Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming, And be sure it will lead us
aright -- We safely may trust to a gleaming That cannot but guide us
aright, Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night."
The interchange of a cuff with the jolly priest is not entirely out of character with Richard I., if romances read him
aright. In the very curious romance on the subject of his adventures in the Holy Land, and his return from thence, it is recorded how he exchanged a pugilistic favour of this nature, while a prisoner in Germany.
Scent of smoke in the evening, Smell of rain in the night, The hours, the days and the seasons Order their souls
aright; Till I make plain the meaning Of all my thousand years Till I fill their hearts with knowledge, While I fill their eyes with tears.
"But suppose some of them happen to guess
aright," persisted the Steward; "then you would lose your old ornaments and these new ones, too."
Because no man can ever feel his own identity
aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
But to comprehend it
aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon.
The great Admiral and good seaman could read
aright the signs of sea and sky, as his order to prepare to anchor at the end of the day sufficiently proves; but, all the same, the mere idea of these baffling easterly airs, coming on at any time within half an hour or so, after the firing of the first shot, is enough to take one's breath away, with the image of the rearmost ships of both divisions falling off, unmanageable, broadside on to the westerly swell, and of two British Admirals in desperate jeopardy.
With aim
aright, With quivering flight, On LAMBKINS pouncing, Headlong down, sore-hungry, For lambkins longing, Fierce 'gainst all lamb-spirits, Furious-fierce all that look Sheeplike, or lambeyed, or crisp-woolly, --Grey, with lambsheep kindliness!
He was not sure he had heard
aright. He was dumb for a moment; then he said:
Would, indeed, that I were a nightingale to sing
aright the beauty of that rose with which, think of it, I was to spend a whole fortnight,--yes, no less than fourteen wonderful days.
He seemed to doubt whether he had heard her
aright.
Howbeit we have not yet been able to overtake young madam, we may account it some good fortune that we have hitherto traced her course
aright. Peradventure she will soon be fatigated with her journey, and will tarry in some inn, in order to renovate her corporeal functions; and in that case, in all moral certainty, you will very briefly be compos voti ."