When we enter the visible body of the Church on earth, we connect ourselves with the invisible hosts of the Church on high.

"The work once done, our labor there is o'er, And home we travel," to ourselves we said. Close kept our footmen round the chariot track; Our eager host in close battalions sped.

And beholding their might and confident bearing, Beltane clenched nervous hands and his mouth grew hard and grim, so turned he from this formidable host to where, just beyond the woods, his father's banner flew beside the leopards of Mortain.

Louis put the question to his cousin the next evening, as he sought a few moments' respite from his duties as host at her side.

General French's army advanced to meet the German hosts with forced marches from their temporary base to the southeast of Paris.

In that claim he saw not only the justification of the Conquest in the eyes of the church, but his great safeguard against the jealous and aggressive host by whose aid he had realized it; therefore, immediately after the battle of Hastings he proceeded to seek the national recognition of its validity.

Was it not, perhaps, as near the mark as that of our airmen hosts on March 1st has proved itself to be?

The Warrior girds himself and longs eagerly to marshal great, shining, active hosts for God!

Aping this art divine, the human race Plans for itself on earth a comedy: It makes kings, priests, slaves, heroes for the eyes Of vulgar folk; and gives them masks to play Their several partsnot wisely, as we see; For impious men too oft we canonise, And kill the saints; while spurious lords array Their hosts against the real nobility.

And David ordained his people and battle against him, and sent Joab, prince of his host, against Absalom, and divided his host into three parts, and would have gone with them, but Joab counselled that he should not go to the battle whatsomever happed, and then David bade them to save his son Absalom.

The next day news arrived that a great Moorish host under the Sultan's two sons was only three hours' march away.

How good to remember, as one writes, all that has happened since I was in Senlis!and the increased distance that now divides the German hosts from the great prize on which they had set their hearts.

They hastened to the host without drawing rein, for the king was with child to know how the castle was so swiftly taken, and in what manner the earl was slain.

So the knight sat down to supper with strange company, and discoursed of chivalry to the bewilderment of all present, treating the inn as a castle, the host as a noble gentleman, and the wenches as great ladies.

Perhaps if I had been myself a campaigner I should have been less awed by the spectacle; but having nothing with which to compare it, I judged this a host before which the scattered Border stockades and Nicholson's scanty militia would go down like stubble before fire.

[Exeunt.] ACT III SCENEThe door of the Hostel, a group of Pilgrims as before; IDONEA and the Host among them HOST Lady, you'll find your Father at the Convent As I have told you: He left us yesterday With two Companions; one of them, as seemed, His most familiar Friend.

A host like theirs, led by a weak and foolish captain, what is it worth?

Arden thinks he has wronged him, and invites him to his house, but Mosby conspires with two hired ruffians to fall on his host during a game of draughts, the right moment being signified by Mosby's saying, "Now I take you."

"But mark, that green pavilion; girt around By Persian nobles, speaks the Chief renowned; Fierce on the standard, worked with curious art, A hideous dragon writhing seems to start; Throned in his tent the warrior's form is seen, Towering above the assembled host between! A generous horse before him snorts and neighs, The trembling earth the echoing sound conveys.

But he spoke rather to himself or to his host than by way of serious rejoinder to the ruffled lady.

* With thunder and fire, leading his starry hosts through the waste wilderness, he promulgates his ten commands, glancing his beamy eyelids over the deep in dark dismay.

The next day we enjoyed the hospitality of our kindly host until after supper.

He had said nothing to our host about the turnkey, wishing as few persons as possible to know of that matter, but doubted not that we should by all means hasten our departure from the island, for that as soon as the turnkey was missed inquiry would certainly be made for the plasterers with whom he was last seen.

Thou land, on whose deep, still lakes Scandinavia's fairy builds her colonnades, and leads her battling, shadowy host over the icy mirror!

After a glance at Hermia, in whose face he read affirmation, Markham assented, and urging the unwilling donkey, he and Hermia followed their host down the slope and into the glen.