In youthful beauty wondrous fair, A crown of flowers about her hair, In silken robes of richest dye She roamed the hills that kiss the sky.
As nearer to the grove I drew The breeze with cooling fragrance blew, And not a tree that was not fair, With richest flower and fruit was there.
A store of funeral wood provide Which wind and sun and time have dried And richest sandal fit to grace The pyre of one of royal race.
Who, strong in holy zeal, had power To deck the streams with richest dower, And bade the lilies bright with gold The glory of their blooms unfold, Where fish in living gold below The sheen of changing colours show?
The richest robe thy form should deck, The rarest gems adorn thy neck, The sweetest wreath should bind thy hair, The noblest lord thy bed should share.
I hither came of free accord To lend the aid by you implored, And richest meed my toil shall pay, While here in forest shades I stay.
Well, says he, whether you will believe me or no, I solemnly vow, I would not change thee for the richest Woman in the Universe.
I cannot think of them as equals, not even therichest and the most arrogant of them.
It is, that he who goes out of office richest at the time of the residencia goes out the best justified; hence, for fear of that, he never fails to make his profit.
The richest and chiefest among them is he who has more heads hanging in his house than the others; for that is a sign that he has more food, and gives more banquets.
They live in villages of three or four hundred, with a chief in each, who is usually the richest man, and whose lands the common people cultivate.
In the fire three hundred of the most important and richestmerchants were burned.
Plains and valleys the very richest in the globe are to be found here, as also much rank marshy land, and also much jungle.
According to Baron Humboldt, the soil, enriched for ages by the spoils of the forest, consists of the richest mould.
Indeed, they delighted, even when aiming at the richest colouring, to subdue all glare, and to preserve rather a deep half-tone.
The rivers teem with all sorts of junks filled with all sorts of wares going to market, and it was upon the quays that we found for sale the finest carved things, the richest embroideries, the most delicately wrought wares.
There is a touch of drollery in the contrast, which the richest steeping of poetry does not disguise.
As this nightcap of vapours cleared away, a remarkable cone was exposed to view, the base covered with the richest vegetation.
Most of the richest spots appear to have been cultivated at some time by the Indians for raising potatoes.
He was introduced to me as the richest Indian on the island, as having the best houses, finest canoes and youngest wife.
It was covered with splendid mosquito grass, which is only the case with the richest soil.
Everywhere we found the richest soil, and water in abundance, as well as game of every description, and many wild horses.
We camped on the top of this overhanging ledge, as a number of medlar-trees grew there, to which we could fasten our horses at night round the camp, and at the same time the richest grass grew all around.
His dress was that of a common seaman, except that he had on a Greek skull-cap, and wore a broad shawl of therichest silk round his waist.
Thus on the ground floor the Lack Vale Coal Company worked out its grimy history, on the second floor the Brunt Rubber Company had command, on the fifth the great Steel Axle Company, the richest and most important of all, lodged royally.
He is my second cousin, his mother was an Aston, and he is one of the richest men in England, if not quite the richest.
Dined with Lady Ossington, the most charming, kindest, and richest of old ladies, to meet the Duchess of Sermoneta.
It was a lovely day, the sea deep blue, and the trees, especially the sycamores, in their richest foliage.
Of their six children, the eldest girl had the richest dower in Scotland, and married the Lord Crawford of that day.
It is a magnificent church, one of the richestin Belgium, and the vestments and appointments are superb.
Suddenly raising her head from the attitude in which she had so long remained, her eyes naturally turned towards the light diffused by the lamp before the images in the corner of the chamber, the richest of which sparkled in its ray.
Addicks had within his gift the richest plum in all the Boston commercial world.
All honest people, the richest as well as the poorest, will be benefited in fair and just proportion.
It is the largest and richest copper mine discovered and developed in the past twenty years.
Many of the Grey Plovers were superb specimens in perfect black-and-white plumage, and the Curlew-Sandpipers in richest rufous summer-dress.
No Spaniard, rich or poor, will remain in the country for a single night, even in the green and glorious spring-time when the Andalucian vegas revel in richest charm to eye and ear.
From the moment the fighting bulls are selected, they are treated with the utmost care, and for two years more roam at liberty over the richest pasturage of the wide unfrequented prairies.
Thus might your name be rendered immortal, and Egypt become again the emporium of commerce, and one of the richest and happiest nations upon earth.
Its shipping interests are second only to those of the capital, as it is the outlet of many of the richest agricultural districts of the island.
Cuba has therichest land I have ever seen; pretty shade trees and everything that it takes to make a country look fine.
The children of the Yankee missionaries who sailed from Boston and Gloucester around the Horn to carry the gospel to the Sandwich islands in the '30s and '40s are the richest and most aristocratic people in Honolulu.
The great amount of precious metals used in making the richest garments and hangings sometimes made them objects to be desired by avaricious invaders.
Only the most elaborate and richest of embroideries have been preserved; the reason being that much of the work was done with silver and gold threads which were in reality fine wires of these precious metals.
As soon as he received news that they were drawing near, he started himself, with a retinue of warriors in theirrichest decorations, to welcome the strangers.
On an appointed day the chief advanced to meet them, accompanied by his two brothers and five hundred warriors, in the richest decorations and best armament of military art as then understood by the Floridians.
The Tuscaloosa, or Black Warrior river, flowed through one of therichest of his valleys.
The nobles were clad in their richest garments of state, and the ground was strewn with bodies of the dead, glittering in robes of gold and gems.
I am told that I had among my audience some of the most highly-connected andrichest men in the university, and there wasn't one whom I couldn't have dressed from top to toe for L5.
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