Antiquitates Curiosæ: The Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings, Proverbs, and Singular Customs ExplainedT. and J. Allman, 1819 - 156 Seiten When a deadly virus breaks out in Seattle, nine thousand people die, while thousands more gain remarkable new abilities. The disaster leaves Jordan Collier, the charismatic leader of The 4400 Movement, in charge of the city, but an international conspiracy will stop at nothing to bring him down. NTAC agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris find themselves caught in the middle as they try to save Seattle from both Jordan and his enemies, with the future of the planet hanging in the balance. |
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Seite 68 - oak. Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy .' Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evening song." In another place he styles it the solemn bird; and
Seite 106 - Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord." Psalm cxviii. 19. Upon which the masons fall to work, and break down the wall that stops up the gate: which done, the Pope kneels down before it, and the penitentiaries sprinkle him with holy water. Then, taking up the cross, he begins to sing Te
Seite 115 - Steele, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen* The reason of this, their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane.
Seite 114 - in Italy, doe always at their meals use a little forke, when they eate their meate; for, while with their knife, which they hold in one .hand, they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten the forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish; so that, whatsoever he be, that sitting in the company of any
Seite 69 - styles it the solemn bird; and he says again: "As the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note.
Seite 144 - athwart the water, till the patient, by foregoing his strength, had somewhat forgot his fury. Then he was conveyed to the church, and certaine masses sung over him; upon which handling, if his right wits returned," the patroness of the well," had the thanks; but, if there appeared small amendment, he was bowssened
Seite 113 - which adorned the original sign, that of St. Lawrence. These were the effects of his martyrdom, for (says the legend) flowers sprung up on the spot of his cruel martyrdom. A PALMER, WHEREIN DIFFERENT TO A PILGRIM. A palmer, opposed to pilgrim, was one, who made it his sole business to visit different holy shrines, travelling incessantly, and subsisting by
Seite 114 - the meate out of the dish, they fasten the forke, which they hold in the other hand, upon the same dish; so that, whatsoever he be, that sitting in the company of any other at
Seite 146 - dried and wasted by the sun, nothing remained within the shell but nerves and cartilages, and these, being braced and contracted by the drying heat, became sonorous. Mercury, walking along the banks of the Nile, happened to strike his foot against this shell; and was so pleased with the sound produced, that the idea of a lyre
Seite 115 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion, by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home : being once quipped for that frequently using my forke, by a certain learned gentleman, a familiar friend of mine, Mr. Lawrence Whitaker, who, in his merry humour, doubted not to call me