In obedience to what appears to be a hard-and-fast law of the hills, the top of each is shorn evenly across, leaving a flat and level summit.
Indeed, the beach of Pocitos or the sands of Ramirez shorn of their female adornment would be too terrible a disaster to contemplate even on the part of the most hardened Oriental.
Heap up a tomb, and place upon it remembrances of me, and let my sister offer tears and her shorn locks upon my sepulchre.
For see, how she hasshorn off the extremities of her hair, in order to preserve her beauty; but she is the same woman she always was.
But, for from one woe springs a second, I behold thee having thy head shorn of its locks, and these sable garments; alas me!
And thou hast been shorn of thy crown of turrets, and thou hast been discolored by the dismal blackness of smoke; hapless city, no longer shall I tread my steps in thee.
It was indecent to see a countenance so wearily unguarded, shorn of all protective aggression.
The fields are reaped and shorn of their pride, but an inward verdure still crowns them.
Already the banks and the distant meadows wore a sober and deepened tinge, for the September air had shorn them of their summer's pride.
And now the cold autumnal dews are seen To cobweb ev'ry green; And by the low-shorn rowens doth appear The fast-declining year.
The German chiefs, deprived of their rank and power, were shorn of their locks as a mark of degradation and loss of strength.
The surgeons, indignant at this protection, had recourse to the medical faculty, supplicating them to have the barbers shorn of their rising dignity.
Alexander, not satisfied with this testimony of grief, ordered the very battlements of a city to be knocked down, that the town might look bald and shorn of its beauty.
And there was always the other great dread--of himself becoming dimmed and forever ray-shorn in her eyes.
Dorothea drove along between the berried hedgerows and the shorn corn-fields, not seeing or hearing anything around.
The fall and the lake and the glacier were almost equally bare; while the scraggy pines anchored in the rock-fissures were so dwarfed and shorn by storm-winds that you might walk over their tops.
The plumes may be shornoff the helmet, and it may be easily dinted, but the head that wore it will be unharmed.
The tree planted in the shrubbery will grow all lopsided; the bushes on the edge of the cliff will be shorn away on the windward side by the teeth of the south-western gale, and will lean over northwards, on the side of least resistance.
Thousands of mountain torrents, the beginnings of destructive floods, are thus checked, absorbed and shorn of their disintegrating energies.
Because, under the beneficent reign of co-operative equality, money, shorn of its power, would only be valued for its use.
And then he thought of what he had done himself, how he had shorn down his great subjects until, instead of being like a tree among saplings, he had been alone, far above all others, with his shadow covering the whole land.
He sprang forward, and sent in a thrust which might have found its way to Dalbert's heart had the heavy sabre of a dragoon not descended from the side and shorn his more delicate weapon short off close to the hilt.
Though thus shorn of her colonial possessions in all quarters of the globe, France managed to hold in Europe the provinces won for her by the wars and the diplomacy of Louis XIV.
In a word, Russia regained everything she had lost in the Crimean struggle, while Turkey was shorn of half her European possessions.
Jerusalem thus became again the centre of the old Hebrew worship, and, although shorn of national glory, continued to be the sacred centre of the ancient faith till the second generation after Christ.
The woods of our country are shorn of their leaves, as Grecian maidens formerly sacrificed their tresses at the tombs of their dear ones.
The sun, shorn of his rays, resembled a blood-shot eye, and the whole sky near him seemed like a lake of blood.
The first of them was Jason, and he swung along with his long stride and his shorn head thrown back and his pallid face held up.
They say the wind is tempered to the shorn sheep, Greeba," said he, and laughed.
And some of these would sell outright to him, and then go straightway to the stores to buy filigree jewelry and rings, or bright-hued shawls, with the price of their golden locks shorn off.
Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength, And no muscle I move As I lie at full length-- But no matter!
Ragon makes Hiram a symbol of the sun shorn of its vivifying rays and fructifying power by the three winter months, and its restoration to generative heat by the season of spring.
Ragon thinks that it is a symbol of the sun shorn of its vigor by the three winter months, and restored to generative power by the spring.
Know, O my lady, that the cause of my beard being shorn and my eye being out-torn was as follows.
One is a monocular, another palsied, a third stone-blind, a fourth cropped of ears and nose and a fifth shorn of both lips, while the sixth is a hunchback and a cripple.
The Established Church, cowed andshorn of its splendor, was treated with surly contempt; the Catholics were altogether beyond the pale of charity.
Like lava rolled thy stream of blood, And swept down empires with its flood; Earth rocked beneath thee to her base, As thou didst lighten through all space; And the shorn Sun grew dim in air, And set while thou wert dwelling there.
But he whose inmost heart is shorn Needs not the shaven head to save him.
Though head be shorn and face be shorn, The heart unshorn, why should man shave him?
You must never mind what I say," I continue, dragging my wicker chair along the shortly-shorn sward a little nearer to him.
In spite of the proceedings of his opponents, it is evident that the abolition of the Protectorate had not shorn Gloucester of all his power.
