So spake he and leapt upon the plain, and on this side Stilicho scattered the enemy bands in broadcast flight and on that Mars; alike the twain in accoutrement and stature.
Germania cuncta feratur Page 125 let the bays of Mauretania deck chariots twain and one house triumph thus many times over one race.
Could any nation, could the combined forces of Rhine and Danube have stood against you twain allied?
Descending from the river’s source to where it splits in twain and to the marshes that connect its mouths he flashed his lightning way.
Anon each of the two was ordered to revisit his own country and convey his consort and his children; and the twain disappeared for the space of a year and a month and at length returned to the young King.
As soon as it was morning the twain farewelled each other and either of them went his own way; but, the Khwajah fell into cark and care such as cannot be conceived, and he fasted from food nor was meat to him sweet nor was sleep.
I weep for Time endured not to us twain * As though Time's honour did not oft betray.
Presently the twain fell to conversing, she and he; and she soothed him with sweet speech, whilst he went clean out of his mind for the excess of her beauty and loveliness.
And presently the marriage-tie was tied between these twain and he went in unto the bride and she tarried with him a while of time even half a year or may be seven months.
And they agreed to this condition, unknowing the decree of Allah which was preparing to punish the twain for their abandoned wantonness.
Presently she began to send him messages and letters and he to do on like guise, yet could neither win possession of other nor indeed could the twain meet privately in one place.
But Mohsin knew not that had been doomed for him by his companion Musa the Misdoer, so the twain would fare together and feed together.
After which she presented the twain with sumptuous gifts and they took their maidens and with them went their ways.
The king and his counselors stared at the twain as they conversed, but did not interrupt.
Each of the precious twain had a language of his own, so they compromised on very broken English.
A Mark Twain autograph letter brought $43 yesterday at the auction by the Merwin-Clayton Company of the library and correspondence of the late Thomas Nast, cartoonist.
It said, "If Mark Twaindying send five hundred words.
I pray that if the cholera must come, It will not touch my Grace who is so dear; But that we twain may at the altar stand, And outlive many a trouble in the air, And gather many a day of happiness and peace.
The twain are sharply differentiated, and one of the objects of the painter seems to have been to show us how far one human being may be removed from another.
We meet specimens of the silent kind on a Thames back-water--the punt drawn up under the shady bank with the twain lying side by side, their arms about each other all the afternoon.
I have often wondered if the estrangement of the twain so noticeable in English literature is not the origin of this strange belief that bodily love is part of our lower nature.
True it is that Dickens and Wilkie Collins were joint authors of 'No Thorofare,' and that Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner were joint authors of the 'Gilded Age.
In the former case we have the blind leading the blind, and the most lamentable example of this is the long forgotten 'Ah Sin,' which Bret Harte and Mark Twain combined to compose that C.
Antwerp the German burnt; and Prussias twain Bowed to the yoke.
Oh, were I a capitana, Or sultana, Amber should be always mixt In my bath of jewelled stone, Near my throne, Griffins twain of gold betwixt.
Her masts were also destroyed, the fore and mizzen masts being carried away from their steppings, and the main-mast broken completely in twain just above the cross-trees.
Nor did the widow in her solitude desert the spot where her loved ones had dwelt with her, and where the dearest of the twain now slept his last long sleep, and all her plaints awaked him not, and he of husbands the most faithful during life.
Nor to any after urgency, even in free convivial hours, would the twain ever disclose the full secrets of the belfry.
So much for what Mark Twain actually accomplished.
Mark Twain had found his cue, incredible as it must have seemed in that shiftless half-world of the Mississippi, and he was following it for dear life.
There was little criticism in their careless judgments, but how was Mark Twain to know that?
These circumstances, I say, compelled Mark Twain to make terms with public opinion.
Why, then, did Mark Twain look back upon it with such a unique satisfaction?
How was Mark Twain to set himself up as a heretic, he who had involved himself over head and ears in the whole complex of popular commercial life, he who was himself one of the big fish in the golden torrent?
Huck's illiteracy, Huck's disreputableness and general outrageousness are so many shields behind which Mark Twain can let all the cats out of the bag with impunity.
And now, behold the burgeoning, the efflorescence of the Mark Twain that all America knew!
What, is this Mark Twain speaking, the creator of Huck and Tom, who gladly broke every law of the tribe to protect and rescue Nigger Jim?
It was a fortunate thing that Mark Twain did not attempt to dwell upon it: he would have had his task showing in detail how the fair and virginal Laura became the "consummate artist in passion" he says she did!
Mark Twain had curled himself up in the big armchair, and I was smoking reverently, as befits one in the presence of his superior.
A friendly policeman volunteered the news that he had seen Twain or "some one very like him" driving a buggy the day before.
Take the case of Sir Walter Scott's novels," Mark Twain continued, turning to me.
What I saw with the greatest clearness was Mark Twain being forced to fight for the simple proposition that a man has as much right to the work of his brains (think of the heresy of it!
