In gentle sonnets he for Laura pined, Soft as the murmurs of a weeping spring, Which ruthless she did as those murmurs mind: So, ere their death, sickswans unheeded sing.
As she was led to the scaffold, she placed the shirts upon her arm, and just as she had mounted it, and the fire was about to be kindled, she looked around, and saw six Swans come flying through the air.
Just as the sun was setting, she heard a rustling, and saw six white Swans come flying in at the window.
THE SIX SWANS A King was once hunting in a large wood, and pursued his game so hotly that none of his courtiers could follow him.
I was planning a most interesting scene of the book on which I am now engaged, and the swans are a great help.
The swans were eating from her hand, and she was stroking their curved necks.
Alice was playing with the fishes and the swans in the garden, and the husband and wife were sitting by an open window, gazing out upon the city.
As his occupation seemed to be throwing bread crumbs to the swans in the water, the King and his companion concluded that here, at last, they had discovered one of the idle rich, whom they still had in their own country.
Companies of Swans from time to time may be observed, usually consisting of Whoopers, and much more rarely of Bewick's Swans.
Then in winter not a few shyer and rarer birds are attracted to these open sheets of water, Ducks and Geese and even Wild Swans paying them visits as they roam about the country.
There were three swans close to the edge of the water, and the bows twanged almost together.
Raising his head cautiously he saw before him a sheet of shallow water; this was absolutely covered with geese, a few swans being seen here and there.
Farther out flocks of black ducks were feeding, while two or three pairs of swans passed overhead going north.
Our next step was to drive the swans away from the loch they were on; it seemed a curious way of getting a shot, but as the old man seemed confident of the success of his plan, I very submissively acted according to his orders.
The birds were slow in rising, so without pulling the other trigger, I put on another cap, and standing up, fired right and left at two of the largest swans as they rose from the loch.
Beyond, in the bend of a river, two swans float on its tranquil surface: a tall oak sapling rises straight and firm, and over all rests a clear blue sky.
Then banian trees bent their long drooping branches over the boat, black swans floated on the water, and the strangest animals and flowers appeared on the shore.
And when the swans that were the children of Lir shall hear the first sound of these bells, they shall have their human shape again, and then they shall be happy forever.
The four white swansflew to Loch Derg, and there for many years they swam on the lake, and fed and slept among the rushes along the shores.
Then the King and his people, and Lir and his people, went back to their castles, and they never saw the four whiteswans again.
But the King and all the court rode in chariots to the lake where the white swans were, and Lir and all his people came there, too, when they heard what had been done.
And so the word of the Druid came to pass, that when the strange men should ring their bells the children of Lir should be swans no longer, and should be happy forever.
But the time came when the enchantment that was upon them compelled the four white swans to leave the place.
It gave the poor swans only a little ache at the heart, for they were past hope now.
And as soon as they were on shore their form of swans was gone.
They had been swans so long now that it did not seem to them that they had ever been anything else.
The babySwans or Cygnets are first covered with a grey down, soft and fine like the yellow down of Goslings.
In the lagoon swans were swimming and arching their long necks.
For a long time we sat in front of the lagoon where the swans were silently floating and, and the Palace of Fine Arts was reproduced with a deeper mystery.
Out of the dim marsh-water Glided as in a dream The still swans down a distance Of moonbeam.
Only the swans could tell us, In southward flight?
In consternation, King Eochaid and his warriors hurried without the palace; and there, on looking up, they saw two white swans flying over Tara, bound together by a golden chain.
When the November Day arrived, Oengus went to the lake, and, seeing the swans and recognizing Caer, plunged into the water and instantly became a swan with her.
She rides upon her little boat, Her swans swim through the starry sheen, Rowing her into Fairyland-- The lovely-eyed Evangeline.
As might the unrippled pool reply, Faltering an answer far and sweet, Three swans as white as mountain snow Swim mantling to her feet.
When she approached the brink the swans moved slowly away.
Her eyes wandered along the smooth wide drive, down to the placid water crossed by the great ornamental bridge, the island where she had watched the swans floating last night--all these things were hers.
Through the shadows of the darkening island two swans floated softly, leaving behind slight silver lines; above, the swallows flew high in the evening.
But do you think the swans belong to them or to us?
