In the following story taken from that compilation, traces of both cycles may be discerned, though clearly the tale is more nearly related as a whole to the "Chastity Wager" group.
There seems to be no evidence whatsoever that these two cycles had a common ancestor.
Of intermixtures of these types with other cycles we shall not concern ourselves here, though they have been many.
We have not a large enough number of variants to enable us to determine the original form of the separate incidents combined to form the cycles represented by stories Nos.
A brief analysis of the characteristic incidents of these two "thieving" cycles will be of some assistance, perhaps, in determining whether or not there were originally any definite points of contact between the two.
As a whole, while our story is reminiscent of at least three different cycles of tales, it nevertheless does not sound like a modern bit of patchwork, but appears to be old; how old, I am unable to say.
One of the most widespread cycles in which it occurs is "Hop o' my Thumb," a version of which is told among the Tagalogs.
Come in autos and motor cycles and on foot, and stand around watching everything you do till you want to fire a monkey wrench at them.
Until again, another follicle swells, another ovum matures, and the premenstrual state of sex high tide cycles back.
They dominate all the vital functions during the three cycles of life.
Through slow cycles they revolve, Yet at last like clouds dissolve.
No gleam, through cycles of eternity, For the redemption of a soul like thine.
And during the vast cycles that have elapsed since the first animals and plants appeared upon the globe, it was not in a proper condition to have sustained any other than the inferior races.
Herschel, Adhemar, and more recently Croll, have directed attention to astronomical cycles supposed to have important influences on the temperature of the earth.
We shall also find that similar cycles can be observed in the geological ages which succeeded the Palaeozoic.
Thus we have throughout the Palaeozoic a series of cycles of physical change which we may liken to gigantic pulsations of the thick hide of mother earth.
We have a right to reckon these cycles as ages or great years of the earth; and so reckoning them, the Mesozoic time may have been as long as the Palaeozoic.
The Jurassic series, as developed in England, may be divided into three triplets or cycles of beds, in the following way: {Purbeck Beds.
As the morning star announced the day, the light returning out of darkness, it could easily be appropriated to Osiris, and that period might be connected with the cycles of the planet Venus.
There are curious cycles of interest in particular departments of science, with intervals of comparative lack of interest that can only be explained by the diversion of human mind to other departments of study.
If there be any weather cycles depending on the moon, it is possible that one of them may be so related to the week cycle of seven days, as to show recurrences which are of the kind stated, or any other.
The Moscow cycle is preceded by the cyclesof Vladímir, or Kíeff, and of Nóvgorod.
Between these cycles of epic songs and the Moscow, or Imperial Cycle there is a great gap.
The average dominant frequency of notes in the short and long series alike is 3400 cycles per second.
Furthermore, some knowledge of the mechanism of the motor-cycles had been necessary in order to strip the machines of their gasoline in the short space of time in which the work had been done.
Scarcely taking time to look the motor-cycles over, they pulled them upright and got into the saddles.
Slow passed dim cycles by, and in the earth Strange peoples swarmed; new nations sprang to birth.
Astray From Eden long, here in this fair domain To bide; and through long cyclesfearless reign Methinks were joy.
Now is the prophecy of old fulfilled and the watch rewarded that our people have maintained from generation to generation through twenty cycleshere at the grated way!
The Buddhist Kalpas are similar, but the Jaina cycles have a distinctive character of their own.
The universe consists of eternal atoms which by their own inherent creative force are perpetually developing countless forms of being in ever-recurring cycles of creation and dissolution, re-creation and re-dissolution.
Assure life everlasting to this generation, and their immediate forefathers--and what tears would flow, were there no resurrection for the countless generations from the first man to five cycles since?
Round and round, round and round; throwing off wondrous births at every revolving; ceaseless as the cycles that circle in heaven.
There were many cycles of Arthurian romances, chief of which are those of Gawain, Launcelot, Merlin, the Quest of the Holy Grail, and the Death of Arthur.
By the beginning of the fourteenth century all these plays were, in various localities, united in single cycles beginning with the Creation and ending with the Final Judgment.
It is interesting as showing a parallel to the cycles of miracle plays, which attempt to cover the same vast ground.
At the present day only four cycles exist (except in the most fragmentary condition), and these, though they furnish an interesting commentary on the times, add very little to our literature.
Men yernen jestis for to here And romaunce rede in diverse manere, and then follows a summary of the great cycles of romance, which we are considering.
This last collection deserves to rank with Mrs. Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and with Shakespeare's Sonnets, as one of the three great cycles of love poems in our language.
I remember after the lapse of a thousand cycles of the four Yuga ages, that Brahma created from his mind some aerial beings of unearthly forms; and these spiritual beings occupied a space extending over ten cycles of creations.
It makes the curricle of time to revolve continually in the circle of the seasons; and causes the day and night to rotate in their cycles of light and darkness.
How many, many years, how many cyclesof years, how many bundles of cycles of years, had the sun glowed down thus on that hollow?
The immense time lifted me like a wave rolling under a boat; my mind seemed to raise itself as the swell of the cycles came; it felt strong with the power of the ages.
I have recently discovered, however, a marked difference in the life cycles of certain species.
And so it was not long before they came near to the place where the cycles had been cached.
They went back to their cycles and rode on until they came to a place where they could telephone.
I can't leave word for him any other way, and I don't know what he'd think if he came here and found the cycles and all gone.
I know where he went -- to the place where we cached our cycles and our papers.
In three cycles of speeches the problem of innocent suffering is fully developed and the current solutions presented.
These poems are grouped into three cycles which apparently represent the prophet's thinking during succeeding periods.
Time had begun, and with its cycles of night and day, seconds and light years, stellar light joined the spheres in moments so brief as to deny comprehension, in a time that spanned infinite dreams.
Sol, once again, retired its eternal radiance from man, as it has in its never-ending cycles of dawns and dusks, witnessed by all the generations.
For while a comet's mighty cycles fail, Love,--love and truth forever shall prevail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cycles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
