72 examples of rune in sentences

Who, indeed? Out of that leaf-writing, and bark-etching, and later rune, have grown the printed writings of mankind.

You who love the city for its million pulses, the beat of its great heart, and the terrific symphony of its soul, have you ever picked out from its orchestra the plaintive rune of the deserving poor?

The skies are jewelled all around, The ploughshare snaps in the iron ground, The Finn with face like paper And eyes like a lighted taper Hurls his rough rune At the wintry moon And stamps to mark the tune.

the fairest gift of June, Gone like the rose the winter through, Save in the ribbed anatomy Of ebon line the moonlight drew, Stark on the snow, of tower or tree, Like letters of a dead man's rune.

No Orphic rune, no Thracian scroll, Hath magic to avert the morrow; No healing all those medicines brave Apollo to the Asclepiad gave; Pale herbs of comfort in the bowl Of man's wide sorrow.

In a few passages Cynewulf uses each rune to represent not only a letter but a word beginning with that letter.

Thus the rune-equivalent of C stands for cene (keen, courageous), Y for yfel (evil, in the sense of wretched), N for nyd (need), W for ivyn (joy), U for ur (our), L for lagu (lake), F for feoh (fee, wealth).

The leaves of the Stone Book, as the rocky layers of the earth have been called, and the blue hieroglyphic page of heaven, also, are more intelligibly read by the aid of the mythic glosses of old religion, of Saga, Rune, and Voluspa.

Isabel's handwriting, though his soul would not confess it to himself, still held the power of a rune over his heart.

But at the rising of the moon The druids came from grove and glen, And to the chanting of a rune Crucified St. Columba's men.

Sleep, fusing all her senses, soon Fanned over her in drowsy rune All night long a pomegranate wing.

His language became grandiose, as if he repeated verbatim a rune of his ancestors: "We Maoris lived at that time in the great peace of our long, quiet years.

Across the unpathwayed seas, Shot the brave prow that cut on Vinland sands The first rune in the Saga of the West.

Eche rune he iherth, And wot eche dede.

"It is the unfinished Rune of the Blackbirds," says Freydis, in a whisper.

"It is an experimental incantation," she replied, "in that it is a bit of unfinished magic for which the proper words have not yet been found: but between now and a while they will be stumbled on, and then this rune will live perpetually, surviving all those rhymes that are infected with thought and intelligent meanings such as are repugnant to human nature.

He never heard the night-song of the wind or the winter-rune of the pine.

By Dagobert D. Runes.

your chant shall be Our sign of blight or bloom, The Vala-song of Liberty, Or death-rune of our doom!

They spoke most of all of women, and it sometimes seemed, as they sat there,one at the doorway of the House of Life and one in a shaded inner chamber,as if the rune of women came to them from their far sisters: from those in their harems, from others in the blare of commercial, Occidental life; from those in chambers of pain; from those freighted with the poignant burdens which women bear in their bodies and in their souls.

So whether it be rune, Or whether it be none, Is of within; The "tune is in the tree," The sceptic showeth me; "No, sir!

And on one purple tower the moon Hangs her white lampthe night wind's rune Floats faint o'er holt and black lagoon.

And each, with pilgrim staff and shoon, Bore on his scrip a mystic rune, Some maxim of his chosen creed, By which, with swerveless rule and line, He shaped his life in word and deed To ends heroic and divine!

So, fond spirit, beauty-fed, Turning when your watch is o'er, Weave a cross above the bed And a sleep-rune on the floor, That no evil enter there, Ugly shapes and dreams beware.

So full of heaven is she, so close to earth, So versed in holy spell and magic rune.

72 examples of  rune  in sentences