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Usage examples of rood.

He saw the green cleft in the hills where the Aller came down from its distant wells, and the darker glen of the Rood where bent was exchanged for rock and heather.

Eline of ze duizelde, of het publiek, dol van bewondering, in een satanischen rondedans zou rondvliegen om den baryton, altijd even norsch en rood en plomp.

It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood!

Rood Hall looked lovely when they went back to it in the gloaming, an Elizabethan pile crowned with towers.

Low happened to arrive in a spell of bad weather, when nothing was visible about the lodge but a few roods of sodden lowland, and a curve of the yellow tumbling little river, and beyond a mirky outline of shouldering hills blurred by the ever-falling rain.

Curlews and peewits filled the moor with their crying, and as he began to descend into the Rood glen a lark--the first he had heard--rose to heaven with a flood of song.

Mark Riddel appeared to be for ever on the move, and the minister met him oftenest on the Rood road--generally in the early darkness.

Moorschen stijl beschilderd met vaalbonte tinten, met goud, verwelkt blauw, verschoten rood.

I saw Catti the Welshman yesterday on the Burford road, and old John Naps was at the Rood Fair on Barton Heath, and there is word of Pennyfarthing in the Cocking dingle.

He had built and endowed it and installed its twelve canons during his years as Subregulus, especially to enshrine the Holy Rood.

Rood released the two boneheads and let them forage on the cold ground.

As when he took the young bonehead cow, Rood felt relief from the guilt, the constant nagging doubts.

It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood!

The fame anon thurgh Rome toun is born How Alla kyng shal comen on pilgrymage, By herbergeours that wenten hym biforn, For which the Senatour, as was usage, Rood hym agayns, and many of his lynage, As wel to shewen his heighe magnificence As to doon any kyng a reverence.

And right anoon, withouten moore abood, His baner he desplayeth, and forth rood To Thebesward, and al his hoost biside, No neer Atthenes wolde he go ne ride, Ne take his ese fully half a day, But onward on his wey that nyght he lay- And sente anon Ypolita the queene, And Emelye, hir yonge suster sheene, Unto the toun of Atthenes to dwelle- And forth he rit.