Sometimes he would hear them planning about having a house in a forest, keeping bees and a cow, and living entirely on milk and honey.
One, even if it sometimes had a certain romantic interest, was rude and coarse; the other was the perfection of polite art and good taste.
The one law to which the poet feels bound is to have twelve cantos in each book; and to do this he is sometimes driven to what in later times has been called padding.
Sometimes he merely alters a letter or two; sometimes he twists off the head or the tail of the unfortunate vocable altogether.
This may possibly account, though it is questionable, for the looseness of texture, and the want of accuracy and finish which is sometimes to be seen in it.
Allusions to real men and events are sometimes clear, at other times evident, though they have now ceased to be intelligible to us.
He shared their nature; and he used all that he had of sensitiveness and of imaginative and creative power, in bringing out its manifold aspects, and sometimes contradictory feelings and aims.
The quaint love sometimes found among children, so quickly kindled, so superficial, so violent in its language and absurd in its plans, is transferred with the utmost gravity to the serious proceedings of the wise and good.
The women in attendance at the Temple almost invariably far outnumber the men--sometimes two to one.
An exception to this latter rule sometimes occurs when a branch of an aristocratic family does not inherit wealth, or through some misfortune becomes financially reduced, and has to take rank per force with the peasantry.
Disputes occasionally arose among the passengers, which sometimes waxed warm and developed into angry quarrels, all of which Niels noticed but never took part in.
And so it happened that while his faith in mankind sometimes wavered, his faith in the Almighty grew stronger.
Sometimes for a considerable period fortune would favor him to a limited extent, his health being such that he could search for and obtain work and accumulate a little.
In a land of plenty, surrounded by people who were amply able to help him, and who would willingly have shared with him their last meal, he lived almost like a recluse, and sometimes actually suffered for want of food.
Sometimes pride of ancestry furnished the excuse, and at other times the hope of inheritance was the incentive.
Now although the paut or company of nine gods might be expected to contain nine always, this was not the case, and the number nine thus applied is sometimes misleading.
The goddess Nut is sometimes represented as a female along whose body the sun travels, and sometimes as a cow; the tree sacred to her was the sycamore.
Graves of this period are found to be oriented either north or south, and the bodies in them usually have the head separated from the body; sometimes it is clear that the bodies have been "jointed" so that they might occupy less space.
There are several passages extant in texts in which the gods of a paut are enumerated, but the total number is sometimes ten and sometimes eleven.
In several papyri the god is seen standing up in the shrine, sometimes with and sometimeswithout the goddesses Isis and Nephthys.
IX Led by Dave, sometimes by the boy, the four followed the course of rivers, upward, always except when they descended some mountain which they had to cross, and then it was soon upward again.
The choice of expression and metaphor is sometimes such as almost to rival the achievements of Castlereagh in his happiest hour.
The general effect of the view was like that of enchantment, or like one of those indescribable scenes that sometimes visit us in dreams, the beauty of which surpasses reality.
More than once she turned to strike across some ground no foot had charted, each time unerringly to find the track upon the far side waiting to point them upward--sometimes gently, and sometimes with a sharp rise, but always upward.
Sometimes they drove it: oftener the wedge stayed still where it was.
To his delight, too, Anthony and the other men showed an unexpected and eventful interest in stones and boughs and ditches and drains, and sometimes they even dragged trees along the ground for him to bark at.
And sometimes I hear a roar coming, and the trees are bent like reeds, and the wind screams to glory, and the whole world turns turtle--swings right over and round.
That Fate buffets her favourites issometimes true.
And I used to wonder sometimes what had become of him--he was a gentleman, you know.
Sometimes they do not come out regardless of the altitude at which they are flying.
Sometimes I never saw them until you had turned the plane and they were under the wing.
Sometimes he missed an unusually high tree by a fraction of an inch when he was sure that he would hit it.
Sometimes we have had to blast the snow out of the roads with dynamite to get through in June.
Even at that he sometimes went through, but he could never tell what he was liable to meet on the other side.
This wallsometimes rises to the height of a hundred and fifty feet, and sometimes sinks down to twenty.
Those I saw travelling were all of them frame-houses, that is, built wholly of wood, except the chimneys; but it is said that brick buildings are sometimes treated in the same manner.
The breakfast proceeds in sombre silence, save that sometimes a parrot, and sometimes a canary bird, ventures to utter a timid note.
The banks continue invariably flat, but a succession of planless villas, sometimes merely a residence, and sometimes surrounded by their sugar grounds and negro huts, varied the scene.
The King governed himself by her advice, and would even sometimes hold a council in her apartment.
Yet sometimes even in a dark day I have thought them as bright as I ever saw them.
Sometimes more are allowed to sleep within a room of this size; but it is a matter of necessity, or of lower sensibility, and is not healthy.
The whole tree thus ripening in advance of its fellows attains a singular preeminence, and sometimes maintains it for a week or two.
