| 单词 | wight |
| 例句 | And some said: ‘They are Elvish wights. Let them go where they belong, into the dark places, and never return. The times are evil enough.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Nearby, I heard a wight talking to the Gypsy leader. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z All around us we could hear the wights spreading throughout the camp, kicking things over, throwing open caravan doors, shoving people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “But that hollow at the menagerie didn’t become a wight,” said Emma. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In the future, if I wanted to disguise myself as effectively as the wights, I’d have to sharpen my acting skills. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “What undiluted balderdash! If this boy were a wight you’d already be stewing in his soup kettle. Of course he’s Abraham Portman’s grandson. Just look at him!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He still saw the wight in his dreams, dead Othor with the burning blue eyes and the cold black hands, but that was the last thing Sam needed to be reminded of. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The hollows and wights would return for Miss Peregrine, and in ever-greater numbers. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Emma recounted the whole story: how Miss Peregrine was kidnapped by Golan, how she nearly drowned in her cage in the ocean, how we’d rescued her from a submarine piloted by wights. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If the wights and hollows failed again, this time they’d destroy a lot more than five hundred miles of empty forest. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I said to the girl, “You mentioned that wights have been here, chasing pigeons.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “He must be a wight,” she was saying. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “A group of children were seen along the road this morning,” the wight said, his voice clipped, accent obscure—not quite English, not quite German. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was the closest, longest look I’d gotten at a wight since Dr. Golan. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Ever since we stole her back from the wights.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “If there’s one thing I know about wights,” said Enoch, “it’s that they kill peculiars. It’s their nature. It’s what they do.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “In fact, it’s suspicious. Sure one of you ain’t a wight?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The wights, at least, had minds that could reason—but they used that creative faculty to dismantle the world. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “As for finding out where the ymbrynes are,” said the clown, “no problem. We’ll catch a wight and torture it out of him. Make him show us on the Map of Days.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This time he took the wight’s head off at the neck, and for half a moment he exulted ... until a pair of dead hands came groping blindly for his throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Sideshows and peculiars go together like milk and cookies. Or hollows and wights.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was the wights who’d been hunting us—and here we were inside a cage, unable even to run. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z What if the balloons that hunted us on the beach were based here, and we’d unwittingly stumbled into a nest of wights? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Scared? Of what? The chidings of old men? Sam, you saw the wights come swarming up the Fist, a tide of living dead men with black hands and bright blue eyes. You slew an Other.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Would you rather walk through alleys or be spotted by wights?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Fine,” I said, “so let’s think. If you were a wight, where would you take a couple of kidnapped ymbrynes?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z "I don't ken. A wight wi' long, dark hair and a pointy beard." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “If you mean could they be wights,” said Hugh, “don’t be daft. The wights are with the Germans. They’re on that German sub.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “The wights are convinced we peculiar children are docile and weak. Us coming after them is the last thing they’d expect.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I’ll stop his bleeding; you get the wight. I knocked him pretty good, but not good enough. Don’t give him a chance to get his wind back.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Partly. We know the wights have been interested in the second soul for years now.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He watched as the direwolf buried his teeth in the wight's gut and began to rip and tear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “And now it is the wights, and undoubtedly their hollows, who are guarding them,” said Addison. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We squeezed into the wights’ jeep, eight kids packed like sardines. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You want to know what wights will do with us once free to do anything? Come—I show you.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “If it means I get to melt that wight’s face off,” she said, little arcs of flame pulsing between her hands, “then absolutely.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z All I knew was that the wights were going to shoot us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “This wight worked as an oral surgeon. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the skull he’s posing with belonged to one of his peculiar victims.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I scanned the forest constantly, afraid that at any moment the wights and their dogs would burst out and attack us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I was able to forget how much danger we were in, and how that very day we had nearly been captured by wights and devoured by a hollow, our meat-stripped bones spat off a mountainside. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "When does a wight get to be a hired man?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z How many of the people around us were spies for the wights—or wights themselves? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Did the wight who took you spray you with anything?” he asked her. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You’ve done your homework,” said the girl, “but any wight could know my name and birthplace. Unfortunately for you, I no longer find your deceptions interesting.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The burning wight loomed over him, etched tall against the trees in their snowy shrouds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Scholars want to close their eyes to the truth. Ghuls, wraiths, wights, jinn—they’re just stories. Tribal myths. Campfire tales. Such arrogance.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help wondering, though, if these peculiars simply knew more than we did about what the wights did with their captives. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z All around him, wights were rising from beneath the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “If London is where all the wights are, won’t going there be walking right into their hands? Is that a good idea?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "That is not me master. I don't ken that wight, and I'm as glad of it." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Personally, it wasn’t wights that concerned me most, but hollows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Bran filled a fist with snow and threw it, but the wight did not so much as blink. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A hand, he saw, as the rest of the wight came bursting from beneath the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I can imagine a wight faking it,” the girl replied. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z "Well," he said casually, "perhaps you're not such a bad sort after all, for a country wight." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I wondered why he would lie for us, given the harm these wights could cause his people. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Usually they do,” said Emma, “but the wights know that as well. I’m sure Miss Wren hasn’t kept her freedom this long by hiding in such obvious places.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The wights are not the only sort of living dead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The wight himself. They are fond of dramatic gestures, and invariably leave behind some taunting memento.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Bran backed away, bleeding, and Meera Reed was there, driving her frog spear deep into the wight’s back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wights had shot the Gypsies’ horses right out from under them. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I hate it when dead men get up. You’ll feel the same the day you meet a wight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "In that case, I suppose you're not such a bad sort, either. For a city wight." