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... robes , and wandered through the whole country in search of the chest which contained the dead body of her husband . At length she learnt that the chest had been carried by the waves to the shore of Byblos , and had there lodged in the ...
... robes , and wandered through the whole country in search of the chest which contained the dead body of her husband . At length she learnt that the chest had been carried by the waves to the shore of Byblos , and had there lodged in the ...
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... robes , and its warriors in the blue paint of war , and its virgins with their long and glossy yellow hair . But first I will lead you back into the past , and relate to you why this land was called Albion , and why Britain . BOOK THE ...
... robes , and its warriors in the blue paint of war , and its virgins with their long and glossy yellow hair . But first I will lead you back into the past , and relate to you why this land was called Albion , and why Britain . BOOK THE ...
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... the former in Wales , of the latter in the Shetland Isles . The women wore tunics , wrought and interwoven with various colours , over which was a loose robe of D coarser make , secured with brazen buckles . They let DESCRIPTION 33.
... the former in Wales , of the latter in the Shetland Isles . The women wore tunics , wrought and interwoven with various colours , over which was a loose robe of D coarser make , secured with brazen buckles . They let DESCRIPTION 33.
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... robes more gorgeous even than their own was surrounded , not by his noblemen , but by Druids . He was a prisoner in his court , and his jailors were inexorable , for they were priests . There was a Chief Druid to advise him , a bard to ...
... robes more gorgeous even than their own was surrounded , not by his noblemen , but by Druids . He was a prisoner in his court , and his jailors were inexorable , for they were priests . There was a Chief Druid to advise him , a bard to ...
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... robes which descended to the heel , while that of others came only to the knee ; their hair was short and their beards long , while the Britons wore but moustaches on their upper lips , and their hair generally long . Instead of sandals ...
... robes which descended to the heel , while that of others came only to the knee ; their hair was short and their beards long , while the Britons wore but moustaches on their upper lips , and their hair generally long . Instead of sandals ...
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Page 201 - But if the wife should drink of it first God help the husband then ! The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne And drank of the water again. " You drank of the Well I warrant betimes ?
Page 200 - St. Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Page 199 - But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind does an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...
Page 191 - ... dream of the man you are to have. This we did; and to be sure I did nothing all night but dream of Mr. Blossom. The same night, exactly at twelve o'clock, I sowed hempseed in our back yard, and said to myself," Hempseed I sow, hemp-seed I hoe, and he that is my true love come after me and mow.
Page 200 - And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he, And he sat down upon the bank, Under the willow-tree.
Page 187 - ... being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, "This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep; and so on.
Page 211 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
Page 200 - I'll venture my life She has drunk of the Well of St. Keyne ." "I have left a good woman who never was here...
Page 187 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off...
Page 185 - There is amongst us a people who, when they go out in search of prey, carry their horses on their backs to the place of plunder ; in order to catch their prey, they leap upon their horses, and when it is taken, carry their horses home again upon their shoulders.