Salathiel: A Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future, Volume 2 |
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Arab army assault battle beggar blaze blow brave broken burning burst Cęsarea captain cavalry cavern chance cloud command Constantius countenance cried crowd death dungeon earth Eleazar enemy escape exclaimed falchion feel feet fell felt fierce fire flame Florus flung followed fortress furious galley gave gazed Gessius Florus glance hand head heard heart Heaven Herod hills honour hope horse hour human Idumean Jerusalem Jubal Judea legionaries legions lictors living look Mark Anthony Masada Memnon midst mind Mount Taurus mountain nature never night numbers once palace Palestine perish perpetual plunged poniard portcullis poured procurator rampart returned roar Roman Rome rose round roused rushed Salathiel Salome scarcely seen shekel shore shouts side sight slave sleep soldier soul sound spear spirit stood struck sword Syrian thing thought torches tribe tribune trireme triumph troops trumpets voice walls whole wild wind wine
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Page 179 - Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. God is known in her palaces for a refuge.
Page 322 - ... the pleasant sharer of the heart of heart, the being to whom man returns after the tumult of the day, like the worshipper to a secret shrine, to revive his nobler tastes and virtues at a source pure from the evil of the external world, and glowing with a perpetual light of sanctity and love ; where shall we find her equal...
Page 315 - I did not deeply care for the consequences even of meeting man in his worst shape. Hunger and thirst might be more formidable enemies in the end; and I advanced towards the halfnaked savage, who, however, ran from me crying out louder than ever. I dragged my weary limbs after him, and at length reached the edge of a little dell, in which stood a circle of tents. I had fallen among the robbers of the desert; but there was evident confusion in this fragment of a tribe. The camels were in the act of...
Page 162 - ... it had the higher importance of a triumph at the beginning of a war, the moment when even the courageous are perplexed by doubt, and the timid watch their opportunity to raise the cry of ill fortune. It showed the facility of conquest, where men are determined to run the full risk of good or evil ; it shook the military credit of the enemy, by the proof, that they could be over-matched in activity, spirit, and conduct. The capture of a Roman fortress by assault was a thing almost unheard of....
Page 317 - Caesarea, to sell his prize to the Roman governor ; when my arrival put his caravan to the rout. To my inquiry into the cause of this singular success, the fair girl answered, that the Arabs had taken me for a supernatural visitant, " probably come to claim some account of their proceedings in the late expedition.
Page 288 - To communicate the probable loss of their captain (and what could human struggle do among the mountainous waves of that sea?) might be to dispirit the crew and ruin the enterprise. I took the command upon myself, and gave the word to fall on. A storm of fire, as strange to the enemy as if it had risen from the bottom of the sea, was instantly poured on the advanced ships. The surprise was complete.
Page 193 - is the first infliction of the sentence that is to separate, to smite, to pursue me, to the last hour of time!" I instinctively put my hand to my brow, to feel if the mark of Cain were not already there. I gave one hurried glance at Heaven, as if to see the form of the destroying angel stooping over me.
Page 317 - They had been first startled by the blaze in the island, which, by a tradition of the desert, was said to be the dwelling of forbidden beings. My passage of the channel was seen and increased the wonder; my daring to appear alone among men whom mankind shunned, completed the belief of my more than mortal prowess; and the Arabs...
Page 293 - I heard the victorious shouts, and mine rose spontaneously along with them. In every vessel burned, in every torch flung, I rejoiced in a new blow to the tyrants of Judea. But my thoughts were soon fearfully brought home. The fire reached the cables; the trireme, plunging and tossing like a living creature in its last agony, burst away from her anchors: the wind was off the shore; a gust, strong as the blow of a battering ram, struck her; and, on the back of a huge refluent wave, she shot out to...
Page 72 - My eyes, half blinded by the glare of the sands, and even my mind exhausted by the perplexities of the day, found delicious relaxation in the verdure and dewy breath of the silent valley. My barb, with the quick sense of animals accustomed to the travel of the wilderness, showed her delight by playful boundings, the prouder arching of her neck, and the brighter glancing of her bright eye.