Sudden, surprising, Melting the iron scales around the heart As the earliest sun Melts the cold case of dew on leaves-- Ah!
Like flocks of tired birds when autumn comes, My spirit flags across the darkening fields And melts into the drabness of the sky And falls like dust upon the huddled corn.
The young guard melts like snow; the old guard stands; my mounted guards likewise are much reduced," were the words of Napoleon's private letter.
Not now as erst I see Judgment to keep my mind's great passion less: Nay, rather from mine own thoughts melt I so, As melts before the summer sun the snow.
My heart Love prostrates, Fortune more unkind No comfort grants, until its sorrow vast Impotent frets, then melts to tears at last: Thus I to painful warfare am consign'd.
In this our age or in the older years, Which mould and melt me, as the sun melts snow, Into a stream of tears adown the vale, Watering the hard roots of that laurel green, Whose boughs are diamonds and gold whose hair.
With these words she entwines caressingly her white arms around the neck of Helgi, whose heart melts and inclines to her.
The eternal longing for the divine then melts mysteriously into the longing for the youthful love of woman.
She does not recognize him in his disguise, but he comes to see all the wretchedness of her life of shame, and melts her heart in a wonderfully poetic conversation which reminds one of Erasmus's colloquy between the youth and the fallen woman.
The fiery red, flames into a glow, melts to the softest purple, blends to the rarest gray, and in a delirium of rich colors the sun goes down in a cloud of glory.
Then, too, a giant stream of water is now turned against the base of a mountain that melts away like mist before the sun, and sends a stream of gold to the mint.
Narcotine= gives no sublimate; it melts at 155 deg.
On continuing the heat, strychnine meltsat about 221 deg.
On boiling it with water, however, it melts into oily drops, and this peculiar behaviour distinguishes it from the analogous salt of hyoscyamine, which does not melt in boiling water.
The powder first turns black, thenmelts to an amber-yellow fluid, and finally, by prolonged heating, sublimes as terchloride of bismuth.
The precipitate is insoluble in nitric acid, but soluble in ammonia; it meltswithout decomposition.
Hyoscyamine= gives no crystalline sublimate; it melts at 89 deg.
The platinochloride is insoluble in absolute alcohol; it melts at 225 deg.
This benzyl benzoate supercools readily, but after solidifying melts within one degree of the highest recorded value (19.
When the ice finally melts away and removes the support from the overlying morainic débris, this settles down in a very irregular manner, leaving enclosed depressions to which there is no natural outlet.
It is the slowness with which ice melts which enables it to accumulate as it does, both in winter and upon high mountains and in arctic regions.
By the action of sodium amalgam it is readily converted into melilotic acid, which melts at 81 deg.
It solidifies in a freezing mixture, on the addition of a crystal of phenol, and then melts at 3 deg.
By the action of phosphorus pentasulphide it is converted into thiocoumarin, which melts at 101 deg.
It melts into a colourless liquid at about 38 deg.
In the case of the presence of oil, 2 grams of pure and dry white wax are added, and the whole heated till the wax melts with the oleic acid.
It is capable of melting 45 ounces of copper, or 40 ounces of cast iron, and with its heat up it melts one pound of copper in eight minutes; copper begins to melt in about twenty minutes from the time of lighting.
It melts away Law in Love, and hides the rocky structure of this moral world in a sunny haze that confuses earth and air.
It melts away from our ancient moral geography the ideal contrasts of coloring which made the world the scene of an unnatural dualism, and reinstates the great families of man in unity.
For whatsoever is gotten with guilemelts away in like fashion as it is sought, and no fruits are long-lasting that have been won by treachery and crime.
Often such men, while the heat of the blast melts the bronze that is poured in the mould, craftily filch flakes of gold from the lumps, when the vessel thirsts after the metal they have stolen.
Not one of these but melts at the thoughts of childhood, fondles and caresses it.
The entire plant is very fragile and soon melts away.
When rough weather came, he wrapped himself in a blanket from the snow that falls andmelts upon the ledges.
Beg her to pity one who loves so well: Say that my life is frail and mutable, And melts like rime before the rising day.
Suffer ye thus far' is a command to oppose violence only by meek endurance, which wins in the long run, as surely as the patient sunshine melts the thick ice, which is ice still, when pounded with a hammer.
The assurance of Christ's knowledge of our sins against Him melts the heart, when the assurance of His forgiveness and tender love comes with it.
The refiner's fire melts metal, and the scum carries away impurities.
Messiah, his song takes up the echoes of all the past, and meltsthem into a new outpouring of exultant hope.
In their strain Rustle of palms and Eastern streams one hears, And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears.
My haunting grief has vanished like a dream, Its floating fading memory seems one With those frail mists born of the dawn's first beam, Dissolving as the dew melts in the sun.
Harm dare not touch thee; the oppressor's curse, Melts into blessing at thy sight.
The seeds when crushed on the warm slab become almost liquid, owing to a kind of butter or concrete oil which they contain, and which melts by a gentle heat.
Lead melts at a heat below that of redness, and, in combination with oxygen and carbonic acid, forms the “white lead” of commerce so largely used as a paint.
At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14
It was of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow wreath.
It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62° C.
I see a shape of light like to the shape of a woman; it walks upon the waters towards us and the mist melts before it, and the sea grows calm beneath its feet.
He called to mind many wise saws, but these availed him little: for when Love rises like the sun, wisdom melts like the mists.
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