Minutes later, he went back to his bunk and threw the scroll aside.
Hopelessly, he looked at the collection in the chest, then he got out a scroll of prose and went to the central table to read in an effort to clear his mind of the immediate circumstances.
And are thy sentinels all carefully placed, as Tomkins' scroll gave direction, and with fitting orders?
The plan annexed to the scroll will point out the posts, even if she prove stupid or refractory.
I shall not work at the loom again; but as I am now free, and have the scroll that proves it, I must soon look about for some employment.
And, in a few moments, she held in her hand a written scroll that he let down to her by a lutestring weighted with a scrap of wood.
He lay back on the divan, and saw how his friend leaned over his scroll as if listening, and fidgeted up and down in his arm-chair.
This scrollof conditions the Athenians accepted, Theramenes, son of Hagnon, supporting it.
And this scroll is called a staff, after the name of the wood, as a thing measured is by the name of the measure.
They shall come mild as monkish clerks, With many a scroll and pen; And backward shall ye turn and gaze, Desiring one of Alfred's days, When pagans still were men.
The fluted work and the scroll indicate the design of the architect.
It is noticeable that the base continues to show increased ornament in the feet, with an added scroll (illustrated p.
A scrollsaw frame will come in handy for sawing out small patterns.
The lips that alone could disclose those secrets are fast closing in eternal silence, and the scroll will find no man worthy to loose its seals.
Scroll work is conspicuous, as are rosettes, but a touch of individuality is given by a Grecian band instead of the more common evolute spiral above the diaper pattern.
A graceful jig-sawed bracket of scroll pattern adorns each stair end under the overhang of the tread, and the space under the stairs is closed in by well-spaced molded and raised paneling.
Jig-sawed outline brackets of unusually harmonious scroll pattern placed under the molded overhang of the treads provide additional ornamentation of a refined character.
Graceful scroll brackets adorn the stair ends beneath the molded projections of the treads.
At the foot of the staircase the newel treatment takes the scroll form of the Ionic volute, the rail and balusters on the circular end of the broad lower step winding around a central column like the landing newels.
Both have a wrought-iron rail with the same scroll pattern of effective simplicity, a pattern much favored in modern adaptation.
The scroll at the bottom is longer and heavier than the round, flattened, upper portion, so that the fixture is kept in position by gravity.
Another distinctivescroll outline bracket for stair ends forms the principal feature of a graceful staircase in the Carpenter house, Third and Spruce streets.
The scroll without the angel was a very convenient filling for smaller openings.
Later in the century the scroll winds rather more freely about the window (page 143).
Urbain, Troyes, on page 333, is a typical instance of Early French Transition foliage, in which the scroll is only less strong and vigorous than before.
In the first the method of proceeding is almost as strictly mosaic as though it had been a scroll of the preceding century.
A sedate gentleman in a peaked beard, with a ruff round his neck, and a scroll below him, in old English letters, 'Lord!
One of their number, therefore, Jehudi by name, was despatched to the Temple with orders to bring Baruch and his scroll to the palace.
He tucked the scroll under his arm and prepared to go down from the Temple Mount into the city.
He glanced through parts of the papyrus, and, with an amused smile, took a penknife out of his robe and began to slice the scroll into pieces.
He handed the scroll to Jehudi, expressed his thanks for the courtesy shown him, made his adieus and prepared to leave.
The question of the restoration of the scroll never entered Jeremiah's mind at all, on account of his gladness in having had his discourses brought home to the king.
At last, when the scroll was completed and Baruch looked up into Jeremiah's face, as if to ask "What now?
It was the year after, that is 603, the fifth year of the reign of Jehoiakim, and the ninth month, that Baruch took the completed scroll and went down to Jerusalem.
He felt much reassured when Gemariah stepped forward, smiled at him and took the scroll from his hands.
This danger past, Jeremiah and Baruch continued their laborious task of finishing the new scroll of prophecies.
He punctuated his remarks by throwing piece after piece of the scroll into the brazier until it was all consumed.
