before their frightened gaze, The griffin so had robbed them that all for home now started, Sober, and filled with sadness.
It was a strong, wild griffin had quickly thither flown; From the little boy of Sigeband, who ever care had known, Came ill luck to his father, who soon of this was tasting.
The griffin soon alighted, and in his claws he held The little child, gripped tightly, while with fear it quailed.
Among them was another, brought from Galicia's strand; The griffin her from Portugal had borne to a far-off land.
Tis long since I have had it, and now three days I'm fasting, The while the griffin bore me, and full a hundred miles was hither hasting.
The boy was sorely frightened, and began aloud to shriek; Higher the mighty griffin flew, with outstretched beak; To the clouds above them floating he his prey was bearing.
Then spake the maid next younger: "I too have come from far; Erewhile a strong old griffin did me from Portugal bear.
Beneath the weight of the griffin forest trees broke down; And now the trusty maiden looked where the bird had flown; Then she herself sought shelter, and left the child forsaken.
Ripton's response to this was: "You put a Griffin on that cake.
Before her playfully imperative injunction was fairly spoken, Richard had glanced at the document and discovered a Griffin between two Wheatsheaves: his crest in silver: and below--O wonderment immense!
A Griffin between two Wheatsheaves," cried Ripton, still clutching it nervously.
About the close of this battle, Brevet Major-General Charles Griffin relieved Major-General Warren in command of the 5th corps.
Let Griffin (Griffin had been ordered by Warren to the Boydton road to protect his rear) go on as he was first directed.
The line formed was almost perpendicular to the course of the river--Crawford on the left, next to the river, Griffin in the centre, and Cutler on the right.
General Griffin was attacked near where the Quaker Road intersects the Boydton Road, but repulsed it easily, capturing about one hundred men.
Griffin pressed him so hard there, however, that he had to give way in short order, and many of his men, with three pieces of artillery, fell into the hands of Crawford while on his circuitous march.
Staff-officers were also despatched to hurry up Griffin with the Fifth Corps, and his tired men redoubled their strides.
By reason of the delay in movingGriffin and Crawford, the enemy having escaped, I massed the Fifth Corps at J.
He issued an order relieving Warren and assigningGriffin to the command of the 5th corps.
At Griffin we took cars for Macon, and thence to Savannah, which we reached Christmas-night, finding Lieutenants Ridgley and Ketchum at tea, where we were soon joined by Rankin and Beckwith.
Then a huge griffin appeared, saying: 'I heard someone giving an invitation to eat; is there anything for me?
So the griffin alighted and ate his fill, saying, as he flew away, 'Call me if you need me.
At these words the griffin appeared, and, seizing the bird, gave it to the youth, who carried it off carefully, while the griffin flew away.
Griffin put the side-saddle on Crazy Kate, and we went out with the hounds, and I've got the brush up in my room!
Griffin would have helped about the tree and learnt to make a mummy when we have our party.
Louise would not let me have them in the nursery, I know, but daddy and Griffin would, and I could go and feed them in the morning before breakfast.
As soon as the convention was called to order Mr. Griffin was recognized by the chair.
You see the false griffin has them so set, and, consequently, as he flew, there would be a continual humming of the wind on each side of his head, and he would have an infallible earache when he got home.
In some respects, however, this classical griffin deserves its reputation.
You know a griffin is a beast composed of lion and eagle.
It evidently cannot err; it meets every one of our requirements respecting the griffin as simply as if it were gathering up the bones of the real creature out of some ancient rock.
Having both lion and eagle in him, it is probable that the real griffin will have an infinite look of repose as well as power of activity.
The front left hoof of each griffin rests in an almost parental fashion upon the head of a child, who is also clearly Egyptian.
Griffin caught him by the arm and swung him round into the room; the boy was as tall, and probably as strong as the usher.
Griffin was on the point of suggesting that Bailey was not that boy because he wasn't; but he refrained, thinking that perhaps that was not quite the sort of answer that was wanted.
Griffin threw the book to some one else before Mr. Shane could reach him.
Then Ellis perceived that between the man and himself was a little pond, into which the over-anxious Griffin had managed to fall.
If Griffin had followed his instinct and destroyed that regiment, as he could have done by one discharge, the result of the whole battle might have been different.
The nature of their advance was foolhardy in the extreme, and at the time that Captain Griffin wished to fire they were practically helpless.
Of course this direct order ended the controversy, and Captain Griffin directed that his guns be shifted again toward the main body of the enemy, while he rode forward a little space to reconnoitre.
Seeing that Captain Griffin was not convinced, he said peremptorily, "I command you not to fire on that regiment.
The storm of Rebel bullets had ranged so low that Lieutenant Hasbrouck and Captain Griffin owed their safety to the fact that they were mounted.
Captain Griffin emphatically declared that no Union regiment could possibly come from that quarter, adding, "They are dressed in gray.
On the way down the northern slope of the hill, with the few Union survivors, Captain Griffin met Major Barry, and in his intense anger and grief reproached him bitterly.
