24 adjectives to describe main

The cock shall mighty wealth attain: Go, seek it on the stormy main.

Ours was a sorry plight Until at last we sailed unto the land, Over the troubled main.

"'Her timbers yet are sound, And she may float again, Full charged with England's thunder, And plough the distant main. "'But Kempenfeldt is gone, His victories are o'er; And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the main no more!" MRS.

He has thus expanded it: Such the stream, On whose Arcadian banks I first drew air, Liddal; till now, except in Doric lays Tun'd to her murmurs by her love-sick swains, Unknown in song: though not a purer stream, Through meads more flowery, or more romantic groves, Rolls towards the western main.

Mag. 1742, p. 383, contains the following verse, which contrasts sadly with the poor poet's case: 'Thou, sacred isle, amidst thy ambient main, Enjoyst the sweets of freedom all thy own.'

Scott, describing the arid wastes of the Hebrides, "Placed far amid the melancholy main," and swept bare by wintry-cold sea-breezes, said, "Yes! '

" "THE STORMY PETREL." Where the gray crags beat back the northern main, And all around, the ever restless waves, Like white sea-wolves, howl on the lonely sands, Clings a low roof, close by the sounding surge.

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sailed the unshadowed main, The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.

In this domestic little basin, which, with the exception of a narrow entrance, was completely surrounded by buildings, lay a few feluccas, that traded between the island and the adjacent main, and a solitary Austrian ship, which had come from the head of the Adriatic in quest of iron.

20 There in a cave asleep she lay, Lull'd by the hoarse resounding main; When a bold savage pass'd that way, Impell'd by destiny, his name Disdain. Of ample front the portly chief appear'd: The hunted bear supplied a shaggy vest; The drifted snow hung on his yellow beard, And his broad shoulders braved the furious blast.

A, cylinder; B, gas conduit; C, rubber pockets; D. gasometer; E, purifier; F, scrubber; G, hydraulic main; H, cooling pipe; I steam injector; K, steam boiler and superheater; L, gas generator; M, charger; N, discharge of the motor.]

Free and strong, free and strong, Cleansing my streams as I hurry along To the golden sands, and the leaping bar, And the taintless tide that awaits me afar, As I lose myself in the infinite main, Like a soul that has sinned and is pardoned again.

And in the end of the matter his speech had fulfilment; there sprang up from the watery main an island, and the father who begetteth the keen rays of day hath the dominion thereof, even the lord of fire-breathing steeds.

Ne vous nettoyez pas les mains à vostre pain, s'il est entier; toutesfois les ayant fort grasses, il semble que vous les puissiez nettoyer premierement à vn morceau de pain que vous ayez à manger tout à l'heure & puis à la seruiette, afin de ne la point tant salir: ce qui vous arriuera rarement,

So the gay pamper'd steed with loosen'd reins, Breaks from the stall, and pours along the plains; With large smooth strokes he rushes to the flood, Bathes his bright sides, and cools his fiery blood; Neighs as he flies, and tossing high his head, Snuffs the fair females in the distant mead; At every motion o'er his neck reclin'd, Plays his redundant main, and dances in the wind.

Down, down it swirled to the nether world; While up from the riven main Came the gurgling sound of those who drowned, As the vortex closed again; The sea surged back to its wonted track; Once more 'twas a sun-lit plain!

1 Clouds do not always veil the skies, Nor showers immerse the verdant plain; Nor do the billows always rise, Or storms afflict the ruffled main.

astonish'd in the angry main, As Titan's car did, while the golden rein Fill'd the young hand of his adventurous son, When the whole world an equal hazard run To this of ours, the light of whose desire Waves threaten now, as that was scared by fire.

The countrymen from the environs, and even from the adjoining main were beginning to turn their faces towards their distant homes, with that frugal care which still distinguishes the inhabitants of the country even in the midst of their greatest abandonment to pleasures, in order that the approaching evening might not lead them into expenditures which were not deemed germain to the proper feelings of the occasion.

Une poignée de mains, GEORGES MOORE.

On either side a continuous forest confines the view, thus depriving the scene of that solemn grandeur which the horizonless desert or the boundless main is calculated to inspire.

"Je vous baise vos mains,vôtre visageafin, tout ce que vous me permettez de baiser.

My very complete and even elaborate arrangements had been made some time before and I now had only to look them over and see that they were in going order; to test, for instance, the brass handle that was connected with the electric main, and see that the well-oiled blocks of a couple of purchase tackles ran smoothly and silently.

Nought around Strikes his sad eye, but desarts lost in snow; And heavy loaded groves; and solid floods, That stretch athwart the solitary waste, Their icy horrors to the frozen main; And chearless towns far distant, never bless'd Save when its annual course, the caravan Bends to the golden coast of rich Cathay With news of human-kind.

24 adjectives to describe  main