I am under much obligation also to the Ballads of Books, which Mr. Brander Matthews compiled nearly a quarter of a century ago and Mr. Andrew Lang recast, and to Mr. W.
And out on the air rolled the old school song to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, and then followed a cheering that could be heard for half a mile.
By now Lang and his team, and the rescue mission as well, lay dead under showers of radioactive formaldehyde, and Venus had been turned into a blazing hell ten times less livable than it had been before.
Herbert Lang to FitzMaugham, proposing a project whereby the inner planets of the solar system could be made habitable by human beings.
If something happened to Lang and his crew on Venus--and it was quite possible, since word from them was a week overdue--it would be easy to say that the terraforming project was still in the planning stage.
Until Lang and his team succeeded in terraforming Venus, or until the faster-than-light outfit opened the stars to mankind, something had to be done about Earth's overpopulation.
It says, 'Arrived Venus June fifteen late, no sign ofLang outfit yet.
What he wanted now was information on the current status of the project; FitzMaugham had been remarkably silent about it, though the public impression had been created that a team of engineers headed by Lang was already at work on Venus.
Lang and his experimenters were struggling to transform Venus into a livable world.
Note from FitzMaugham to Lang, 16 May: best wishes, and Lang was instructed to contact FitzMaugham without fail at weekly intervals.
Spacegram from Langto FitzMaugham, 28 May: arrived at Venus safely, preparing operation as scheduled.
Note from Lang to FitzMaugham, 14 May: the terraforming crew was leaving for Venus immediately.
I've got to know what Lang and his crew are up to, and I have to know right away.
Lang lost no time in proceeding to Great Britain, and obtained a numerous band of clergymen and schoolmasters, whose passage was defrayed by the colonies.
To this Lang retorted, that Scotsmen did not ask toleration; and, unless degenerate, would vindicate those rights, the swords of their fathers had won.
The idea of an established clergy was thus violently shaken, and Lang naturally detested as an ambitious innovator.
Lang states, that "he was obliged to sign an agreement to quit the colony forthwith; but instead of proceeding to England, Governor Bligh landed at the Derwent.
Lang visited England, and protested against its object and enormous cost.
Lang had been concerned in the foundation of the Sydney College, of which the first stone was laid, but ecclesiastical difficulties prevented its vigorous encouragement.
Are ye gaun to turn anither Claverse, and burn and hang puir folk like the wicked and bluid-thirsty troopers lang syne?
And those rosebud lips, which in days lang syne, I have kissed and blest, because they were mine.
Aw lang for noa fine carriages To drag me raand about!
Town-Clerk, "you are in ower great hurry now --you have na been sae lang married yet.
And I hope, sir, you will recommend me to be the sick-nurse; I was here to bring you the tidings lang before ony o' thae lazy queans.
First came a bar that sounded like Auld Lang Syne, then a note or two of Days of Absence, then a turn of a Methodist hymn, at last he went decidedly into "Nelly was a lady.
Mr. Lang says he once took part in a similar quest, and "can recognize the accuracy of most of Dickens's remarks.
He probably never made up his own mind," Mr. Andrew Lang declares in a discussion of this Haunted House story.
They 've ta'en us ower the lang, lang coorse, And wow!
Mr Andrew Lang has called him "a Harold Skimpole, with the gift of divination.
Mr Podmore suggests that the three witnesses were the victims of a collective hallucination; but this theory is not easy to accept, and Mr Andrew Lang has heaped it with ridicule.
And this his answer we approve, adding farther, That sche can mak us no promeis quhilk sche can keip nor we can creddeit, sa lang as sche is forceit with the strenth, and reuillit be the counsall of Frensche.
Sche lamentit the trubill that appeirit to follow gif the mater sould lang stand in debait.
Bot to enter in conference, sa lang as sche keipis above him and his brethren that feirfull scourge of crewell strangearis, he thocht na wyise man wald counsall him.
And Thomas said he had not heard a mair sound observe for some time, and that, if I held to that doctrine in the poopit, it wouldna be lang till I would work a change.
At lang and length I mustered courage to send for Mr Auld, who was then living, and an elder.
A lang night is meet for a bridal, but none shall be langer than mine.
Lang has written almost the best, if not quite the best, sonnet in the language--yet he is no genius.
I don't think poor Langmeant to do anything but his best and honestest.
And I thought I must write to you for auld lang syne, and ask you whether you would let me come and see you.
And stretching forward his hand, the veteran grasped mine in his with an honest ardour that proved how deeply military attachment takes root, and how dearly the remembrance of "auld lang syne" is cherished in the soldier's memory.
Come, Mary, 'for auld lang syne' we'll have a glass.
The Gold o' Fairnilee may no be fairy gold, but just wealth o' this world that folk buried here lang syne.
I learned lang syne That when a sucker once drops off the hook It never bites again.
We twa hae run about the braes And pu'd the gowans fine; But we've wandered many a weary foot Sin auld lang syne.
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne.
This interesting session closed with the singing of Auld Lang Syne led by the venerable John Hutchinson.
The Oregonian said: "When Miss Anthony, the honored guest, reached the Oregon building the band played Auld Lang Syne and the crowds became so dense that it was with difficulty Dr.
It was argued by Andrew Lang that Wood was likely to show these letters to Lennox; and that as Lennox follows Moray's version of Mary's long and murderous letter, and does not follow Letter II.
O loud and lang they cried on him, And sair and sair they prayed: "Is the face of thy grace as the night's face grim For those thy wrath has made?
She looked fu' lang in their een, sighing, And sair and sair grat she: She has slain her young son at her breast, Her auld son at her knee.
O loud and loud cried they-- "For the lee-lang year thou hast held us dumb Take now thy gifts away!
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Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: lang syne; lang time
