Chapter XVII

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

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From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

speak to

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the table in Christian churches where communion is given

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

in the middle of; surrounded by

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

-ing form of “announce” — make known; make an announcement

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

react verbally

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

third-person singular of “appear” — give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

move towards

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true

From this reading ARGUMENT.

a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

close fighting during the culmination of a military attack

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

in or to or toward a former location

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “band” — an unofficial association of people or groups

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a lyric poet

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

The red fluid that circulates in the heart and blood vessels.

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

confined by bonds

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the part of the face above the eyes

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

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

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

plural of “change” — an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

a person who is in charge

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “chief” — a person who is in charge

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

one who is the object of choice; who is given preference

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

relating to or characteristic of Christianity

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “commission” — a special group delegated to consider some matter

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

come or bring to a finish or an end

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the dead body of a human being

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

travel across or pass over

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the first light of day

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an urgent or peremptory request

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

past form of “demand” — request urgently and forcefully

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “demand” — an urgent or peremptory request

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

represented in words especially with sharpness and detail

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in “college-bound students”

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

deprive of freedom; take into confinement

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

get lost, as without warning or explanation

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

bar from attention or consideration

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

third-person singular of “dismiss” — bar from attention or consideration

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “dome” — a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a pre-Christian priest among the Celts of ancient Gaul and Britain and Ireland

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

either extremity of something that has length

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

possessive form of “enemy” — an opposing military force

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

surpassing what is common or usual or expected

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

past form of “evince” — give expression to

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

extremely hungry

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

to a considerable degree; very much

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

plural of “flame” — the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

about to be mentioned or specified

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a fortified defensive structure

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

plural of “give” — the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

be shiny, as if wet

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

death of a person

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “group” — any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a person who does not acknowledge your god

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

a local and well-defined elevation of the land

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

plural of “host” — a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

inflected form of “hang” — be suspended or hanging

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the state of being inactive

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

cause inflammation in

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

cause to come to know personally

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

involving invasion or aggressive attack

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the emotion of great happiness

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

(Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

immediately past

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

take somebody somewhere

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

of comparatively little physical weight or density

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

appealing to the emotions as well as the eye

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

past form of “lure” — provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

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From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

any art that invokes supernatural powers

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

of or relating to or caused by magnetism

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a female domestic

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

march in a procession

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

at the same time but in another place

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “meet” — a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

(Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a woman religious

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

something offered (as a proposal or bid)

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an authoritative person who divines the future

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a person who does not acknowledge your god

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a short moral story (often with animal characters)

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

something determined in relation to something that includes it

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

past form of “pass” — go across or through

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

eminent beyond or above comparison

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a point located with respect to surface features of some region

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “priest” — a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an authoritative person who divines the future

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “race” — any competition

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “rank” — a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

past form of “remain” — stay the same; remain in a certain state

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

restored to a new condition

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

not move; be in a resting position

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “return” — document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

sound loudly and sonorously

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

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From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a charge of ammunition for a single shot

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

relating to or consisting of runes

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “rush” — the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “save” — (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an ordered reference standard

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the place where some action occurs

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

from a time in the past until now

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a short musical composition with words

From this reading Still to the circle of enchanted song Charm the high Mage of Druid parable, The Fairy, bard-led from her Caspian Sea, And Genius, lured from caves in Araby!

plural of “son” — a male human offspring

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

be standing; be upright

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “stanza” — a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

not in physical motion

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a request to be present

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

plural of “supply” — an amount of something available for use

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

carry out

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

someone (especially a German) who speaks a Germanic language

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

a large gathering of people

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

an old word for “your”, speaking to one person

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

soldiers collectively

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

third-person singular of “utter” — articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

relating to or designed for or using the singing voice

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

plural of “wake” — the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

look attentively

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

in or at the place that

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

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

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Flow on, flow on, fair Fable's happy stream, 1 Vocal for aye with Eld's first music-chaunt, Where, mirror'd far adown the chrystal, gleam The golden domes of Carduel and Romaunt; Still one last look on knighthood's peerless ring, On mooned Dream-land and the Dragon King!--

inside; before a period of time has passed

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading Preliminary Stanzas--Scene returns to Carduel--a day has passed since the retreat of the Saxons into their encampment--The Cymrians take advantage of the enemy's inactivity, to introduce supplies into the famished city--Watch all that day, and far into the following night, is kept round the corpse of Caradoc--Before dawn, the burial takes place--The Prophet by the grave of the Bard--Merlin's address to the Cymrians, whom he dismisses to the walls, in announcing the renewed assault of the Saxons--Merlin then demands a sacrifice from Lancelot--gives commissions to the two sons of Faul the Aleman, and takes Faul himself (to whom an especial charge is destined) to the city--The scene changes to the Temple Fortress of the Saxons--The superstitious panic of the heathen hosts at their late defeat--The magic divinations of the Runic priests--The magnetic trance of the chosen Soothsayer--The Oracle he utters--He demands the blood of a Christian maid--The pause of the priests and the pagan king--The abrupt entrance of Genevieve--Crida's joy--The priests demand the Victim--Genevieve's Christian faith is evinced by the Cross which the Nun had hung round her neck--Crida's reply to the priests--They dismiss one of their number to inflame the army, and so insure the sacrifice--The priests lead the Victim to the Altar, and begin their hymn, as the Soothsayer wakes from his trance--The interruption and the compact--Crida goes from the Temple to the summit of the tower without--The invading march of the Saxon troops under Harold described--The light from the Dragon Keep--The Saxons scale the walls, and disappear within the town--The irruption of flames from the fleet--The dismay of that part of the army that had remained in the camp--The flames are seen by the rest of the heathen army in the streets of Carduel--The approach of the Northmen under Gawaine--The light on the Dragon Keep changes its hue into blood-red, and the Prophet appears on the height of the tower--The retreat of the Saxons from the city--The joy of the Chief Priest--The time demanded by the compact has expired--He summons Crida to complete the sacrifice--Crida's answer--The Priest rushes back into the Temple--The offering is bound to the Altar--Faul! the gleam of the enchanted glaive--The appearance of Arthur--The War takes its last stand within the heathen temple--Crida and the Teuton kings--Arthur meets Crida hand to hand--Meanwhile Harold saves the Gonfanon, and follows the bands under his lead to the river-side--He addresses them, re-forms their ranks, and leads them to the brow of the hill--His embassy to Arthur--The various groups in the heathen temple described--Harold's speech--Arthur's reply--Merlin's prophetic address to the chiefs of the two races--The End.

but in spite of that

From this reading Detain me yet amid the lovely throng, 2 Hold yet thy _Sabbat_, thou melodious spell!