Do we say titan or tighten

titan 140 occurrences

You will meet with many of these writers, who will give you a fine heroic long preface, that makes you hope for something extraordinary to follow, when after all, the body of the history shall be idle, weak, and trifling, such as puts you in mind of a sporting Cupid, who covers his head with the mask of a Hercules or Titan.

If we compare his Titan with similar characters in Faust and Cain, we shall find this interesting difference,that while Goethe's Titan is cultured and self-reliant, and Byron's stoic and hopeless, Shelley's hero is patient under torture, seeing help and hope beyond his suffering.

If we compare his Titan with similar characters in Faust and Cain, we shall find this interesting difference,that while Goethe's Titan is cultured and self-reliant, and Byron's stoic and hopeless, Shelley's hero is patient under torture, seeing help and hope beyond his suffering.

Chatterton has the force of a young poetical Titan, who threatens to take Parnassus by storm.

Once more it uplifts its giant height beside the Rhine, repelling in Titan majesty the ambition of France; once more, by its united gifts of natural position and scientific aid, it appears prepared to vindicate its noble appellation of "the broad stone of honour.

For otherwise there are many things which he will fail to understand and put up with, nay, at which he will be completely puzzled, and that man longest of all whose heart is made of better clay Et meliore luto finxit praecordia Titan.

So the beautiful bridge was lost, destroyed in this Titan battle, but far down in the water could be seen many of the stately trees which the Great Spirit caused to remain there as a token of the bridge.

Work, the Titan; Work, the friend, Shaping the earth to a glorious end, Draining the swamps and blasting the hills, Doing whatever the Spirit wills Rending a continent apart, To answer the dream of the Master heart.

sacristyDonatello againThe palace of the dead Grand DukesCostly intarsiaMichelangelo's sacristyA weary Titan's lifeThe victim of capricious pontiffsThe Medici tombsMementi moriThe Casa BuonarrotiBrunelleschi's cloistersA model library.

I have been greatly pleased, but most, I think, with the Hesiod,the Titan battle quite amazed me.

The Frontier of PhrygiaAncient Quarries and TombsWe Enter the Pine ForestsA Guard-HouseEncampments of the TurcomansPastoral SceneryA Summer VillageThe Valley of the TombsRock Sepulchres of the Phrygian KingsThe Titan's CampThe Valley of KümbehA Land of FlowersTurcoman HospitalityThe Exiled EffendisThe Old TurcomanA Glimpse of ArcadiaA LandscapeInterested FriendshipThe Valley of the PursekArrival at Kiutahya.

I named this singular phenomenonwhich seems to have escaped the notice of travellersThe Titan's Camp.

They are like the wail of a lost child, rather than the remorse of a Titan.

Such is the case with Prometheus, a splendid fragment, in which we get a glimpse of the Titan battling, as the friend of man, against the ever-living gods.

I issue from the Titan's race.

THOAS Bear they their own guilt, or their ancestor's? IPHIGENIA The Titan's mighty breast and nervous frame Was his descendants' certain heritage; But round their brow Jove forg'd a band of brass.

Emathion, a son of Titan and Aurora, reigned in Macedonia.

Steve was referring to Jack and Jill, the diminutive citizens of Titan who had played a critical role in rescuing Eagle City from the pirates during their assault on Mars.

William Morton Wheeler (A); 6Nov64; R348119. WHEELER-BENNETT, SIR JOHN W. Wooden titan: Hindenburg in twenty years of German history, 1914-1934.

An Honorable titan; a biographical study of Adolph S. Ochs.

Mendelssohn's "Lieder" gave a lighter recreation, and many a happy evening did we spend, my mother and I, over the stately strains of the blind Titan, and the sweet melodies of the German wordless orator.

AT`LAS, a Titan who, for his audacity in attempting to dethrone Zeus, was doomed to bear the heavens on his shoulders; although another account makes him a king of Mauritania whom Perseus, for his want of hospitality, changed into a mountain by exposing to view the head of the Medusa.

