Children roving the fields With early flowers in spring, Old men turning to look, When they heard a bluebird sing, Have seen me a thousand times Standing here in the sun, Yet never a moment dreamed Whose likeness they gazed upon.
The master of the roving kind, and goes on: O all you hearts about the world In whom the truant gypsy blood, Under the frost of this pale time, Sleeps like the daring sap and flood That dreams of April and reprieve!
They without hesitation accepted his offer, saying that they liked the look of his craft, and the roving commission which he had told them he held.
I have been an unfeeling, unnatural father; wild, reckless, thinking only of myself, and of gratifying my own roving propensities.
There is nothing to show an advanced civilization in the modern sense of the word, but they were civilized in comparison with the roving hunter-tribes of later times.
Unbroken specimens of pottery are not abundant, as is naturally the case in a country traversed continually by roving bands of natives to whom it is easier to pick up or dig out earthen utensils than to manufacture or buy them.
She announced that her name was Daniel Boone, which Uncle Esmond considered well enough for one of such a westward-roving nature.
He was so charmed with the scenery and the climate that he quit his roving life and here made his home till his death in 1876.
Therefore Beltane sought the deeper shade of the woods and, risking the chance of roving thief or lurking foot-pad, followed a devious course by reason of the underbrush.
Yet first, hear this: thou art perchance some roving knight seeking adventure to the glory and honour of some fair lady.
Then suddenly he remembered the man’s face, with its sallowness, its roving eyes, and its air of impudence that could change into quick servility.
As Jim descended from the rostrum, his rovinggaze fell on Phyl Sanderson standing in the doorway.
His roving eyes took in with disgust the stains of tobacco juice plastered all over the clean surface of the rocks.
Subsequently they passed into the interior of Louisiana, where some are hunting and roving in the woods at the present time.
How can one forget, for instance, the Famille Bouvier who used to appear regularly at the fêtes in the streets of Paris in the summer season, living all of them in a roving gipsy wagon as is the custom of these fête people.
The acrobat is master of his body and he lets his brain go a-roving upon other matters, if he has one.
We were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and rovingbarbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
The greater part of these Indians at present lead a somewhat roving life, finding their subsistence chiefly in game hunted by them, in the rice gathered in its wild state, and in the fish afforded by waters conveniently near.
At this time martial law was in force on many of the Indian reservations, owing to the presence of roving bands of hostile Sioux, driven from Minnesota after their outbreak there.
Upon this it is the intention of the Department eventually to locate all the roving and straggling bands, in Eastern and South-eastern Oregon, which can be induced to settle there.
The Lower Yanktons are peaceful and quiet, although they are near the Brulés, who are always roving and hostile.
They are not much disposed to work, however, on lands of their own, preferring to labor for the white farmers in their vicinity, and are still much given to roving and hunting.
In seasons of dearth roving stockmen and shepherds drive their herds and flocks into Indians' grain-fields, destroying their subsistence for a whole year.
Santa Maria was despatched to Mexico for auxiliaries, but on the third day out was surprised and killed by roving Indians.
Notwithstanding these humanizing traits, the lives of the two devoted missionaries paid the forfeit of their courage and zeal, or they may both have perished by the hands of roving Indians.
They were not to be easily overcome, by any roving Indian foe, in defence of their women and their homes.
They were more numerous; then, too, they were a roving people, difficult to attack, whereas the Mohawks lived in villages and had permanent homes.
The wild banks of the Maquaas Kill had hitherto shown no prouder architecture than the long bark houses of the Mohawks, which nevertheless were much in advance of the wigwams or tents of the roving Algonquin tribes.
The vassals of these noble houses were turned into men-at-arms, and the chiefs acquired more importance in their roving military life than they could have gained within the narrow circuit of their little states.
I am, I fear, too roving by nature to care to stay long in one place.
It comes to me so insistently, perhaps, because of myroving life," she said.
Is it a notion of roving beasts of prey, or that of compassionate, unselfish, social human beings?
They have inspired in him the idea of the roving beast of prey, falling upon weaker men for the voluptuous assuaging of their instincts of bloodthirstiness and destruction.
Hence it is not true that at any time man was a ‘solitary, roving brute.
The bondes were rich and powerful, unaccustomed to hostilities or violence, and the oppression of roving troops; so that there was soon a great noise and scandal when they were despoiled and robbed.
Such rock and tower, such roosting-place, Was ne'er since held by the roving race.
The meat was scarcely put on the table, when a man came into the house to tell Nikolas that the Birkebeins were roving up the river.
He stopped back of the engineers, his glanceroving down the line of brown shoulders until it rested on the automatic.
Marta's feverish, roving glance had noted him directly he was in sight.