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z With wights and dogs hunting us, the extra speed might mean the difference between getting caught and getting away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z We laughed like mad, strangely giddy, half in disbelief that we’d made it this far—across the water, through the woods, past snarling hollows and death squads of wights, all the way to London. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “They were designed to hold captured wights, hardened criminals, and the dangerously insane,” Millard explained. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I think not. A wight never would’ve let you take him alive.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “These incisions are precise and surgical. Not meant to inflict pain—probably done under anesthetic, even. The wights were looking for something.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “What did that wight soldier say to you, Emma? ‘I wish I could bottle what you have,’ or something to that Emma shuddered. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The wights had done this—the same ones who’d raided our camp the night before. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z When two of them finally came straggling back to the Wall, it had been as wights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Which makes me wonder if the wights have been tinkering with nature,” said Millard, “vis-a-vis the transference of peculiar souls.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But we’d live them on our own terms—and if we were going to die, by God, we’d take a few wights with us along the way. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Wildlings and wights and giants had been all the talk at Eastwatch, but here no one seemed to be giving them so much as a thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “That’s just grand! Not only did he betray us to a wight, he’s mad to boot!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Jon Snow remembered the wight rising, its eyes shining blue in the pale dead face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Boots tromped by outside the cage, heavy and thudding, as if the wights sought to punish the very ground they walked upon. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z ‘But only evil wights dwell there now, and I will not willingly tell more of them.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I knew the wights had killed people—killed peculiar children, Miss Avocet had said—but the brutality of shooting these animals seemed to exceed even that evil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Jacob, how did that wight know so much about you? And us?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “But only if it consumes peculiars. It can eat as many normals as it likes and it will never turn into a wight. Therefore, we must have something normals lack.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "I fell into it out of old habit. I'm a country wight meself, born and bred in Yorkshire. Judging from your speech, your master must be a South County man." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “We were captured,” Hugh said proudly, “but the wights who took us didn’t live to tell about it.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Didn’t Miss Wren say there are wights in this very building?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The direwolf wrenched free and came to him as the wight struggled to rise, dark snakes spilling from the great wound in its belly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Meera led the way back up the hill, jabbing at the wights when they came near. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They were kidnapped years ago by the wights. Long assumed dead.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Now we had escorts, and one rifle-wielding wight had become three. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Those of us who worried about such things assumed the wights were nearby, somewhere below us in that German submarine, waiting. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “It can go days without breaking. It’ll be dark in a few hours, and then we’ll have to hope we can last until morning without the wights finding us. We’ll be utterly defenseless.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Before that wight died, he told us why they’ve been abducting so many ymbrynes. They’re going to force them to re-create the reaction that made the hollows in the first place—only bigger. Much bigger.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “It was wights who took Miss Avocet,” I said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Can you imagine a wight?” said the young man. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Lord Commander, wights are monstrous, unnatural creatures. Abominations before the eyes ofthe gods. You ... you cannot mean to try to talk with them?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “When she found out you were gone, she just about went off her chump. Thought you’d been abducted by wights or some barmi- ness. Sorry, Em. I had to tell her.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “My lord father used to tell me that a man must know his enemies. We understand little of the wights and less about the Others. We need to learn.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He was a wight, and I knew he wouldn’t think twice about shooting any one of us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He was outnumbered, and though we were just a bunch of unarmed children, we’d been responsible for the death of one wight and two hollowgast in the last three days. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The wight in the passenger seat nodded to the one who’d captured us and gave a little salute—Nice going!—then turned to us and stared. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The rich green smell of tobacco curls up into my nose, and I think of my father, smoking a pipe as he drew pictures of efrits and wights for me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z And suddenly he was not Bran, the broken boy crawling through the snow, suddenly he was Hodor hallway down the hill, with the wight raking at his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But for hours we didn’t see anyone—not a wight, not even another traveler. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “The ranger saved Sam and the girl from the wights,” Bran said, hesitantly, “and he’s taking me to the three-eyed crow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Arranging the hollows’ meals is what wights spend most of their time doing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In addition to helping us blend in, new clothes might also throw off any wights who’d been tracking us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z All the walking and talking and traveling was through Icelandic landscapes, and the capturing of the wight was in Iceland. ‘Game of Thrones’ Director Alan Taylor on Romance, Dragons and Ravens 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z A gentle spirit, Jojen never carried weapons, which put him at a disadvantage when a skeleton wight grabbed his ankles and pulled him down into the snow and another one started stabbing him. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Turns out the wight dragon spits blue flames, enough to ensure Season 7 closes with the dead pouring through the gap to head South. “Game of Thrones” recap: “The Dragon and the Wolf” is a satisfying end to an uneven season 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Poor Edd was stabbed in the gut and was briefly resurrected as a wight later on. Ranking the Deaths in the Final ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Tertiary Cause of Death: Being the only black people in a land full of white people overrun by wight people. On "Game of Thrones," all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z "Bran saw the Night King and his army marching towards Eastwatch," he says as a shot of Bran's ravens spying on the wights appears. Everything You Need to Know About Eastwatch-by-the-Sea on Game of Thrones 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z She's rescued from a wight horde by the Hound and Beric, who suffers one blow the Lord of Light decides not to heal. "Game of Thrones" recap: "The Long Night" arrives at Winterfell, at last 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z We told her that's "Walking Dead"; we have wights on our show. 'Game of Thrones' writers on season finale and why 'All Men Must Die' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Actually, they mostly observe the carnage from a distance as their reanimated “wights” -- corpses raised from the dead -- do the dirty work. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Sail south, the wildlings learn, or else! 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Martin recently revealed in an interview that your character is not actually a living human being anymore, but a wight. Actor Richard Dormer on ‘Game of Thrones’ and That Wicked Flaming Sword 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z For those desperate for a fruity-flavoured hit of caffeine, guarana, ginseng, taurine and essence of terrifying wight from beyond the grave, you can still purchase a can for just £148 on Amazon. Make mine a Darth Vader burger! The weirdest edible movie tie-ins 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z If an army of dead wights couldn’t take down the giant at Hardhome, it seems unlikely that he’ll have any trouble with regular soldiers. Who Will Die in the 'Battle of the Bastards' on Game of Thrones? 