Too much violence would be done to a factitous and tottering edifice, were it known that a prince's son was no better than one of the vilest, and the lingering feelings of paternity were certain at last to cast a shield before the offender.

thou art not Bartolo; thy tale is a wicked deception, invented to shield thee from the punishment due to thy crime!"

The elevation of the elected chief or king on the shield and the solemn taking of arms in the midst of the tribe seem to be the only traces of public ceremonies which we can discover among the Grermans.

Hanging to its neck were the King's armsthat is to say, three gold fleur-de-lys on an azure shield....

In his references to Roman history, in the pageant of heroes of the sixth book, as well as in the historical scenes of the shield, no monarchial tendencies appear.

It is the great past, illustrated by the pageant of heroes and the prophetic pictures of Aeneas's shield, that kindles the poet's imagination.

thank God that I have some one who will never treat me so! who will lift me up and shield me, instead of crushing me!dear creature!Oh that I may find him!"

Of this nature, in the Book now before us, is his being the first that awakens out of the general Trance, with his Posture on the burning Lake, his rising from it, and the Description of his Shield and Spear.

Air That felt unusual weight His pondrous Shield Ethereal temper, massie, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his Shoulders like the Moon, whose orb Thro Optick Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Evning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers, or Mountains, on her spotted Globe.

On the vault of the glittering shield.

There stood the tomb of Henry IV and his queen; and here was the tomb of Edward, the Black Prince, with a bronze figure of the prince, richly embossed and enamelled, reclining upon the top, and over the canopy were suspended the surcoat and casque, the gloves of mail and shield, with which he was accoutred when he fought the famous battle of Crécy.

Fifth, a splendid coat-of-arms as accurate and rich as if emblazoned in permanent colors, with a cardinal's hat and a shield with the words 'prudens' and 'fidelis' upon it.

If only he could keep her so for a little, preserve the shining splendor of her shield of innocent young joy.

It was too important to have an invulnerable shield not to patch up the discrepancy as early as possible.

He might have borne the old Douglas motto on his shield.

This course is also best calculated, on the one hand, to shield that officer from unjust suspicions, and on the other to subject this portion of his acts to public scrutiny, and, if occasion shall require it, to constitutional animadversion.

In the name and on the behalf of our churches, for the sacred cause of freedom throughout the world, we unitedly implore your lordship to throw the shield of Britain's protection over those who are just made her loyal subjects.

The population could shield themselves from their violence only by concealing themselves in subterranean retreats, where traces of their sojourn are still observable.

The bad effect of what he does is increased by the manner in which he seeks to shield himself from the consequences of his acts.

But it was not John; it was the minister of the parish; and he had scarcely time to break the blow to the parents with the shield of religion, when the dead body of their eldest son was brought into the house.

I am not defending the wholesale manner in which, when it suits their purpose, they drag an unfortunate individual before the public, and crucify him on the anonymous editorial WE, which is at one and the same time their deadliest weapon and their surest shield.

As they galloped slowly up the mountain pass, the monuments of her dear parents glittering in the sun admonished her that connubial bliss cannot shield from death, for her mother had fallen a victim when she was a young and happy bride, and her young heart had just felt the dawnings of a mother's love.

Thy loved and honored father, too, Thy faithful guardian, kind and true, Whose stronger arm could shield thy form, And guard it from the impending storm; Who loved to watch thine infant glee, And shared thy childish sports with thee, He, too, from earthly scenes has fled, And joined the numbers of the dead.

But youth, beauty, and goodness could not shield her from the cruel shafts of the destroyer.

The sun, too, suffered a total eclipse, and thunderbolts damaged a sceptre of Jupiter, a shield and a helmet of Mars that were votive offerings on the Capitol, and furthermore the tablets which contained the laws.