His snow-white head was cut off, and was fixed on a spike in the Nether Bow.
As we trace James Guthrie's passionate footsteps for the years to come through Principal Baillie's sufficiently gossiping, but not unshrewd, pages, we soon see that he is travelling fast and sure toward the Nether Bow.
The disgraceful and ghastly story of his execution, and the hacking up of his body, may all be read in Howie, beside a picture of the Nether Bow as it still stands in our Free Church and Free State Day.
Know then, that when I erst Hither descended to the nether hell, This rock was not yet fallen.
Poor Sélysette is crushed between the upper and nether millstone of the man and woman.
At least the talk here is as brilliant as is commonly supposed to prevail in the nether regions.
And as he went, he muttered: "When will these accursed sons of the nether earth leave the way clear to us, that we may be alone and take pleasure each in each amidst of the flowers and the sun?
If he chooses to bring them up from Nether Forge and lay ’em out in the church tower, why they are e’en so much the nearer to the main road and you are saved a day’s hauling.
I mind when where that old gaffer stands was Nether Forge—Master John Collins’s foundry.
We got wet, scratched, and plastered with mire all over ournether garments.
Whether guilty or innocent, it was as if old de Barral had been down to the Nether Regions.
But the earliest date, 1655, apparently the marriage of James in Nether Carsewell, cannot as yet be pushed back.
Do you think that you or your son could find a day to visit Neilston and try to identify Nether Carsewell, find what size of a farm it is, to whom it belonged, etc.
Our first traceable ancestor was a tenant farmer of Mure of Cauldwell's--James in Nether Carsewell.
Thus was the king of demons hurled By Vishṇu to the nether world, And thus the universe restored To Indra’s rule, its ancient lord.
So leading through earth’s nether caves The river’s purifying waves, Over his kinsmen’s dust the lord His funeral libation poured.
Nay, where, in few months, were it still, should the same greatNether Deep subside?
So far has Consolidation prospered, though with difficulty; repressing the Nether Sansculottic world; and the Constitution shall be made.
The legions of assiduous ministering spirits rise on you now as menacing fiends; your free orderly arena becomes a tumult-place of the Nether Pit, and the hapless magician is rent limb from limb.
The Nether Sansculottic world has been suppressed hitherto: but then the Upper Court-world!
She confessed the whole story, and declared that the child left in Nether Place was no other than the Protestant Baby, son of Ginx, about whom so much stir had been made two years before.
Search out for slavery's hour of need Some fitting text of sacred writ; Give heaven the credit of a deed Which shames the nether pit.
A rough shepherd's heart may overflow with it, and that of an exquisite fine gentleman and distinguished man of science may be as utterly without it as thenether millstone.
Nor has it been without delectation that I have endued a new coat (snuff-brown, and with metal buttons), having all nether garments corresponding thereto.
That all the Appostels wer fishermen and base fellowes, nether of witt nor worth, that Pawle only had witt, that he was a timerous fellow in biddinge men to be subiect to magistrates against his conscience.
He shall be ground between the upper and the nether stones in the towers of anguish, and all that is left of him shall be cast on the accursed stream of the bitter waters, to stink under the blood-grimed sun!
That was the most sensible thing he said; if such a tormentor as gout can be consigned to the nether regions by the mere utterance of a word, by all means let the word be uttered.
Some of the enemies of Rome are shown on Trajan's column wearing nether garments of the kind most familiar to us, and our illustration is taken from the representation of a barbarian soldier carved on an ivory diptych of St. Paul.
And for my worldly estate, (which I have nethergot by falshood or flattery or the extreme crewelty of the law of this nation,) I doe hereby give and bequeth it as followeth.
Are Gentleman Jim and Kangaroo Bob the upper and nether millstones between which humanity is being ground?
But seeing her fixed gaze into the empty air, and the set pout of her nether lip, I could not doubt that she would never speak the word that would bid him home.
The thunderbolt was a sort of toboggan on rollers, for which there was a slide running down presumably to the nether world, above mentioned.
Plutonian Thunderbolt and hurl him down to the nether world.
Thus do men and sheep play their parts on this nether earth; wandering restlessly in large masses, they know not whither; for most part, each following his neighbor, and his own nose.
The difference in punctuation in the two sentences following is based on the same principle: Nether Stowey, where Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a few miles from Bridgewater.
Nether Stowey is completely identified by its name; the statement about Coleridge is therefore supplementary and parenthetic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nether" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: down; earlier; inferior; infernal; lesser; lour; low; lower; lowest; under
