Music as the manner of accentuating, of strengthening, and deepening dramatic poses and all things which please the senses of the actor; and Wagnerian drama only an opportunity for a host of interesting attitudes!
The Greeks are interesting and quite disproportionately important because they had such a host of great individuals.
A lexicon of Wagner's most intimate phrases--a host of short fragments of from five to fifteen bars each, of music which nobody knows.
Therefore let the host be aroused and stand to its arms.
Rouse the host and bid them stand to their arms company by company!
I wished to delay the attack of their host upon our little band and give time for the army of Peroa to come up behind.
The host began to climb the slippery sand slope but still I held my hand till their endless lines were within fifty paces of us and their arrows rattled harmlessly against our stones.
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded.
The host subscribed ten thousand dollars, his daughter twenty-five hundred and the assembled guests sums ranging between five hundred and one thousand.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
They were manned by a host of men clad in suits of mail.
At the hour of midnight the Khalifeh spoke to his host in serious tones.
If his host had known him to be Er-Rashid himself--which he did not--he could not have entertained him better.
In your tents you are surrounded by a host of servants, and at night you are always guarded.
Our hosttook us to the path, and Ephraim's servant was to act as our guide.
We took dinner with ourhost and paid him for our lodging there.
We are in the Gulf of Suez now, and it must have been somewhere about here that the Israelites crossed over with the host of Pharaoh pursuing them.
Then before we have time to notice any more we are in the hall looking at a great bowl of gold-fish, and in another minute our host is bowing before us.
He then went on to say that one would have thought from my manner that my proposed host had had jaundice or pleurisy or been generally unfortunate, and that I was in fear of infection.
Moreover, the telescope itself has been vastly improved, and has, in alliance with photography, made a host of scientific discoveries of which no one dreamed at the beginning of the century.
As to the four canonical gospels, we now know that they were selected from a host of contradictory and forged manuscripts of the first three centuries by the three hundred and eighteen bishops who assembled at the Council of Nicaea in 327.
Once, while visiting in Newburyport, he saw at work in the grounds of his host an old servant whom he had not seen since the French and Indian war, thirty years before.
There, in the empty space, where once stood sacred Host and Cup, he sat, filling the niche sublimely and with awful power.
Our host sat in a small room off the dining-room from which he occasionally emerged to stimulate our lagging pens.
And at this very moment they saw from their trenches that a tremendous host was moving against their lines.
I was entertained with great hospitality; my kind host materially assisting me by information, &c.
Tell her not to be disturbed, but to give me the honour of being her host for as long as she will, and say that I will wait on her, if it be her pleasure.
But one generous patriot is not sufficient to put a host of antagonists to flight.
And when our nationality transpired it added new zest to the good-will of our host and hostess.
As we left St. Laurent our host and his wife bore us company to the brow of a little hill whither we had sent on our chaise, and stood there to wave us an adieu as we descended on the other side.
A great number of these volunteers were half-pay officers, many of whom had fought in the continental wars with the armies of Napoleon, and would have been found a host in themselves.
And all the time the sirens kept up their ghostly wailing, like nothing one could imagine except a vast host of lost souls.
Soon after dawn he arose and clothed himself; and looking out of the window he saw the streets filled with a great host of people in black, and the weeping and the mourning were pitiful to hear.
This had been blessed by the Archbishop of London at a solemn service held before the host left London.
How came they and their host into Britain, and we not know it, alas?
Three days after the battle upon the shore, the king's host came up with the host of Sir Mordred on Barham down.
If I and my host have swept these rebel kings from before me, think you I cannot sweep the Saxons from the land?
So, by the capture of King Rience, his host was put to naught, and the king paid his homage to King Arthur, and swore on the sacred relics of the Abbey of Camelot to be his true man while he should live.
Then, to meet the many that flocked together in his favour, King Arthur drew him with his host westward beyond Sarum.
Also his father Erbin and the host at his court repented of their hard thoughts and sneers concerning him, and praised the strength of his arm, the gentleness of his courtesy, and his justice and mercy.
In the morning, when either host saw the other, the northern host was well comforted, for they thought King Arthur's force was but small.
But at the last, so fast and fierce did the blows of King Arthur's men fall, and so stubbornly did they press on, that Sir Mordred's host gave way.
Methinks I see a host of men: 15 I marveil quha they be.
The lady stude on hir castle wa', Beheld baith dale and down: 10 There she was ware of a host of men Cum ryding towards the toun.
His host he parted had in three, As Leader ware and try'd, As soon his spearmen on their foes 115 Bare down on every side.
Of his host he demanded to whom the castell appertained, and the host told him, that it belonged to the duke of Austria.
William proved a much more gracious host than could have been expected.
His only comfort was that the host in his chapel was rescued from the same fate.
It is said that his mother, in a fit of displeasure with her hostfor some supposed neglect, called her child by the farmer's name.
At once the baronet began another story from the one he had meant to tell, and though he soon discovered that he had credited his host with a knowledge the colonel did not possess, it was too late to draw back.
They had put on their hats to go, and then they had sat down again to tell their host a great many things that they had told him already.
His host and he seemed already on the most cordial terms, but the colonel was one of the few persons in the room who was not looking for Miss Abinger.
He did Sir Clement the unusual honour of accompanying him upstairs himself, and so Rob got the seat assigned to him at the dinner-table without having to meet his host in the face.
He had given his host several reasons for his long absence from his property, and told him he did not want the world to know that he was back in England, as he was not certain whether he would remain.
On these shelves my sister displayed in simple order, a host of pewter plates, and dishes and spoons, scoured and bright.
His death in the moment of victory broke, however, the only bond which held the Highlanders together, and in a few weeks the host which had spread terror through the Lowlands melted helplessly away.
