"That was never the way of the Highlands, 'Better a bone on the far-away hills than a fat sheep in the meadows,' says the Gael.

In the description of their persons we partly recognize the modern Gael, or the inhabitants of the Highlands of Scotland: huge bodies, blue eyes, bristly hair; even their dress and armor are those of the Highlanders, for they wore the checked and variegated tartans; their arms consisted of the broad, unpointed battle-sword, the same weapon as the claymore among the Highlanders.

The Passing of the Gael.

It is generally supposed that they called themselves Gail, or Gael, out of which name the Greeks formed their [Greek: Keltai], and the Romans Galli.

THE SAXON AND THE GAEL.

"Brave Gael, my pass, in danger tried, Hangs in my belt, and by my side; Yet sooth to tell," the Saxon said, "I dreamed not now to claim its aid.

" The Gael beheld him grim the while, And answered with disdainful smile, "Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye Far to the south and east,

where lay Extended in succession gay, Deep waving fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between: These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land.

The Saxon rears one shock of grain; While of ten thousand herds, there strays But one along yon river's maze, The Gael, of plain and river heir, Shall, with strong hand, redeem his share.

Thou art my guest:I pledged my word As far as Coilantogle ford: Nor would I call a clansman's brand, For aid against one valiant hand, Though on our strife lay every vale Rent by the Saxon from the Gael.

He practised every pass and ward, To thrust, to strike, to feint, to guard; While less expert, though stronger far, The Gael maintained unequal war.

They tug, they strain!down, down they go, The Gael above, Fitz-James below.

The blood of the Gael is richer and redder.

Myles Gorman is a Gael of the West of Ireland, with a face full of intellectual vigour.

Great was the deed that was performed that day at the ford by the two heroes, the two warriors, the two champions of western lands, the two gift-bestowing hands of the northwest of the world, the two beloved pillars of the valor of the Gael, the two keys of the bravery of the Gael, brought to fight from afar through the schemes of Meave the queen.

Great was the deed that was performed that day at the ford by the two heroes, the two warriors, the two champions of western lands, the two gift-bestowing hands of the northwest of the world, the two beloved pillars of the valor of the Gael, the two keys of the bravery of the Gael, brought to fight from afar through the schemes of Meave the queen.

So fierce was the fight they fought that the horses of the Gael fled away in fright, breaking their chains and their yokes, and the women and youths and camp-followers broke from the camp, flying forth southwards and westwards.

But of romances and songs of fair women in the days of Find, the best is the Poem of Gael, who composed it to win a princess for his bride.

Many a moan resounds in every place; It is mournful news among the Gael.

And how excellent that history was, how full of humanity and the rich wine of life, the stories of Fergus and Concobar and Cuculain, of Find and Ossin and Gael, of Meave and Deirdré and Credé bear sufficient witness.

Wherever the Irish Gael planted a colony, he seems to have brought his Ogam writing with him.

When the fame of the ancient bards of the Gael was noised from end to end of Europe, it was through the medium of Macpherson's forgeries.

Glamour and magic and passion abound in the lays and legends of the ancient Gael, but there is more melancholy than mirth in these tales of long ago.

He is a pantheist, a mystic, and a visionary, with what would seem a literal and living faith in many gods, though strongly prepossessed in favor of the ancient divinities of the Gael, now long since in exile.

CLAN-NA-GAEL, a Fenian organisation founded at Philadelphia in 1870, to secure by violence the complete emancipation of Ireland from British control.

Wind, breeze, gust, blast, flaw, gale, squall, flurry.

Amidst those vales my eager feet Shall trace my Abla's dear retreat, A gale of health may hover there, To breathe some solace to my care.

Title: Miss Lulu Bett Author: Zona Gale Release Date: December 10, 2003 [eBook #10429] Language:

Borne on the gale, deep-toned and clear, His long loud summons shall we hear, When statesmen to their country dear

Still small voice; the biography of Zona Gale.

God rides a gale.

F. Robert Gilfoil, Jr. (E); 10Oct68; R445453. GALE, MARTIN, pseud.

Joan and Michael; a story of today, by Martin Gale, pseud.

Martin Gale (Mrs. Spencer Klaw, nee Barbara Van Doren) (A); 13Aug68; R441652.

Additions by Leah Gale.

CO., INC. The alphabet from A to Z. SEE Gale, Leak.

Receive the gale.

If there had been a violent gale of wind, all must have been inevitably lost.

But on the eight day there arose a brisk gale of wind, which prevented our tiding it up the river; and still increasing, our ship rode forecastle in, and shipped several large seas.

but in the dusk of the evening, I changed my course, and steering directly S. and by E. that I might keep near the shore: and, having a fresh gale of wind, with a pleasant smooth sea, by three o'clock next day I was one hundred and fifty miles beyond the Emperor of Morocco's dominions.

In addition, quantities of wood are collected from hedges and ditches and under the treesdead boughs that have fallen or been broken off by a gale.

I knew last night it would be fine, for the gale had blown itself out, and when I came in at sunset the chimneys and shoulders of the Hall stood out dark against the orange glow.

On the voyage to the Cape the vessel by which he was a passenger touched at Tristan d'Acunha, and was driven off that island in a gale while Mr. Earle was ashore, leaving him stranded in that desolate land, where he remained for six months, when he was rescued by a passing ship, the "Admiral Cockburn," bound for Van Diemen's Land, whence he visited New South Wales and New Zealand, returning again to Sydney.

The reckless adventurers could not make up their minds to leave the booty; and stayed so long, waiting for a lull in the gale, and wasting their time in trying to get the horses to take to the water in spite of the waves, that the pursuing Indians came up and surprised them.

Darkness overtook them while still on the lake, and the head boats hung out lights for the guidance of those astern; but about midnight a gale came up, and the whole flotilla was nearly swamped, being beached with great difficulty on an oozy flat close to the mouth of the Maumee.

degrees, and a good sharpe gale, holding our course West Southwest:

we had a West wind, and that with so strong a gale, that wee were forced to set two men at helme, which pleased vs well.

It was a cold, raw, bitter day, with a gale from the north, such a day as I could never have endured had I not become hardened.

That night at dark the wind still blew a gale, and seemed more bitterly cold.

The joyful sailor embarks on board of his ship, the sails are spread to catch the playful gale, swift as an arrow he cuts the rolling wave.