He is represented as a boy with golden wings, armed with a bow and a golden quiver full of arrows.
The last word came with an involuntary quiver of pain, and there was silence round the impromptu tea-table.
Dreda's face was aflame with colour; her eyes had widened until they looked about twice their natural size, in her voice there sounded a quiver of so real a distress that the mother flushed painfully in response.
Hereward whistled loudly, while Dreda, ever the prey of her emotions, began to flush and quiver beneath the prickings of remorse.
Many times he shot his last arrow, got down from his horse and, standing in the grass with horsemen galloping all around him, refilled his quiver from those of fallen Mamelukes and from the bodies of Tartars.
He's a mountain of vanity and the two defeats we've given him have made every atom of that vanity quiver with hatred of us.
Behind his bland, cordial mask I saw the spider eyes gleaming and the spider claws twitching as he felt his net quiver under hovering wings.
Your wings seldom quiverat the second-floor windows now!
Two or three times she drew a deep breath, and stole a bewildered look at his face, which was so close to hers that his hair brushed it--so close that she heard the quiver of his own breath.
From where I was, I could see the natives sitting about outside their huts, each one with his bow and quiver of poisoned arrows beside him.
With the first faint quiver of an eyelash the Harvester took a few steps and bent over a plant, and as he did so the Girl's eyes followed him.
It was just the stiffest love-making I knew how to do, Bel, and she didn't object by the quiver of an eyelash.
A quiverof arrows is fastened to the back of the dress, and the exposed parts of the body stained light brown.
Chief: and Judge Harbottle felt the panels of the dock round him, and the floor, and the rails quiver in the vibrations of that tremendous voice.
Then took he a sharp-pointed arrow from his quiver and laid it on the bow-string and let it fly.
A quiverof pain had drawn the beautiful light from his face.
I do not know of anything to take that would do any good, Ernestine,"--and he could not quite keep the quiverout of those words.
A quiver went over the little mask; but the girl spoke in the same stony way: "Oh, ma'am .
And Cally said, with a quiver in her voice: "Oh, Hugo!
In his hand was his axe, heavy but not over large; at his side hung a great knife, and on his back was the long black bow and a quiver of arrows.
I tell you that those black walls and that black water were more fearsome to look on than any churchyard vault grim with bones, or a torture-pit where victims quiver out their souls midst shrieks and groanings.
Thereon Dick handed the bow and quiver to David, bidding him guard them until he asked for them again as he would his own life.
Having taken his bow andquiver from David, who could not conceal his indecent joy at the utter humiliation of Ambrosio, whom he hated with a truly British hate, he walked slowly to where Hugh sat upon his horse.
The captain did so, propping the quiver straight with stones and a bit of wood.
Then there was Grey Dick, whose garments seemed to consist of a sack with holes in it tied round him with a rope, his quiver of arrows slung over it for ornament.
Forward they rolled almost in silence, the arrows playing on their dense host, but not as they did at first, for many a quiver was empty.
That bow He had received and quiver from the hand Of godlike Iphitus Eurytides, Whom, in Messenia,[96] in the house he met Of brave Orsilochus.
Here lay his stubborn bow, and quiver fill'd With num'rous shafts, a fatal store.
He missed some of that quiver of youth and enjoyment he had felt in her before, and there were some very dark lines under the beautiful eyes.
Now seeing the haggard pleading of his eyes, the quiver of his lips and all his shy humility, she uttered a soft cry and drawing him close, pillowed his troubled brow against her soft cheek.
I am afraid that he usually would have to get a harness-maker to make him a quiverout of leather, somewhat larger at the top than at the bottom.
A boy can hardly make a good quiver unless he were to kill some furred animal and make a cylindrical case such as the Indians have, out of its skin.
But in the farmhouse on the mountain, every Blossom was a-quiver with excitement, for the "live Valentine" was to arrive that day.
