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men and crying
The two men whipped their horses into town and flung themselves up the steps of the saloon, crying their intelligence.
His severed head is brought back on his shield still crying out that men are being murdered, women abducted and cattle plundered.
This song claims that men are also capable of crying ( presumably, in addition to women ) and feel just as sad as the other sex.
One of the men looks in the direction of the crying, where Juana and Coyotito lie.
In the wake of Ireland's game against England at Croke Park in the 2007 Six Nations championship, commentators in the Irish media talked about how powerful the rendition of the anthem was: " Amhrán na bhFiann " and " Ireland's Call " were belted out with such hair-raising intensity that men and women were crying as they sang.
When Liu Bang's men asked her why she was crying, she replied, " My child, the White Emperor's son, has been slain by the son of the Red Emperor.
I am so much afflicted that I can hardly write this for crying, to see a child, that I doted on as I did on her, should make me so ill a return, and join with the worst of men to ruin me.
When one has passed six times up and down hearing a gramophone in one house, a fiddle in the next, then an accordion and a fragment of a traditional lullaby, with many crying babies, pigs and donkeys and noisy girls and young men jostling in the darkness, the effect is not indistinct.
One of his men later remembered that Knowlton was courageous to a fault, never crying, Go on, boys!
Mansfield, assuming that men from Hooker's corps were in the woods, rode down the regimental line crying out, " You are firing on our own men!
Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as " dumbbell " ( a stupid person ); " for crying out loud " ( an exclamation of astonishment ); " cat's meow " and " cat's pajamas " ( as superlatives ); " applesauce " ( nonsense ); " cheaters '" ( eyeglasses ); " skimmer " ( a hat ); " hard-boiled " ( a tough person ); " drugstore cowboy " ( loafers or ladies ' men ); " nickel-nurser " ( a miser ); " as busy as a one-armed paperhanger " ( overworked ); and " Yes, we have no bananas ," which was turned into a popular song.
Sarah proceeds to suffer through several disastrous dates with men who cannot stop crying, are criminal, or like girls who are barely legal.
* Abraham and Yahoel, borne by a dove, ascend to the heavens: they see a great light and a great crowd in the likeness of men that were changing in aspect, running, prostrating and crying aloud, and a fire came toward them.
Based on that memory alone and the concept of that crying out having been carried down through the many generations to Turandot herself, she resolves to avenge that death by imposing it on all men who fail in the attempt to marry her.

men and love
One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.
His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.
It is the force in the universe that makes men love goodness, even when they turn away from it.
What they have said has been to endeavour ( sic ) to win men to the love of God and each other.
Goldoni was inspired by his love of humanity and the admiration he had for his fellow men.
Claudius ' love life was unusual for an upper-class Roman of his day, in that he was the only one out of the first 15 emperors not to take men or boys, but only women as lovers.
Elsie was the tart with a heart, who was constantly hurt by men in the search for true love.
Many men, usually the younger brothers in a family would stress out, accept lower status serfdom in form of human lease, but one with the possibility of a stable love life, than the emotional trauma of high status and polyandry.
* words and deeds of prophetic women and men which challenge us to confront powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and the transforming power of love ;
He saw men and women locked in cycles of growth, love, procreation, new growth, death, and new life.
He puts forward the idea that when men have the opportunity to possess property and work on it, they will “ learn to love the very soil which yields in response to the labor of their hands, not only food to eat, but an abundance of the good things for themselves and those that are dear to them .” He states also that owning property is not only beneficial for a person and their family, but is in fact a right, due to God having “... given the earth for the use and enjoyment of the whole human race ”.
Third, English Dominican mysticism focused on an embodied spirituality with a structured love of fellow men at its center.
Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.
This epistle contains some of the best-known phrases in the New Testament, including ( depending on the translation ) " all things to all men " ( 9: 22 ), " without love, I am nothing " ( 13: 2 ), " through a glass, darkly " ( 13: 12 ), and " when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child " ( 13: 11 ).
Iolanthe is one of a number of Gilbert's works, including The Wicked World ( 1873 ), Broken Hearts ( 1875 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ) and Fallen Fairies ( 1909 ), where the introduction of men and " mortal love " into a tranquil world of women wreaks havoc with the status quo.
It was his first " love story between two men " where two men bond over their duty, skills and careers while considering their friendship to be more important than any affection towards a female.
Louise Brooks plays the cabaret singer that the two men fall in love with.
Less common are bara — larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the " bear " in gay pornography — as well as oyaji ( meaning " daddy " or " uncle "), featuring middle-aged and elderly men ; these types are mainly found in material aimed at gay men, which may be called bara or ' men's love ' ( ML ), and is considered to be distinct from yaoi.
By contrast, homoerotic themes were present in poetry and other literature written by some Muslims from the medieval period onwards and which celebrated love between men.
First in Arabic, but later also in Persian, Turkish and Urdu, love poetry by men about boys more than competed with that about women, it overwhelmed it.
" Straightway a flame was kindled in my soul ; and a love of the prophets, and of those men who are friends of Christ, possessed me ; and whilst revolving his words in my mind, I found this philosophy alone to be safe and profitable .”
Aristophanes, in Plato's Symposium, mentions women who love women, but uses the term trepesthai ( to be focused on ) instead of eros, which was applied to other erotic relationships between men, and between men and women.

