Readings in Folk-lore: Short Studies in the Mythology of America, Great Britain, the Norse Countries, Germany, India, Syria, Egypt, and PersiaAmerican Book Company, 1893 - 448 pages |
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Christine Feehan. DARK CURSE DARK HUNGER DARK POSSESSION DARK CELEBRATION DARK DEMON DARK SECRET DARK DESTINY DARK MELODY DARK SYMPHONY DARK GUARDIAN DARK LEGEND DARK FIRE DARK CHALLENGE DARK MAGIC DARK GOLD DARK DESIRE DARK PRINCE ...
Christine Feehan. DARK CURSE DARK HUNGER DARK POSSESSION DARK CELEBRATION DARK DEMON DARK SECRET DARK DESTINY DARK MELODY DARK SYMPHONY DARK GUARDIAN DARK LEGEND DARK FIRE DARK CHALLENGE DARK MAGIC DARK GOLD DARK DESIRE DARK PRINCE ...
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... dark times that are any different than the myriad dark times of the past. However, what is different is how we relate to that darkness, how we define that darkness, and how we let it define us. With the proliferation of witchcraft ...
... dark times that are any different than the myriad dark times of the past. However, what is different is how we relate to that darkness, how we define that darkness, and how we let it define us. With the proliferation of witchcraft ...
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... dark and supernatural poetic accounts in More Gothic Tales, a continuation of the popular series that gives thrills and chills in the telling that many have come to enjoy. In Gothic Romance & Archaic love, we once more visit upon ...
... dark and supernatural poetic accounts in More Gothic Tales, a continuation of the popular series that gives thrills and chills in the telling that many have come to enjoy. In Gothic Romance & Archaic love, we once more visit upon ...
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... Dark Legacy, compiled and pieced together in the same manner as its parent, type written and stapled together with card stock covers. So, in the end, Dark Legacy died. And so did my special editions, Innsmouth Tales as rare as Dagon at ...
... Dark Legacy, compiled and pieced together in the same manner as its parent, type written and stapled together with card stock covers. So, in the end, Dark Legacy died. And so did my special editions, Innsmouth Tales as rare as Dagon at ...
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... dark matter Astrophys. J. 636 721–41 [5] Clowe D et al 2006 A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter Astrophys. J. 648 L109–13 [6] Hoekstra H and Jain B 2008 Weak Gravitational Lensing and its Cosmological Applications ...
... dark matter Astrophys. J. 636 721–41 [5] Clowe D et al 2006 A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter Astrophys. J. 648 L109–13 [6] Hoekstra H and Jain B 2008 Weak Gravitational Lensing and its Cosmological Applications ...
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Page 346 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Page 38 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee; This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor,...
Page 325 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 142 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Page 256 - To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe: And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards, And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards, And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks, And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks; And it seemed as if a voice (Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery Is breathed) called out, Oh rats, rejoice!
Page 320 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Page 323 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 406 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. XVII Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour, and went his way.
Page 405 - Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? And this first Summer month that brings the Rose Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
Page 323 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.