Now the poet's beard was long and his sleep deep, and as the weed grew shorter with each ecstatic puff, the little brand of fire drew closer and closer to the beautiful hairy mantle that fell from the poet's chin.
Comparative records of the two languages, however, show plainly how the mantle was handed from the Father to the Son, and how it became the commendable duty of the second generation to correct and improve upon the first.
He took up also the mantleof Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan.
He took themantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?
On the Matron's time-worn mantle Let the Poet's wreath be laid.
God send that her mantle may fall upon this whole community, stimulating each to do what he or she can for humanity.
Her masts are tipped with amethyst, A splendor all untold; A crimson mantlewraps her round, Her sails are made of gold.
The horse is a small, hardy, sure-footed animal of brown colour, and Ewen is known by the smallness of his head, and by a long floating mantle of green.
What supremely delights the lover of scenery is that this poet's muse can overwrap the exact and detailed knowledge of Nature with a superb mantle of idealistic glory.
On a tableland the thickly-growing gorse had flowered so densely as to spread a vast golden mantle over all the soil.
Oh, lightly did I flee when hoyden May Threw her wild[8] mantle on the hawthorn tree.
A mantle cannot be wild, nor is it an epithet to apply to a hawthorn tree.
The moon was rising, throwing her silvery mantle over the quiet country.
Mr. Henty's mantlemay worthily be worn by Mr. Herbert Strang.
Portrait of Rembrandt, seen in a three-quarter view, with a small beard and mustacheos; a cap of the usual shape covers his frizzled hair, and the dress is composed of a mantle bordered with fur.
Portrait strongly resembling Rembrandt, seen in a front view, having short frizzled hair, and the mouth a little compressed; he has on a cap, and wears a mantle attached by a little ribbon.
Portrait of Rembrandt, seen in a three-quarter view, with the head uncovered, and the hair frizzled; he has on a mantle buttoned in front.
Portrait of Rembrandt, seen in a front view, having a fur cap, and a mantle bordered with fur.
A Bust of an old Man, with a white beard, having on a turned-up cap, and a mantle bordered with fur.
The Bust of a Man, seen in a front view, having on a cap in the shape of a calotte, and a mantle bordered with carmine.
A Bust of a Man with a bald head, seen in a three-quarter view; the shoulders are covered with a mantle bordered with fur.
Portrait of Rembrandt, seen in a three-quarter view; he has long curling hair and moustaches; a cap of the usual shape covers the head, and a rich mantle the body.
Portrait of Rembrandt when young, seen in a front view, wearing a slouched hat, and a mantle lined with fur.
The stranger entered, closing the door behind him, threw back his mantle and took off the hat that shaded his face.
Your faithfulness cunningly clothes itself in the mantle of godliness, nothing further.
A rapid, searching glance satisfied him that he was alone there, but his brow darkened when he observed Count Munnich's mantle lying upon a chair.
Oh, the good field-marshal will rejoice to find his mantle in such good company, and I hope my cloak may leave some visible memento upon its embroidered companion.
No, again and again the evening breeze raises the mantle of the rider, and the charming angelic brow is still seen resting upon the bosom of the count.
You saw yourself as a beggar because you were to become our ruler--because a purple mantle will this day be placed upon your shoulders.
And as she spoke she flung round Connla's shoulders a flowing mantleof yellow silk, and pinned it at his neck with a red gold brooch.
Considering that the cortexmantle of the human brain contains over 9 billion cells, this doesn't sound like much.
The cerebral mantle evolves through being worked; its cells enriched by the material submitted to them for processing; the richer the material, the richer their yield.
While these funds could only cover the first stages in the construction of The Brain," he calmly went on, "we have been able to build a mechanical cortex mantle composed of ninety billion electronic cells.
Beyond they disperse again over the cortex mantle to all the centers of coordination, higher cerebration and higher psychic activities.
Thus saying, she fastened the mask upon her face again, threw the mantle over her shoulders, and left the room.
This route provides a wonder-world of delight, a succession of deep gorges lying at the foot of towering mountains covered on their summits with a mantle of spotless and eternal snow.
The fame of Luno, the son of Leven, who made the swords of Fingal and his heroes, is preserved in old traditional poems, which figure him as a wild savage clad in a mantle of black hide, and with an apron of similar materials.
She unclasped the buckle which fastened her hood and mantle round her neck, and as the man fell back with the garments in his hand, flung herself into the muddy dike.
The mantle or cloaca-cavity (the atrium) that surrounds the gill-crate is also formed in the same way in the Ascidia as in the Amphioxus.
If we open the thick tunic or mantle in order to examine the internal organisation, we first find a spacious cavity filled with water--the mantle-cavity or respiratory cavity (Figure 2.
The name of "Tunicates" is given to the whole class to which the Ascidiae belong, because the body is enclosed in a thick and stiff covering like a mantle (tunica).
When she came out again, the mantle had vanished, and there appeared in its place a common cloak of drab-coloured cloth.
She had gone into the farmhouse, wearing a handsome mantle of sealskin.
She ventured to suggest that her mistress might feel the loss (in an open carriage) of the warm mantle which she had left on Rhoda's shoulders.
Elijah was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire and Elisha took up the mantle of the prophet Elijah and smote the Jordan and went back to the seminary where Elijah had taught and told the people there.
It wraps a mantle about the hope of this world and that to come.
And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had fallen from him, and they were not divided.
And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going back, he stood on the bank of the Jordan; 2:14.
And spreading a mantle on the ground, they cast upon it the earlets of the spoils.
And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and having rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord my God, 9:6.
And when I had heard this word, I rent my mantle and my coat, and plucked off the hairs of my head and my beard, and I sat down mourning.
If they do not obtain access to the intestines of an animal within a week, they lose their ciliated mantle and perish.
The yolk undergoes segmentation, and ultimately develops an embryo with six hooks at the anterior extremity, cased in a mantle studded with vibratory cilia, and the lid of the capsule then opens up; and the embryo escapes.
The mantle which Flora has spread over the naked body of this earth is, says Humboldt, unequally woven.
In this he would have undoubtedly succeeded, and the negro must have perished, if happily the kross, or sheepskin mantle of the latter, had not been caught in the bushes.
It becomes impossible to discern him from the snowy mantle which covers all the earth.
In the spring a mantle of clover spreads over the earth, but only to be withered up by the first heats of summer.
And then he said unto the damsel that came from his sister, "Damsel, this mantle that ye have brought me I will see upon you.
When the King beheld this mantle it pleased him much, but he said little.
Then the old man made the young man unarm; and he was in a coat of red silk, and bore a mantle upon his shoulder that was furred with ermine.
One place of the mantle still lacked trimming; wherefore he sent for Arthur's beard, and if he did not receive it he would enter England to burn and slay, and never would he leave till he had Arthur, head and all.
But she was beautiful, and under the mask and mantle which had been imposed on her had a shining child's soul.
The stranger dropped the riding-mantle in which his face was muffled, and at the same time fell on one knee.