For want of experience on the part of the officers, surgeons, nurses, and men, in the management of such establishments, they are sometimes in very bad and unhealthy condition.
They expect from the army the largest expenditure of force, but sometimes give it the smallest means and poorest conditions of recuperating it.
He is sometimes short of provisions, and compelled to pass whole days in abstinence or on shore allowance.
Hence, many who offer their services to the Government are rejected, and sometimes the proportion accepted is very small.
And yet this same ungenial climate, hostile as it generally is to the long remembrance of departed people, has sometimes a lovely way of dealing with the records on certain monuments that lie horizontally in the open air.
Of this both of us tried bits of the potatoes, and sometimes mouthfuls of the meat, but it was all we could do to choke them down.
They were the outcome of various, dissimilar and sometimescontradictory impulses--political, social, racial.
Posts or columns hold up the walls and the sloping roofs, the latter made of beams with boards laid lengthwise, covered by others from ridge to eave, the intervening space forming a coffer, sometimes decorated.
The region of the east and south is a level and uniform expanse, consisting for the most part of the riverless but fertile plain of Beauce, sometimes called the "granary of France.
The archbishop of York also laid stress upon the fact that the difficulties in the way of the communion of the sick, when they are really ready for communion, are not so great as has sometimes been suggested.
Oil was sometimes offered, as well as wine, but it would seem for consecration only, and not for consumption along with the sacrament.
Its independent value is small, but it sometimes fills a gap left by the more authoritative records.
It is sometimes considered wise for the first hand to "keep the bridge," i.
With the bread, however, was sometimes consecrated cheese, e.
In morphology and physiology, sometimes one kind of unit, sometimes another, comes characteristically and notably into evidence.
According to Weismann, this is possible, because the egg contains many, sometimes as many as a hundred, ids, each of which is a combination representing the species.
Correlation exists in all the stages of the development of an organism, sometimes in one way, sometimes in another.
Generally speaking, in the case of plants not adapted to each other, no attempt at union occurs, and the grafted twig speedily perishes; sometimes even the stem dies, as if it had been poisoned by the graft.
In this category there naturally fall the multinucleated masses of protoplasm, sometimes highly organised, in which every nucleus, surrounded by a shell of protoplasm, is capable of reproducing the whole.
Sometimes they form the greater part of the body, as in many parasites, and, like the other tissues, they are subject to death, unless the conditions necessary to their further development have occurred in time.
In a wonderful fashion animals will reproduce lost parts, sometimes of most complicated structure; just as a crystal, from which a corner has been chipped, will perfect itself again when brought into a solution of its own salt.
Sometimes she gained, sometimes lost ground, yet the knight of the red harness never seemed to come within lure of her voice.
We men of the woods and moors often ride under false colours, sometimes to try our friends on the sly, sometimes to escape cognisance.
Sometimes I feel faint for sheer love of this fair earth.
She had seen few men in her time; they seemed strange beings, strong yet weak, wise yet very foolish, sometimes heroic, yet utter children.
Sometimes he saw a woman's hand, a golden head glimmering in the sun.
Sometimes she would smite a lily peevishly with her open hand, or pluck a flower and trample it under her feet as though it had wronged her.
I was to be Baron Burton of Whithyford, and I took to calling her Lady Burton, and sometimes Lady Whithyford.
Sometimes the overseer, and sometimes one of the other men, came and showed us how to use them.
We had not been idle during the time--now cruising along the coast of Spain and France, now down that of Italy, now away to Malta, sometimes off to the East among the Greek Islands.
We had to get rolling tackles set up, for sometimes it seemed as if the frigate would shake the very masts out of her.
We cruised round and about the shores of the numberless islands of those seas, sometimes taking a prize, and occasionally attacking a fort or injuring and destroying the property of our enemies whenever we could meet with it.
Sometimes thought conquers, and then fearful is their condition.
I knew enough of the world to be aware that even sensible people sometimesmarry against their convictions, and I thought it was now high time for me to interfere.
Sometimes the officers would come forward to have a look at me, and on several occasions I was invited aft to exhibit before the Captain.
They sometimes treated me with such a mixture of aversion and alarm that it was plain they doubted not only my sincerity but my sanity.
Sometimes it was so far from other houses, or any centre of congregated life, that it must have been difficult, and almost impossible, for any one residing in it to obtain the common necessaries of life.
A certain superficial nimbleness of mind he does sometimes possess, but for all that he is a dull creature, made dull by the limitations of his life.
There is a good phrase which is sometimes used about men who are members of a party, without in any way entering into its propagandist aims--we say that they 'do not play the game.
Sometimes I chided myself for my discontent; and certainly there were many who might have envied me.
Many times as I took my way to the dreary labours of my desk I stopped to watch, and sometimes to talk with, a smiling industrious little Frenchman, who repaired china and bronzes in a dingy shop in Welbeck Street.
