David replies: " While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept.

" I wept for 39 hours.

They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their return ; nevertheless, though they wept bitterly I forced them back to the ships and made them fast under the benches.

: Or weep as I could once have wept o ' er many a vanish'd scene ,-

Early in the fifth century AD Claudian, in his poem, On the Fourth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius, Book VIII, rhapsodizes on the conquests of the emperor Theodosius I, declaring that the Orcades ran red with Saxon slaughter ; Thule was warm with the blood of Picts ; ice-bound Hibernia wept for the heaps of slain Scots.

He wept, " I am also a previously caught fish!

My soul was in an agony ; I wept, I prayed, and said, " Now, Lord, if there is mercy for me, let me find it ," and it really seemed to me that I could almost lay hold of the Saviour, and realize a reconciled God, All of a sudden, such a fear of the devil fell upon me that it really appeared to me that he was surely personally there, to seize and drag me down to hell, soul and body, and such a horror fell on me that I sprang to my feet and ran to my mother at the house.

Describing his confirmation, when he as 12 year old, Padre Pio said that he " wept with consolation " whenever he thought of that day because " I remember what the Most Holy Spirit caused me to feel that day, a day unique and unforgettable in all my life!

How I wept!

Barbellion sums up his life in one of the last entries in The Journal of a Disappointed Man: " I am only twenty-eight, but I have telescoped into those few years a tolerably long life: I have loved and married, and have a family ; I have wept and enjoyed, struggled and overcome, and when the hour comes I shall be content to die.

" Smith reportedly wept on the air when discussing this article, which he called " so profoundly hurtful I didn't know what to do.

Lest the Lord of the Vineyard's mercy be questioned, the allegory later records that " the Lord of the vineyard wept, and said unto the servant: What could I have done more for my vineyard ?...

So long will I upon this much wept tomb,

On the way my camel knelt down for it was the weakest among all the other camels and so I wept.

And hitherto most of us had been able to control our sorrow ; but now when we saw him drinking, and saw too that he had finished the draught, we could no longer forbear, and in spite of myself my own tears were flowing fast ; so that I covered my face and wept, not for him, but at the thought of my own calamity in having to part from such a friend.

I swallowed hard and looked down at my feet plodding along beside Rachel.

I picked him up, and the length of him arched very carefully and gracefully and only a little wildly, and I could feel the coolness of that radiant, fire-colored body, like splendid ice, and I knew that he had eaten only recently because there were two whole and solid little lumps in the forepart of him, like fieldmice swallowed whole might make.

As I was looking upward a piece of hail fell into my mouth, which I unknowingly swallowed.

Tōgō found his cadet rations ' inadequate ': " I swallowed my small rations in a moment.

The dynasty Constantine established was also soon swallowed up in civil war and court intrigue until it was replaced, briefly, by Julian the Apostate's general Jovian and then, more permanently, by Valentinian I and the dynasty he founded in 364.

" Essence of my father, blood of my mother, I cannot throw this away ," he exclaimed and swallowed the eye.

* 1493-Spain and the New World: Queen Isabella I worries that Christoper Columbus, who set out eight months earlier in search of a westward sea route to China, has been swallowed by the sea and informs the player and Rock to search for Columbus.

The people of Ploverleigh rally against the outsider from London and Wells, resignedly, bids farewell and is swallowed up by the underworld in a burst of flames (" Or he or I must die ").

I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

Spanish conquistador Francisco Coronado, the first European to traverse this " sea of grass " in 1541, described it as follows: " I reached some plains so vast, that I did not find their limit anywhere I went, although I travelled over them for more than 300 leagues ... with no more land marks than if we had been swallowed up by the sea ... there was not a stone, nor bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor a shrub, nor anything to go by.

At once he removed the Talaputa poison from his ring, closed his eyes and chanted " Kevli pannato Dhammam saranam pavajyami "( I seek refuge in the dharma taught by the kevlins or omniscient ) and swallowed the poison and ended his life.

Miranda also challenges her father when she begs for the life of those on the ship, telling him: " Had I been any great god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere the good ship so have swallowed, and the fraughting souls within her!

* But of course I understand your point of view about education, which is that of times past, when ' the struggle for life ,' as men used to phrase it ( i. e., the struggle for a slave's rations on one side, and for a bouncing share of the slave-holders ' privilege on the other ), pinched ' education ' for most people into a niggardly dole of not very accurate information ; something to be swallowed by the beginner in the art of living whether he liked it or not, and was hungry for it or not: and which had been chewed and digested over and over again by people who didn't care about it in order to serve it out to other people who didn't care about it.

Frankly, I do not ascribe to the stupid theory of white supremacy and to try to hide the fact that I am a Negro for economic or any other reasons, if I do I would be agreeing to be a Negro makes me inferior and that I have swallowed whole hog all of the propaganda dished out by our fascist-minded white citizens.

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.

`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.

I loved my garden ''.

`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

I could see them in my sights.

I found his chest in my sights.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

I withdrew my hand.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.