Lector, and, delighted with the prospect, Liana kissed her mother's hand.
Liana speedily opened the harmonica, but the water, the colophonium[170] of the bells, was wanting.
Albano, astonished, enfolded in his arms the love-bond; Liana was drawn to the beloved hearts by the whirlpool of bliss.
Liana had also copied the copy, but she and her mother were modestly silent on the subject.
Liana she had nothing to bring to her glorious brother, except a bill of her health; her joyous eye had not turned toward any dark region whatever.
He made known to him only so much of the family-jar as was necessary, in order that he might not, by a mistaken idea of her restoration, throw Liana into embarrassment.
Elisa; Roquairol was called Charles, and Liana her little Linda.
But Liana would not rest till he had put on a word-keeping, sincere face,--a painted window.
Contemplate the heated face of my hero, who at last is riding into the streets, built up in his fancy of temples of the sun, where who knows but that at every long window, on every balcony, his belovedLiana may be standing?
Suddenly, with a shudder, he beheld the white form of Liana herself leaning against the linden.
Albano's dream was fulfilled; he loved Liana in realty as he had loved her in imagination.
A few more days of joyous life at Blümenbuhl, andLiana returned to her home at Pestitz.
Here, near such altar-lights, had once the oppressed Lianaknelt while swearing the renunciation of her love.
Behold, then, Lianatorn between duty towards her mother and love for Albano.
The minister's lady detested Bouverot, but in desiring separation betweenLiana and Albano, she was her husband's ally.
After the solemn service, Idoine addressed herself to him oftener; her sweet voice was more tender, though more tremulous; her maidenly shyness of the resemblance to Liana seemed conquered or forgotten.
To the aged and saintly court chaplain, Spener, Liana at last brought her perplexities.
The princess looked curiously at her, for Liana exactly resembled the princess's younger sister, the philanthropic Idoine, who devoted herself to the idyllic happiness of her peasantry in the Arcadian village that it was her whim to rule.
At length he learned that Liana had recovered her sight, and that she was dying.
And even as she looked a man was tying a supple liana to the apex, while another worker tied a slip knot to the loose extremity.
Some one must have climbed up that green liana which hangs from the bough.
Then it slowly disappeared downward, the liana uncoiling itself, thus reversing the movement that before had carried it upward.
The magnet remained stationary for a few seconds, the liana supporting it tightening with every revolution of the drumhead at which the men were laboring.
Gradually, however, the coil ofliana was transferred from the ground to the transverse beam overhead until it pulled taut with the magnet beneath.
They could hear the far off swirl of the water as the ascending liana vibrated through it.
This animatedliana turned out to be a pale-green snake, the Dryophis fulgida.
This is by using a poisonous liana called Timbo (Paullinia pinnata).
At first it went ill with me; I got badly stung as high as the elbows by the stinging plant; I was nearly hung in a tough liana - a rotten trunk giving way under my feet; it was deplorable bad business.
I saw a liana stretch across the bed of the brook about breast-high, swung up my knife to sever it, and - behold, it was a wire!
His shouts had brought the rest, and it was Hen Pine who, with his machete, had cut the suppleliana and knotted the noose which had reached Will just in time.
I won't leave you behind for those black devils," he murmured, as if the snake understood, and tugged at the liana rope as a signal that he was ready to start.
Sinking his head far under the water, he put every ounce of strength into three strokes, the last of which shot him just near enough to the bank to grip a tough liana which dangled like a rope from an overhanging tree-top.
Vines and creepers abounded, from the tiny honeysuckle that reared itself with feeble filaments, to the giant liana creeping through the forest like a python, throttling full-grown trees in its embrace.
Long vines depended from the limbs above, falling sheer and straight as plumb-lines; a giant liana the size of a man's body twined up and up until lost in the tangle overhead.
Directly canoefuls of stout paddlers came towing her back into the moonlight with liana hawsers, and all in an instant, as each of the dancers threw aloft a square of white tapa, she was under sail and off to sea.
A not less terrible poison is furnished by the Liana Tieute (Strychnos tieute), a member of the family Loganiaceae.
But all was still; not a long rope-like liana quivering, no leaf crushed.
There was a green liana hanging from a high limb and the end of the liana had been tied around the ankles of a man.
The liana (bejuco) used at Esmeralda for the preparation of the poison, bears the same name as in the forests of Javita.
When we arrived at Esmeralda, the greater part of the Indians were returning from an excursion which they had made to the east, beyond the Rio Padamo, to gather juvias, or the fruit of the bertholletia, and the liana which yields the curare.
The Ticuna poison, to which La Condamine has given so much celebrity in Europe, and which somewhat improperly begins to bear the name of ticuna, is extracted from a liana which grows in the island of Mormorote, on the Upper Maranon.
This species of liana is celebrated among the Indians, and serves for making baskets and weaving mats.
This liana grows in profusion on the humid declivities of the mountains of Unturan and Achivaquery.
Then he came out, spear in one hand, and half a fathom of liana in the other.
The liana was for the purpose of stringing the fish on, should the catch be large.
The liana was taut--but bits of its bark were flecking off.
Now, with a quick twist, Jak unfastened the end of the liana from the tree to which he had tied it.
Holding with his legs wrapped about the trunk, when he was almost three-quarters of the way up, Jak fastened his end of the liana tautly in place.
Single file, the Wai Wais were climbing steps cut in a cliff, grippingliana vines as handrails to balance the weight of their packs.
From the bank, Jacome and other natives dragged the mire with stones attached to long liana vines, but received no answering tugs from the pulpy quicksand.
There was no use throwing a liana vine to Kamuka; it would be too flimsy.
The Indian boy had grabbed a long liana vine hanging like a rope from a tree beside his high hammock.
Liana ropes were used instead of thongs, but the knots were very tight and solid.
Peering around carefully in all directions he slid down a thick liana stalk and announced that there was no smoke, but that there were "niama.
And after my raft had been shot down into a great hollow, and thence rising up, met the fearful buffet of another huge wave, I saw that the end liana was burst asunder.
