The fairest of the Valkyrias has come to bear me upward--do you see her swan wings?
While thinking of the swan notes, he fell asleep, but they haunted his dreams.
Thus a citizen was ruinously fined by that court because, in an altercation with an insolent waterman, who wished to impose upon him, he deridingly called the swan on his badge a "goose.
A swan was there, Beside a sluggish stream among the reeds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley was therefore born in the purple of the English squirearchy; but never assuredly did the old tale of the swan hatched with the hen's brood of ducklings receive a more emphatic illustration than in this case.
Swan lake and other ponds on the Wichita reservation; eaten by the Indians.
Whether this poem be of that number, is left to the judgment of the swan who has preserved it; and, though I can claim little from his justice, I may presume to value myself upon his charity.
I should think that he would have wanted to have that swan in heaven with him," said Mr. Maxwell.
On the land a wild swan when winged makes such good way, that if he gets much start it requires good running, to overtake him.
Handsome as he is, the wild swan is certainly not so graceful on the water as a tame one.
It is totally impossible to follow our author through any thing like his range of subjects, extending from the hart to the seal and otter, from the eagle and wild swan to the ouzel.
I had to send Effie Swan and Theresa Dawson to put things in order again.
Everybody seems to take up so much more room than usual to-day," declared Patsie, flinging out a long arm with a floral garland, and hitting Effie Swan by accident in the eye.
Effie Swan wondered you never asked her to play when you asked Theresa Dawson.
A few hundred yards on you stop to inspect the spring which rises in the garden of the Swan Hotel.
But after a time the male swan got tired of the game; his patience was exhausted.
Talking of rare birds, I shall never forget seeing a wild swan come sailing up the Coln during a very hard frost two years ago.
A swan drifted lazily backwards with the tide, searching for something in the back of its neck.
Quietly he pushed off the boat; but on the Island a swan heard them and flew away with a startling clatter, looking very large against the stars.
Coming, sir," cried Mrs. Bantam, hurrying in with the almost imperceptible bustle of a swan pressed for time.
John Jacob Astor, and John Swan used to sit at their oyster dinner consisting of oysters raw, stewed, roasted in the shell, and broiled, is still preserved.
In the construction of the ship, the outline of the swan is followed as nearly as possible.
After much consideration on the part of our scientific men, the form of the swan was successfully adopted as best fitted for sea-going ships.
Then, with all the speed of its rush, the wild whiteswan flashed down like lightning into the sea behind the ship.
At the view of them the Wanderer caught his bow eagerly into his hand and set an arrow on the string, and, taking a careful aim at the white wedge of birds, he shot a wild swan through the breast as it swept high over the mast.
Time was my wings were my delight, Time was I made a lovely sight; 'Twas when I was a swan snow-white.
With song I seek my fate to cheer, As doth the swan when death draws near; Youth's roses from my cheeks retire, My heart is worn with fond desire.
Now the captain of the Black Swanpushed himself forward.
To the surprise of the people on the Black Swan there came no shot from the approaching pirate; but as she still bore down upon them, running before the wind, the captain of the brig lay to and lowered his flag.
The captain of the Black Swan simply bowed his head and turned away to obey orders, while Captain Ichabod stepped a little aft and began to survey the captured vessel.
I was wandering about aimlessly when, in a dirty little basin of muddy water in the Wapping corner of the docks, I suddenly came upon a white swan swimming with placid disregard of its utter incongruousness there.
In the grey morning, in that grey water, surrounded by the murk of industrialism at its ugliest, the whiteswan was as startling as a ghost.
But no, the swan was real enough; the mystery of the bugle-call was that the docks were under the shadow of the Tower of London, which relieves with its splendidly preserved Norman keep a busy quarter of London from architectural dullness.
They appear in the form of swans, and the strange attire of the wise women mentioned here refers to the so-called swan clothes which they wore and which enabled Hagen to recognize them as supernatural beings.
Tell her not to put off her journey to Buffalo, as Mr. Swan has made up his mind not to send them.
Mr. Swan was so well satisfied that he gave me fifteen dollars besides paying the telegraph company for my services.
When he reappeared at the jeweler's Mr. Swan regarded him with critical approval.
Mr. Swangets his clothes here, but he has them made to order.
Mr. Swan gave Mark some further directions, and the latter started up town on the Eighth Avenue horse cars, which he took on the lower side of the Astor House.
When Mark re-entered the jewelry store Mr. Swan advanced to meet him.
Mr. Swan never buys a cheap suit or inferior article," he said.
Mr. Swan had already been to a ticket agent and procured a through ticket for Mark.
Mr. Swan has told me I may stop over at Niagara Falls, but I shall not be very apt to do so till I am on my return.
As soon as the swan reached the land, the rat leaped off and ran away.
A swan appeared with a black spot upon its plumage, which on its nearer approach proved to be a live rat.
This day the Coat and Badge given by Mr. Dogget, will be rowed for by six young watermen, out of their apprenticeship this year, from the Old Swan at Chelsea.
This great roof in the Swan Hall has a deep and projecting classical cornice; it is divided into three equal parts, two sloping and one flat, with the slopes returned at the ends.
Passing again from the Swan Hall the way leads through the porch into the Sala das Pegas or of the magpies.
Below are four large pointed arches, and above five beautiful windows lighting the great Sala dos Cysnes or Swan Hall.
The hall is lit by five windows looking south across the entrance court to the Moorish castle on the hill beyond, and by three looking over the swan tank into the central pateo.
It is entered from the west end of the Swan Hall through a door, which was at first a window just like all the rest.
Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds--a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course--and in truth it was something very like it in that house.
Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course--and in truth it was something very like it in that house.
I can run fast," he thought, "and I can get up with the swan sometime or other.
The Red Swan has enticed many a young man, as she has you, to enlist them to procure the scalp, and whoever is so fortunate as to succeed, it is understood, will receive the Red Swan as his reward.
He passed the day in running, and although he could not see the Red Swan anywhere on the horizon, he thought that he discerned a faint red light far over in the west.
He then spoke in a language which Maidwa did not understand, the curtain of the lodge parted, and the Red Swan met his delighted gaze.
He feared that the swan must by this time have taken wing; but as he emerged from the wood, he found to his great delight the air as rosy as ever, and there sat the glorious Red Swan in her own serene and beautiful way.
This Red Swan you are following is the daughter of a magician who has abundance of everything, but only this one child, whom he values more than the sacred arrows.
Before daybreak he asked the young woman at what time the Red Swan passed, and to point out the way.
THE RED SWAN |THREE brothers were left destitute at an early age by the death of their parents.
Often has this Red Swan passed, and those who have followed it have never returned; but you must be firm in your resolution, and be prepared for all that may happen.
The magician, to the deep regret of Maidwa, never once alluded to the Red Swan in all their conferences.
The Red Swan smiled kindly on Maidwa, who advanced and greeted her.
All this time the Red Swan was carefully concealed in the lodge, behind a curtain, from which Maidwa heard now and then a rustling noise that fluttered his spirits and set his heart to beating at a wonderful rate.
