 | Henry Watson Fowler - 1994 - 756 pages
...of a word or phrase in successive clauses or sentences. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay doom : at her feet he bowed, he fell : where he bowed, there he fell doten dead. anastrophe (Rhet.) ; ' reversal '. Upsetting, for effect, of such normal order as preposition... | |
 | Alan Dundes - 1999 - 148 pages
...butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his...bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead (Judg. 5:24-27). That Jael killed Sisera in her tent is not in dispute, but there are significant variations... | |
 | Jeanne Cortiel - 1999 - 280 pages
...urgently into the rug; he will stagger to his feet and fall, he will plunge fountainy to the ground; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down dead. (182) In the Bible, the prophetess Deborah and the killer Jael do act, but they act... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 424 pages
...its superfluity, — when in the highest degree, — in lyric repetitions and sublime tautology — (at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her...he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead], — and, in lower degrees, in making the words themselves the subjects and materials of that surplus... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Suzanne Romaine, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 828 pages
...lexical repetition. It is this combination that creates a sublime style from simple language: (58) At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her...he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down dead. Such repetitions, he claims, are part of a natural rather than an artificial rhetoric because they... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 pages
...waste its superfluity — when in the highest degree — in lyric repetitions and sublime tautology — (at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her...he fell ; where he bowed, there he fell down dead) — and, in lower degrees, in making the words themselves the subjects and materials of that surplus... | |
 | Benson Bobrick - 2001 - 394 pages
...in a lordly dish. 26. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his...she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 27. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2002 - 564 pages
...butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his...bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.111 Stirring scenes like these occur in this valley no more. There is not a solitary village throughout... | |
 | Dr. Phillip Goble - 2002 - 1249 pages
...hammer she struck Sisra, she crushed his rosh, when she had shattered and pierced his temple. | 27 | At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, sham (there) he fell down dead. | 28 | The Em Sisra looked out through the chalon (window), and cried... | |
 | 2003 - 322 pages
...thought was loyal to him. The story is told again at Judges 5:24-27, with the dramatic conclusion: "At her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead." In neither book is Jael's motive explained.) 6 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried... | |
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At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead. 