men and poems
The epic poems, the consolidation of the Greek pantheon, the rise of firm political units, the self-awareness which could permit painted and sculptured representations of men -- all these had to await the progress of following decades.
Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).
His sayings were famously referred to in poems: " I have heard the words of Imhotep and Hordedef with whose discourses men speak so much.
He channeled his feelings into love poems that were exclamatory rather than persuasive, and wrote prose that showed his contempt for men who pursue women.
His ability to compose tastefully and poignantly on military themes put him in great demand among Greek states after their defeat of the second Persian invasion, when he is known to have composed epitaphs for Athenians, Spartans and Corinthians, a commemorative song for Leonidas and his men, a dedicatory epigram for Pausanias, and poems on the battles of Artemisium, Salamis, and Plataea.
Pollio was most famously a patron of Virgil and a friend of Horace and had poems dedicated to him by both men.
Traditional songs called Asak and Tisiway ( poems ) are sung by women and men during feasts and social occasions.
Berserkers appear prominently in a multitude of other sagas and poems, many of which describe berserkers as ravenous men who loot, plunder, and kill indiscriminately.
We know from two poems that it was played with five men against eight, and that one of the five was a " Branán ", or chief.
Pliny lists him among distinguished men who wrote short poems that were less than austere ( versiculi parum severi ).
Epic poems, sagas, chansons de geste and acritic songs ( songs of heroic deeds ) were often about the great men, real or imagined, and their achievements like Arthur, Charlemagne and El Cid.
The texts are tales in prose which share some similarities with the epic, often with stanzas or whole poems in alliterative verse embedded in the text, of heroic deeds of days long gone, " tales of worthy men ," who were often Vikings, sometimes Pagan, sometimes Christian.
# Early meeting phase where men and women sing songs and recite poems to one another.
Kings would also commission poets to write poems of advertisement, speaking of the king's greatness and worthiness, to attract young men to be warriors on behalf of his kingdom.
one or two of these poems, I think, will be read as long as men remember English.
Although by no means a rich man he was always ready to help needy men of letters, and it was through his exertions that David Gray's poems were published.
The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams famously set existing poems, by men like William Cowper and Charles Wesley, to traditional folk tunes to create hymns, many of which he published in the English Hymnal.
Recurring events like the transmigration of the souls related with morality, appear in the Pythagorean and Orphic beliefs, in some poems of Pindar, and especially in the work of Empedocles ( 5 th century BC ), who represents Ananke as the immemorial ordinance of men and gods.
With the outbreak of American Civil War, Henry returned to Charleston, soon publishing his best-known poems, which drew many young men to enlist in the service of the Confederacy.
In 1839, Tupper published A Modern Pyramid to commemorate a Septuagint of Worthies, being sonnets and essays on seventy famous men and women ; in 1841 An Author's Mind containing skeletons of thirty unpublished books ; in 1844, The Crock of Gold, The Twins, and Heart tales illustrative of social vices, and which passed through numerous editions ; in 1847, Probabilities, an Aid to Faith, giving a new view of Christian evidences ; A Thousand Lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, Lyrics, Ballads for the Times, Things to Come, A Dirge for Wellington, Church Ballads, White Slavery Ballads, American Ballads, Rifle Ballads, King Alfred, a patriotic play ; King Alfred's poems, translated from Anglo-Saxon into corresponding English metres.
Koch described poems “ Written by the men with their eyes on the myth / And the missus and the midterms …” He attacked the idea that poetry should be in any way stale.
It was then thrust into the background, and though cultivated by a few, it remained unknown to men of letters until the nineteenth century, when Almeida-Garrett began his literary revival and collected folk poems from the mouths of the peasantry.
While these writers were all more or less academic, and appealed to the cultured few, four poets of the people addressed a far wider public: Verdi ( 1779 – 1820 ), of Bordeaux, who wrote comic and satirical pieces ; Jean Reboul ( 1796 – 1864 ), the baker of Nîmes, who never surpassed his first effort, L ' Ange à l ' enfant ( 1828 ); Victor Gelu ( 1806-188 ~), relentless and brutal, but undeniably powerful of his kind ( Fenian ci Grouman ; dix chansons provençales, 1840 ); and, greatest of them all, the true and acknowledged forerunner of the felibres, Jacques Jasmin, whose poems, both lyrical and narrative, continue to find favour with men of the highest culture and literary attainments, as with the villagers for whom they were primarily intended.
These barristers, doctors, and other professional men named their club after the Greek court poet Anacreon ( 6th century BC ), whose poems, " anacreontics ", were used to entertain patrons in Teos and Athens.

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