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones' seventh season saw Daenerys Targaryen fly north with her three dragons to save Jon Snow and company from certain death at the hands of the wights. What That Major 'Game of Thrones' Twist Means for Daenerys and Her Dragons 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Season 8 opens with a massive war literally on the horizon as the White Walkers and their undead wight army have breached The Wall and are heading towards the world of men. "Game of Thrones" stars reveal how House Stark is preparing for the Battle of Winterfell 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Other theories involve Snow “warging” his way into his direwolf’s body — which just seems nutty — or returning as a wight/zombie. Is He Really Dead? And Where Does 'Game of Thrones' Stand for Season 6? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Cause of Death: Terminal heroics and being small in a wide world of great wights. On "Game of Thrones," all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Just wandering if the wall contains the magic that will cut off the power that moves the wights like in the Season 4 finale when Bran first arrives at the cave. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 5: Hold the Door 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z His heart isn’t beating, his blood isn’t flowing in his veins, he’s a wight, but a wight animated by fire instead of by ice, now we’re getting back to the whole fire and ice thing. George R. R. Martin on the One 'Game of Thrones' Change He 'Argued Against' 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Fans got their first real look at the power of the White Walkers in season five’s “Hardhome” when they unleashed a horde of wights on an unsuspecting Wildling settlement. 5 Big Game of Thrones Questions We Want Answered This Season 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The soldiers rush into the castle as wights advance, and Melisandre, fire pal, magically lights the trenches—boy, she is great, I’ve decided. “Game of Thrones” Season 8, Episode 3 Recap: The Stab Heard Round the World 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z A truly messed-up message created with flaming human limbs and a child’s body turned wight, courtesy of the Night King? "Game of Thrones" recap: It's a reunion! The dying can start any day now 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z That was the first time, I, in this season, did a big sequence with the wights. How 'Game of Thrones' Sets Actors on Fire Without Killing Them 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z In the North, they burn all dead bodies to prevent them from becoming wights at the hands of the White Walkers. Here's Why Jon Snow's Fate on Game of Thrones Could Be Different in the Books 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z In the sequence when we’re running down to catch the wight, we filmed that all day, and no accidents. Actor Richard Dormer on ‘Game of Thrones’ and That Wicked Flaming Sword 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Sam has already proven himself a tough guy – he killed a wight and a warg – but will he prove to be a secret weapon in the fight against the Walkers? Game of Thrones: the 10 burning questions that must be answered 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Suffice it to say that it begins with subtitles that read “Unsullied grunt” and “wights snarling,” and my frantically eating clementines, which is all I can contribute to the war effort. “Game of Thrones” Season 8, Episode 3 Recap: The Stab Heard Round the World 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Boosting this fan theory is the possibility of a wight dragon. 12 Questions 'Game of Thrones' Needs to Answer in the Second Half of Season 7 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z "Wasn’t it super-convenient when Jon & Co. attacked the White Walker patrol, that one wight in this patrol was reanimated personally by the Night King and didn’t decay when Jon killed the White Walker?" This Tiny Game of Thrones Detail May Confirm a Mind-Blowing Bran Stark Theory 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z But there are, in the world of entertainment, some satisfying battles—even a few decent massacres—and most lack zombies or wights. An Open Letter to the White Walker Army 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Means of execution: Mercy killed by Meera after being stabbed multiple times by a wight; burned by a fireball thrown by “the Children” Here's Everyone Who Has Died on "Game of Thrones" 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z We know from the season seven trailers that Jon will eventually return to the North this season and fight some wights. 12 Questions 'Game of Thrones' Needs to Answer in the Second Half of Season 7 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The actor Richard Dormer fielded our burning questions about the sword, what he thinks about being designated a “fire wight” and how the band of brothers formed an actual band. Actor Richard Dormer on ‘Game of Thrones’ and That Wicked Flaming Sword 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Once reanimated, the wights appear to be completely subject to the will of the Walkers. This Game of Thrones Theory May Explain How the White Walkers Control the Dead 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z What would have been the most minor behaviors a week ago — the unprotected high-five, the leaned-in whisper, the detective getting in a suspect’s face — now seem as otherworldly as wights and flying dragons. You Can Stream, but You Can’t Hide 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z If Drogon is poisoned but manages to fly North to aid Jon in his fight against the White Walkers before he dies, he could rise again as a wight. 12 Questions 'Game of Thrones' Needs to Answer in the Second Half of Season 7 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z This would explain why wights still decompose, while truly resurrected characters like Jon and Beric do not, and still require normal living conditions after their resurrection. This Game of Thrones Theory May Explain How the White Walkers Control the Dead 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z In the godswood, Theon has somehow fought off a legion of wights and is breathing a sigh of relief—now I just have to fight the Night King, he thinks. “Game of Thrones” Season 8, Episode 3 Recap: The Stab Heard Round the World 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z I’m sure they enchant some of us, including their creators: you wights, for example, appear in various lovingly rendered stages of decomposition. An Open Letter to the White Walker Army 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Also not good: Bran’s solo greensight experiment, in which he sees legions of eerily assembled wights, about to follow the command of the Four Icemen of the Apocalypse. “Game of Thrones”: The Door 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Like: what do wights do when they’re not on murder duty? Splinter is coming! The Game of Thrones spin-offs the world deserves 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z After Jon Snow managed to fight off the wights who pulled him underwater and emerge from the frozen lake beyond the Wall, his survival chances seemed pretty low. A Surprising Character Just Made a Game-Changing Return on 'Game of Thrones' 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z And there is a fate marginally less devastating than this: becoming a wight. Game of Thrones betting guide: who will live, who will die, who will get it on? 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Tormund Giantsbane faced an enemy even more terrifying than a group of wights on Sunday night's season finale of Game of Thrones. Two 'Game of Thrones' Characters Face Uncertain Futures After That Final Scene 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z There’s also this sense of anticipation from the wights. ‘Game of Thrones’ Director on Jon Snow’s Past and Tyrion’s Reaction 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Come the spring, I’m off to either Brownsea Island or the Isle of wight and will report back. Even when her government was imploding, May never tried to exclude me | John Crace 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The country singer is a big fan of the show and made his debut as a wildling that gets turned into a wight at the big Battle of Winterfell. 'Game of Thrones' top celebrity cameos you may have missed from Chris Stapleton to Ed Sheeran 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z When it comes to killing wights, it’s not about quantity so much as… no, it is about quantity. