Legend ran that after the slaughter of the dragon, Apollo had purged himself from the stain of blood in the romanticVale of Tempe, where the Peneus flows smoothly in a narrow defile between the lofty wooded steeps of Olympus and Ossa.
The view over the bright green pastures of the Vale when seen from the church porch is of conspicuous beauty, and the ponds that are numerous in the village help to make picturesque views from many points.
The church of Kirkdale, and what quarrying has left of the famous cave, stand just at the point where the Hodge Beck leaves its confined course and flows out into the flat levels of the Vale of Pickering.
The importance of keeping the level fields of the Vale properly drained is obvious, for a permanent obstruction might easily mean the flooding of a considerable area.
We can see the farmers of the Vale and those from the lonely dales discussing the news of the week and reading the scarce and expensive newspapers that found their way to Pickering.
But it is well that the path leads you, for there is no more any vesper-bell flinging its sweet and welcome notes far and wide over hill and vale to guide the returning wanderer through the forest.
Yet let no one trust the quiet of that river: a short space farther and the tranquil stream becomes a rushing mountain-torrent, the friendly vale grows wildly romantic, full of gloomy, mysterious beauty.
And he answered here am I And he sayde vnto him: goo and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the shepe/ and brynge me worde agayne: And sent him out of the vale of Hebron/ for to go to Sichem.
And sette their men in aray to fyghte wyth them in the vale of siddim/ that is to say/ wyth kedorlaomer the kynge of Elam and with Thydeall kynge of the Nations/ and wyth Amraphel kynge of Synear.
And as he retourned agayne from the slaughter of kedorlaomer and of the kynges that were with hym/ than came the kynge of Sodome agaynst hym vnto the vale of Saue which now is called kynges dale.
All these came together vnto the vale of siddim which is now the salt see Twelve yere were they subiecte to kinge kedorlaomer/ and in the .
Is Neckar's vale no longer fair, That German hearts are leaving?
This was the deed his spirit set and his hand would not shun, When the vale of the Shenandoah had lost the glow of the sun, And the evening cloud and the battle smoke were blending in one.
Along the vale of Bloomingdale They pressed our scant array; They swarmed the crag and jeered our flag Across the Hollow Way.
Across his path the startled deer Bounds to its shelter green; He enters every lonely vale And cavernous ravine.
The path of duty it was theirs to tread To death's dark vale through ways of travail led, And they are ours--our dead!
In every valeshe smiles serene, Freedom's bright stars more radiant rise, New charms she adds to every scene, Her brighter sun illumes our skies.
This beautiful bosom of country is called theVale of the Red Horse.
From the summit of the great central tower of the cathedral, which is reached by 237 steps, I gazed, one morning, over the vale of York and beheld one of the loveliest spectacles that ever blest the eyes of man.
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.
Every possible variety of hill and vale of beautiful slope, and undulations of land set off by velvet richness of turf and broken up by groves and forests of every outline of foliage, make the scene Arcadian.
Many feel this secret horror when they look down upon the vale of futurity and reflect that though now the idols of the world, soon all which will be left them will be the common portion of mankind--oblivion!
No fertile valley, like the vale of Siddim, could have existed in the south; no prosperous Canaanitish cities could have grown up among the desolate tracts of the southern wilderness.
The vale of Siddim, and "the cities of the plain," stood at the northern end of the Dead Sea.
Then came the battle in the vale of Siddim, which ended in the defeat of the Canaanites, the death of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrha, and the capture of abundant booty.
Leaving Jerusalem on their left, they descended into the vale of Siddim, where they found themselves in the valley of the Jordan, and consequently in the land of the Canaanites.
It was, therefore, in the mountains and in the shadow of the sanctuary of the Most High God that the newly-appointed prince was to be found, rather than in the vale of Siddim.
And yet, perhaps, in another planet my monad would have frisked and jumped and danced and seesawed with congenial monads, as contentedly and as sillily as do the monads of men and gnats in this alien Vale of Tears.
The first books which he produced at his Eragny Press were printed from the Valetype belonging to his friend Mr. Ricketts.
Mr. Charles Ricketts designed some very notable gold-tooled bindings for the Vale Press.
The three Vale Press founts and also the punches and matrices were destroyed when the Press ceased publishing.
This Master Frost offended sore; He in the vale appeared: Young Maybells ring the dance no more-- Gone are the flowers seared!
Young Maybells ring throughout the vale And sound so sweet and clear, The dance begins, ye flowers all, Come with a merry cheer!
The huge barren countryside, swept with rainstorms and curtained in clouds, looked like some evil landscape out of Vale Owen's revelations.
Our friends on the other side cannot help us there, nor can even such extended spiritual visions as those of Vale Owen clear it up.
This exactly corresponds to the teaching of Vale Owen's guide.
They were descriptive of life in the beyond, and were in parts extremely corroborative of the Vale Owen messages, though they had been taken long prior to that date.
The camp thence moved forward and came into the vale of Horeb, where I had first beheld Moses standing by his flock.
Even the Jews used cremation in the vale of Tophet when a plague came; and the modern Jews of Berlin and the Spanish and Portuguese Jews at Mile End cemetery were among the first to welcome the lately revived process.
It is situated in the narrow vale of the river Creedy near its junction with the Exe, between two steep hills, and is divided into two parts, the east or old town and the west or new town.
Accordingly no observation is more common, than that mankind are more generous in the earlier periods of their life, and that their affections become gradually contracted the farther they advance in the vale of years.
A few inches off, his wife in costly sealskin jacket, purchased salmon with a Maida Vale manner.
We have a reputation for wealth, culture and hospitality, and it is quite two years since we shook off the last of the Maida Vale lot, who are so graphically painted in that novel of Mr. Armitage's.
The vale between, from side to side, was the width in places of a crossbow-shot, and in others of two.
St. Andrew traverses a land of continual darkness, the Vale of Walking Spirits, amid similar sounds of terror, much as the pilgrims of the Second Part of Bunyan's story traverse the Enchanted Ground.
On the other hand, a child of nature may remember that he is also a child of the spirit; and, even in the Vale Perilous, the spirit may be an instinctive and faithful guide.
It was dark and dull, but our own vale was very solemn--the shape of Helm Crag was quite distinct though black.
We walked to Rydale for letters, The Vale looked very beautiful in excessive simplicity, yet at the same time, uncommon obscurity.
I'm gettin' too old, too plumb old and disgusted with this vale of steers to change and tie down to short grass.
Being joined by the islanders who had sought refuge at the Castle of the Vale and other retreats, he defeated the invaders with much slaughter.
So it was through Duke Robert's stay at theVale that our Castle was made so strong.
That night there was restless sleeping in Vale Castle and but rough quarters, but no assault nor alarm.
Of our passing from cloister to castle, and of the burning of the Vale Abbey.
With a straight course that naught delayed we ran to St. Malo, that ancient town hard by the holy Mount of St Michael, the mother-house of our Vale Abbey, where I had good hope that I should quickly thence be sped upon my way.
Of Le Grand Sarrasin, and of the renewed attack upon Vale Castle.
Of Le Grand Sarrasin, and of the renewed attack upon Vale Castle--Of my first deeds of arms, and how the Moors were beaten back.
So I went forth boldly, leaving the Vale behind me, and within an hour had entered among the trees that part it from the forest land.
So we islanders of Guernsey and Brethren of the Vale dealt with one-half of the pirates' force, while good Samson d'Anville did likewise with the other half as they fled to the Grand Havre.
Farm Vale England Cream cheese of Somerset wrapped in tin foil and boxed in wedges, eight to a box.
