Chevelure Sonnet XXVIII Posthumous Remorse The Balcony The Possessed One Semper Eadem All Entire Sonnet XLIII
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
We may also, in trusting to God and our mediator the holy apostle Peter, consider the war in this province at an end, since Xicotencatl and the other chiefs no longer show themselves, because they fear us on account of the destruction we made among their troops in the late battles, or it may be they are unable to rally their men
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
; derivation of the name, x. 270 n. ; kindled by the friction of a wheel, x. 270, 273, 289 sq. , 292; kindled with oak-wood, x. 271, 272, 275, 276, 278, 281, 289 sq. , 294; called “wild-fire,” x. 272, 273, 277; kindled by nine kinds of wood, x. 278, 280; kindled by fir-wood, x. 278, 282; kindled as a remedy for witchcraft, x. 280, 292 sq. , 293, 295; called “living fire,” x. 281, 286; healing virtue ascribed to, x. 281, 286; kindled by lime-wood, x. 281, 283, 286; kindled by poplar-wood, x. 282; regarded as a barrier interposed between cattle and an evil spirit, x. 282, 285 sq. ; kindled by cornel-tree wood, x. 286; revealed by an angel from heaven, x. 287; used to heat water, x. 289; kindled on an island, x. 290 sq. , 291 sq. ; kindled by birch-wood, x. 291; kindled between two running streams, x. 292; kindled to prevent fever, x. 297; probable antiquity of the, x. 297 sq. ; kindled by elm-wood, x. 299; the parent of the periodic fire-festivals, x. 299, 343; Lindenbrog on, x. 335 n. 1; used by Slavonic peoples to combat vampyres, x. 344; sometimes kindled by the friction of fir, plane, birch, lime, poplar, cornel-wood, xi. 91 n. 1 Neftenbach, in Canton of Zurich, the Corn-mother at harvest at, vii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer
24-30, and Englische Studien, xv.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
She saw the young Dominion strip For battle with a grievous wrong, And curled a noble Norman lip, And looked with half an eye sidelong; XXIX
— from Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
122; surrounded with a ring of fire as a protection against an evil spirit, x. 282 Village May-poles in England, ii. 66 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer
An Evil Spirit XVIII.
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
MAIOR’ ET VICECOMITU’ LONDON’ TEMPORE REG’ EDWARDI T’TIJ, QUI CORONATUS FUIT APUD WESTM’ DIE D’NICA PRIMO DIE FEBRUAR’ ANNO D’NI MILL’MO CCC mo xxvj to , ET ANNO ETATIS SUE xiiij, [50] P’RE SUO AD TUNC VIVENTE.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous
Coronacio Ricardi secundi filij Edwardi Principis Wallie anno etatis sue xj mo .
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous
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