The boat wends its way through islands almost the entire distance.
Leaving the valley of the Nile about two miles north of this pyramidal hill, there is a small dry valley which wends its way back through the hills and terminates at the foot of steep walls just west of the hill mentioned.
Chased were the East Wends Into a corner narrow, Not easy for the Laesirs§ Was the law of the host.
M122) The Wends of Saxony adopt very similar precautions against witches on the evening of Walpurgis Day.
M122 Annual "Burning of the Witches" on Walpurgis Night among the Wends of Saxony.
Meanwhile among the Wends Gottschalk's son revived his father's authority and contact with German civilisation; but after 1131 the Wendish kingdom fell to pieces, and from that moment we can mark the steady advance of German power to the Oder.
Thus she; and thither quickly wends her ways Whither was said, nor any answer stays.
XXXVI "I enter safely, that my palace knew, And with me wends Melissa; and there I So wholly at her ease Madonna view, No woman or attendant squire is by.
The Parmesan like circle does survey, Whenever he to Borgo wends his way.
To be more certified he wends (although He is too well assured the seer is right) To that old nurse; and, drawing her apart, To learn the truth employs his every art.
Boldly, and in his heart secure to win That battle's honour, wends the paladin.
To Calais the good envoy wends with speed, And the same day embarks himself and steed.
Vext by such thought, which racked and rent his heart, Rinaldo wends towards the rising light: He the straight road to Rhine and Basle pursued, Till he arrived in Arden's mighty wood.
How the Dutch and Wends agreed together, within their rampart, inclusive of both, is not said.
Wends latterly in a waning condition, much beaten upon by Charlemagne and others; but never yet beaten out.
The Ditmarschers recovered the place; and with some fighting, did in the main at least keep Triglaph and the Wendsout of it in time coming.
The Wends were fiercely troublesome, and fought much; but I think they never actually got hold of Brandenburg again.
By degrees all got converted, though many were killed first; and, one way or other, the Wends are preparing to efface themselves as a distinct people.
Presently "Elfonzo again wends his way to the stately walls and new-built village.
Elfonzo again wends his way to the stately walls and new-built village.
Oh, Love is the Lord of the land of life Who holds a monarch's sway; He wends with wish of maid and wife, And him you must obey.
No more the air is sharp and cold; The planter wends across the wold, And, glad, beneath the shining sky We wander forth, my love and I.
Homeward from the tasks of day, Through the greenwood's welcome way Wends the wanderer, blithe and cheerily, To the cottage loved so dearly!
Lo now, the golden man In the towns from of old time famous, by the temples tall and wan; How he wends with the swart-haired Niblungs through the mazes of the streets, And the hosts of the conquered outlands and their uncouth praying meets.
Charles the Great had attempted to force the Wends to accept Christianity, but with no success.
The lecture is at an end, and each prepares to enter another auditorium, or wends his way home, to study out the notes taken, consult the authorities quoted, complete or even copy his work anew.
The wayfarer who wends through this rustical district will hardly fail to observe the prevailing taste for lightning-rods.
Thirty miles to the north the great Nile flows out of the lake and wends its way to the sea.
One can imagine the grotesque appearance a Hottentot would present with a pair of these inflated bags astride his shoulders, while he wends his way homeward to the kraal.
The stranger wends his way to Church Street, and up a narrow alley, on the left hand side, finds comfortable apartments, as directed.
And now he wends his way homeward, little imagining what good fortune awaits him at the pen to which he has despatched his purchase.
Then to the castle tower he wends his way, And finds a supper laid with rich display.
At the foot of one hill a stream wends its way through the drooping boughs of the stunted shrubs that grow on its edges, and loses itself in a quiet pond where long-legged insects disport themselves on the leaves of the water-lilies.
A narrow path wends its way between a field where the ripe wheat sways in the breeze and a line of elm-trees growing on the edge of a ditch.
The remainder of the pagans are compelled to receive baptism, and, when Charlemagne again wends his way through the Pyrenees, all Spain bows beneath his sceptre.
This settled, the gorgeous procession slowly wends its way back to Oude, where for fourteen years every one does homage to Rama's golden sandals!
Although not without compunction, he wends his way toward her and startles her by addressing her in a human voice.
These orders received, the archangel wends his way down to earth, where, dawn having appeared, Adam and Eve once more issue from their bower.
Then, seeing the sun about to set, the angel takes leave of Adam and wends his way back to heaven, while the father of mankind rejoins his waiting wife.
The Wends were conquered, but the end was not yet.
Dagmar was dead, and Valdemar, whose restless soul yearned for new worlds to conquer, turned toward the east where the wild Esthland tribes were guilty of even worse outrages than the Wends before Absalon tamed them.
Attacked at home, the Wends lost much of the terror they had inspired.
Of them all the Wends were the worst, as they were the most powerful of the Slav tribes that still resisted the efforts of their neighbors, the Christian Germans, to dislodge them from their old home on the Baltic.
To cap all this unorthodoxy, the Wends make the Creator call after Judas that he is forgiven.
In Scripture-lore the Wends have their own localised versions of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; of the fight of St. George and the Dragon; and an even more localised tale of the doings of King David.
During the whole of their history the Wends have shown themselves devoted to agriculture.
In matters of faith the Wends are all great believers in little superstitious formulas and observances, such as not turning a knife or a harrow edge or tine upward, lest the devil should sit down upon it.
Spinning, indeed, is among Wends a far more important occupation than elsewhere.
In the forest, on the other hand, where, in fact, dwell the bulk of the not yet denationalised race, you still see Wends as they were many centuries ago.
By intuitive instinct the Wends prefer cultivating light land, whereas the Germans give the preference to strong.
The Wends would indeed not be Slavs if they were not engrossingly fond of singing.
Every householder, large or small, has a right to be present and to take his full part in the proceedings; for the Wends are no respecters of persons.
The Wends are devoted lovers of trees, and in every truly Wendish village you are sure to find a large lime tree, tall or stunted, but in every case spreading out its branches a long distance sideways, and overshadowing a goodly space.
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