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  • An awkward moment passed as he cleaned himself up and I nursed my nether region.†   (source)
  • From gnashing of the Narrow Ice where shadow lies on frozen hills, from nether heats and burning waste he turned in haste, and roving still on starless waters far astray at last he came to Night of Naught, and passed, and never sight he saw of shining shore nor light he sought.†   (source)
  • He picked up a long,wooden pointer and, much to Vlad's horror, smacked the pointer against the nether regions of the man on the poster.†   (source)
  • A void boundless as a nether sky.†   (source)
  • The legendary Bourne had turned; life in the nether world had become too much for him and the temptation to come in from the cold with over five million dollars had been too alluring to resist.†   (source)
  • My demon drummer of the nether depths now chose to do his stuff, and the resultant cacophony rolled through the hush of the morning like distant thunder.†   (source)
  • Medical science does not seal the earth, whose nether creatures seep out, hair by hair, disguised like the smoke that dispels them.†   (source)
  • I ordered a pitcher of beer, and then another, and drank myself into a nether world of hallucinations.†   (source)
  • That's Cromwell… You're between the upper and the nether millstones then.†   (source)
  • ...she could not bear a coarse word, so far as her limited vocabulary reached she had a passion for euphemisms, and she scented indecency everywhere; she never spoke of trousers but referred to them as nether garments...   (source)
  • Intently he listened for any sound from the nether world...   (source)
  • His father had given him a high-bridged nose, a stern nether lip, and high cheekbones.†   (source)
  • She passes through the nether world and reaches the temple that is ruled over by Ereshkigal, goddess of Death.†   (source)
  • So I guess there's more to the story? manna's messenger waits for three days, and when she fails to return from the nether world, goes to the gods asking for their help.†   (source)
  • The huge pig squealed in distress, while the wedding guests squealed with laughter, especially when the stag knight leapt onto the wolf knight, let down his wooden breeches, and started to pump away frantically at the other's nether portions.†   (source)
  • Behind, before, and all around, cookboys, scullions, and various underlings rushed through the foaming, humid air, rattling pans, stirring stew, slaving over potatoes and vegetables in nether regions.†   (source)
  • It is as though an enormous, transparent geodesic dome had been lowered over a hundred acres, as an unspoken, but understood, command from a nether kingdom repeatedly informs those below that they are in a cathedral.†   (source)
  • Against his will he sifted the nether dark.†   (source)
  • Izanami sent the Ugly Female of the nether world in pursuit.†   (source)
  • At the sight of the nether gloom, his heart began a dull, labored pounding.†   (source)
  • The eagle and the man on the cross kept guard for a little while over the empty pueblo; then, as though they had seen enough, sank slowly down through their hatchways, out of sight, into the nether world.†   (source)
  • But as I drove away and turned back in the car to take what promised to be my last view of the house, I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.†   (source)
  • She was ready to enter the "land of no return," the nether world of death and darkness, governed by her enemy and sister goddess, Ereshkigal.†   (source)
  • The seven judges of the nether world, the Anunnaki, sat before the throne of Ereshkigal, and they fastened their eyes upon Inannathe eyes of death.†   (source)
  • Extraordinarily, O Manna, have the decrees of the nether world been perfected 0 Manna, do not question the rites of the nether world.†   (source)
  • Manna ascends from the nether world, The small demons like reeds, The large demons like tablet styluses, Walked at her side.†   (source)
  • Ninshubur next went to the god Nanna; but the god said that she had gone from the great above to the great below, and that in the nether world the decrees of the nether world should prevail.†   (source)
  • Ninshubur went first to the god Enlil; but the god said that, Inanna having gone from the great above to the great below, in the nether world the decrees of the nether world should prevail.†   (source)
  • 'The oldest recorded account of the passage through the gates of metamorphosis is the Sumerian myth of the goddess lnanna's descent to the nether world.†   (source)
  • "Extraordinarily, O Manna, have the decrees of the nether world been perfected, 0 Manna, do not question the rites of the nether world" Naked, she was brought before the throne.†   (source)
  • ""Extraordinarily, O Inanna, have the decrees of the nether world been perfected, 0 Manna, do not question the rites of the nether world" Upon her entering the sixth gate, The breastplate of her breast was removed.†   (source)
  • He fashioned two sexless creatures and entrusted to them the "food of life" and the "water of life" with instructions to proceed to the nether world and sprinkle this food and water sixty times on Inanna's suspended corpse.†   (source)
  • My lady abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, To the nether world she descended Manna abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, To the nether world she descended, Abandoned lordship, abandoned ladyship, To the nether world she descended.†   (source)
