Rome not only stood fiercely at bay, but had pressed back and gored her antagonist, that still, however, watched her in act to spring.

Low the dauntless earl is laid, Gored with many a gaping wound: Fate demands a nobler head; Soon a king shall bite the ground.

And remember the story of the little boy that was gored to death by a mad bull for asking questions!"

'Well,' said he, 'we had good talk.' BOSWELL: 'Yes, sir, you tossed and gored several persons.'

All gored and prostrate in his blood, He lies upon the ground, While the unsated red one toward The deacon made a bound.

Now we imagine that Mr. Darwin need not be dangerously gored by either horn of this curious dilemma.

But with the lambs he sheared, and the bulls he dragged to earth, and the bears he gored to financial death, we have nothing to do; suffice it, that he performed these operations with almost uniform success and in an unimpeachably respectable manner.

In many instances the buffaloes, infuriated by wounds, turned fiercely on their assailants and gored the horses to death, in which cases the men had to trust to their nimble legs for safety.

The shoes with poulaines were superseded by a kind of large padded shoe of black leather, round or square at the toes, and gored over the foot with coloured material, a fashion imported from Italy, and which was as much exaggerated in France as the poulaine had formerly been.

THE LATE MISS C. MEYER, MISS PINCKNEY AND MISS E.W. THOMPSON (MRS. LARCOMBE)] I advise a plain gored skirtnot pleated; I think these most unsuitable on courtabout four or five inches from the ground.

Garrick, however, did not like it, and when Boswell tried to console him by saying that Johnson gored everybody in turn, and added, "foenum habet in cornu."

Shall see his bloody spoils in triumph borne, With this keen javelin shall his breast be gored, And prostrate heroes bleed around their lord.

Some days afterwards, this bull gored its master.

All at once the nimble steed became so crowded on every side that his only escape from being gored to death was by a tremendous bound which he made over the back of a terrified steer who lowered his head for the purpose of driving his horns into his body.

The riders run considerable risk, for their lances are inadequate to killing the bull, which after being gored and mangled, is finally despatched by a matador.

I have proved that too: should I turn loose On these poor sheep the wolf whose fangs have gored me, God's bolt would smite me dead.

Perhaps, like Marsh or Van Mildert, he was a controversial pamphleteer who had tossed a Calvinist or gored an Evangelical.

39; 'tossed and gored,' ii. 66; tossed Boswell, iii. 338; town, the, his element, iv.

'You tossed and gored several persons' (Boswell), ii. 66; iii.

Then the elephant also rushed forward but the bullock stood its ground and stamped; at this the elephant turned tail and ran away; the bullock ran after it and gored it from behind until it trumpeted with pain.

Then the wild buffaloes came running at the sound and gored to death every one they met, and Lakhan and his wife became Raja and Rani.

The torrero's mortal disaster in the arena is no more important than the action behind the scenes where the gored horses have their dangling entrails sewed up by the primitive surgery of the place and are then ridden back into the amphitheatre to suffer a second agony.

The day's ironing was over now, and refreshed with a bath and a half-hour's sleep after it, she sat under the shadow of the tall trees, arrayed in her white marseilles, which, being gored, made her look, as unsophisticated Andy thought, most too slim and flat.

Malcolm's warning shout came just in time to save her from being gored by the angry animal, who charged at her with lowered horns.

One of our men had been shot in the shoulder, another gored in the hip with a bayonet, and we left a young Briton dead on the shore.

There, among the giant roots of the old oak on its bank, was the house they had built of big stones and bright bits of broken dishes; there lay her home-made doll flung down among gay fallen leaves; a little toad squatted beside it; and near by was the tiny gourd that was their play-house dipper.

"But surely the true Sadhu should walk, taking no heed of horse-vehicle or fire-carriage," whereat the little fat ascetic with the gourd smiled pleasantly and made some remark to the effect that all methods of conveyance are permitted to the truly devout.

* "While he, from forth the closet, brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.

As soon as she discovered signs of returning consciousness, she presented me with a gourd, the contents of which appeared to be Indian meal mixed with water; she first drank, and then gave it to me, and I can safely aver that I never drank any beverage, before or since, which produced such relief.

The medicine men sing, beat the drum, rattle the gourd, and use such other instruments as they contrive.

Taking the gourd, he begins to rattle it and to sing, thereby to charm the animal that has entered the body of the sick Sioux.

Observing this, each Indian cut, in a large gourd, holes for his eyes, nose, and mouth, and then fitted it upon his head.

Taking with him a long bag, he entered the water, until nothing was seen but the gourd on his head.

Then the peculiar bobbing motion of the gourd was imitated so exactly, that the wily hunter easily approached near enough to the birds to seize them by the feet and drag them suddenly under the water.

" This statement, coming to the ears of Hal, by way of a joke, he proposed that Patsey should give him a lesson in the art of gourd-hunting.

He finally reached the bank; and then we discovered that the gourd had slipped down under his chin, and turned completely around, with the holes at the back of his head, in which position it was stuck fast.

"It's only a gourd," gasped Peter between paroxysms.

These were placed in his temple, with appropriate ceremonies, such as fasting, the burning of incense, dancing, and with simple offerings of food cooked without salt or pepper, and drink from beans and gourd seeds.

The slaves carried with them into the field their meal, and a gourd of water.

One of them had his pipe leading into a huge gourd, which gave out a hollow, moaning boom.

These included woven fillets, and fillets made of macaw feathers, for use in the dances; woven belts; a gourd in which the sacred drink is offered to the god Enoerey; wickerwork baskets; flutes or pipes; anklet rattles; hammocks; a belt of the kind used by the women in carrying the babies, with the weaving-frame.

GAITHER, FRANCES. Follow the drinking gourd.

Or like gourd-water to't; twenty Surfeits Come short of one nights work there.

xicalli, gourd or jar, and postpos.

Every third girl now received a large empty gourd, a grooved board, and the dry shoulder-bone of a sheep.

Laying the board on the gourd, she drew the bone sharply across the edges of the wood, thus producing a sound like a watchman's rattle.

'Placed in a gourd of water, it could render visible the apparition of a person who has bewitched another.'

This is of the gourd species, and grows to a large size.

Almost all the gourd species are similar in taste and nutriments when used this way.

that plant the flowers of their happiness on earthly sile, they must see 'em wither before their face and eyes anon or oftener like Jonah's gourd.