Chapter XV

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From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

how long something has existed

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

Having no one else present.

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

following the length of something from one end toward the other

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

in the middle of; surrounded by

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a ghostly appearing figure

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

move towards

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “approach” — ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true

From this reading ARGUMENT.

(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

surrounding, or on every side of, something

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

third-person singular of “arrive” — reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

past form of “attack” — launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the first light of day

From this reading She comes--that grand Aurora of the North!

an unofficial association of people or groups

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “bear” — massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a light shade of blue

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “characteristic” — a prominent attribute or aspect of something

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the leader of a group of people

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the shore of a sea or ocean

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “come” — the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

past form of “compare” — examine and note the similarities or differences of

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “conqueror” — someone who is victorious by force of arms

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

plural of “corps” — an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “curtain” — hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

an evil supernatural being

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

represented in words especially with sharpness and detail

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

wet with dew

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

(Roman mythology) god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Hades

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

increase twofold

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

any of numerous small pigeons

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

being or moving lower in position or less in some value

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a person who is markedly small

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

(comparative and superlative of “early”) more early than; most early

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

come out into view, as from concealment

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a division of the United Kingdom

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

third-person singular of “enter” — to come or go into

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a cruel wicked and inhuman person

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

gleam or glow intermittently

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

third-person singular of “follow” — to travel behind, go after, come after

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

grant freedom to; free from confinement

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “giant” — any creature of exceptional size

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope

From this reading She comes--that grand Aurora of the North!

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

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

toward home

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

intense and profound fear

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a period of time assigned for work

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

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From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

relating to or practicing idolatry

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

situated within or suitable for inside a building

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a small island

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

used when the thing doing the action is also its object

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

possessive form of “king” — a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “lead” — an advantage held by a competitor in a race

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “lie” — a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a characteristic state or mode of living

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

of comparatively little physical weight or density

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

come into view indistinctly, often threateningly

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

at the same time but in another place

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

lighted by moonlight

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “movement” — a change of position that does not entail a change of location

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

of an obscure nature

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

Having no name, or having a name that is kept secret or unknown.

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “noise” — sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line

From this reading She comes--that grand Aurora of the North!

plural of “norwegian” — a native or inhabitant of Norway

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

third-person singular of “obtain” — come into possession of

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a negotiation between enemies

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a course of conduct

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

(Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

having a pair of equal and opposite charges

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “race” — any competition

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

any object that is left unused or still extant

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

not move; be in a resting position

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

abounding in rocks or stones

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

relating to or characteristic of people of Rome

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “ruin” — an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the work of a sailor

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

A distinctive smell or aroma.

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “sea” — a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

inflected form of “see” — perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

third-person singular of “seize” — take hold of; grab

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

put into a certain place or abstract location

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

plural of “shed” — an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

plural of “ship” — a vessel that carries passengers or freight

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “skeleton” — something reduced to its minimal form

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the state of being asleep

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the season of growth

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

abounding with or resembling stars

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

impressive in appearance

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

a flight of stairs or a flight of steps

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “store” — a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

inspiring awe

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

plural of “successor” — a person who follows next in order

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “take” — the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “task” — any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

from one end or side of something to the other

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

having tracks

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

third-person singular of “vanish” — get lost, as without warning or explanation

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

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From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.

relating to or produced by or consisting of volcanoes

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

plural of “war” — the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

interlace by or as if by weaving

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

at the time that

From this reading Sublime she comes, as when, from Dis set free, Came, through the flash of Jove, Persephone:

belonging to which person

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

in the company of; together with

From this reading The Polar Spring--The Boreal Lights and apparition of a double sun--The Rocky Isle--The Bears--The mysterious Shadow from the Crater of the extinct Volcano--The Bears scent the steps of Man: their movements described--Arthur's approach--The Bears emerge from their coverts--The Shadow takes form and life--The Demon Dwarf described--His parley with Arthur--The King follows the Dwarf into the interior of the volcanic rock--The Antediluvian Skeletons--The Troll-Fiends and their tasks-- Arthur arrives at the Cave of Lok--The Corpses of the armed Giants--The Valkyrs at their loom--The Wars that they weave--The Dwarf addresses Arthur--The King's fear--He approaches the sleeping Fiend, and the curtains close around him--Meanwhile Gawaine and the Norwegians have tracked Arthur's steps on the snow, and arrive at the Isle--Are attacked by the Bears--The noises and eruption from the Volcano--The re-appearance of Arthur--The change in him--Freedom and its characteristics--Arthur and his band renew their way along the coast; ships are seen--How Arthur obtains a bark from the Rugen Chieftain; and how Gawaine stores it--The Dove now leads homeward--Arthur reaches England; and, sailing up a river, enters the Mercian territory--He follows the Dove through a forest to the ruins built by the earliest Cimmerians--The wisdom and civilization of the ancestral Druidical races, as compared with their idolatrous successors at the time of the Roman Conquerors, whose remains alone are left to our age--Arthur lies down to rest amidst the moonlit ruins--The Dove vanishes--The nameless horror that seizes the King.

but in spite of that

From this reading Spring on the Polar Seas!--not violet-crown'd 1 By dewy Hours, nor to cerulean halls Melodious hymn'd, yet Light itself around Her stately path, sheds starry coronals.