  • "Extraordinarily, O Manna, have the decrees of the nether world been perfected, 0 Manna, do not question the rites of the nether world" Upon her entering the fifth gate, The gold ring of her hand was removed.†   (source)
  • "Extraordinarily, O Manna, have the decrees of the nether world been perfected, 0 Manna, do not question the rites of the nether world" Upon her entering the third gate, The small lapis lazuli stones of her neck were removed.†   (source)
  • "Extraordinarily, O Manna, have the decrees of the nether world been perfected, 0 Manna, do not question the rites of the nether world" Upon her entering the fourth gate, The sparkling stones of her breast were removed.†   (source)
  • Manna ascends from the nether world, The Anunnaki fled, And whoever of the nether world may have descended peacefully to the nether world; When Manna ascends from the nether world, Verily the dead hasten ahead of her.†   (source)
  • "Extraordinarily, O Manna, have the decrees of the nether world been perfected, 0 Manna, do not question the rites of the nether world" Upon her entering the second gate, The rod of lapis lazuli was removed.†   (source)
  • That same evening they were walking along under the trees by Nether Green.†   (source)
  • I am the Columbus of this nether world, and I only ask for one more day.†   (source)
  • A youngish man with flaxen hair, a bristly straw-coloured moustache, and a dropping nether lip, was sitting and holding my wrist.†   (source)
  • The old gentleman lifted his shaggy eyebrows, protruded his thick nether lip, and tapped the arms of his chair with his cushioned fingertips.†   (source)
  • It has a unique position on the summit of a steep and imposing scarp, rising on the north, south, and west sides of the borough out of the deep alluvial Vale of Blackmoor, the view from the Castle Green over three counties of verdant pasture—South, Mid, and Nether Wessex—being as sudden a surprise to the unexpectant traveller's eyes as the medicinal air is to his lungs.†   (source)
  • But those who reside in the nether world know that he who eats of the fruits of their realm is forever theirs.†   (source)
  • Philip laughed savagely as he thought of her gentility and the refinement with which she ate her food; she could not bear a coarse word, so far as her limited vocabulary reached she had a passion for euphemisms, and she scented indecency everywhere; she never spoke of trousers but referred to them as nether garments; she thought it slightly indelicate to blow her nose and did it in a deprecating way.†   (source)
  • The stars were dim, and thick the night, The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white; From the sails the dew did drip— Till clombe above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.†   (source)
  • Henceforth our work is to be a sealed book to her, till at least such time as we can tell her that all is finished, and the earth free from a monster of the nether world.†   (source)
  • So these two upper and nether visages confronted each other all day long, the white face looking down on the brown face, and the brown face looking up at the white face, without anything standing between them but the two girls crawling over the surface of the former like flies.†   (source)
  • Now the other side presented itself to Lily, the volcanic nether side of the surface over which conjecture and innuendo glide so lightly till the first fissure turns their whisper to a shriek.†   (source)
  • Therefore, I on my part, give up here the certainty of eternal rest, and go out into the dark where may be the blackest things that the world or the nether world holds!†   (source)
  • His face was bright-red with exertion, his long flaxen hair blown about his head, and his dropping nether lip showed his irregular teeth.†   (source)
  • He stared at me with his nether lip dropping, and looked so wilfully stupid of a sudden that it came into my head that he desired to avoid my questions.†   (source)
  • The Satyr was a gleam of classical memory on the part of Moreau,—his face ovine in expression, like the coarser Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat, his nether extremities Satanic.†   (source)
  • The clothes of this gentleman were much bespeckled with flue; and his shoes, stockings, and nether garments, from his heels to the waist buttons of his coat inclusive, were profusely embroidered with splashes of mud, caught a fortnight previously—before the setting-in of the fine weather.†   (source)
  • Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.†   (source)
  • In it you can view these primordial rocks that have never seen the light of day, this nether granite that forms the powerful foundation of our globe, the deep caves cut into the stony mass, the outlines of incomparable distinctness whose far edges stand out in black as if from the brush of certain Flemish painters.†   (source)
  • Her teaching had a reflex action upon herself, insomuch that she thought she could perceive no great personal difference between being respected in the nether parts of Casterbridge and glorified at the uppermost end of the social world.†   (source)
  • His nether garment was a yellow nankeen, closely fitted to the shape, and tied at his bunches of knees by large knots of white ribbon, a good deal sullied by use.†   (source)
  • The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of glittering teeth and sparkling eyes.†   (source)
  • He still wore knee-breeches, and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs; but they were not the breeches.†   (source)
