"Rune" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... September afternoon My heart is wide awake, yet full of dreams. The air, alive with hushed confusion, teems With scent of grain-fields, and a mystic rune, Foreboding of the fall of Summer soon, Keeps swelling and subsiding, till there seems O'er all the world of valleys, hills, and streams, Only the wind's ...
— In Divers Tones • Charles G. D. Roberts
... has wedded thee. Thy free consent he sought and won; Yet thou hast dared Sir Thunye here To chain with stroke of magic Rune.” ...
— Ermeline - a ballad - - - Translator: George Borrow • Thomas J. Wise
... to Isledale-river, and brought into the church porch the bag with the bones, and therewithal a rune-staff whereon this song was marvellous ...
— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris
... for ever!" was the burden of this woe that blanched even her lovely coral lips until their curves were lost in the pallor of her rounded cheek and dimpled chin. "Going away to India;" like some fateful rune presaging dire disaster, it seemed traced in characters of flame across the glowing sky, and over the stony monuments ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... love nine Angels cannot bind, Nor any rune that wind or water knows, My heart were all as well set on the wind, Or bound, to live ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
... will hinder ye building of good and faire houses, contrarie to ye advise of pollitiks. A. So we would have it; our purpose is to build for ye presente such houses as, if need be, we may with litle greefe set a fire, and rune away by the lighte; our riches shall not be in pompe, but in strength; if God send us riches, we will imploye them to provid more men, ships, munition, &c. You may see it amongst the best pollitiks, that a comonwele is readier to ...
— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames
... I can ever become worthy of their simplicity. The rhythm of all music is the systole and diastole of the Sacred Heart, which is the ebb and flow of an infinite ocean. This is the meaning, I think, of the old Gaelic rune, Ri tragadh s'ri lionadh, mar a bha, mar a tha, mar a bhitheas gu bragh ri traghadh s'ri lionadh. (The ebb and the flow, as it was, as it is, as it ever shall be, the ebb and the flow.) The resolute gaze of the soul toward this in love constitutes ...
— The Forgotten Threshold • Arthur Middleton
... the gibbous moon, Piercing the silence velvet-piled, A lone wolf howls his ancient rune, The fell arch-spirit of ...
— Songs of a Sourdough • Robert W. Service
... Cassiopeia cast Wanly upon my ear a rune that rung; The sailor in his eyrie on the mast Sang an "All's well," that to the spirit clung Like a lost voice from some aerial realm Where ships sail on forever to no shore, Where Time gives Immortality the helm, And fades like a far phantom from ...
— Many Gods • Cale Young Rice
... battle-cries. When they saw the shoeing-tools they were very bewildered, till the novice asked leave to speak, and told what he had done to the farmer, and what he had said to Wayland-Smith, and how, though the dormitory light was burning, he had found the wonderful rune-carved sword ...
— Puck of Pook's Hill • Rudyard Kipling
... a nautical second. The sky will be black with hostile aircraft, and there will be lead in the stew and bleeding bodies in the bilge. Hollow laughter will sound from the bridge, where the Captain will find the wheel come away in his hand, and the gramophone will revolve eternally on a jazz rune because no one will be alive to stop it. When all these things occur we of the Navy will know that our day is past ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 29th, 1920 • Various
... Joanna he turned loose, to sneak into any rat-hole that she chose. Then, with their swords drawn—for if trouble came it would be certain to come suddenly—he and his nine made a wide-ringed circuit of the city, to a point where the main street passing Jaimihr's palace ended in a rune of wind-piled desert sand. From the moment when they reached that point they did not waste a second; action trod on the heel of thought and thought flashed fast as ...
— Rung Ho! • Talbot Mundy
... Tiger-eyes, What do you see Far in the dark Over the snow? Far in the dark Over the snow, Slowly the ghosts of dead men go,— Horses and riders under the moon Trample along to the dead men's rune, Slava! Slava! Over ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... west," said the whaup, "and let the sun fail on your face; then turn ye five times round about and say after me the Rune Of the Heather and the Dew." And before he knew the man did as he was told, and found himself speaking strange words, while his head hummed and danced ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... sword-supported, in the palace stood; And with him Thorstein, Viking's son, the peasant good. His ancient war companion, grown old in glory, His brow was scarred like rune-stones, his ...
— Fridthjof's Saga • Esaias Tegner
... Anglo-Saxon literature, as it appears in manuscripts, it might be fairly said that there is no th; this sound is represented by or . And of these two, the modified Roman character, , is found to prevail over the native Rune () in the oldest extant writings. Throughout this little book the th is commonly used, as being most convenient for ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
... bridge That leadeth every way to man's desire, And ocean the wide gate to manful luck.' And then with that resolve his heart was bent, Which, like a humming shaft, through many a stripe Of day and night, across the unpathwayed seas Shot the brave prow that cut on Vinland sands The first rune in the ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... kindled that flame, which announces the presence of the Dead," said Hilda, with a tremulous voice; "though seldom, uncompelled by the seid and the rune, does the spectre itself warn the ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... in Ireland consisted of a lament, sacrifices, and raising a stone inscribed with ogams over the grave, Druids took part. The Druid Dergdamsa pronounced a discourse over the Ossianic hero Mag-neid, buried him with his arms, and chanted a rune. The ogam inscription would also be of Druidic composition, and as no sacrifice was complete without the intervention of Druids, they must also have assisted at the lavish sacrifices which occurred at ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch
... ilfauoured speech subiect to this vice, but resting more in the manner of the ilshapen sound and accent, than for the matter it selfe, which may easily be auoyded in choosing your wordes those that bee of the pleasantest orthography, and not to rune too many ...
— The Arte of English Poesie • George Puttenham |
