By the rood, the Prince says true; Here is a statute from the Confessor. HEN.

I am lord here, who shall disturb us then? Nay, come, or, by the rood, I'll make you come.

Why, nothing, by the rood, nothing she ails.

By the red rood, I cannot choose but weep, Come love or hate, my tears I cannot keep.

Never shall I forget the hours which I enjoyed with him at his apartments in the Royal Palace of Holy-Rood House, and at his seat near Edinburgh, which he himself had formed with an elegant taste.

"Stand well, mother, under rood; the cross.

Let us never heaven miss, Through thy sweeté Sonés might! Loverd, for that ilké blood, Lord, That thou sheddest on the rood, Thou bring us into heaven's light.

Where all folk it see may, A mile from each town, About the mid-day, The rood is up arearéd; His friendés are afearéd, And clingeth so the clay; The rood stands in stone, Mary stands her on, And saith Welaway!

Where all folk it see may, A mile from each town, About the mid-day, The rood is up arearéd; His friendés are afearéd, And clingeth so the clay; The rood stands in stone, Mary stands her on, And saith Welaway!

So high upon the rood Between thieves tuo two.

That swear by the rood swear by the cross.

Herein come ye no more, Till a child of a maid be born, And upon the rood rent and torn, To save all that ye have forlorn, lost.

Sith rent him on the rood with full red wounds: then.

Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat, And, by the holy rood!

Every rood of ground yielded to the pretensions of the masters of slaves is so much of the heirloom of freedom and of civilization lost without hope of recovery.

Then I was transported away to the Arctic sea, where I saw him floundering many a rood, "hugest of those that swim the ocean stream.

David Bruce, Roger I. Bruce & Margaret B. Rood (C of D. Bruce) & Muriel M. Schumacher (W); 12Sep69; R468365. BRUCE, EVA. Call her Rosie.

SEE Rood, Roland.

I had hardly admired the grey interior, the bare walls growing into the roof in unbroken curves, the massive stone rood-screen, the sorrowful faces in the holy pictures, when a little procession filed into the church; four girls carrying a flower-bedecked coffin, half a dozen elders, and a pack of children carrying candlesa sight at once terrible and diurnal, a child's funeral.

The church seems to have possessed two rood-lofts (cp. Crewkerne); and has a two-storied building on the S. of the W. door, which is thought by some to be a treasury.

There is a very fine rood-loft (1521) with fan-tracery both in front and rear: the present colours are believed to reproduce the original; curiously, the choir seats are outside the screen.

Note (1) position of Dec. piscina in S. aisle and dwarf doorway, showing raising of floor; (2) squint and rood-loft stairs on N.; (3) square fluted font with cable moulding; (4) consecration crosses on jamb of W. door, on chancel buttresses, and on wall of S. aisle (cp. Nempnett); (5) arched doorway into tower from chancel, made up of a sepulchral slab with incised foliated cross.

Note (1) Dec. windows to aisle; (2) rood-loft stair; (3) curious quatrefoil piscina in sanctuary; (4) some fragments of old glass in E. window of S. aisle.

Note (1) altar slab fixed to N. wall of sanctuary, (2) rood-loft stair and turret, (3) three altar-tombs under tower, one (early 15th cent.)

Note externally the turret above the rood staircase, and the series of consecration crosses (12) on the E. and S. wall of the chancel; and in the interior observe (1) the carved oak cornice, (2) the screen (the upper part restored), (3) Norm. pillar (a survival of an earlier church) in the vestry, (4) old Bible of 1617.

The Town is now filling every Day, and it cannot be deferred, because People take Advantage of one another by this Means and break off Acquaintance, and are rude: Therefore pray put this in your Paper as soon as you can possibly, to prevent any future Miscarriages of this Nature.

I am not able to express the Pleasure we enjoy from Ten at Night till four in the Morning, in being as rude as you Men can be, for your Lives.

A rude camp-table was spread with plates and their accessories, and a portion of the articles of food were carefully arranged.

The spot where General Lyon fell was marked by a rude inscription upon the nearest tree.

The device was rude, but it was applied with considerable skill, and it was undoubtedly framed with much ingenuity.

Yet in spite of this rude barbarism of outward life, the warriors had formed for themselves a high and exacting code of honor, which may be regarded as the first steps toward what in later times and other countries became known as "chivalry"; save that there is in the acts of the Irish heroes a simplicity and sincerity which puts them on a higher level than the obligatory courtesies of more artificial ages.

The latter, to be serviceable for the purpose, should be cut into the rude shapes of horses before the metamorphosis can take place.

Slavery was introduced at an early date, and flourished, the warm climate being congenial to the negro, and the rude manual labor of the field suited to his meagre capabilities.

Tu vois, cette Narbonne est rude; Elle a trente châteaux, trois fossés, et l'air prude; A chaque porte un camp, et, pardieu!

" "In my young days," announced the Fat Lady, with disconcerting suddenness, "it was thought rude to whisper.

HIGH PLACES, elevated spots on which altars were erected for worship in the rude belief that, as they were nearer heaven than the plains and valleys, they were more favourable places for prayer.

This Persian belle; (confound the belle) Excuse me, please; I won't be rude; She's in my way, so I can't tell My tale, so much does she intrude; I wish I knew her age, and whether she Was single, married, or engaged to be.

Rude relic of a lost and savage race!

Cold is the hand that fashion'd thee, rude dart!

Unnumbered years have o'er their ashes flown; Their unrecovered names and deeds are gone; All that remains is this rude pointed stone, To tell of nations mighty as our own.

In the rear of this apartment is the kitchen, a still smaller room, of a similar rude aspect; it has a great, rough fireplace, with space for a large family under the blackened opening of the chimney, and an immense passage-way for the smoke, through which Shakspeare may have seen the blue sky by day and the stars glimmering down at him by night.

There is an indescribable differenceas I believe I have heretofore endeavored to expressbetween the tamed, but by no means effete (on the contrary, the richer and more luxuriant) Nature of England, and the rude, shaggy, barbarous Nature which offers us its racier companionship in America.

Even the rude rancheros and tradesmen who were permitted to enter the walls in the exercise of their calling began to speak mysteriously of the beauty of this garden of the almarjal.

The bunk that the Old Man had occupied was stripped of its blankets; the few cheap ornaments and photographs were gone; the rude poverty of the bare boards and scant pallet looked up at them unrelieved by the bright face and gracious youth that had once made them tolerable.

But to her the strange shell she inhabited suggested more of the great world than the rude, chaotic civilization she saw from the cabin windows or met in the persons of her father's lodgers.

" "Were you rude enough to tell him so, Miriam?"

Sow them on the rock's rude bosom, Night and morning stroll to view them, With thy briny tears bedew them, And when they shall sprout in glory I'll return me from the foray.

On the shore stood several houses, square and rude, which resembled nothing that I had ever seen in house architecture.

Then she came unsteadily back, sank upon her knees, and hid her face in her grandmother's lap, murmuring through her fingers: "I have been rude to you, grandmother!

" "Oh, what a rude speech to a lady!"