Ripening in the dog-star's ray, Some, too early mown, doth lay; Some in graceful shocks doth stand Nodding farewell to the land That did give it life and birth; Some is borne, with shout and mirth, Drooping o'er the groaning wain.

We want to front life's shocks and storms; unsatisfied curiosity drives us on.

Although constructed with great care forward as to buoyancy, this vessel made plunges into the waves she met that nearly buried her; and, once or twice, the shocks were so great, that those on board her could with difficulty persuade themselves they had not struck the bottom.

Over the red cliffs and fantastic rocks; Over the sea, far-down, fleeting away; White sea-birds shining, and the billowy shocks Heaving unheard their shore-besieging spray?

Only Grace was ill at ease for fear her father should say something unseemly, and kept her head down with shocks of hair falling over her book, though I could see her blushing between them.

Indeed, the age of irony may be over, not just because the American dream has been interrupted by terrorism and economic shocks but because media-savvy Westerners are no longer satisfied with understanding current events through the second-hand cynical musings of magazine journalists.

It was proof of the rapidity with which the actual presence of war works indifference to sudden shocks among a people that this woman could discuss the incident quietly.

At the very first item she gave another scream, fainter than the first, for her mind was getting hardened against such shocks.

It is true that, during the past year, parts of Sicily and Calabria have been visited with severe shocks, occasioning much damage to property.

Every inch of the way was stubbornly contested by the defenders, but slowly they were pushed back, staggering under the shocks of the crimson's attack.

A metal of sufficient ductility to withstand breakage is easily penetrated, and, conversely, one that is hard and does not permit of penetration does not resist shocks well.

It was first thought of conveying the impressions directly by slight electric shocks, without the intervention of further mechanical apparatus, but owing to a doubt as to the physical effect that might be produced upon the persons receiving, and as to whether the nerves might not in time become partly paralyzed or so inured to the effect as to require a stronger and stronger current, that idea was abandoned, and the one described adopted.

Should it for a moment forget its cunning and lose its power, earthquake shocks or the wreck of matter could not be more disastrous.

And when, as too often in the case of the Russian Jew, this complete alteration of life is piled on top of the persecutions so many of them have endured, and the shocks so many have sustained before leaving their native land, the normal, usual effects of the transition are emphasized and exaggerated, and it may take a generation or longer before complete Americanization and amalgamation is brought about.

From such shocks and stimuli are born thinkers and original tacticians, especially among the younger men and women.

I have had too many shocks already.

creatures endowed with all our faculties; possessing all our qualities but that of colour; our brethren both by nature and grace, shocks all the feelings of humanity, and the dictates of common sense.

But I am anxious to get back and see that all is well at the latter, as for a long time I have been wondering how our beach has withstood the shocks of northerly winds.

His vibrant nature trembled to every breath of emotion, and his nerves craved ever newer shocks; to pant, to quiver, to thrill, to grow faint in the spasm of intense sensation.

To dieto sleep No more; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished: to die, to sleep; To sleep!

The reason why this discovery has had to be made so often is that it shocks people.

What "shocks" one circle will seem perfectly natural in another; and one great truth should always be held firmly in mindthat the approval of one's neighbours has never yet paid a man's bills.

Oh, it shocks me so to note Women pleading for the vote!

Finally they would touch the living rag at the bottom,the gelatinous flesh of the fish-torpedo,receiving a series of electric shocks which quickly made them loosen their prey, laughing and raising the other hand to their jerking arms.

Oh, if you could imagine how this title 'Missis,' addressed to me and to my children, shocks all my feelings!