For the preacher or teacher may indeed read the Bible through and through as much as he chooses, but he will sometimes be right and sometimes wrong, if there be no one there to judge whether he is doing it well or ill.
To settle their quarrels and to restore concord among them he had recourse sometimes to fiery and even gross language, sometimes to more diplomatic measures.
It would be superfluous to enumerate in detail the other points of theology on which he set himself to oppose the Catholic teaching he had himself in earlier days advocated, sometimes on excellent grounds.
Sometimes the devil tries to force us to sin, for “he is a servant and has his own way.
God sometimes consents to look on for a while, but afterwards He punishes the race even down to the children.
Even in our own day such mediæval thunders are still sometimes heard rumbling, particularly among the Latin races.
The narrative sometimes descends into a mere slough of barbarous names, a marish of fabulous genealogy, in which the lightest attention must take wings to be supported at all.
His imagination, which had led him on so bravely, gulled him sometimes when it came to details.
To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim--it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.
Beyond a little correspondence to write for Mr Broughton, and sometimes a little copying, he had practically nothing to do.
Sometimes a solitary crow would alight upon the hill, to devour the spoil it had carried off, in peace and undisturbed.
Lovely as are the ideals men have created for themselves, it sometimes happens that Nature presents us with a rare gem, surpassing those cold conceptions of the mind as far as the sun is above the earth.
Sometimes there were other things left in a mysterious way at the door--such as a bladder full of the finest brandy or Hollands gin, or a packet of tobacco or snuff.
The air between decks was close and confined, and there was a fetid odour which they supposed to arise from the bodies, and which forced them sometimes to run on deck to breathe.
Sometimes a hawk would linger on the edge, as it were, poising himself on his wings but a few feet above the ridge, as if glorying in defiance of the depth below.
They talked loudly of their rights, but there was the little difficulty of possession, which is sometimes a trifle more than nine points of the law.
These bulletins were received by the "caucuses," andsometimes printed in the Gazettes.
Even when the second messenger came with more exact intelligence, Merton thought--"Sometimes men lie for days with broken backs, and what does he want me for?
Sometimes a little change of scene, even a little manual exercise, will stimulate the imagination.
It was one of those days which sometimes occur in autumn, with all the beauty and warmth of summer, without its burning heat, and made still more delicious by the sensation of idle drowsiness--a day for lotos eating.
Yet it sometimeshappened that even the prisoner in his cell, by sheer self-concentration, and with the aid of the rude tools and material within his reach, produced a work which could not be surpassed.
No association can be dissolved without a likelihood of the occurrence of incidental questions concerning common property and mutual obligations--questions sometimes of a complex and intricate sort.
Nor is it true that the President and Vice-President are elected, as it is sometimes vaguely stated, by vote of the "whole people" of the Union.
Sometimes he caught her, but before he could have a word with her she would make an excuse and hurry away, or turn him over to another.
Sometimes prosperity is as fatal to friendship as adversity, and the girl tried in silence to prepare herself for any change in affection that change of fortune might have caused.
Yes, yes, Oliver knows the Comforter, and sometimes there is a message for him.
And when he told this to Cromwell, that faculty in the man which sometimes made for a rude kind of mirth, was aroused, and he burst into an uproarious enjoyment of the joke.
Sometimes if I wake in the night I smell it--I smell miles of it--and then I know my angel has been to see me, and that some good thing will tread in her footsteps.
Was this indeed the Elizabeth Cromwell she had gossiped with and sometimes quarreled with?
It was generally applied to circumstances of a melancholy or distressing character, but sometimes used to express a peculiar state of feeling, being apparently intended to convey nearly the same meaning as the ennui of the French.
He was a moralizing poet, and his morality was sometimes that of the invalid and the recluse.
The poem is written with smartness and vivacity, attains often to drollery and sometimes to genuine humor.
It issometimes helpful to reduce a great writer to his lowest term, in order to see what the prevailing bent of his genius is.
Willis's work, always graceful and sparkling, sometimes even brilliant, though light in substance and jaunty in style, had quickly raised him to the summit of popularity.
Sometimes he lectures and sometimes he preaches, and in his Saturday papers, he brought his wide reading and nice scholarship into service for the instruction of his readers.
Browning's thought never wears so thin as Tennyson's sometimes does in his latest verse, where the trick of his style goes on of itself with nothing behind it.
He dwelt {470} much in a world of ideas, and hesometimes doubted whether the tree on the bank or its image in the stream were the more real.
He is a shrewd observer, and his humor has a more satirical side than Artemus Ward's, sometimes passing into downright denunciation.
The observer saw what actually was behind the invisible cube: the checkered background, sometimes slightly distorted, but nevertheless sufficiently clear for its abnormality to escape notice.
Sometimes I played around the course with him and afterward, over a drink, we would talk.
The pilots eluded them with ease, sometimes sending a contemptuous round of machine-gun bullets in their direction, but not troubling to shoot them down.
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