March wind over the smooth plain, or like the fleetness of the stag roused from his lair by the hounds, and covering his first field, was the rush of those steeds when they had broken through the restraint of the charioteer, as though they galloped over... Lectures and appendix - Page 429by Eugene O'Curry - 1873Full view - About this book
| Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...wind on a March day, over a smooth plain ; or like the fleetness of a wild stag on his being first started by the hounds in his first field, were Cuchulaind's...shook and trembled with the velocity of their motion." The heroes met at the ford- -Cuchulinn is always connected with ford-fighting. They fought for three... | |
| Eugene O'Curry - Ireland - 1873 - 748 pages
...fhe*"6'8 of smooth plain ; or like the fleetness of a wild stag on his being first «d™n(«started by the hounds in his first field, were Cuchulaind's...of the ford. Cuchulaind drew up on the north side. Fol. 58. ». a. A CucuUMtlt)", bAf. £ef.D1AD. " UAf.1ff1 btn ni 1TTO f Aid THAT) cof cjiAchf A", bAf... | |
| Standish James O'Grady - 1878 - 302 pages
...those steeds when they had broken through the restraint of the charioteer, as though they galloped over fiery flags, so that the earth shook and trembled with the velocity of their motion, and all the time the great car brayed and shrieked as the wheels of solid and glittering bronze went round,... | |
| Standish O'Grady - Bards and bardism - 1879 - 500 pages
...those steeds when they had broken through the restraint of the charioteer, as though they galloped over fiery flags, so that the earth shook and trembled with the velocity of their motion, and all the time the great car brayed and shrieked as the wheels of solid and glittering bronze went round,... | |
| Frederick Metcalfe - Comparative literature - 1880 - 552 pages
...spring wind on a March day over a smooth plain, or like the fleetness of a wild stag on his being first started by the hounds in his first field, were Cuchulaind's...shook and trembled with the velocity of their motion." Ferdiad welcomes Cuchulaind across the ford, who upbraids him for breaking their bond of friendship... | |
| Celts - 1885 - 902 pages
...wind on a March day, over a smooth plain ; or like the fleetness of a wild stag on his being first started by the hounds in his first field, were Cuchulaind's...shook and trembled with the velocity of their motion." The heroes met at the ford- -Cuchulinn is always connected with ford-fighting. They fought for three... | |
| Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 544 pages
...those steeds when they had broken through the restraint of the charioteer, as though they galloped over fiery flags, so that the earth shook and trembled with the velocity of their motion, and all the time the great car brayed and shrieked as the wheels of solid and glittering bronze went round,... | |
| Ernest Augustus Boyd - English literature - 1916 - 426 pages
...those steeds when they had broken through the restraint of the charioteer as though they galloped over fiery flags, so that the earth shook and trembled with the velocity of their motion, and all the time the great car brayed and shrieked as the wheels of solid and glittering bronze went round,... | |
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