He enters and finds a smiling wife and son, with a smoking pig awaiting his coming.

She is like the watchman who announces the coming of Agamemnon; Clytemnestra sharpens her ax at the news, and the fatal bath is prepared for the anax andron.

It had gone on before, and was waiting my coming.

The political downfall of Persia has effectually prevented the coming of another spring and summer.

The spring, notwithstanding its early March smiles, delayed its coming that year, and the grim facts of the scarcity of feed faced the thriftiest farmers.

All who were useless, taking wages either from man or from God, without doing any work in return, all these would have but too good reason to dread the coming of the kingdom of God.

I never knew good come of persecution.

The advantage of the term is that it implies that they were on the point of developing, that they could "all but speak," were "trying to utter connected notes," were "but one step" behind flint axes, when some cosmic power said, "Hitherto shalt thou come and no further.

"How do you know that?" "We know it by His starthe star that was prophesied as heralding His coming.

It was one of those bleak and rainy days which mark the coming of spring on New England sea-shores.

Thunder-showers occur here during the summer months, and impressive it is to watch the coming of the big transparent drops, each a small world in itself,one unbroken ocean without islands hurling free through the air like planets through space.

No ear may hear His coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him still, The dear Christ enters in.

In a Southern land such a worker as this must always have an audience, and the children hail with delight the coming of the mattress-maker.

I this, bidding thee come, my Beltane the Smith, for I" The crumpled letter fell to the ground.

How anticipate its comings and goings, its returns, its stops, its shocks?

When Allat saw the flaming herald come, And his bright light dispelling all her gloom, She beat her breast; and at him furious foams In rage, and stamping shakes all Hades' domes, Thus cursed the herald, At-su-su-namir: "Away!

The second, that he had grant of our Lord God that none Irish man shall abide the coming of Antichrist.

Jerusalem, long in the hands of a tolerant sect of Saracens who welcomed the coming of Christian worshippers as a source of revenue, was captured in 1075 by another more fanatic Mahometan sect, and word came back to Europe that pilgrimage was stopped.

They seemed to call to me, and I looked into their bright faces, threw myself among them, and hugged as many as my arms could encircle, then laid my ear close to the ground to catch the low sound of moving leaf and stem, or of the mysterious ticking in the earth, which foretells the coming of later plants.

In barren splendour o'er the slumbering strath; While some sat trembling, fearing Garry's wrath, Some feared the coming of the foe, and some Had vague forebodings, and were brooding dumb, And longed to greet the huntsmen.

A thrill ran through him as he recalled the great dream which he had once cherishedto combat debility, the sole cause of disease; to cure suffering humanity; to make a higher, and healthy humanity; to hasten the coming of happiness, the future kingdom of perfection and felicity, by intervening and giving health to all!

"'Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord,'" muttered the surgeon in his deep bass, as he looked forth upon the streaming, radiant heavens.

And he read to the people out of the Book of Magicians, which tells the comings of the comet and foretells his coming again.

In fact, it was the general feeling of the French that they were divinely guided to fulfil the Lord's work, and Charles felt a strong veneration for the man who had prophesied his coming and foretold the success of his expedition.

" And in a flash of terrific clarity she remembered her home-coming and the night that followed it and Jerrold's acquiescence in their separation.