She is a woman of marvelous magical power, and is capable of assuming any shape she pleases.
Another reference to this wheel, or mariner's box, was in the shape of the temples which were built in his honor as god of the winds.
The author of this little book has only attempted a bare outline of these great facts, and to put them in such shape that the reader may perceive their general bearing, and the sources whence they are derived.
I can change 'em all, take a handful of boys, and whip them into shape in six weeks!
The great black shape stirred at last, drew swiftly away and curved into nothingness.
When a garment of this shape is made and worn, it becomes the "pallium" donned alike by the male and female individuals consecrated to Roman worship.
In like manner, another portion of the triad was regarded as similar in shape and size to the common hen's egg.
She is offering what seems to be a lighted tobacco pipe, the bowl being of the same shape as that commonly used in Turkey; from this a wavy pyramid of flame rises.
Figures 70, 71, represent the shape of the sistrum of Isis, the fruit of the fig, and the yoni.
Such being the case, we might anticipate that the symbols of every religion would reproduce, in some shape or other, the ideal which is common to all.
Virgin goddess is seated with the God-child in a bower, exactly the shape of the Assyrian, composed of fruits highly significant of sex, as has already been explained.
The shapeof this gem indicates its dedication to Venus.
Diana of the Ephesians is depicted as having a body of the exact shape of the sistrum figured in Payne Knight's work on the remains of the worship of Priapus, etc.
The line at the central junction is not always seen, but the shape of the three parallel bars reappears in Hindoo frontlet signs in conjunction with a delta or door, shaped like the "grove" in Fig.
Others imagine that the citron is intended, whose shape makes it an emblem of the testis.
Its shape is too significant to require an explanation; yet with such emblems our Christian churches abound, that the Trinity may never be absent from the minds of man or woman!
With regard to the signification of spots, we may notice that they indicated, either by their shape or by their name, the emblem of womankind.
This stone is somewhat hemispherical, about 2 feet in diameter across the top, which is hollowed in the shape of a shallow basin or mortar.
In addition to these copper beads a number of shell beads, and also a hollow copper implement in the shape of a caulker's chisel, were found.
Some arranged their packets in the shapeof a man, decorated with strings of beads, with a fine crown of red hair.
My dear, I regard everything in the shape of mathematics with terror and disgust.
The size and shape of modern Romania is remarkably similar to the ancient country of Dacia, which was conquered by the Romans in the early second century A.
Cloth in the officers' uniforms is more closely woven and of finer texture; that in enlisted men's uniforms is warmer and more durable, but it is bulkier and does not hold its shape as well.
Cream cheese 8 halves canned peaches Mix the cream and salt with the cheese and shape into balls.
For instance, they may be merely two pieces of buttered bread put together or they may be elaborate both as to shape and contents.
Salad dressing 8 halves canned pears Mix the cream and salt with the cheese and shape into balls.
Beat them with a fork or an egg whip until they are almost stiff, that is, until they will hold their shape fairly well but will drop from the fork or whip when it is raised.
To make canapes, toast or sauté slices of bread and cut them into any shape desired.
Garnish salad plates with lettuce and serve five or six of the dates in a star shape for each serving.
After being rolled until it is the desired thickness, it is cut into pieces of any desired size and shape and baked in the oven on large flat pans.
Place these in a star shape on salad plates garnished with lettuce.
At this point, flour the molding board or other surface slightly, shape enough of the dough mixture to cover a pie pan into a rounded mass, and place it on the floured space.
Meringues, although made of a mixture similar to that used for kisses, are usually made in rather large, round, flat shapes, whereas kisses are smaller and are for the most part made in the shape of rosettes.
They are merely strips of tin bent into a particular shape and attached to a handle for convenience in using.
To make these, bake éclairs in the usual shape and set aside to cool.
Then roll the piece out with the rolling pin until it is the required thickness and cut it out in the shape desired.
In the morning, the mixture will be ready to bake in whatever shape is desirable.
Then his scruples took the shape of objections to the recent legislation requiring every resident to swear to defend the provincial charter.
In 1642 war began in England between Parliament and king, and Massachusetts was left free to shape her own destinies.
