"In frost is born this flame of love" Such legend circles the device "And the fierce fire in which I burn Is nourished by the breath of ice." Upon her brow the lady wears A crown; her dexter hand sustains A royal sceptre, gilded bright, To show that o'er all hearts she reigns.

Eumenes, defeated by Antigonus, shuts himself up in the castle of Nora, where he sustains a year's siege.

He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, 5 Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above. 43.

Heirs of the Augustans, Johnson and Gray have perfect control over their respective diction and metres: here are no obscurities or false notes; Johnson sustains with superb dignity the tone of moral grandeur; Gray is ever felicitous.

The Book of Thel allegorically showed the mutual interdependence of all creation, and reprehended the maiden shyness that shrinks from merging its life in the sacrificial union which sustains the whole.

Each motion guides, and every nerve sustains; Itself unseen, but in th' effects, remains.

The story of "Beautiful Joe" awakens an intense interest, and sustains it through a series of vivid incidents and episodes, each of which is a lesson.

The victim sustains a shock of illumination hardly less than divine.

He alone is reality; He made us and sustains us.

Was it definite and practical knowledge of outward phenomena; or was it "a longing after love, in the contemplation of which the mortal soul sustains itself, and becomes participant in the glories of immortality"?

Beside a little smoky flame Sate hovering, pinched with age and frost; Her shrivelled hands, with veins embossed, Upon her knees her weight sustains, While palsy shook her crazy brains: She mumbles forth her backward prayers, An untamed scold of fourscore years.

"The idea of duty alone sustains me; the spirit is willing, the flesh must."

"This is the spirit, Gaetano, which sustains our mountaineers, and renders them more happy amid their frosts and rocks, than thy Genoese on his warm and glowing bay.

They are the ones among the blacks who carry the entire weight of the race question; it worries the others very little, and I believe the only thing which at times sustains them is that they know that they are in the right.

I appeal, however, to a higher law, and that, I think, sustains me.

In freedom it sustains conduct with a proud assurance of community and reputation.

The All-embracer, All-sustainer, Holds and sustains

A single tent-pole, supported upon a hinged tripod of iron, sustains the structure.

Each opens entirely upon the street, there are no doors or windows, and when the proprietor wants to close he puts up heavy wooden shutters that fit into grooves in the threshold and the beam that sustains the roof.

Their slow and languid gait, and the trifling services which they impose, betoken only apathetic indolence; but should the slave not promptly obey, should he even fail to divine the meaning of their gestures, or looks, in an instant they are armed with a formidable whip; it is no longer the arm which cannot sustain the weight of a shawl or a reticuleit is no longer the form which but feebly sustains itself.

"Another friend writing from South Carolina, and who sustains herself the legal relation of slaveholder, in a letter dated April 4th, 1838, says'I have some time since, given you my views on the subject of slavery, which so much engrosses your attention.

While each is inalienably entitled to assert and enjoy his own personality as a man, each sustains to all and all to each, various relations.

It's the land, when a's said a's done, that feeds us and sustains us; clothes us and keeps us.

It sustains the four ends of the four long iron tubes which span the Straits from shore to shore.

A single and brief passage may show the spirit of the production, and how completely it sustains the idea of this symbolism.