The conviction fastens on his lofty and inquiring mind that to arrive at the end he seeks he must enter by some other door than that of painful and useless austerities, and hence that the teachings of the Brahmans are fundamentally wrong.

Why, dis berry curous sarcumstance, pon my worddare's a great big nail in de skull, what fastens ob it on to de tree.

Now in the very midst of the direct line he fastens a post, upon which he hangs me in a cord a siderite of Herculean stone[280]. ANA.

"Have you ever experienced the sort of mental obsession which gradually causes the brain to be mastered by some single absurd ideaan idea almost insane, and one which your reason and your will alike repel, but which nevertheless gradually blends itself with your thought, fastens itself upon your mind, and grows and grows?

The spiritual gloom which sooner or later fastens upon all the writers of this age, and which is unjustly attributed to Puritan influence, is due to the breaking up of accepted standards in government and religion.

Having got his nursery to the right size and shape, the little builder next fastens it together.

Say there is no such murther, yet the Law Fastens on you; for any man accusd For killing of his father may be rackd To draw confession from him.

Ficinus illustrates this with a familiar example of that Marrhusian Phaedrus and Theban Lycias, "Lycias he stares on Phaedrus' face, and Phaedrus fastens the balls of his eyes upon Lycias, and with those sparkling rays sends out his spirits.

He carries with him a long rope, and when he reaches the top, he fastens one end of it to the tree, and throws the other to his wife, who goes to a distance and draws it tight.

Isak wears leather braces; he takes them off now and fastens them round the sheep's middle, as a support for the udder.

One instant it lies passive, or slowly whirled in a careless circlethe next its noose darts out like the head of a striking cobra, the coil falls and fastens, and then it draws tighter and tighter, remorselessly as a boa constrictor, paralyzing life.

Every tie, so I feel in my heart, by love is unloosened Soon as she fastens her own; and not the maid is it only Leaves behind father and mother, to follow the man she has chosen.

Gorged with our plunder, yet still gaunt for spoil, Rapacious Gideon fastens on our isle; Insatiate Lascelles, and the fiend Vaneck, Rise on our ruins, and enjoy the wreck; While griping Jasper glories in his prize, Wrung from the widow's tears and orphan's cries.

He fastens himself strongly on the heart of the reverend object of his care.

He fastens himself strongly on the heart of the reverend object of his care.

He fastens himself strongly on the heart of the reverend object of his care.

But Wilder looked upon the scene as one fastens his gaze on a placid sky.

See," he continued, sarcastically, "I picked up one of the ugly little pins that she fastens her hair with; perhaps you might like it for a keepsake.

In vain the leech would interpose delay; Fate fastens first, and vindicates the prey.

The accusing finger singles men out and fastens the charge on each several conscience: "Thou art the man!"

Sometimes a Cirro-Stratus cloud comes along and fastens itself to it parasitically.

It fastens on society an army of police to be supported, and it oppresses the land with taxes.

We have seen that at Spachendorf, in Austrian Silesia, on the morning of Rupert's Day (Shrove Tuesday?), a straw-man, dressed in a fur coat and a fur cap, is laid in a hole outside the village and there burned, and that while it is blazing every one seeks to snatch a fragment of it, which he fastens to a branch of the highest tree in his garden or buries in his field, believing that this will make the crops to grow better.

No one shakes, spreads, and fastens a table-napkin in that manner.

[She fastens the picture by the four corners to the back of the chair.]