He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
Defn: A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals.
The faces of both were smeared with whiting, and the broad trident of Vishnu was drawn in red and white paint upon their foreheads.
His face was smeared with white earth, and above his nose the broad trident of Krishna was painted in white and red, covering nearly the whole of his eyebrows and forehead.
Once a year they worship Airi, a local deity, who is represented by a trident and has his temples on lonely hills and desolate tracts.
Methinks (So perfect is the Phidian stone) his sire, The sea god Neptune, hath in anger stopped The current of life, and with his trident touch Hath struck him into marble.
Pluto is generally represented as holding a trident with three prongs, and has a key in his hand, to intimate that whoever enters can never return.
He is carried by a bull, and holds in his hands a trident and a dwarf stag.
With this trident also, he shakes the world, and bids the earth to tremble.
But the principal scene in the sleeping man’s vision is Napoleon dragging to the guillotine by a halter, Britannia, whose trident is broken, as, also is her shield.
In other parts of North-Western India on the eleventh day after a death a bull calf is let loose with a trident branded on its shoulder or quarter "to become a pest.
Sometimes the bullock's right quarter is branded with a trident and the left with a discus.
They would be in plenty of time, they reckoned, to pick up the unconscious bodies when the man with the tridenthad dealt with them.
Then, by way of relaxation, they gained the king's permission to learn the mysteries and use of the trident and shield.
He had his trident with him--he had carried it every day in consequence of the warning that had been given--so what had he to fear?
It is a creature upon which neither your trident nor the strange weapons of your young friends would make more impression than upon yonder rocks!
Jack's aim was true; his bullet struck the man's right arm, and the trident flew from the hand which had grasped it.
The pistols on the sides show the profession of arms, and the naval gun in the bottom of the cup accompanied by a trident the branch to which he belongs.
Westervelt explained that he was looking at the tapes of the Trident calls, to familiarize himself with the background.
Then I realized that if it takes a twenty foot monster to wander the undersea wilds of Trident without being intimidated, maybe those waters wouldn't be too safe for Terran swimmers.
Like before, we go through Pluto, Capella VII, and an automatic relay on an outer planet of the Trident system, but you won't see anything of that.
Willie," he whispered hastily, "get on the phone and have one of the girls stop in the library and fetch me the volume of the Galatlas withTrident in it.
Trident is transmitting, and I thought you would want to be here.
Since ninety-five percent of the surface of Trident was ocean, Johnson had only a vague idea of where Harris had gone.
Bold and fierce as he was, it completely cowed him; and the boisterous, boastful prize-fighter would turn pale at the mention of a trident and a net.
He had appeared before the Roman public at different times, armed with all the various weapons of the gladiator; but the exercise in which he considered himself most perfect was that of the tridentand the net.
I ask for no weapons but the trident and the net," said Placidus, looking fixedly at Licinius.
It was his delight to figure in the arena with the deadly net laid in careful festoons upon his shoulder, and the long barbed trident quivering in his grasp, Licinius fell into the snare, if snare it was, readily enough.
It needs but a word from me to send you into the arena to-morrow, a fair prey for a clumsy tridentand a fathom or two of twine.
Sidenote: Other nations explore] Other nations eagerly crowded in to seize the trident that was falling from the hands of the Iberian peoples.
It was England's genius for the sea that enabled her to master the new conditions first and most completely and that placed the trident in her hands so firmly that no enemy has ever been able to wrest it from her.
Trident in hand, matted locks on the head, of snow-white colour, he was robed in bark and skin.
Speed your flight, and say this to your king: not to him but to me was allotted the stern trident of ocean empire.
As the figure is to advance by the help of a block and cord, it must be so managed as to prevent its turning about, till the brilliant fires on the horses and the trident begin.
Neptune he commanded to lay his trident on the rough waves and smooth out their furrows.
Look yonder, where walls and watch-towers are crashing down, as though upheaved by an earthquake, Neptune is up-prizing with his dread trident the walls that he helped to build.
This crown marine in token wear, That Ocean's realms confess thy care, And to no other would I yield The trident sceptre which I wield.
As I then had a trident fork, for sticking of the loaches, so I now had a strong ash stake, to lay across from rock to rock, and break the speed of descending.
Thereupon I sate upright, with my little trident still in one hand, and was much afraid to speak to her, being conscious of my country-brogue, lest she should cease to like me.
