And livid lamps where vypers spoon, As some bad harlot shrieks and cries Her Nature's sins unto three skulls, A shameless gnomebathes in hell's flood The thighs he filched from a gray tomb.
Then fades the burnished light on high; Magicians stave their heads in dust, The vermin feed on reeking bones, Each gnome sobs to a green-horn'd toad.
Affrighted at this fearful gaze As coals blaze like twinkling jewels, Night-hawks that croak at bat-faced owls Gledge at each gnome that digged a bone From some bleak pool, and pierce the haze Where censers blaze.
I send you herewith a Gothic gnome for your Greek nymph; but the gnome is interesting, I think, and he came out of a deep mine, where he guards the fountain of tears.
The gnome remained there for a century, spreading happiness all over the country.
The Gnome had so far outdistanced all competitors that it had virtually become the universal motor for airplanes, and, many of those seen in 1911 were equipped with it.
Instead of having the piston and the crankshaft move, it was the cylinder itself which moved in the Gnome motor, while the crankshaft and piston were stationary.
The crankshaft in the Gnomemotor had been hollowed out to form a tube or pipe, through which the fuel or carbureted air passed to the cylinder by means of a valve in the head of the piston which worked automatically.
The Gnome could be built up of any number of cylinders, according to the power required.
Anxious to help the airplane in its forward march, French engineers had good naturedly set to work and the Gnomemotor was their first answer to the anxious question of "What engine?
Though Farman had been the first to recognize the merits of the Gnome and install it in his machine, he was not the last, for after the Rheims Meeting it rapidly became the favorite of practically all builders.
It was the Gnome manufacturers who first thought of a most ingenious scheme for cooling the cylinders of the internal combustion engine.
In the Gnome motor the cylinders revolved and the crankshaft was stationary.
This remarkable engine was the Gnomeand the reason for its excellence lay in its unusual system of cooling.
In the poem the Gnome had turned to a "tall and comely man" when the lady kissed him.
It was a little like the Green Gnome poem, except that she was hunting for him, and that the little boy was pretty," she thought.
I can almost see the Lady in the poem galloping along, and the Green Gnome leaping up to stop her.
Either way, the gnome then broke the silence again, saying: "Let me introduce myself, Jehu.
I looked in, and descried, at the top of a double ladder, the little gnome Knapwurst, whose strange appearance had struck me the night before.
You might have thought him, in the deep shadow, some gnome or evil spirit of earth realised out of the dreams of the Niebelungen Lieder.
Thus were the rocks thrown upward by the Gnome Made pleasant spots for future man to roam.
Their dwellings, carved of rock, towered out of the river to a giddy height, and some were broken in half, as if they had been rent asunder by gnome cannon, in gnome battles.
There were gnome villages, too, which looked exactly like human habitations, with clustering roofs plastered against the mountain-side.
The gnome made a choked, croaking sound in his throat.
Once more the gnome made his strange, croaking sound and the withered face twisted with anguish.
Marie withdrew from his pocket one of the hundred-franc notes, and the single, beadlike eye of the ancient gnome fixed upon it and seemed to shiver with a fascinated delight.
Coira O'Hara looked upon him coldly, and the gnome groaned with renewed and somewhat frightened energy.
Two Sopwith Scouts: 80 Gnome engines; very old and can't be used owing to weakness of engine mounting.
Believing he was dealing with a beggar, Tristan was about to dismiss the ill-favored gnome with a gift, which the latter refused, motioning to Tristan to incline his ear.
In the unsteady gleam it appeared from the distance like a gnome wandering through the bowels of the earth, or a forsaken spirit from purgatory.
It was the girl who had been brought before Yolara when the gnome named Songar was driven into the nothingness!
The gnome nodded, the flame in his eyes leaping higher.
So the dryad clapped her tiny hands three times, and out of the open door into the beech-tree stepped a little gnome who came and bowed low before them, holding in his hands a silver salver on which lay a little pellet.
So Nora took the pellet from the platter and thanked the gnome kindly and she ate it down, and no sooner had she swallowed it than she was no bigger than the dryad herself.
The Gnome rotary engine was first used with success at this meeting.
As he sat there winking and blinking at the light, he looked more like a gnome than a human being.
The old woman began knitting as she spoke, the gnomereplenished the fire with a few more pieces of wreck to drive the cold sea air out of the chimney.
Again my vanity suggested to me that I was the person for whose benefit this gnome was intended.
He then mused forth a general gnomethat the "confidence of writers who deal in semi-scientific paradoxes is commonly in inverse proportion to their grasp of the subject.
The long row of lights seemed to give almost every stone its turn, and the dancing gnome lanterns flared and vanished behind and before.
Recent traditions of the race make the cemetery a place of ghosts, and here within its bounds were gnome lights that sprang into being, flared brightly for a second, then flashed out of sight as I walked.
Lord Llwddythlw when he heard of all this muttered to his maiden sister a wish that a gnome would come in the night and run away with everything.
But the gnome did not come, and the young men from Messrs.
I did so in an hour, but only to find the mystery that hung around my little gnome deepened.
My little gnome was a gnome no more, but a fairy, washed and clean and neatly dressed, and with a wealth of sunny hair floating over her shoulders.
The hysterical gnome immediately clapped it on--wrong side before.
The noble gnome went along in front of them, when suddenly he began walking right up, in the water.
Suddenly a bold gnome popped up his dainty head from behind a rock, saying, 'Welcome, Englishmen!
A more perfect semblance of an evil gnome could not be made than the flickering reflection of the sunlight in the bottle of blood-red liquid.
Weeks passed and Hilda was always on guard to follow the Gnome Grandmother and her attendant upon their expeditions to the crypt where the prisoners were kept.
Remembering the caution of the friendly gnome to express no surprise, Hilda drove her little flock before her along the garden path, then returning to the house, fed them and put them to bed in the most orderly fashion.
For the first time since her arrival in the gnome garden, she spoke aloud.
She longed to twitch off one of the shining leaves, but dared not, contenting herself with watering their roots and neatly clearing up the paths, as the Gnome Grandmother had directed her.
In the extremity of her distress, she thought of what the friendly gnome at the outer gate had said to her.
Alone and unprotected as she was, at the mercy of her gnome mistress, Hilda knew not where to turn for help.
An evil gnome appears--how is the music to express an evil gnome?
And the gnome renounces love, and steals the gold.
One could tell he was a gnome by the fact that the actor walked all the time bending the knees of his trico-covered legs.
The gnome has forged a sword for Siegfried, but Siegfried is dissatisfied with it.
The gods hear that the gnome has stolen the gold, promise to confiscate it, and to pay the giants with it.
Then the nymphs guarding the gold tell the gnome just what they ought to keep secret, namely, that whoever renounces love will be able to steal the gold they are guarding.
These singing nymphs are pursued by a gnome (a nibelung) who desires to seize them.
The gnome Alberich, who stole the gold, for some reason beats a gnome, Mime, and takes from him a helmet which has the power both of making people invisible and of turning them into other animals.
The gnome conjectures that this is Siegfried, and wants to poison him.
Gnome villages and elfin castles clung to slim pinnacles of rock which seemed to swing, like blown branches, against the sky.
I went to my quarters at the other end of the passage, and was glad of the fire which had begun to roar fiercely in a small round stove, like a gnome with a pipe growing out of his head.