A faint struggle, a faint cry, and then nothing--nothing but the whiteness of the swans moving through the sultry night slowly towards the island.
Then I knew that he liked me, for when I told him I was going to feed the swans, he said he loved swans and begged to be allowed to come too.
The swans had tried to drag him and Montmorency out of the boat and drown them; and he had defended himself like a hero for four hours, and had killed the lot, and they had all paddled away to die.
What were the real facts about these swanswe never found out.
SWANS NIGHT is over the park, and a few brave stars Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold, The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.
Immediately below them was a lake just like a lake in "The Beauties of Italy" a lake with swans and an island and weeping willows; beyond it were green slopes dotted with groves of trees, and amid the trees gleamed the white limbs of statues.
At the summer palace, there's a pond with swans swimming about in it," said she, but still received no answer.
Kemoc had again begun to ring his matin-bell, and the fourswans crouched low, listening to its strange music.
Nothing the four swans had ever suffered was like unto what they suffered at this time.
But these swans proved as tantalising as the wind-shadows on the grass which so often he chased, and suddenly in a flash they disappeared altogether.
Amid the noise of the waves, and behind the screaming of the wind, the four weary rain-drenched bewildered swanscould hear the crashing of the thunder and see the wild fitful blue glare of savage lightnings.
The Tale of the Four White Swans The story that I will tell you now is one of the most famous among all the peoples of the Gael.
No longer could they be cheered as they were on Lough Darvra, and often and often they lamented that their doom could not have permitted them to remain as swans indeed, but as swans on that now dear and home-sweet inland sea of Darvra.
The Milesians in the south agreed to a long truce of three hundred years; and came and dwelt in amity with the Dedannans, for they too loved the sweet and wonderful music of the white swans that were the children of Lir.
These St. Kemoc put upon Fionula and Aed and upon Fiachra and Conn, to show that they were now bondagers to Christ, for all that they were still swans and under the doom of the spell of Aeifa.
Thither, accordingly, the four swans flew on the morrow.
With each Spring they saw the great solanders and wild swans flying northward towards the polar seas: thence, at the first days of winter, they saw them again flying southward, athirst for the thin blue wine of unfrozen seas.
After nightfall the wild swans were silent, for all were heavy with the strangeness of this man, who was not like unto any Dedannan or even a Milesian, and who prayed on his knees, and supplicated a god set beyond the stars.
The Tale of the Four White Swans “The cold and cruel fate that overtook The children of the great De Danann, Lir, Is of the Sorrow-stories of our isle.
The Abbe Arnaud carefully observed two wild swans which sought refuge on the waters of Chantilly, more particularly, as regarded their cries.
After they had been sitting about six weeks, I observed to my servant, who had charge of them and the other water-fowl, that it was about the time for the swans to hatch.
I need only say, that this is a popular fallacy, asswans regularly hatch after sitting six weeks, whether there happens to be a thunder-storm or not.
What are the earliest notices of the usage of swearing by swans and pheasants?
Perhaps this is the reason whyswans are said to be hatched during a thunder-storm.
She strove to keep out of her mind its symmetrical walls, its stone basins, where the swans floated like white china ornaments, almost as lifeless.
Both were trembling, and while the swans floated by, they considered the depth of blue contained in the sky.
How peaceful the cattle are in the meadow, and the swans in the pond.
It seemed strange that at such a moment the serene swans should float about them, that the water-fowl should move in and out of the reeds, and that the green park and the cloudless sky were like painted paper.
He led her through the shrubbery and through the wicket into the meadows which lay under the terrace, and, thinking of the dead woman, she wondered at the strange, somnolent life of the cattle in the meadows and the swans on the pond.
It was a fearful journey, for that water was deep and black, and in it live strange people and great animals which might reach up and seize a person and pull him down under the water; yet the swans carried Scarface safely to the other side.
Two swans came swimming up to the shore and said to him, "Why have you come here?
And if Juliet had not leaned the other way so as to balance you, we might all have been in the water, and the swans would have got you, and you might never have seen Littlebourne Eyot again.
Emily gave a shriek, and threw herself to the further side of the boat, in terror lest the swans should strike her or peck at her.
There were some swans lying among the withies and rushes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