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The entire run of Game of Thrones has been alluding to some greater power in the Weirwood, including the popular theory that Bran could somehow use them to burn the wights to death. The Game of Thrones history that resolved at the Battle of Winterfell 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z If the wights lay siege to the Iron Islands, a living army can’t survive there long, given the lack of resources. Daenerys Targaryen’s final refuge might have very little to offer 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But while returning home to gather his men, he falls victim to the Night King’s encroaching army, and is found as a resurrected wight by Berric Dondarion, Tormund, and the remainder of the Night’s Watch. The North’s history explains the current politics of Game of Thrones 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z And any “dead” characters who unexpectedly show up again, either as wights or because Game of Thrones is full of death-fakeouts, may become available in the draft later, to replace dead characters. The Game of Game of Thrones fantasy sports league is back 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Theon jumps back and forth between firing arrows and swinging a spear to defeat any wights that come toward Bran’s body. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z And the blue eyes Arya would shut forever were the Night King’s, along with every other wight and White Walker, all of whom stemmed from him. The Game of Thrones history that resolved at the Battle of Winterfell 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z No episode better exemplifies that than “Beyond the Wall,” where Jon Snow and his band of merry men venture, um, beyond the Wall in an extremely ill-advised plan to capture a wight. The Verge's favorite TV episodes of 2017 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The Night King’s frozen army of the dead marched on the wall with its newest weapon — one of Daenerys’ dragons that was killed, then resurrected as a wight — that spits blue flames. In 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 finale, women now have a road map to power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Also, that “Let's capture a wight!” plan was horrendous from the get-go. The Verge looks back on season 7 of Game of Thrones 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in Winterfell, the battle against the wights is only getting more intense. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z This week, we found out what that was: Beric managed to save Arya’s life against a group of wights, keeping her fighting so she could kill the Night King, seemingly for good. The Game of Thrones history that resolved at the Battle of Winterfell 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z That and the wight probably made for a stressful day, and Tyrion becomes quite useful in that moment, in terms of making sure her plans go off without a hitch. Game of Thrones, The Dragon and the Wolf gave fans exactly what they wanted 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Last week they helped capture a decaying wight as proof that the threat was real. In 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 finale, women now have a road map to power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Jon Snow was saved in the nick of time twice in one episode when battling thousands of wights, and survived falling into a lake of freezing water. The Verge looks back on season 7 of Game of Thrones 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Lord of the Rings fans can think of these wights as the Uruk-hai versions of the undead race — bigger, stronger, and meaner. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z As for the Hound, we last saw him dumping a wight into a boat. 12 unanswered questions before the Game of Thrones Season 7 finale 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z She met a wight face to face and nearly had her face ripped off in the process. Game of Thrones, The Dragon and the Wolf gave fans exactly what they wanted 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Cersei was presented with the snarling wight and after much convincing, appeared to agree to join forces with the new power couple. In 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 finale, women now have a road map to power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z For Jon, this means continuing to hack at wights while his only chance at escape flies away, along with his only chance at a new girlfriend. The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 6, Beyond the Wall 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z He’s basically swiping at wights and running away from an angry Viserion, who is burning down soldiers and wights and walls and whatever else is in his way. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Of course, it could also just be the Hound killing the wight, or getting into some other, unrelated skirmish. 12 unanswered questions before the Game of Thrones Season 7 finale 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z With the lone remaining wight captured, all seems well — until they hear the low thunder of approaching forces. Game of Thrones, Beyond the Wall stretches out, then strips down 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The disadvantage to this is that it seems that a Walker and its wights are linked — kill the White Walker who resurrected the dead, and you kill the corpses it raised, too. Let’s talk about the Night King after this week’s Game of Thrones 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Now we know an important new law of physics: if you kill a White Walker, you also kill any wights it “turned” from normal dead bodies into militant zombies. The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 6, Beyond the Wall 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Tormund’s 50 points for killing all those wights helped a little, too. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z In fact, they had to introduce a brand new character, Karsi — the random wildling we were supposed to feel sad about when she got killed by wights — just to get some emotional heft. Analysis | ‘Game of Thrones’: The major battle scenes, ranked 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z But the Children of the Forest saved him from turning into a wight by jamming a piece of dragonglass into his heart. Game of Thrones: 5 things to know before the premiere 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The wights, zombie-like creatures with spookily pale faces and dressed in ragged furs, form a tidy line as they wait to grab breakfast burritos. 'Game of Thrones': Inside the World's Most Popular Show 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z After tricking a substantial number of wights into falling through some thin ice, our team settles down for a campfire and a nap. The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 6, Beyond the Wall 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The majority of the battle between good and evil, living and dead, zombies with obscenely cool blue eyes and those with regular sad eyes, took place between wights and Winterfell’s army. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The wights burrow through the ground and into the hollow under the tree. The Game of Game of Thrones: shut the back door! 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z For he’s viciously set upon by “wights,” the corpses reanimated by the lethal White Walkers. 'Game of Thrones' recap: What does 'Hodor' mean? Now we know 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The scene where Hodor holds the door against the wights as Bran is dragged away was horrifying and poignant. Really important things from 'Game of Thrones' Ep. 5 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z While she’s on her way, The Hound throws a rock at some wights. The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 6, Beyond the Wall 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z A skinny soldier, haggard from taking on a small army of wights, standing between the Night King and a strange teenager? Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z As Meera drags Bran off, she tells Hodor to stay where he is and get eaten by wights while she puts 20 or so more feet between her and them. The Game of Game of Thrones: shut the back door! 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z And yet it returns, relentlessly, like a “Game of Thrones” reanimated wight from beyond the wall. An Income Tax on Carried Interest Couldn’t Be Avoided 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z And perhaps those individualized moments of humanization helped make the wight attack all the more devastating. The Game of Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 8 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Further — and I can’t believe I’m saying this — zombie polar bears will be scored as wights. The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 6, Beyond the Wall 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z As the scene changes to showcase the effect of the Night King’s death, with wights everywhere fading into nothingness, we also get a fantastic shot of Viserion going down. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z And absent Bombadil, we also lost the Barrow Downs and the wights. Why It's Time For The Peter Jackson Era Of 'The Lord Of The Rings' To End 2014-01-30T19:05:00Z A rugged wight, the worst of brutes, was man; On his own wretched kind he ruthless prey'd. Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 2012-04-05T02:00:37.337Z Hurrah!