  • "I thank you for reminding me of my oath," said the still resentful Ellen, biting her pretty nether lip with vexation; "I might else have proved forgetful!"†   (source)
  • Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.†   (source)
  • The plum-pudding was of the same handsome roundness as ever, and came in with the symbolic blue flames around it, as if it had been heroically snatched from the nether fires, into which it had been thrown by dyspeptic Puritans; the dessert was as splendid as ever, with its golden oranges, brown nuts, and the crystalline light and dark of apple-jelly and damson cheese; in all these things Christmas was as it had always been since Tom could remember; it was only distinguished, it by…†   (source)
  • His first entry on the scene, few people could tell whence, dropping down as it were out of the sky or starting from the nether earth, had an aspect of mystery, which was easily heightened to the miraculous.†   (source)
  • Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.†   (source)
  • Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to borrow their instantaneous flame from the nether fires of Tophet.†   (source)
  • …to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle—luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder—luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds—luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.†   (source)
  • As she looked full at me, I saw her face grow sharper and paler, and the marks of the old wound lengthen out until it cut through the disfigured lip, and deep into the nether lip, and slanted down the face.†   (source)
  • …folk The upright earl made well manifest might, His craft and his keenness as kind was to him; The head there he heeded not (but the hand burned Of that man of high mood when he helped his kinsman), Whereas he now the hate-guest smote yet a deal nether, That warrior in war-gear, whereby the sword dived, The plated, of fair hue, and thereby fell the flame 2700 To minish thereafter, and once more the king's self Wielded his wit, and his slaying-sax drew out, The bitter and battle-sharp,…†   (source)
  • In course of the study, Arrius observed the subject's youth; wholly unconscious of tenderness on that account, he also observed that he seemed of good height, and that his limbs, upper and nether, were singularly perfect.†   (source)
  • Her nether lip quivered now.†   (source)
  • I now observed—with what horror it is needless to say—that its nether extremity was formed of a crescent of glittering steel, about a foot in length from horn to horn; the horns upward, and the under edge evidently as keen as that of a razor.†   (source)
  • They wandered onward till they reached the nether margin of the heath, where it became marshy and merged in moorland.†   (source)
  • Thus am I crushed between the upper millstone of the Mr Redford, who thinks me a libertine, and the nether popular critic, who thinks me a prude.†   (source)
  • But the moment had now arrived when earth and all his treasures were gliding from before his eyes, and when the savage Baron's heart, though hard as a nether millstone, became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.†   (source)
  • Her eyes wandered restlessly over the distant prospect, and she bit her nether lip to stop that busy mouth.†   (source)
  • A ragged calico mantle half encircled his body, while his nether garment was composed of an ordinary shirt, the sleeves of which were made to perform the office that is usually executed by a much more commodious arrangement.†   (source)
  • I had mumbled but a lame mass an thou hadst broken my jaw, for the piper plays ill that wants the nether chops.†   (source)
  • At this instant old Roger Chillingworth thrust himself through the crowd—or, perhaps, so dark, disturbed, and evil was his look, he rose up out of some nether region—to snatch back his victim from what he sought to do!†   (source)
  • And so Sir Tristram be-bled both the over sheet and the nether, and pillows, and head sheet.†   (source)
  • THE DEATH OF GILGAMESH THE destiny was fulfilled which the father of the gods, Enlil of the mountain, had decreed for Gilgamesh: 'In nether-earth the darkness will show him a light: of mankind, all that are known, none will leave a monument for generations to come to compare with his.†   (source)
  • The gown fell gauntly from her shoulders, across her fallen breasts, then tightened upon her paunch and fell again, ballooning a little above the nether garments whichshe wouldremove layer by layer as the springaccomplished and the warm days,in color regal and moribund.†   (source)
  • Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt.†   (source)
  • Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.†   (source)
  • His nether extremities were encased in high Balbriggan buskins dyed in lichen purple, the feet being shod with brogues of salted cowhide laced with the windpipe of the same beast.†   (source)
  • He lauded almost extravagantly my nether extremities, my swelling calves in silk hose drawn up to the limit, and eulogised glowingly my other hidden treasures in priceless lace which, he said, he could conjure up.†   (source)
  • —Ere I lead this life long, I'll sew nether-stocks, and mend them and foot them too.†   (source)
  • 41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.†   (source)
  • Good nuncle, in; and ask thy daughters blessing: here's a night pities nether wise men nor fools.†   (source)
  • I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.†   (source)
  • And so Sir Tristram be-bled both the over sheet and the nether, and pillows, and head sheet.†   (source)
