 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 436 pages
...of the day and probably far into the night a strange figure m,ght be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if every ir.stant he expected to be set upon by an enemy He was a priest and a murderer; and the v man... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 510 pages
...time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy.3 He was a priest and a murderer ; and the man... | |
 | Paul Carus - Philosophy - 1900 - 740 pages
...time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer ; and the man... | |
 | Scotland - 1901 - 1104 pages
...time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer, and the man for... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - Sermons, English - 1911 - 256 pages
...night in the sacred grove, carrying in his hand a drawn sword, and — " Peering warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy....murder him, and hold the priesthood in his stead." 2 What a contrast ! Can the convert recognise any 1 See Jevons's Introduction to the History of Religion,... | |
 | Classical literature - 1915 - 248 pages
...sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and 3 murderer ; and the man... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - American fiction - 1921 - 140 pages
...walked Rex Nemorensis, the luckless Priest of Diana, guarding with sharpened sword the Golden Bough. "He kept peering warily about him as if at every instant...to murder him and hold the priesthood in his stead. Year in, year out, in summer and winter, in fair weather and in foul, he had to keep his lonely watch,... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1911 - 192 pages
...time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him, as if every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy. He was a priest and a murderer ; and the man... | |
 | United States. Federal Communications Commission - Radio - 1970 - 1192 pages
...time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily...every instant he expected to be set upon by an enemy * * *.") 690. The only issues on which the original channel 5 and the renewal proceedings were consolidated... | |
 | James A. Boon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1982 - 324 pages
...hour of the day and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily...as if at every instant he expected to be set upon. He was at once a priest and murderer; and the man for whom he was watching was sooner or later to murder... | |
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In the sacred grove there grew a certain tree round which at any time of the day, and probably far into the night, a grim figure might be seen to prowl. In his hand he carried a drawn sword, and he kept peering warily about him as if at every instant... 
