Thou, Winfrida the Fair?thy raven hair" "O, my hair, my lord? 'twas gold, 'tis black and shall be gold again, but I am that same Winfrida.

Her long raven locks hung with careless grace, partly behind, and partly over, a neck that might have served as a model for the sculptor.

The widow looked very pretty in her lace and silk and frilled cap, from which the raven tresses peeped.

CHAPTER XLI HOW THEY RODE INTO THE WILDERNESS Fast galloped the good horse, bursting through underbrush and thicket with the roar of the pursuit following ever distant and more distant; and ever Beltane spurred deeper into those trackless wilds where few dare adventure them by reason of evil spirits that do haunt these solitudes (as they do say) and, moreover, of ravening beasts.

The boys could hardly be distinguished one from another, especially when their hair was powdered; but that ceremony being too cumbrous for country-life, each of the lads commonly wore his own hair, George his raven black, and Harry his light locks, tied with a ribbon.

The flame, leaping from sedge to sedge, from trunk to trunk, seems to seek, with a human instinct, and more than human pertinacity, food for its ravening hunger; far upward, where festoons of moss hung from the sycamores in the day, airy banners of starry sparks, swayed, coiled, and flamed among the branches.

the girl is fair, and modest enough, at least to the eye, and if thou knowest aught else, whisper thy secret to her husband or her friends, but do not come in this rude manner to disturb our harmony with thy raven throat, just as we are ready to sing an epithalamium in honor of the happy pair.

Under the ravening madness of famine, legal restraints and moral principles were forgotten, and famine riots broke out.

The personalities of the ravening brute and of the man are blended now in one, or rather the personality of the man has been eliminated.

I. 3 'Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hushed the stormy main; Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed; Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topped head: On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smeared with gore and ghastly pale; Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail; The famished eagle screams, and passes by.

Of a verity thou art only the witch Mellent, and so, by reason of thy sun-browned skin and raven hairaye, and for thy witchcraftthou, alack!

I believe that my failure was principally due to the fact that Nature had not given me flashing eyes and raven hairwithout which, as everyone knows, no bad fairy can hold up her head and respect herself.

He has a glorious dark eye, and Byron's expression of a "dome of thought," could never be more appropriately applied than to his lofty and intellectual forehead, the marble whiteness and polish of which arc heightened by the raven hue of his hair.

As Captain Poindexter looked upon the fringed hazel eyes, the drooping raven mustache, the clustering ringlets, and the Byronic full throat and turned-down collar of his friend, a smile of exhausted humorous tolerance and affectionate impatience curved his lips.

This raven pecks not out men's eyes as others do; all his spite is at their shoulders, and you were better to have the nightmare ride you than this incubus.

The Mohammedans also say that Cain carried about with him the dead body of Abel till he saw a raven scratch a hole in the ground to bury a dead bird.

But for thy tongue thy mother had not dyde: That belching voice, that harsh night-raven sound, Untimely sent thy mother to the ground: Upbraid my fault, I did deceive my brother; Cut out thy tongue, that slue thy carefull mother.

o'er the road like black storm clouds, While Zu the storm-bird onward fiercely goads The seven raven spirits of the air, And Nus-ku opens wide the fiery glare Of pent-up lightnings for fierce Gibil's hand, Who hurls them forth at Nergal's stern command, And Rimmon[10] rides triumphant on the air,

Whatever may have been the cause, he seems to have gone off on his own account: carrying with him the famous raven standard, to do his appointed work in these years on other coasts under its ominous shade.

The victim's slain, and now the ravens stoop.

Slender and of medium height, with a small head of almost perfect contour, a symmetrical face, dark almost to swarthiness, black eyes, which moved somewhat restlessly, curly hair of raven tint, a slight mustache, small hands and feet, and fashionable attire, Tom Delamere, the grandson of the old gentleman who had already arrived, was easily the handsomest young man in Wellington.

"What am I," he then would think, "who am waiting here, as a raven waits for blood, for certain intelligence of my wife's death?" He went to the Kalitines' every day; but even there he was not more at his ease.

The waters of this canal did not run; they crawled, and were full of big, ravening fish and alligators, that held it against all comers.

But when that child, called Spring, and all His host of children, come, Scattering their buds and dew upon These acres of my home, Some rapture in my rags awakes; I lift void eyes and scan The skies for crows, those ravening foes, Of my strange master, Man.

Under the impulse of his ravening grief, John watched the spectacle of the world's forgetfulness, and the seeming obscenity horrified him even to the limits of madness.