A little brown bird much the size and shape of an English sparrow seated on a shrub projecting from the briars raises his head and whistles a sound as pure and free from flaw as the little spot of white upon his throat.
At the tip of each branchlet was a pink bud, and near some of these was a little, tender thing about the shape of, though smaller, than the English sparrow's egg.
The captain of the Guardian-Mother called the attention of the company to the shape of the small bay before them, which looked exactly like a lobster's big claw.
An attempt has been in progress the last twenty years to make a harbor in the shape of an enclosure of strong walls, about half a mile square.
There was no particular shape to the structure, and certainly nothing of neatness or comeliness about it.
It contained a fort, a signal-station, and a telegraph-office, though there is nothing in the shape of a village.
The sides present a vast display of pointed arches, and its shape on the ground is quite irregular.
If a section of a single annual ring of green wood of the shape A B C D, in Fig.
Suddenly, in the olive-tinted sky just above a range of rugged peaks, a black shape loomed.
Accordingly, while Professor Henderson and his German friend went to work on the damaged motor, which did not need as much repairing as at first was thought to put it in working shape again, Jack and the two men started off to hunt for Mark.
At four o'clock the two lads had their task completed, and at the same time Professor Henderson announced that the air and water pumps were now in good shape again.
Guess they're working on it, to get it inshape for the trip, sooner than they expected," he mused.
But still, from the fight, one of the gratifications of my life came to me in the shape of the chance to help Belle.
I think I know how to shape one out of a thick wild grapevine, if I can only find the right sort.
As for Toby, he was certainly falling, but buoyed up by that stout material extended in the shape of a parachute, his descent was not nearly so rapid as it must otherwise have been.
Content thyselfe with natures bountie than, And covet not to beare the shape of man.
So may I say, because thou com'st so neere, And neerer far vnto a heauenly shape Than she of whom Ioue triumph't in the Rape.
His most goodly shape Married to royall virtues of his mind.
I lost mine owne shapeand put on a French Onely to try thy truth and the kings falshood, Both which I find.
The veryshape my vision told me off, That I should meet with as I strayed this way.
Sebastian, or some spirit Sent in his shape to fright me.
Go both, cold comfort shall you finde: My manly shape hath yet a womans minde, Prone to reveale what secret she doth know.
It was no love letter, but a document folded in the shape of a letter.
Sometimes a whole cantata takes the shape of a concerto, or of an orchestral partie; sometimes its second division is opened by a regular chamber-sonata.
Not only he must be in shape to do it, but the "Blue Streak" also.
And his Irish blue eyes twinkled with satisfaction, as he noted that just now he had never seen him in better shape for the task that lay before him.
The boat is exactly the same shapeunder water as the fast-sailing clippers for which the English and Americans have of late become famed.
We fortunately had our knives, and as the wood was hard, we could shapethem into wooden swords and sharpen the edges.
He quickly cut off a branch which he fixed on for the purpose, and as we walked along he began to shape it with his knife.
The sternum in Bombycillids is typically passerine in general shape and in having a long and deep carina or sternal crest.
The mandibles vary somewhat in the shape and proportionate size of the bones.
The shape of the pygostyle varies in the Bombycillidae, but the simple shieldlike bone of Phainoptila is judged to resemble closely the ancestral type.
In shape and location, the nest closely corresponds to that of Bombycilla, but the materials used for a base are stems of annual plants, whereas Bombycilla uses more woody twigs.
The pygostyle varies in shape and size between genera and even between some species.
By other members of the family now living these lights have been seen in the shape of balls of fire of various sizes.
According to one man it appeared in the shape of a human being with a pig's head with long tusks.
A death-warning in the shape of a white owl follows the Westropp family.
Did father scold him for mess-making, or laugh at his attempt that had little shape except in his own baby brain?
Its continuance for a couple of days will pull the nails out of shape and give the full, true, horny, hardened grip of a genuine son of toil.
Many reports I gathered of German war and other vessels of various rig and shape taking advantage of the neutral waterways; but they had all been under steam.
A huge, unwieldy shape gradually rose from the sea abaft the taffrail.
