Our satirist is an executioner by profession, a moralist in excuse, or at the tail of it; though he thinks the position reversed, when he moralizes angrily to have his angry use of the scourge condoned.
But harsh it may be named, if the one innocent is to be the sufferer.
Escape and beauty beckoned ahead; behind were the chains.
He is roused from dejection by hearing Mr. Semhians shyly (he has published verse) tell of the fairtressed Delphica's phosphorial enthusiasm for our galaxy of British Poets.
The impulse of my subject, however, has taken me too far, and I perceive that I have begun my sowing too late to entertain any hopes of a good crop.
It will suffice to give references to an earlier and to a later work.
Grettir lets down a rope: the priest is to watch it.
This last account agrees admirably with the landscape depicted in the Grettis saga, and the gorge many fathoms deep through which the stream rushes, after it has fallen over the precipice; not so the other accounts.
It is certain that the story of the monster invading a dwelling of men and rendering it uninhabitable, till the adventurous deliverer arrives, did not originate with Hrothgar and Heorot.
But if it is {51} independently derived from a common source, then the episode in the saga, although so much later, may nevertheless contain features which have been obliterated or confused or forgotten in the Beowulf version.
And this is one of the questions which the student cannot leave open, because our view of the origin of the Grendel-story will have to depend largely upon the view we take as to its connection with the episode in the Grettis saga.
So they go together to the river, and find the side of the ravine a sheer precipice: it is ten fathom down to the water below the fall.
It is an ancient and widespread type of story, of which one version is localized at the Danish court.
But this time Grettir is pulled put of the hall, and dragged to the brink of the neighbouring gorge.
After the lapse of some five centuries, we get abundant further information concerning Offa.
Here, by a final effort, he wrenches a hand free, draws, and hews off the arm of the ogress, who falls into the torrent below.
As before, Grettir and his assailant wrestle down the room, breaking all {49} in their way.
Oh naething," said his son, "but gin ye dinna rin fast the gentleman will be quite cauld.
I'll rin past and gi'e a knock at the door wi' the poker to rouse him up?
Jist got put aff a schooner a wee while ago an' we've had tae rin like blazes tae catch this wee boat here.
Ah rin tae the door o' the alley-way and looks oot tae see a tremendous comber pilin' up ahead.
Blivinski asked promptly, with an air of genial interest.
You shall not meet death face to face as many a brave man has met it, but you shall be shot, cringing with your back to the gun-muzzles--like the cur you are!
But----' Isolde leant upon her elbow to look into his face.
His dead fierce eyes stared upward, his wet hair was already frozen to his brow, and a black wound gaped open at his throat.
He did not pretend to understand women, but that Mademoiselle Selpdorf should now despise him for escaping a danger she had half an hour ago trembled over and prayed to avert, seemed at best rather inconsistent.
He left it to choose its own direction, yet it was long before a blur of light which he knew to be the open doorway of the block-house grew out on the shifting darkness.
The ordinary sensations of cold give but a faint conception of that which comes on after hard climbing with want of food and sleep in such exposure as this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