—here comes an owl-fish, I reckon;" shouted a merry wight of a tar, from the land of wooden nutmegs,—"specimen of the salt-water owl! The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z This night we must away; The steed is wight, the spur is bright; I cannot stay till day. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z We tried to count how many wights, White Walkers, Dothraki, other humans, and other mythical creatures died. Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 3, The Long Night 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z In 1355 these master-surgeons constituted a faculty, which pocketed one-half of the penalties imposed upon the unlucky wights who had not the honour of belonging to their body. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "Make this go now," would be the cry, and to a luckless wight who had been upset by barbed wire and sent sprawling: "What do you mean by lying there, anyhow?" The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z I certainly entered this house the poorest wight in England, and what must she imagine when I am discovered? Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z The rest of the twelvemonth, the unlucky wight of a traveler must needs have recourse to a horse-drawn coach. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z Even poor St. Michel was groaning over his ignorance of such a personage,—if indeed he be a wight, and not a sprite. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The last trial to relieve him was tossing the ill-fated wight in a blanket. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Many a ship, he doubted not, had been wrecked on this coast, many a hapless wight had been cast up by the tide, alive or dead. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z These ladies made believe to be terribly shocked--threatened to assail the adventurous wight like bewitching Amazons; but he knew them too well to be alarmed. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Stout quarter staves were also ready wherewith to belabour a struggling wight. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z "They talk religion in their mouth; They talk o' mercy, grace, an' truth, For what? to gie their malice skouth On some puir wight, An' hunt him down, o'er right an' ruth, To ruin straight." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z So probably the difficulty will be solved by doing nothing, unless a daring wight suggests the painting out of some old work to make room for a complete set of modern frescoes. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z If all who love and drink are going wrong, There's many a wight of heaven may well despair! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The right that you allow her my wife may well lay down; Henceforth in my country she'll wear the queenly crown, And, should I live, be richer than any living wight. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Your neighbour Gay, that joyous wight, As Dives rich, and bold as Hector, Poor Gay steals twenty times a-night, On shaking knees, to see his spectre. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Then with an insinuating wave of his arm his voice changes, and he is found to be drowning some hapless wight with ridicule. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Young Johnny was a clever youth, Fu' sturdy, stout, and wight;10 Just full three yards around the waist, And fourteen feet in hight. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 2011-12-28T03:00:36.217Z Ah! wine lends wings to many a weary wight, And beauty spots to ladies' faces bright; All Ramazan I have not drunk a drop, Thrice welcome, then, O Bairam's blessed night! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z But yet within were living six hundred fearless wights; Crowned king about him ne'er had better knights. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Unhappy the wight who misconducted himself in Synagogue "by offending the president, or grossly insulting any other person," as the ordinance deliciously ran. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Religion, philosophy, and social politics, must be of the same form with all men, else woe to the wight who thinks out of the straight line! Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Merry and fair enough for any wight, and the scenery wonderful. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Vidyāpati says: It is a sign of love; Well have you weighed the worthy wight. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z But deep into the wan water There stands a great big stone; He turned his wight horse head about, Said, "Lady fair, will ye loup on?" English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z Woe to the insolent wight that dare stand covered in its presence! Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Everything You see spring Joyously, in full delight; He whose pains Dear love deigns With her favor to requite— Ah, happy wight. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Above all things, harken unto a pagan truth: love's a lusty wight and can suffer forty mortal wounds and love again. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Recounting in your heart your former love, Come back once more to your own home, Vidyāpati the mighty bard declares: The wily wight is well aware of all her woe! Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z Earl Richard once on a day, And all his valiant men so wight, He did him down to Barnisdale, Where all the land is fair and light. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z The piece concludes with some noble lines somewhat to this effect:— “If every strand oppression strong Should arm against the son of song, The weary wight would find, I ween, A welcome in Glamorgan green.” Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z O Bella! what strange wight is there, Dark on the evening sky, With flowing cloak, and streaming hair, And head so grandly high? A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Poor wights that are come to pay us a visit!” The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Yet shall ye find no other wight, save she, by bread and salt! Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z The manner in which the luckless wight acquits himself of his invidious task forms the theme of many a conversation in the "highest detective circles" of the French capital for the next week or so. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z If all the world were sought so farre Who could find such a wight? The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z I know I am neither as good a pigeon to pluck as Melbury, nor as marvellous a wight to overcome as Harleigh. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z She was dismissed; but one of the wicked wights, when she demanded her child, spat in her eye and extinguished its light for ever. Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride 2011-09-12T02:00:28.290Z Up went her staff, and out leapt Gib at doors into the town, And since that time was never wight could set their eyes upon it. Gammer Gurton's Needle 2011-09-24T02:00:15.643Z Oft as the peasant wight impelled To these untrodden paths had been, As oft he, horror struck, beheld Things of unearthly shape and mien. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Oh! for one hour of Wallace wight, Or well-skilled Bruce to rule the fight, And cry Saint Andrew and our right.” Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z How was I to suspect a poor wight recommended to me by Oosterlinck, a man for whom I hold a hundred thousand livres? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Was ever poor wight led into a deeper bog? Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z "Another may I'll never wed, Another may I'll never bring hame;"— 55 But, sighing, said that weary wight— "I wish my days were at an end!" English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z There dwelt close by, a restless heedless wight— Mischief to him was ever a delight.— Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z There was sense if not poetry in the wight who wrote: I have been to "Termination Rock" Where many have been before; But as I can't describe the scene I wont say any more. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z There beech and pine are prosperous and sleek compared with the unhappy, time-foundered wights above them; but if the spruces perish, they rule. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z And Ion of Chios calls wine Youth of indomitable might, With head of bull; the loveliest wight Who ever rank'd as Love's esquire, Filling men with strength and fire. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Another may I'll never wed, Another may I'll never bring hame:"— But, sighing, said that weary wight— 40 "I wish my life were at an end!— English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z “No one within thought he could be seen by any wight outside.” Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance 2011-07-27T02:00:29.703Z Perfumers, men of scents must be, some Scilly men are bright; A brown man oft deep read we see, a black a wicked wight. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z But King Djâbel, suspecting treachery E'en from the first, and well upon his guard— For little trust he placed in Christian wight— Did stand aloof, and watched things from afar. