ANTHE`LIA, luminous rings witnessed in Alpine and Polar regions, seen round the shadow of one's head in a fog or cloud opposite the sun.
The present study is devoted to noticing how the Stories of Jessica and of the Rings minister to the effects of the Story of the Jew and the Caskets Story.
Finally, the Episode of the Rings, which is to occupy the end of the drama, has its foundation in this scene, in the exchange of the rings which are destined to be the source of such ironical perplexity.
We have rejoiced in a great deliverance wrought by a noble woman: our enjoyment rises higher yet when the Rings Episode reminds us that this woman has not ceased to be a sportive girl.
The Rings Episode, even more than the Jessica Story, assists in restoring the balance between the main tales.
Passion-Movement in the background: Wave-Line of Strain and Relief by alternation of the two main Stories; the Episode of the Rings is Final Relief to the Final Strain of the Trial.
The Jessica Story and the Rings Episode assist the main stories.
The First Main Action, which is complicated, balances the Second, which is simple, by the additions to the latter of the Jessica interest transferred to it, and the Episode of the Rings generated out of it.
He wore a purple coat and a fawn-coloured waistcoat: he had rings on his fingers, and his hat was laced with gold: he wore gold buckles: buttons silver gilt and white silk stockings.
Momtchilo's goldenrings were too large for three of King Voukashin's fingers together.
They also loved to dance, and their rings are called 'Vrzino (or Vilino) Kollo.
In Mount Kom in Montenegro, there is one of these rings which measures about twenty metres across and is called 'Vilino Kollo.
Many wore rings of gold and copper and tin about their arms.
The men in the palace were all attired in cloth of gold and silk which covered their privies, and carried daggers with gold hafts adorned with pearls and precious gems, and they had many rings on their hands.
They place a value on brass rings and chains, bells, knives, and still more on copper wire for binding their fishhooks.
It is easy to recognise this plant by the rings of flowers growing close round the main stem.
A lamenting voice rings out: "Where's the officer!
In the trenches right and left a similar command rings out and silence descends.
Censored) From some woods away to the left a fusillade growing more and more violent each instantrings out.
During a brief calm, music, strange, sharp, but rhythmic rings out.
Three times I whistle cautiously, three times a whistle rings out in reply, and at the same time a fugitive ray of light gleams on a bayonet in the clearing and I can make out a dark figure.
He raises his forefinger as a rifle shot rings out from the enemy's lines, followed a moment later by a second and fainter detonation, echoing the first.
Lights begin to dance before them; ringsof flame begin to whirl vertiginously.
Before me and all around me dark shadows move; and always the same cry rings out: "Hurrah!
I made a jolly fine set of rings that time," he told one of the men.
Yes," muttered the man with two rings of the Royal Naval Reserve on his sleeve.
Why, Captain, she could park in here and still leave room for an airplane to sail in ringsaround her!
After the Nardak was in the hangar, the ground crew stepped forward and fastened her ropes through the iron rings in concrete pillars that studded the floor here and there on either side of the docking rails.
Pistons of large diameter are generally provided with two cast-iron packing ringsplaced within the same groove.
Their own elasticity causes the rings to press outwards on the cylinder.
These rings are pressed outwards against the cylinder, and also against the sides of the groove by one or more springs.
The piston, junk ring, and packing rings are of cast iron.
For the purpose of admitting the packing rings the piston is divided into two parts, one the piston proper, and the other the junk ring.
An enlarged section of one of the packing rings is shown at (a).
The points where the rings are cut should be placed diametrically opposite, so as to diminish the leakage of steam.
These rings are first turned a little larger in diameter than the bore of the cylinder (in this example 1/2 inch), and then sprung over the piston into the groves prepared for them.
The front end, with 3 rings of the shell, with the tubes and back end, were but little moved from their original position.
Nearly the whole of the two backrings of the shell were torn off and opened out, and the boiler was turned partly round, and moved upon its seat sideways and forwards.
Three rings were torn out of the middle, while the front end was blown into the bed room of a house, and the back part of the boiler was thrown across a canal through two walls into a distant street.
The tube without strengthening rings was too weak to sustain the ordinary working pressure.
Two rings of plates were torn out and blown into an adjoining street, while the reaction of the escaping contents forced the boiler into a building in a very singular manner, doing very great damage.
The line of rent was confined to the plates forming the ring, which was an outer one, and covered the two adjoining rings in the laps, the rent being from the edge of the inner lap to the nearest rivets.
Four rings in the middle were opened out flat and fell across the other boiler, and the remaining part of the shell with the tubes were left on the seating.
The top of the fire grate on the right side rent longitudinally, and the upper part of the shell consisting of four rings of plates, and also the top of the fire place opened out and blew away to a considerable distance.
Five rings of the back part were torn off and thrown to the rear.
A horizontal seam about the middle of the left hand side had given way, and the upper portion of the 3rd and 4th rings of plates had spread out like a lid without being detached from the boiler.
Rent along bottom, and two rings of plates blown away, but tube and ends not much injured.
A longitudinal seam gave way over the fire, when two rings of plates opened out, rending the transverse seams at each side until completely separated, and fell in two parts at a distance of about 100 yards in front of the boiler.
The world is not so prosy, The woods with mirth o'erflow, To me life seems all rosy, My trumpet rings hallo.
Scouts are riding, watchmen blowing, Women wailing, children crying; Through the vale rings the alarm-bell.
The harsh mouth was irrevocably set, till nose and chin looked as though they soon must meet, while the hideous dark ringsshowed up the cruel glare of her eyes, which shone diabolically.
She glanced down at the flashing diamond rings upon her fingers.
If anything I've said rings a vague bell, then could we meet someplace and talk?
After two rings it stopped and he heard the voice of Winston Bartlett, both outside the front door and in his ear.
He counted eleven rings and then he couldn't take it anymore and reached for the receiver.
This Christmas peal rings to us as it has never rung before: let it awaken our consciousness of what God means us to be upon this planet, and touch our heart.
Jewellers' shops contain very little interesting to a foreigner--most of the rings and brooches are trashy articles of jade-stone, a greenish stone which resembles agate or cornelian in opaqueness.
No; else why should she have cared to have ear-rings rather than anything else?
It is impossible to be wise on the subject of ear-rings as one looks at her; what should those delicate pearls and crystals be made for, if not for such ears?
Yet she put her hands up to her ears: it was because there were some thin gold ringsin them, which were also worth a little money.
And I know that she had longed for ear-rings from among all the ornaments she could imagine.
But she cannot keep in the ear-rings long, else she may make her uncle and aunt wait.
You think of ear-rings and fine gowns and caps, and you never think of the Saviour who died to save your precious soul.
And she would take out the little ear-rings she had in her ears--oh, how her aunt had scolded her for having her ears bored!
She had no longing to put them in her ears now: her head with its dark rings of hair lay back languidly on the pillow, and the sadness that rested about her brow and eyes was something too hard for regretful memory.
The Don graciously places a chair for Mr. Hopkins, rings the bell, and seats himself.
And these friends would each have her take away something for a keepsake, such as rings to wear on her arms and on her ankles (as is the Moorish fashion), silk shawls, etc.
These rings are of themselves no detriment to a horse, but they mark irregularities of growth which may have been due to illness or lameness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dumbbell; horse; weight