The idea of chasing half a dozen relatives in addition to Mark Twain up and down a city of thirty thousand inhabitants kept me awake.
I will not abandon your body for the Lyakhs to make merry over you, and cut your body in twain and fling it into the water.
Mark Twain was a great creative genius because he saw himself, and so saw human nature, in the strong, searching light of the living present.
At a banquet some years ago, Mark Twain aptly described at length his experiences as a printer's apprentice.
It proclaims Mark Twain not only as a supreme artist, but also as eminently and distinctively a moralist.
Some years ago a group of Mark Twain's friends, in a spirit of fun, addressed a letter to: MARK TWAIN GOD KNOWS WHERE.
Although not generally recognized, it is undoubtedly true that Mark Twain was a wit as well as a humorist.
Mark Twain spoke his mind with utter disregard for other people's opinions, the dicta of criticism or the authoritative judgment of the schools.
Mark Twain wanted to point out the absurdity of taking the allegories and the figurative language of the Bible literally.
But Mark Twain was capable of wit, pure and unadulterated, curt and concise.
Mark Twain became a great international figure, not because he was an American, paradoxical and unpatriotic as that may sound, but because he was America's greatest cosmopolitan.
This first phase of the life of Mark Twain has been so strongly stressed here, because the first half of his life has always seemed to me to have been a period of--shall I say?
The third act for which I have always felt deeply grateful to Mark Twain is the apparently little known, yet beautiful and significant story entitled 'Was it Heaven or Hell?
As Mark Twain first heard it, this story was a solemn recital of an interesting incident in the life of Angel's Camp.
When he had been dragged up on the shingle, the line parted, broken intwain at the knot; but it had lasted just long enough, during three exciting minutes.
The heralds led the twain a little way from the judges’ stand, and set them ten paces asunder and in sight of all the thousands.
So hand in hand thetwain went to the bronze portal of the Temple.
Praise we Poseidon the mighty, the monarch, Shaker of earth and the harvestless sea; King of wide Ægæ and Helicon gladsome Twain are the honours high Zeus sheds on thee!
Ladies, in the truth, for the twain had little in common with the ogling village maids, and whispers were soon busy with them.
Hands clasped heartily as the twainstood face to face.
But even while the woman’s flesh crept back at his impure kiss, a giant power came rending the twain apart.
The twain shot up the track elbow to elbow, and into the rope.
Thus the twain went forward, Glaucon saying not a word.
It is probable that this symbolised the moon, and that the second dancer represented the sun, the twain standing for the Heavenly Pair, or the Powers of Day and Night.
But twain there were mickle, unlike to the others; the one drew toward France, the other toward Ireland.
The Cabiri are often equated with the Dioscuri or Great Pair, and these Twain were not infrequently expressed symbolically by Twin circles.
In Cowper's Task occur the lines:-- United yet divided twain at once So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.
We have noted the tradition at Brentford of Two Kings "united yet divided twain at once," yet there is also an extant ballad which commences-- The noble king of Brentford Was old and very sick.
One of these twain exclaimed "Would to God I had milk to foster thee withal," and these words thus said her paps immediately rose and grew up filled with milk.
That it cried how true a twain Seemeth this concordant one!
So they lov'd, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none: Number there in love was slain.
There are none of those save ourselves who know which of you twain is the first-born and which the youngest.
He has proved his loyalty in many ways ere this, and he is to be trusted, as one day I hope you twain may be.
But, Paul, Mathias rejoined, if I understand thee rightly, there are now two Gods, and our hope is that in time to come thetwain may turn to one.
And the twain began to wrangle so that Joseph thought they would never end, so prolix was Philip in his explanations.
The twain strayed together whither there was scarce foothold for either, and the brethren said as they watched them: if Cæsar were to miss his footing and fall over the edge, the last link would be broken and Jesus would go over after him.
If my sheep were poor, thy interpretations of the Scriptures are poorer still, Amos said, and the twain fell to quarrelling apart, while the brethren took counsel together.
And the twain fell to discussing their several cures for scab.
The twain escaped from the multitude, Jacob interjected.
The twain spoke of the new procurator till Joseph mounted his mule.
The twain have missed our trail, Joseph said, and had there been more we might have had to abandon our asses.
To others it is often a puzzle past understanding because so many of the friends of each of the twain "would have chosen so differently, you know.
There may be a separate account on either side of the gifts of inheritance or savings preceding the marriage, but after the twain are one in home-building they may justly be one in a common treasury.
Here is where the social wisdom that in some manner essays to make the twain to be later one a part of the same or a very similar social group, shows its finest results.
Purchase, which kept the twain together in nearness to one or the other side of the family line, was usually best for women; especially when, as often happened, it gave her the protection of her own blood relations.
The interminable trees seemed to vex the duke's spirit, as their trunks crowded the winding track and seemed to shut in the twain as with a never ending barrier.
As the duke and his companion approached, the twain watched them with a peculiar, hard-eyed intentness, glanced at each other, and smiled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
