De Gubernatis tells us that among the Fins the Sorb is specially reverenced above all trees.
In Teutonic mythology the sorb is supposed to take the form of a lily or white rose, and, on the chairs of those about to die, one or other of these flowers is placed by unseen hands.
In Iceland there was a pretty superstition to the effect that, when an innocent person was put to death, a sorb or mountain ash would spring over their grave.
When he removed it, Maskull observed that the sorb was transformed into twin membranes like Spadevil's own.
Spadevil pressed his hand on her sorb and kept it there for a few minutes, while he closed his own eyes.
The third eye was on his forehead, where the old sorb had been.
She stood upright, and her sorb suddenly blazed with fire.
He possessed neither a sorb nor a third arm--so presumably he was not a native of Ifdawn.
The arm gave him at once a sense of greater physical security, but with the sorb he was obliged to experiment, before he could grasp its function.
I name him Count of the Sorb Mark, in the stead of my slain Grey Wolf.
That you will know shortly, when Worad comes faring to the Sorb Mark.
It is five and twenty years since, in the land beyond the Sorb country, the Wend chief's daughter cut free the withes which bound me, and fled away at my side.
Not until they reached the banks of the Saale did the vikings come upon the Grey Wolf's lair,--a great fenced camp on the farthermost border of the Sorb Mark.
In giving it to him again, he, Karl, had meant nothing against his Dane hawk, but thought to honor him by sending him into the Sorb Mark, where there was need of his sword.
I pledge the host in the black mead," said Rudulf, as a Sorb thrall handed him the drink.
Neither Sorb nor Saxon; yet the old wolf will not fare far from his mark.
Messengers had come from Casseneuil with confirmation of the queen's good health, and the welcome tidings that old Rudulf, the Grey Wolf, had come leaping out of the Sorb Mark in the nick of time, to save Fulda from the ravaging Saxons.
What of your fellows in the Sorb Mark,--Count Rudulf?
I have broken the backs of two Saxon and three Sorb champions, and my strength is still with me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: absorb; assimilate; blot; digest; drink; engross; imbibe; infiltrate; percolate; sorb; sponge
