These are decidedly complex, yet so regular that five hundred pairs of feet and hands mark the measure of the song as truly as if they were under the control of a single nervous system.
Thronging the banks of the pale river are ghosts of little children, trying to pile up stones.
Even an adult can amuse himself for half an hour with this: it is a perfect trompe-l'oeil in mechanical adjustment.
The wicked woman ceased not daylye to animate and prouoke hir husbande from one parricide to an other.
If sallades be so costly (quod Hircan) and so daungerous in May, I will prouoke appetite with other sawces, or els hunger shall be my chiefest.
Nowe before I toke my pen in hand to write this Letter, I examined my lyfe, to know, if (during the time that I had charge of thee) I dyd or sayd in thy presence any thing that might prouoke thee to euill example.
Iulietta knowing the fury of hir Father, fearing to incurre his indignation, or to prouoke his further wrath, retired for the day into hir Chamber, and contriued that whole Nyght more in weeping then slepyng.
And prouoke mee not I beseeche thee to passe the boundes of my good will and mynde.
These prouoke sweat, may easely be hadde, & be metest for them which haue al y^e causes beforesayde of lettyng thesame.
Do we (saithe Paule to the corinthians) prouoke the lorde?
They very sildome hurt the labourers (as they say) except they prouoke them by laughing and rayling at them: for then they threw grauel stones at them, or hurt them by some other means.
That as men are wont to prouoke wilde beasts to anger, which serue for publike spectacles: euen so it séemed, some euil angell by the craft of the diuell stirred vp that commotion amongst the people.
Now after the baudie god had talked his pleasure to bring her in great feare, or to prouoke her to lust and wantonnesse, sodeinly all the lightes were put out with the spreading abroad of shéets, by a certain cunning deuise.
Nowe whan the lawe of nature was first corrupted with sinne, whê the law of Moses did rather prouokeeuil desires ||F.
And this is recorded in the Catalogue of those sinnes of Manasses, by which hee sought to prouoke God vnto anger, 2.
Amongst other things he practised the vnderstanding of warlike knowledge, minding so to vse it as it might stand him in stead to defend himselfe from iniurie of the enimies that should prouoke him, and not otherwise.
Or if it shall please you to drinke the root thereof with maluesie, it will maruellouslie prouoke vrine, dissolue and expell grauell, and yéeld no small ease to them that make their water by dropmeales.
Moreouer, that we much did long to see you, The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke Our hastie sending.
There is meanes Madam: Our foster Nurse of Nature, is repose, The which he lackes: that to prouoke in him Are many Simples operatiue, whose power Will close the eye of Anguish Cord.
My Lord Caes Strike not by Land, Keepe whole, prouoke not Battaile Till we haue done at Sea.
The wrongs he did mee Were nothing Prince-like; for he did prouoke me With Language that would make me spurne the Sea, If it could so roare to me.
Let my presumption not prouoke thy wrath, For I am sorry, that with reuerence I did not entertaine thee as thou art Talb.
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