  • This shows you are above, You justicers, that these our nether crimes So speedily can venge!†   (source)
  • High o'er the vale a steepy mountain stands, Whence the surveying sight the nether ground commands.†   (source)
  • — Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?†   (source)
  • These rites perform'd, the prince, without delay, Hastes to the nether world his destin'd way.†   (source)
  • Know then for sure, the coursers of the sun Not many times shall run their race, before Thou shalt have given the fruit of thine own loins In quittance of thy murder, life for life; For that thou hast entombed a living soul, And sent below a denizen of earth, And wronged the nether gods by leaving here A corpse unlaved, unwept, unsepulchered.†   (source)
  • Thus swived* was the carpentere's wife, *enjoyed For all his keeping* and his jealousy; *care And Absolon hath kiss'd her nether eye; And Nicholas is scalded in the tout.†   (source)
  • But here await me, and comfort thy dejected spirit and feed on good hope, for I will not leave thee in the nether world.†   (source)
  • Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung; Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round.†   (source)
  • But first let yawning earth a passage rend, And let me thro' the dark abyss descend; First let avenging Jove, with flames from high, Drive down this body to the nether sky, Condemn'd with ghosts in endless night to lie, Before I break the plighted faith I gave!†   (source)
  • 19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.†   (source)
  • That thou art my son, I have partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion; but chiefly a villainous trick of thine eye, and a foolish hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant me.†   (source)
  • At last this odious offspring whom thou seest, Thine own begotten, breaking violent way, Tore through my entrails, that, with fear and pain Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew Transformed: but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart, Made to destroy.†   (source)
  • Horses are tied by the head; dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the loins, and men by the legs: when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.†   (source)
  • Witness this new-made world, another Heaven From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with stars Numerous, and every star perhaps a world Of destined habitation; but thou knowest Their seasons: among these the seat of Men, Earth, with her nether ocean circumfused, Their pleasant dwelling-place.†   (source)
  • …as his garden-mould high raised Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Watered the garden; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears, And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account; But rather to tell how, if Art could tell, How from that…†   (source)
  • Saturnia said: The sullen fiend her sounding wings display'd, Unwilling left the light, and sought the nether shade.†   (source)
  • The ductile rind and leaves of radiant gold: This from the vulgar branches must be torn, And to fair Proserpine the present borne, Ere leave be giv'n to tempt the nether skies.†   (source)
  • …by place where he vouchsafed Presence Divine; and to my sons relate, On this mount he appeared; under this tree Stood visible; among these pines his voice I heard; here with him at this fountain talked: So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages; and theron Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers: In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or foot-step trace?†   (source)
  • Far hence remov'd, the Stygian seats are seen; Pains of the damn'd, and punish'd Catiline Hung on a rock— the traitor; and, around, The Furies hissing from the nether ground.†   (source)
  • So the pent vapors, with a rumbling sound, Heave from below, and rend the hollow ground; A sounding flaw succeeds; and, from on high, The gods with hate beheld the nether sky: The ghosts repine at violated night, And curse th' invading sun, and sicken at the sight.†   (source)
  • …shall my vows unbind, Or shake the steadfast tenor of my mind; Not tho' the circling seas should break their bound, O'erflow the shores, or sap the solid ground; Not tho' the lamps of heav'n their spheres forsake, Hurl'd down, and hissing in the nether lake: Ev'n as this royal scepter" (for he bore A scepter in his hand) "shall never more Shoot out in branches, or renew the birth: An orphan now, cut from the mother earth By the keen ax, dishonor'd of its hair, And cas'd in brass, for…†   (source)
  • As when a fragment, from a mountain torn By raging tempests, or by torrents borne, Or sapp'd by time, or loosen'd from the rootsProne thro' the void the rocky ruin shoots, Rolling from crag to crag, from steep to steep; Down sink, at once, the shepherds and their sheep: Involv'd alike, they rush to nether ground; Stunn'd with the shock they fall, and stunn'd from earth rebound: So Turnus, hasting headlong to the town, Should'ring and shoving, bore the squadrons down.†   (source)
  • First, then, that happy shore, that seems so nigh, Will far from your deluded wishes fly; Long tracts of seas divide your hopes from Italy: For you must cruise along Sicilian shores, And stem the currents with your struggling oars; Then round th' Italian coast your navy steer; And, after this, to Circe's island veer; And, last, before your new foundations rise, Must pass the Stygian lake, and view the nether skies.†   (source)
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