Chapter XII

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From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

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From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “address” — (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

how long something has existed

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

Having no one else present.

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

following the length of something from one end toward the other

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

in the middle of; surrounded by

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

spiritual being attendant upon God

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “arch” — a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true

From this reading ARGUMENT.

elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

possessive form of “arthur” — elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886)

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “attempt” — earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the season when the leaves fall from the trees

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

at or to a lower level than something

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

inflected form of “bear” — have

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

lacking funds

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

(used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

past form of “call” — assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

plural of “cave” — a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a light shade of blue

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

courtesy towards women

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the person or thing chosen or selected

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

make overcast or cloudy

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

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From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

past form of “conduct” — direct the course of; manage or control

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a variable color averaging a deep pink

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the dead body of a human being

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

having an (artificial) crown on a tooth

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

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From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the first light of day

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

any of numerous small pigeons

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

cause to move by pulling

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-)

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

Filled with or placed under the influence of magical power or charm.

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

something that provides access (to get in or get out)

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

to a considerable degree; very much

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

come to understand

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

plural of “foot” — the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

(theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

about to be mentioned or specified

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “fruit” — the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “gain” — a quantity that is added

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

plural of “glide” — a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

a quick look

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

proceeding in small stages

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

plural of “guide” — someone employed to conduct others

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “hall” — an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

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From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a small island

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a small island

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “king” — a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a polite name for any woman

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the land on which real estate is located

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the act of prolonging something

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions on one's way of life.

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “light” — (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

a formation of people or things one beside another

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

softly bright or radiant

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

calm by deception

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to the blood stream by lymphatic vessels

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

impressiveness in scale or proportion

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

plural of “make” — a recognizable kind

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

(astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

(Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their daughters the Nereids

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

Periods of darkness between sunset and sunrise.

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

making no sound

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

and not; used after a negative to add a second negative

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

the one or ones belonging to us

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

have ownership or possession of

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

go across or through

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

A ghost or apparition; a figment of the imagination or a hidden dweller.

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

a boat for communication between ship and shore

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

literature in metrical form

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

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From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “reach” — the limits within which something can be effective

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “reed” — tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

plural of “reject” — the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

(military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “rise” — a growth in strength or number or importance

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

not having a roof

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

only a very short time before

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

the visual property of something that shines with reflected light

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

the act of firing a projectile

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

the land along the edge of a body of water

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

plural of “shore” — the land along the edge of a body of water

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “shower” — a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

marked by absence of sound

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

being or characteristic of a single thing or person

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “sink” — plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “sky” — the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

the state of being asleep

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

without speed (“slow” is sometimes used informally for “slowly”)

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

shining with brilliant points of light like stars

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

-ing form of “spring” — move forward by leaps and bounds

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

(astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

a sculpture representing a human or animal

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

not in physical motion

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

third-person singular of “succeed” — attain success or reach a desired goal

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

doomed to extinction

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

move back and forth or sideways

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

moving very fast

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “tell” — a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “thorn” — something that causes irritation and annoyance

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “tide” — the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

up to a particular time

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

a more or less definite period of time now or previously present

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “turn” — a circular segment of a curve

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

a vivid mental image

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

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From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

plural of “wall” — an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

United States actress and singer (1896-1977)

From this reading Along the sheen, along the glassy sheen, 2 Amid the lull of lucent night they go; Till, in the haven of an islet green, Murmuring through reeds, the gentle waters flow: The shooting pinnace gains the gradual strand, Hush'd as a shadow glides the Shape to land.

inflected form of “go” — change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.

at the time that

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

without or almost without wind

From this reading As when, in Autumn nights and Arctic skies, 1 An angel makes the cloud his noiseless car, And, through cerulean silence, silent flies From antique Hesper to some dawning star, So still, so swift, along the windless tides Her vapour-sail the Phantom Lady guides.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Arthur and the Lady of the Lake--They land on the Meteor Isle--which then sinks to the Halls below--Arthur beholds the Forest springing from a single stem--He tells his errand to the Phantom, and rejects the fruits that It proffers him in lieu of the Sword--He is conducted by the Phantom to the entrance of the caves, through which he must pass alone--He reaches the Coral Hall of the Three Kings--The Statue crowned with thorns--The Asps and the Vulture, and the Diamond Sword--The choice of the Three Arches--He turns from the first and second arch, and beholds himself, in the third, a corpse--The sleeping King rises at Arthur's question--"if his death shall be in vain?"--The Vision of times to be--Coeur de Lion and the age of Chivalry--The Tudors--Henry VII.--the restorer of the line of Arthur and the founder of civil Freedom--Henry VIII. and the Revolution of Thought--Elizabeth and the Age of Poetry--The union of Cymrian and Saxon, under the sway of "Crowned Liberty"--Arthur makes his choice, and attempts, but in vain, to draw the Sword from the Rock--The Statue with the thorn-wreath addresses him--Arthur called upon to sacrifice the Dove--His reply--The glimpse of Heaven--The trance which succeeds, and in which the King is borne to the sea shores.

everything that exists anywhere

From this reading The Cymrian, following, scarcely touch'd the shore 3 When slowly, slowly sunk the meteor-isle, Fathom on fathom, to the sparry floor Of alabaster shaft and porphyr-pile, Built as by Nereus for his own retreat, Or the Nymph-mother of the silver feet.[1] Far, through the crystal lymph, the pillar'd halls 4 Went lengthening on in vista'd majesty; The waters sapp'd not the enchanted walls, Nor shut their roofless silence from the sky; But every beam that lights this world of ours Broke sparkling downward into diamond showers.