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z "Thou art a devil's imp!" said Thorstenson; "and, if it were not that thou art so stunted, there might be made a doughty wight of thee." The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z And sighing said that weary wight, "I doubt that day I'll never see!" English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z The truth being that Hicks is the most abstemious wight in the world. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z No wonder he sang:— To you, my purse, and to non other wight Compleyne I, for ye be my lady dere! Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z I thought at first the luckless wight was dead, But mark'd a quivering of the slender limbs, And laid him on a paper in the sun, To renovate himself. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z He began to read it and was suddenly aware of unfamiliar words, ‘wretched wight’ for ‘knight at arms,’ verses 4 and 5 transposed, and several changes in verse 7. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I extend my heartfelt commiseration to those poor benighted wights who don't possess a wife. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z She recommended Spenser to the Irish Council to be Sheriff of Cork; again was “the wight forlore” sent back to his undesired locality; yet now, perhaps, honours and promotion were awaiting the “miserable man.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z This led the circus performers into the scheme of selling the ambitious wights something to make them limber. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z Side by side they strolled over the lawns of Pendarrel, enjoying converse such as is only derided by the unhappy wights who have never shared it. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z "Well, we can 'glimpse for once the rotund, jolly wight,'" quoted Wink. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z As the coteries make the sets, and monopolise the choicest portions of the floor, when the room is crowded and everybody determined to dance, the unlucky wight, without acquaintances, finds himself sadly overlooked. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z These islands were still Spanish, and the Inquisition was in full swing, occasionally roasting an unhappy wight suspected of heresy or idolatry. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Meat, bread and wine he gives to many a wight; Capons and pheasants on his board abound, Where serving men and pages march around; Choice chambers, torches, and wax-candle light. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There is an old fatalistic saying that "every wight has got his weird," or that every man's career on earth and the manner of his death are predestined. The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country 2011-03-04T03:00:59.137Z Wo to the wight who sate down for an afternoon’s conviviality with Toddy Tam! Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z Woe to the luckless wight that hadn't got a card for our "Evening"! the obligation Milo would place him under was a bond debt for life. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Thus his heart was in his mouth, and he was eminently appreciative of the folly of the elderly wight who seeks to share the pleasures of the young. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z "How nicely the wight writes for his five years," said Lensky touched, looking at the envelope. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z That foolhardy wight who giveth no heed to the warning note of coming misfortune has never yet been known to escape. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Woe betide the luckless wight, who, even in childhood's days, imposed upon a "Kimball boy." Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z If you be ready, follow me, and hark you Upon your life speak to no living wight, Except my self. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z It cheered and comforted Amoret to hear Scudamour, whom of all living wights she loved best, thus spoken of by her deliverer. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z Were a hapless wight to lose his footing, he would descend as easily and gracefully into the bosom of the yielding loam, as into a barrel of soft soap. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z Contemptible wights, how dare ye to put such questions to me? Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z "Gad, I was quite wight," said the baronet. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z They would never admit their mental inferiority to man, and woe betide the luckless wight who even insinuated such inferiority. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z Presently he espied a small grating in the door, and through this he called with all his strength that he might discover whether any living wight were imprisoned there. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z He was— "The man of compliment, a most illustrious wight, A man of fire, new words, fashion's own knight." William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z That garb of sorrow is but worn wonder and pity to excite, to seem as if condemned to mourn—a sorrow-stricken wight. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z It was plain that this learned wight was possessed of a mind of the most singular simplicity and inconsequence. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Who should draw the line between those men, when all was dark for the white and a luckless wight was the black? The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z Deputy Team Manager isle of wight council. deputy team manager required.. unspecified. Government borrowing hits ?12bn in February 2010-03-18T10:08:00Z What! you grin there, do ye? driving wights that ye are. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Such clumsy butterflies as these had little chance the flowers to please; and so whenever one approached, each bent aside its calyx bright in mockery of the uncouth wight. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Growler advanced, his oath to take; He swore, that Reynard was a rake, A murd'rer, and a treach'rous wight, For which assertion he would fight. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 You will say there are many such wights. The Children of the World Too true, alas! the night bird's curse, For 'neath the trees did hover, An envious wight with arquebus, T'await his rival lover. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I He was not beautiful nor bright, Nor born to rule the storm; A most unlucky urban wight; A small, yet grimy, form. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 "When you have finished your wine, sir, I will play Providence to that fortunate wight, whoever he may be, and put him in possession of his heritage as soon as possible." Our Admirable Betty A Romance Inexpressibly weary and sad was this journey over a road which foot of living wight had never trod. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II They thereby imply either that they don't think it worth while to understand his character, or consider him too pitiful a wight to venture to show himself as God created him. The Children of the World "If I had been there, I would open the door, and say, 'Satan, go wight out.'" Little Frankie and His Cousin "No, no!" he repeated; "papa say s- knife; so you must say it wight." Little Frankie at His Plays To begin again, you forged a bill on one Hilary Girard, he, discovering your criminality, taxed you with the fact, whereafter poor Mr. Girard suddenly died—misfortunate wight! Our Admirable Betty A Romance Shouts of laughter usually escaped the comrades of the luckless wight who became thus involved, and on one occasion a tragedy had nearly resulted from their ill-timed merriment. Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan "O Hjalmar, give me now a drink, For it comforts the meanest wight." Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Won't you please to ask God to let us take hold of hands and go wight up to heaven together. Little Frankie and His Cousin "No, that not wight; you must say s- knife." Little Frankie at His Plays Long I've unlearnt me that complaint of dole Brings cure of dolours; but a wight in pain To greet is forcèd an the grief be great. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII A rugged wight, the worst of brutes, was man;. Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times "Up you get, you merry wight," cried Tom Little, laughing; "there's the devil to pay." Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle She did not intend to go dolefully inert like the poor wights in the Hall of Eblis, with her hand always over the flame of pain in her heart. Shadows of Flames A Novel Wo to the wight who sate down for an afternoon's conviviality with Toddy Tam! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 She had in mind a heroine with a dual nature, sacred and profane love so to speak, and Tannh�user at the mercy of this gemini-born wight. Interpreters And seek to learn his plight-- Just tell them he is hanging high; The poor, unlucky wight. Waldfried A Novel And their quaint grey animal figures, And the booths the hucksters own. p. 68Behind a linen awning Sits an ancient wight half-dead, And a little dear of a girl is Examining—his head. Songs of the Army of the Night "Aw wight!" said Trouble, with a wise look on his chubby little face. The Curlytops Snowed In Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds “The axe he bears, it hacks and tears; ’Tis form’d of an earth-fast flint; No armour of knight, tho’ ever so wight, Can bear its deadly dint. Border Raids and Reivers What indeed to us remaining, Wretched wights, but fantasy? Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Say, my dear, O my dear, These are the eves for speaking; There is no wight will work us spite Beneath the sunset's streaking. Days and Dreams Poems Since the Styx hath been a river, It hath borne no living wight. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine Nay, not noiseless—for the deafest wight that ever strove to hear with his mouth wide open, might have sworn that he heard the sound of ten thousand hammers. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) I have no desire to go about with a sermon on my lips, and a frown on my brow, to bestow on all the luckless wights who 'touch, taste or handle.' Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 And you, base marauder, though you know it not, are the long-lost brother of that luckless wight starving, if I mistake not, to death on the island. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons These perchance are mortal wights, Bound by sorcery in this Miserable state as birds Stuffed and most disconsolate. Atta Troll The rest of the family—unwelcome wights!—were not disposed to make their existence obtrusive; on the contrary, they did much to further his wishes, even to the sacrifice of personal predilection. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories The members of the family cast lots, and all accompanied the luckless wight on whom the lot fell, to a pool of water. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. And gathered them together In a little throw, Seven score of wight young men Came ready on a row, And fair did off their hoods And set them on their knee. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Uncle James, like Le Balafré in the novel, would have "ventured his nephew against the wight Wallace." My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Tiny and most clever wights Toiling in the bowels of Earth, Busy little folk that gather Riches from Earth's golden veins. Atta Troll The hero views you with delight, To win your hand forever working; We pity him—the witless wight— To fall a victim to your smirking! Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Nor let the slow and misbelieving wight Doubt how the fire on the hard earth may seize; No more then how those waters erst did light Upon the sinfull world. Democritus Platonissans Seven score of wight yeomen Came pricking on a row, And everych of them a good mantle Of scarlet and of ray, All they came to good Robin To wit what he would say. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Woe to the unlucky wight who loses his hat in this place! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 This same stone," growled Atta Troll, "Is a shrine where Druids once Slaughtered wretched human wights In dark Superstition's days. Atta Troll So all her thoughts went out to Richard, and no wonder she was a weary little wight at the end of the school day. The Eye of Dread But yet our various thoughts to represent Each gentle wight will deem of good intent. Democritus Platonissans Robin commanded his wight young men, Under the green-wood tree, They shall lay in that same suit, That the Sheriff might them see. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse And why should ghost of sorrow fright The bold heart of an English wight When beef is on the board? The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme My worthy wight," said the Angel, "we are hungry. Another Sheaf His heart was pure: he loved the child That dwelt among untrodden ways And dared to lift his voice in praise Of humblest wight in highlands wild. The Loom of Life What Bodley wight will sing a stave To match their strumming? The Battle of the Bays Make you ready, ye wight young men, That shooting will I see! Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse He has a son, Sam, a graceless wight, witty, and, like his father fond of mint juleps and other palatable "fluids." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. There are many unlucky wights who are laboriously endeavoring to climb fortune's ladder on the same principle. Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements All which being premised, I have been for eight weeks smitten with the tenderest passion that ever tender wight underwent. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges I do not think Rebekah was kinder and sweeter in Abraham’s servant’s eyes than was this wight in mine. The Book of Khalid Robin took a full great horn, And loud he 'gan blow, Seven score of wight young men Came ready on a row. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Some more energetic wights Leave the level land, Mountaineer on dizzy heights, Alpenstock in hand. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Oh, Willie was a witty wight, And had o' things an unco slight! Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland The wretched wight wished all good night, And a light heart on the morrow. The Songs of Ranild Full well, my lord, I know that wight; He robbed me of my merchant’s-ware, And I was his prisoner but yesternight. Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series When they had their bows ybent, Their tackles feathered free, Seven score of wight young men Stood by Robin's knee. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Many a spry wight thinks it his duty to be continuously funny and monotonously merry. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland This night we must away;2773 The steed is wight, the spur is bright; I cannot stay till day. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 From these it has glanced off, in a variety of directions, to adorn the pages of humbler wights; and the passion, or rather this symptom of the Bibliomania, yet rages with undiminished force. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Take twelve of thy wight yeomen, Well weapon’d by thy side. Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series Every wight wot, that wit hath reasonable, That of a woman, he descendèd is: Then is it shame of her to speak amiss! Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Yon babbling wight, of sense forlorn, Who thinks himself a Gladstone born, Although a bailie, still must strain To gain himself a Provost's chain. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland O'Brien used to take him off very pleasantly, and perhaps you may, from his representation, have some idea of this important wight. All About Coffee Yes, verily: and I warrant some half-starved scrivener of the Elizabethan period drew his envenomed dart to endeavour to perforate the cuticle of some worthy bibliomaniacal wight. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance There came a strange wight to our town en', An' the fient a body did him ken; He twirled na' lang, but he glided ben, Wi' a weary, dreary hum. Tales From Scottish Ballads The Tongue of Man so swift is, and so wight That when it is yraisèd up on loft, Reason it sueth so slowly and soft, That it him never overtaken may. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Even if persuasion were possible, it would be a cruelty to disillusionise these happy wights,—men who, with such sublime confidence, can read their title clear to mansions in the sky. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland There loved no wight hotter in his life, And when that it is eve, I run blithe, As soon as ever the sun gaineth west, To see this floure, how it will go to rest. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Oh, steel thy heart, thou hapless, sleepless wight, Against these cheerless visitors by night. Too Old for Dolls A Novel “Emerge from the lubberland of dreams, and be swift in attendance upon a wight whose wandering star has led him to your hospitable gate.” The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel What wight is it that can shape remedy Against these falsely proposèd things? Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse The wine is but ordinary California claret, but the viands are excellently cooked and of themselves sufficient inducement for a wight to part with half a dollar without consideration of the wine. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton While Summer fields are thine by right, And Autumn, melancholy wight, Doth in thy crimson head delight When rains are on thee. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Her name is Jealousy, thou wretched wight; The cruellest of visitors by night. Too Old for Dolls A Novel She was a wight, if ever such wight were,— Des. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature What force is it, such a wight to beguile? Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Woe," said I to myself, "woe to the reckless wight bold enough to enter the heart of this swarm and, above all, to lay a rash hand upon the dwellings under construction! The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Fain would he have recall'd The fraudulent oath which bound To a much feebler wight the heroic man. