M162) Again, men who have taken a vow of vengeance sometimes keep their hair unshorn till they have fulfilled their vow.
Usually this lock remains unshorn all through life, or at least up till manhood.
The envoy shewed the scissors and the sword to Clotilde, and bade her choose whether the children should be shorn and live or remain unshorn and die.
Child's hair left unshornas a refuge for its soul.
Elsewhere men travelling abroad have been in the habit of leaving their hair unshorn until their return.
Achilles kept unshorn his yellow hair, because his father had vowed to offer it to the River Sperchius if ever his son came home from the wars beyond the sea.
Hair kept unshorn on various occasions, such as a wife's pregnancy, a journey, and war.
She then leaves the child unshorntill its fourth or sixth year, when she fulfils her vow and has the child's hair cut by a priest.
His unshorn beard and sunken cheeks gave him a strangely haggard look; such that those who had known him in former days would have passed him without recognition.
The admirals barge had a rich awning, and was dressed out with carpets, on which stood a chair of state covered with unshorn crimson velvet and two cushions of the same for his feet.
Two coverlets or carpets of unshorncrimson velvet, quilted all over, having three guards of cloth of gold, that in the middle a span in width, and the others two fingers broad.
She glanced around the room at the piles of canvases against the wall, at the tin coffee pot on the wooden table, and then back at his unshorn face and shock of disorderly hair, the color rising slowly to her cheeks.
On the other hand, it cannot be left unshorn between consecutive seconds without necessitating that it should be left unshorn also beyond the grave, as well as in successive generations.
He wore a wig, it is true; but at times, when the fit was on him, he wrote like the unshorn Apollo.
This abstinence from all stimulants was a distinct sign of the Nazarite, together with the unshorn locks, and the care with which he abstained from contact with death.
We are told that Elijah was a hairy man--an expression which is quite as likely to refer to the rough garb in which he was habited, as to the unshorn locks that fell upon his shoulders.
They argue that if a man may offend by the disregard of some forms, he may as legitimately do so by the disregard of all; and they inquire--Why should he not go out to dinner in a dirty shirt, and with an unshorn chin?
The custom of keeping the hair unshorn during a dangerous expedition seems to have been observed, at least occasionally, by the Romans.
Achilles kept unshorn his yellow hair, because his father had vowed to offer it to the river Sperchius if ever his son came home from the wars beyond the sea.
Again, men who have taken a vow of vengeance sometimes keep their hair unshorn till they have fulfilled their vow.
She in the folly of her heart had set Apollo at nought, and taken another spouse without knowledge of her sire, albeit ere then she had lain with Phoibos of the unshorn hair, and bare within her the seed of a very god.
Some worthless things have become of present value, as the wayside thistles and the bejeweled grass of an unshorn meadow, that yesterday with its dun unsightliness, rustling above the snow, proclaimed the shiftlessness of its owner.
The envoy showed the scissors and the sword to Clotilde, and bade her choose whether the children should be shorn and live or remain unshorn and die.
The envoy showed the scissors and the sword to Clotilde, and bade her choose whether the children should be shorn and live, or remain unshorn and die.
The custom of keeping the hair unshorn during a dangerous expedition appears to have been observed, at least occasionally, by the Romans.
Keeping hair unshorn during a vow It was also the custom to keep the hair unshorn during the performance of a vow.
A small patch known as chench is then left unshorn on the child's head until it can be taken to the temple.
