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Carey, Peter
(Encyclopedia) Carey, Peter, 1943–, Australian novelist, b. near Melbourne. Carey's combination of science fiction and fantasy motifs with a realistic style, displayed in the short stories in The Fat…The Iliad of Homer: Of the single combat between Alas and Hector, and of the burying of the dead, and the building of a wall about the Achaian ships
Book 6 Book 8 Of the single combat between Alas and Hector, and of the burying of the dead, and the building of a wall about the Achaian ships. So spake glorious Hector and issued…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I see thine image through my tears to-night
I see thine image through my tears to-nightI see thine image through my tears to-night, And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How Refer the cause?—Beloved, is it thou Or I, who makes me sad?…The Iliad of Homer: The Battle in the River Scamander
The Battle of the Gods, and th... The Death of Hector. The Battle in the River Scamander. The Trojans fly before Achilles, some towards the town, others to the river Scamander: he…Andersen's Fairy Tales: Of the Flower-Garden At the Old Woman's Who Understood Witchcraft
A Little Boy and a Little GirlThe Prince and PrincessOf the Flower-Garden At the Old Woman's Who Understood Witchcraft But what became of little Gerda when Kay did not return? Where could…Walt Whitman: Tears
TearsTears! tears! tears! In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate, Moist tears from…Brewer's: Crocodile's Tears
Hypocritical tears. The tale is, that crocodiles moan and sigh like a person in deep distress, to allare travellers to the spot, and even shed tears over their prey while in the act of…Brewer's: Vale of Tears
This world. (See Baca.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Vale of BonnetVale of Avoca A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…Brewer's: Gate of Tears
[Babelmandeb]. The passage into the Red Sea. So called by the Arabs from the number of shipwrecks that took place there. Like some ill-destined bark that steers In silence through the Gate…Brewer's: Tear Handkerchief
(The). A handkerchief blessed by the priest and given, in the Tyrol, to a bride, to dry her tears. At death, this handkerchief is laid in her coffin over the face of the deceased. Source…Trending
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