At the same time Robin Hood threw back the cowl of horse's hide from his face and bent Guy of Gisbourne's bow, with a keen, barbed arrow fitted to the string.

Had he been human, he would have loved; had he loved, he would never have worn a cowl.

He saw two bands of the Sheriff's men, yet he turned neither to the right nor the left, but only drew his cowl the closer over his face, folding his hands as if in meditation.

Charles V. of Germany imitated the Roman Emperor, and after thirty-six years took the cowl.

'Tis so'tis soI knew that I should pluck The cowl from your delusionIs't

" To this speech the other answered not a word, but he pushed the cowl back from his head and showed a knit brow, a hooked nose, and a pair of fierce, restless black eyes, which altogether made Robin think of a hawk as he looked on his face.

and putting back the cowl from his tonsured crown, he puffed out his cheeks and mopped his face.

The former then adjusted his cowl, and prepared to depart.

I to the cloister saw him led, Saw the wide cowl upon his head; Heard him, in his last dying hour, Warn others from the thirst of power; Adjure the orphan of his friend Pardon and needful aid to lend, If heaven vouchsaf'd her yet to live;

" Then backward slipped the cowl from off his head, Downward the robe of grey; A radiant presence by the lowly bed Greeted the breaking day.

Give me thy cup; that, joy-possessed, I may tear this azure cowl from my breast, The wise may deem me lost to shame, But no care have I for renown or name. Bring wine!how many a witless head By the wind of pride has with dust been spread!

Ere yet in scorn of Peter's pence, And numbered bead and shrift, Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift.

With its grimy stucco front, its cellar kitchen, its hundred stairs and steps, its perfect inconvenience, and its conscience heavy with the doing to death of sundry general servants, it uplifted tin chimney-cowls to heaven and gloomily awaited the day of judgment for London houses, sublimely ignoring the axial and orbital velocities of the earth and even the reckless flight of the whole solar system through space.

As she watched, it slowly removed the cowl and the napkin and exposed the fell face of Tabitha, so strangely contorted between fear and triumph that she hardly recognized it.

Having listened to the Dominican's terrific denunciations of worldliness and immorality, he carried his life studies to the pyre of vanities, resolved to assume the cowl, and renounced his art.

how I did hate that man!" "Woman, woman!" exclaimed the monk, rising up from his seat, and casting back the cowl from his head, "Oh, God!

Constans was a monk, but at the death of his father he laid aside the cowl for the crown.