LETO (i. e. the hidden one), one of the Titan brood, who became by Zeus the mother of Apollo and Artemis, and for whose confinement, in her persecution by Hera, Poseidon by a stroke of his trident fixed the till then floating island of Delos to the sea-bottom.

Through SHELLEY's vision rare Of high Revolt one mighty image glows, This pregnant symbol of the struggling pair, So strangely matched, and wildly-warring foes, Filling the startled air with Titan throes.

These tropic breezes came like benevolent fairies, to aid our groaning Titan in his labors.

tighten 127 occurrences

So, turning aside into the denser green, Beltane stayed, and sprang down to tighten the great roan's saddle-girths, strained in the encounter.

" In his turn the steed spoke and said: "Dismount, unfasten the breast-strap, tighten the girth, for some women are coming to show themselves to us in this country."

His collar is so white and stiff and portentous as to make it impossible for him to tighten up his own girths.

CLOSING IN ON LENS An advance by the Canadians in the neighborhood of the Green Grassier on the southern edge of Lens added greatly to the strength of the British line, which continued to tighten steadily about the heart of the city.

Not so your American wayfarer, city bred or country grown; it will be wonderful if he can lengthen a stirrup leather, ad, before allowing such an one to tighten a girth for you, you would better alight and take shelter behind a tree, and a good large tree, because he may drive your horse half frantic by his well- meant unskilfulness.

The feeling seemed to stiffen me, as I sat, and my head appeared to tighten, as if all the scalp had grown tense.

Then he pretended to tie the ends behind, but just as he had made a half knot in the cord, and was going to tighten it and strangle the bird, the latter was too quick for him and suddenly slipped away and escaped.

There are but few of our party who are adepts in the art of packing, for verily it is an art acquired by long practice, and we look with admiration upon our packers as they "throw the rope" with such precision, and with great skill and rapidity tighten the cinch and gird the load securely upon the back of the broncho.

Tighten the piston and you will stop it.

When you have it at the proper place, tighten just enough to keep from slipping, then bring your reverse lever to the reverse position and bring your engine to the center.

If it shows the same lead for the reverse motion you are then ready to tighten your eccentrics securely, and they should be marked as before.

He pressed the muzzle of the revolver into the back of Perris but his finger refused to tighten around the trigger.

He used it in single blows, just as the men were lifting to tighten the bale cords.

She made a sharp movement to free herself, and the blush she had so valiantly resisted flamed over face and neck as she felt his hold tighten as sharply, and heard him laugh at her impotence.

About the time he got the noose pulled up around the hog so that he could tighten up on it, he dropped his hat and scared the hog.

Lord Rhondda is still hopeful that John Bull will tighten his own belt and save him the trouble.

He saw the girl's arms run to tighten about the soldier's neck.

Again the girl's arms ran to tighten about the soldier's neck.

Love giving; let the throat tighten with emotion for others, and the hand go out to the stranger; love giving, but love morehim who receives.

Therefore, Jack's lips found reason to tighten and cease their eager quivering for a kiss.

If the men relaxed for a minute, up goes the irate cow's heels, away goes the pail "dowsing" the maid with the foaming milk from head to foot, anon the wild-eyed brute would down horns and charge, the milkeress takes to her heels, then a flight of lassoos, over goes the frantic animal onto her back, the ropes tighten until she was conquered and forced to "give down some of her juice."

'Well, any one that would let as little swimming water as that stop them must be a heap sight sorry outfit,' remarked one-eyed Jim Reed, as he rode out of the river, dismounting to set his saddle forward and tighten his cinches, not noticing that this foreman heard him.

There was but little evidence of what occurred; only a deeper swell, tossing the raft giddily about for a moment, and causing West to tighten his grip on the girl's hand.

He paused a moment, and gazed into the fire, a look of deep sorrow and regret on his sharply-cut face, and Ethelrida unconsciously allowed her slim fingers to tighten in his grasp.

She felt his hand tighten upon hers, till the pressure was almost more than she could endure.

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