"Array" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the array of stone lanterns, and bronze images with aureoles round their heads, and incense burners and holy water tanks, and dragon spouts, was the belfry, which stood on a stone platform. Under its roof hung the massive bronze bell ten feet high, which, when struck with a suspended ...
— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis
... skeletons, Of bodies once so fair, And dirges, dirges, woeful ones, Resound amid the air. Bleak, winter wild! thy dreary scenes, Have yet one modest flower; The daisy finds some little greens, Whereby she builds her bower. The daisy is a preacher wise, Whom heavenly robes array; Each winter lives, and sweetly tries, A loving word to say. "Oh! man, amid thy darkest woe, Some humble bliss remains;— Then, let thy murmurings cease to flow, And hush thy doleful strains." It is the dawn. Faint crimson streaks The dewy, orient sky, Like virtue's blush, on maiden cheeks, ...
— Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems • James Avis Bartley
... himself in a den, a combination of drug-store, taxidermist's shop and general warehouse. All about the room were ranged an extraordinary array of bottles—green bottles that lurked under the bed, red, blue and white bottles that climbed the walls and crowded the mantelpiece, tops of bottles that peered out of half-opened boxes, all ticketed and mustered in regiments. From the ceiling ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson
... screamed, and flew, not as before, in an irregular manner, but in a direct line. He was followed by the same bold phalanx, at a considerable distance, which unfortunately becoming too sure of victory, quitted their military array and disbanded themselves. By this inconsiderate step they lost all that aggregate of force which had made the bird fly off. Perceiving their disorder he immediately returned and snapped as many as he wanted; nay, he had even the impudence to alight on the very twig from which the bees had ...
— Letters from an American Farmer • Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
... every thing which could move the heart, excite the ideas, or exalt the imagination, that Fourier unfolded the noble life of Kleber. The orator was listened to with religious silence; but soon, addressing himself with a gesture of his hand to the soldiers ranged in battle array before him, he exclaims: "Ah! how many of you would have aspired to the honour of throwing yourselves between Kleber and his assassin! I call you to witness, intrepid cavalry, who rushed to save him upon the heights of Koraim, and ...
— Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men • Francois Arago
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