Quoth Ali bin Bakkar, "It was bruited abroad that I was ill and my comrades heard the report; and I have no strength to rise and walk so as to give him the lie who noised abroad my sickness, but continue lying strown here as thou seest.
The servants hastened to admit him and walked before him till they had brought him to their master, whom he found strown upon his bed.
Richly mature, upon the bed of joy Strown with crushed flowers, Florise bends lovingly Her heavy-lidded great eyes o'er the boy Whom she has made man ere his puberty.
Skilful the rune of symbols to unravel, And mute avowals hearkened unawares, Before the light from lips of flowers fares With chosen petals I have strown the gravel.
Upon the sand these flowers that I have strown My foot has crushed them down with cruel force, And I am kneeling near the mirroring source, Where I have sought her mouth and kissed mine own.
Dainty frost crystals were plentifully strown over the dwarfed bushes by the roadside, and a film of glittering ice with jagged sides reached out from the banks of a little brook near by.
The poor skipper's wardrobe was first explored; his chests of clothes being capsized, and their contents strown about the cabin floor.
Many of her old planks were twice wrecked; once strown upon ocean's beach; now dropped into its lowermost vaults, with the bones of drowned ships and drowned men.
Before us rises a rocky hill, which we know at once to be the Acropolis, as it is strown with ruins, and crowned with the columns of a great temple, which can be no other than the Parthenon.
It is sad to see these great blocks of Pentelican marble, that had been so perfectly fashioned and chiselled, now strown over the summit of the hill.
My steps are not alone In these bright walks; the sweet southwest, at play, Flies, rustling, where the painted leaves are strown Along the winding way.
XCIV He seeks the paladin, now here now there, Echoing his name as loud as he can shout; And thitherward inclines his courser, where The bodies are most thickly strown about.
They lead him into the chamber where lay King Fisherman, and it seemed as it were all strown and sprinkled of balm, and it was all strown with green herbs and reeds.
The sun shone through the windows everywhere amidst the hall that was strown of flowers and rushes and sweet herbs and gave out a smell like as had it been sprinkled of balm.
Lancelot found the palace all strown with rushes and hung about with curtains of rich cloths of silk, and the lords of the city all apparelled to do him homage.
But none may vie With Daphnis; and a rush-strown bed is mine Near a cool rill, where carpeted I lie On fair white goatskins.
Nor strown all idly o'er his sumptuous halls Lie piles that seem the work of labouring ants.
Strown over with cinders, the vitreous marl seemed tumbled together, as if belched from a volcano's throat.
She looked it all; and the books that were strown about her apartment, and the little inkstand that stood upon the table beside the chair on which she sat, appeared by no means displaced, even although I saw them in a Turkish harem.
So I made for it and dismounted my party in that place and I glanced at the tent but we found none therein, whereupon I went forwards and entered it and saw a babe new-born strown upon his back and sucking his fingers.
When behold, a handmaid of the handmaidens entered the room wherein lay the Kazi's daughter and finding her strown upon her bed looked upon her and recognised her.
On such wise were the wife's doings; but as regards what befel the Barber-man, he ceased not to remain strown on the ground and dazed by the stress of the blow and he abode there pinioned for a while.
So they summoned for her Sages and leaches of whom none could understand her ailment and she abode for a while of time strown upon her couch.
FN#425] Thou shalt find me there strown upon the ground and dressed in all the best of my clothes and finest ornaments.
With me along some Strip of Herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known, And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne.
With me along the strip of Herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot-- And Peace to Mahmud on his golden Throne!
The smell of the sweet sedges with which the room had been newly strown was pleasant and cool, and a little chill breeze came in from the window with the moonlight.
The princess dreams that she is to be wedded, and that even before the altar her bridal robes grow black and the flowers of her wreath fall withered, while the strown blooms under her feet turn to ashes on her path.
The quivering memories of love's fair birth Now strown as deathless flowers o'er its decease!
Magnolia seeds like Indian beads are strown From crimson pods along the earth's sere floor-- Autumn's near.
After a violent storm on the night of the 2nd of September in that year, the surface of the ground in the Orkney Islands was found strownwith volcanic dust.
The whole island was strown with volcanic ashes, which, where they did not smother the grass outright, gave it a poisonous taint.
The dust and ashes thrown into the air darkened the sun; and they were then strown over the surface of the island, destroying all the pastures, so that many thousands of cattle, horses, and sheep perished.
The ground is consequently strownwith numerous skeletons.
The surface of the ground is very uneven, being strown with huge stones and masses of volcanic rock, and it sounds hollow under the tramp of the foot.
But, Leofric, the high festival is strownby the servant of God upon the heart of man.
Altars must be strown with broken minds, and incense rise amid abject aspirations.
Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.
These now the lonesome Muse, Low-whispering, lead into their leaf-strown walks, And give the season in its latest view.
Watches, jewelry, and other articles of value should be strown promiscuously about, while one of the bandits is seen kneeling over it with a heavy watch and chain in his hand.
The floor is strown with small boxes, to give it an uneven appearance, and covered with buffalo robes.
Cannon, muskets, drums, and swords should be strown carelessly on the stage, while a small quantity of smoke must be made to hover over the scene, and the booming of cannon imitated in the distance.
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