He then called the city Yottreb after his own name, and the scroll descended from father to son till the Apostle of God arrived as a fugitive from Mecca, when the inhabitants went out to meet him, and presented him with it.
I sent to him a scroll that bore my plaint of love, ii.
So I took the kerchief and the scroll and went home, knowing no means to win my wish, for that I was incapable of conducting love-affairs and inexperienced in interpreting hints and tokens.
Nicholas attempted to open it; at length by an effort he succeeded; he lifted up the lid, and took out a large scroll of parchment.
He caught the Spanish garrison which had been left in occupation and swung them on the same trees--with a second scroll saying that they were dangling there, not as Spaniards, but as murderers.
Upon the door of every house some scroll was attached, similar to that I had already seen.
I found only a scroll fastened with nails upon a crossbeam over the door, and upon it I read the words:--"This is the Laboratory of a Vivisector.
Then the Carpenter unlocked his casket and gave him a scroll written over in silver, and a crystal rule, and a carpenter's plane and a saw.
Then the first king unlocked his casket, and gave to the Carpenter a scroll written in red, and a compass and a trowel.
The Cardinal and prelates had once before presented the same scroll unto the King, at the time of his return from the circumnavigation of the Isles.
So was the scroll thankfully received by the King himself, and put into his own pocket, where it remained to the day of his death, and then was found.
Finding the King wholly given over to their devotion, they delivered unto him a scroll containing the names of such as they, in their inquisition, deemed heretics.
I caught up the scroll which bore England's signature, and with one clutch cast it in two pieces on the floor.
When they read the fatal parchment, the scroll fell from their trembling hands.
It was filled with the smoke of perfumes; squares and circles and various diagrams were described upon the floor, and the astrologer was poring over a scroll of parchment, covered with cabalistic characters.
It is used on scroll designs as well as to outline a simple floral pattern.
The scroll lines or stems of a conventional shirtwaist design are more dainty when made in Bermuda fagotting.
At the door on the right she gives the Valet a scrollwith which he advances.
And he held out the Scroll lengthwise, showing the gilded metal chain and the pointer and the bells contorted by the lightning.
It was but a moment since he had taken the Holy Scroll into his arms; but it seemed ages ago.
Ye adorn His Scroll with bells and chains, and the gilded metal but draws His lightnings.
They were too poor to afford luxuries; and so this single Scroll was the very symbol and seal of their brotherhood; in it lay the very possibility of their existence as a congregation.
Why was he not there to have the sacred duty of carrying the Scroll entrusted to him?
But Moshe Grinwitz laughed a wild, maniacal laugh, and whirled the sacredScroll round and dashed the first comers against one another.
He hurled theScroll at the child's head, but the lad just then took the three backward steps which accompany the conclusion of the prayer.
But we have noScroll of the Law," Brum said, speaking at last, and to the point.
The sneering hunchback took the Holy Scroll from the nerveless hands of the Lithuanian, and waved it as in derision.
For the Scroll of Judgment is written and the Book of Life is all but closed.
The Scroll dashed itself against the wall; the stranger was gone and with him Moshe Grinwitz.
Sometimes these were ornamented with scroll work or floral forms, but finally many of them degenerated into floral devices that bore slight resemblance to columns, and in other rugs they have entirely disappeared.
Even when the central medallions and corner figures are of frets or stiffly conventionalised dragons, the fields are often covered with delicate scroll or foliate sub-patterns that support floral forms resembling the lotus or the peony.
The scroll and floral patterns appear on the field in isolated figures, or else imitate with more formal drawing the diaper pattern of some Iranian carpets.
In a few pieces, the stripe has a well-balanced scroll which has been developed from designs of conventionalised dragons and frets that appear in the central medallion and in the corners of the field.
The graceful scroll in the middle was also probably derived from dragon forms.
When a scroll becomes too large for easy handling it may be retired and stored with one of the family members and a note added to the next scroll stating where the preceding scroll is stored.
Family History Scroll The extended family's history scroll is shipped from one relative to another in a mailing tube.