Here it is clear that the word, and not the idea, moon, produces the simple sheep and their shady boon, and that "the dooms of the mighty dead" would never have intruded themselves but for the "fair musk-rose blooms.

And at the sound of it Kazan rose from out of his silence and his fear, and with his head turned straight up to the sky he howled as the wild dogs of the North howl before the tepees of masters who are newly dead.

As the heat gradually diffuses itself over the spinal marrow, the child that was dying, or seemingly dead, will frequently give a sudden and energetic cry, succeeded in another minute by a long and vigorous peal, making up, in volume and force, for the previous delay, and instantly confirming its existence by every effort in its nature.

REYNOLDS, JAMES J. Officially dead: the story of Commander C. D. Smith.

Her father is already civilly dead.

Hear, ye dead, O hear!

He went out there once, as one might go alone to bury his dead out of his sight, the day after the mill was burnt,looking first at the smoking mass of hot bricks and charred shingles, so as clearly to understand how utterly dead his life-long scheme was.

You have only to look over such good old books as Williams's "Wild Sports of the East," Campbell's "Old Forest Ranger," Lloyd's "Scandinavian Adventures," and last, but not least, Waterton's "Wanderings," to see what valuable additions to true zoologythe knowledge of live creatures, not merely dead onesBritish sportsmen have made, and still can make.

No, not Maternus, the outlaw, to say nothing of Sextus, the legally dead man, can command such notice from the sky.

The indigo industry was virtually dead, and rice prices, like those of tobacco, did not maintain their expected levels.

If the Court decides that he is presumably dead, then he is presumably dead.

There is something, to my mind, too solemn for derision in the idea of communing with the spirits of the departed, or that the time is approaching when living men and the souls of the physically dead, are to meet, as it were, face to face, and know each other as they are.

Consciousness was mercifully dead within him.

Afterward, in the hours of rest, in the moments when one needs a stimulant from within and one searches for harmony, sympathy of a thing apparently so dead and strange as a book is, they come back to the marked passages, to their own thoughts, more comprehensible since an author expressed them; to their own sentiments, stronger and more natural since they found them in somebody else's words.

"My cousin John happens to be neither a jail-bird nor a janitor, but merely comfortably dead.

The fear of insurrection is as effectually dead in Jamaica, as in Barbadoesso long as the apprenticeship lasts.

Everything wore an aspect suitable to the respect due to the freshly dead.

So up we went, splashing, clawing, slipping, stumbling, but never falling down; pausing every now and then to get breath for a fresh rush, and then on again, up a place as steep as a Devonshire furze- bank for twenty or thirty feet, till we had risen a thousand feet, as I suppose, and were on a long and more level chine, in the midst of ghastly dead forests, the remains of last year's fires.

You will" But Kate, at this hideous detail, fell with a low, wailing cry to the floor, happily dead to the woful consciousness of the scene and its meaning.

One leaves Stone church with regret; it is so fair and yet so hopelessly dead that one is astonished and almost afraid.

He was most likely dead, the neighbours said, and one bade her "go and look at the Cimetière de l'Est, they have brought in a load of bodies there."

Sure thy sowle is in regna polorum, By reason of reason thou haddest none; Yet all foolys be nott dead, though thou be gone.

"She was practically dead when they carried her upstairs, poor girl.

The old Gate-Warden.]He and the Watchers are, of course, safely dead.

He showed me that the black and gangrened side of the body would soon be cured; that the putrefied flesh which had collected around the wounds represented heretics who divide one from the other in proportion as they increase; that the dead flesh was the figure of all who are spiritually dead, and who are void of any feeling; and that the ossified parts represented obstinate and hardened heretics.