Word: fleshing
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...distinct reticence. Few things, too, could have been more difficult than to conduct Sir Gawain through these adventures without making him appear ridiculous. He is pictured as modest, brave, courteous and steadfast in faith. Even King Arthur is not the shadowy phantom we usually meet with, but real flesh and blood. The descriptions of the hunts are unsurpassed in English poetry and lend color and reality to the plot. Not the least remarkable characteristic of this poem is its elevated morality, a great contrast to the loose morals of most romances. This beautiful poem shows us what a genius could...
...shown more hospitality than when on this novel trip. When I started, I was unused to any kind of physical exercise to speak of, so that I could not ride fast nor long, but that was not my object. After a day or two I began to gain in flesh, and when I arrived in Cambridge, Sept. 9, I had gained 14 pounds...
...this week the Hollis will welcome, after elaborate preparations, the entire band of the celebrated Brownies. Here one may see their fairy favorites in real flesh and blood, and hear them speak in real Brownie language. Each Brownie has been provided with an entirely new wardrobe, and the Dude is the proudest of them all. The Policeman, the Student, the Chinaman, the Twins, and, in fact, all of the familiar family are in the band. Portions of fairyland have been brought along with them, so that every one can see precisely how the Brownies live, what they do from...
...distinct conscious-nesses at the same time. If he retains one he must lose the other, and just so as the new man can only be put on as the old is taken off. "If ye walk in the spirit ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh...
...idea was that the world and worldly things were evil; that the flesh must be crucified to save the soul; that the things of this life must be forgo ten in contemplation of things eternal. It is true the Bible seems to teach such ideas in certain places but we must consider the times of the writers, the local coloring given to divine inspection. But we have grown out of these old ideas. We realize that man can be as truly religious in the counting room as in the prayer-meeting, that he is as much in God's service...