Before her now they place a sable bier Beside the fount; and Ishtar, drawing near, Raised the white pall from Tammuz's perfect form.

" Who'll bear the pall?

He has thrown a pall of gorgeous embroidery over the bloody hearse of Mary.

In 1152 a papal legate had carried out a great reform by which four archbishops, wholly independent of Canterbury and receiving their palls from Rome, were set over four provinces.

Over the ruins of the elevators hung a pall of heavy smoke.

Above this headland lay a dark pall of vapour.

Lo, Darkness fell, And round him cast its stifling pall!

Two months later John of Salisbury brought him the pall from Pope Alexander at Montpellier, and for the first time since the Norman Conquest, a man born on English soil was set at the head of the English Church.

"'Aw,' said the soldier, with a leer, 'I've got de lapsy-palls, and I wanter go to de horspittle, I do.' "I never saw such a mad man as Kemp was.

More often they have left a pall than a light in the heavens, for the most brilliant lives in Irish history have led to the most tragic deaths.

Lancelot had found Byron and Shelley pall on his taste and commenced devouring Bulwer and worshipping Ernest Maltravers.

XI. Swiftly rose they, and the corse surrounded, Spreading out a pall into the air; And the sharp and sudden crackling sounded Mournfully to all the watchers there.

The damp of a ceaselessly wet day seemed to have laid its cheerless pall upon the whole exceedingly ugly landscape.

Except the lords appointed to hold the pall, and attend the chief mourner, when the attendants were called over in their ranks, there was not a single English lord, not one bishop, and only one Irish lord (Lord Limerick), and three sons of peers.

Each instant the ghostly pall that shut out vision seaward seemed drifting away.

A pale glow on the rim of the rolling hills across the valley, herald of the moon not yet above the horizon, intensified the pall beneath the approaching cloud.

The original French is improper; so I will give you the English version, by the celebrated Robinson, the cleverest adapter of the day: 'Poor odalisques in captive thrall Must never let their charms pall: If they get the sack They ne'er come back; For the Bosphorus is the boss for all In this harem, harem, harem, harem, harum scarum place.

Dim shadows these that come at Fancy's call Yet deeper scenes before the Patriot rise, As fate's stern prophet lifts the fearful pall, And shows the future to his straining eyes.

William, therefore, pretending that the primate had obtained his pall in an irregular manner from Pope Benedict IX., who was himself an usurper, refused to be consecrated by him, and conferred this honour on Aldred, Archbishop of York.

Unlike Adam Lambert, his eyes were unaccustomed to pierce the moist pall which hid the distance from his view.

When the body was carried out of St. George's Hall, the sky was serene and clear; but presently a storm of snow fell so fast, that before it reached the chapel the pall and the mourners were entirely whitened.

On removing the black pall which Herbert described, a plain leaden coffin was found, with the inscription 'King Charles, 1648.'

But unto him who finds men's souls astray In night that they know not is night at all, Walking, with reckless feet, where they may fall Each moment into deadlier deaths than slay The flesh,to him whose truth can rend away From such lost souls their moral night's black pall, Oh, unto him what words can hearts recall Which their deep gratitude finds fit to say?

The thermometer fell, but there was not a breath of wind to shift the pall of dust which hung above the long columns of horse, foot, and guns.

Beyond the hill showed a gray pall of rain, coming slowly, charged with a low roar.