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold This Prince of Denmark is a most unhappy wight, if I mistake not. The Panchronicon O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature This riddle a wight did ask of me when that I fought with the lord of Palatine against the heathen in Turkey. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems Then answered the King: 'Eyvind, thou art a brave wight and a wise; thou wouldst not tell war tidings unless they were true.' The Red True Story Book She look'd so witching fair, that learned wight Forgot his craft, and his best wits took flight; And he grew fond, and eager to obey His mistress, use her empire as she may. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold “Ei, pretty snail,” said Glaucon, pressing him fast by one hand, whilst he held his mother by the other, “if I say you are a merry wight, the nurse will not marvel any more.” A Victor of Salamis Twenty years in slumber's chain, Is the fate that we ordain: Yet, if merry wight he prove, Pleasing dreams his sleep shall move. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle For instance, they have Dryden—splendid set— Which some poor wight would part with wealth to get. Cobwebs from a Library Corner Shouts of laughter burst from the crowd, as each unlucky wight issued, scorched and singed, from the fiery trial; while209 the applause was proportionate towards those who ventured bravely, and escaped uninjured. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 O me, most woeful wight, whom no mishap Long ere this day could have bereaved hence. A History of Elizabethan Literature One can’t cry ‘Traitor!’ just because the poor wight was not born to speak Greek.” A Victor of Salamis And when that death through every limb Had showed its greatest spite, Her chiefest foes did plain confess She was a glorious wight. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets “Heathen wight, and Christian knight, I would fight with glad and fain; Only not with Verland’s son, For from him I scathe must gain.” Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads Woe betide the unlucky wight who, failing to comply with this custom, happens140 to ride through the precincts of the palace. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 Mark the scarceness of abstract terms, the concreteness of the figures:— Curséd the wight that trusteth in man Making flesh his stay! Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 What, you poverty-stricken wight—what pleasure of love may have fallen to your share? The Wagnerian Romances And I will bring thee thither, 'Whereas a mighty knight doth dwell, That now is of great fame: Therefore tell me what wight thou art, And what may be thy name.' The Children's Garland from the Best Poets The wight, whose tale these artless lines unfold, Was all the offspring of this simple pair. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems She is, therefore, the mere echo of her husband's sentiments; she believes him to be "the greatest wight on ground," and would as soon think of contradicting the scriptures, as any thing that he says. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 Among the gods it is decreed That Love shall die; And every wight that takes his part Shall forfeit each a mourning heart. Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age These constables, by the way, are extremely brutal in their manner of handling any unfortunate wight that may fall into their hands; and I have been frequently disgusted at their barbarity. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. This wight wallowed in the fen Almost to the ankle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 In truth he was a strange and wayward wight, Fond of each gentle, and each dreadful scene. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems “Turn ye all the heels afore, Track ye thus, I ween, can no man; Never tell to mortal wight, Thou hast learnt this from a woman.” p. Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne two ballads I’ve driven a pin the floor within, And plac’d a balk against the door; By Mary bright no mortal wight To move that mighty balk has power. p. Marsk Stig a ballad “Thou grievest like the little bird The greenwood bough upon; Thou seemest like the lonely wight Whose friends are dead and gone.” Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian They rode away to the bridal feast, Withouten more ado; Of stalwart knights, and warrior wights, They invited the best they knew. Grimmer and Kamper The End of Sivard Snarenswayne and other ballads “If to-morrow a like one upon my hook bite, I shall perish of hunger, poor miserable wight.” The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by; War's annals will fade into night Ere their story die. Modern British Poetry But not one word of what he did Reveals the doleful wight,— His mother's story could we hear, We might say, "Served him right!" Stories of Many Lands From this men thought that the evil wight which had killed Glam had got such wounds as had sufficed for him, but none ever could say for certain. The Book of Romance Relentless beauty, if you name aright The name and lineage of this luckless wight Then shall you gratify your hate, and take My life. Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx More bliss for us our fate propounds On Taf’s green banks than Teivi’s bounds; Thy caitiff wight is scarce aware Where now we lurk, my little fair. The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads The Architect," quoth he, "had planned To grave upon the panes Portraits of bygone Classic wights, Of British youth the banes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 In the phraseology of logic, Winter applied the deductive method and Furneaux the inductive; when both fastened on to the same "suspect" the unlucky wight was in parlous state. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Grettir received much credit, in so far as he had cleansed the land from these evil wights who had wrought the loss of the men there in the dale. The Book of Romance Thomas was murdered by four Knights On steps of Altar—Sorry wights: With bleeding feet the King atones By pilgrimage to Becket’s bones. A Humorous History of England The voluptuous scores of Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Max Schillings and Co. were not written for skinny, ill-nourished wights. The Merry-Go-Round O trust the hawk, and trust the kite, Sooner than man—detested wight! Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) He was hungry, poor wight, for his dinner the night before had consisted of two corned-beef sandwiches and a biscuit. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories The Soldan, quick in wrath, Bade slay the cravens, scourge the falconer, And seek some wight who knew the heart of hawks, To keep it hot and true. Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. The bullet flies Straight to its mark, and cleaves the target quite, While youth and maiden, starting in affright, Believe some heavenly wight this deed hath done— Doubtless the thunder's veritable son! Indian Legends of Minnesota Mrs. Hose sat down and Mrs. wight began her story. Daisy Ashford: Her Book "Confound my beard!" he thought, and said; "How badly it becomes my head; Upon my honour! women might Take me to be some crazy wight." Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) But the steward, poor wight, is past caring. Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories It is a well-known fact that trouble awaits the wight who unwarily ventures to take from the stall a mule which has not the advantage of his acquaintance. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization These little wights have made us rich, and we ought to be thankful to them and do them a good office in return. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes But sighing says that weary wight, ‘I wish my life were at an end.’ Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series He went out at a crevice in the wall, And lightly to the wood did gon'; There met he with these wight yeomen Shortly and anon. The Book of Brave Old Ballads This is no trade for a nervous wight. Blackbeard: Buccaneer This wight possess’d a quality most rare;— I tremble when I mention it, I swear! Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." He was a frank and guileless wight and made bold to tell her outright what he would have of her,—to wit, to hold her naked in his two arms. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country But sighing said that weary wight, ‘I wish my life were at an end.’ Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series But over-well I know that wight, I was his prisoner yesterday. The Book of Brave Old Ballads "But may it please your ladyship!" exclaimed the dusky wight, "A man may be a precious rogue, though perfectly polite." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Oh, little lambkin, death is hard for thee, Though many a weary wight would gladly flee From all the trouble of this mortal life, And bid Farewell to grief, and pain, and strife. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century It'll cut real well if you hold it dust the wight way. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 But sighing says that weary wight, ‘I wish my life were at an end.’ Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series And each gibbering wight In the moon's pale light Must dance to that wild refrain. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Instantly the man’s comrades to right and left of him seized the unhappy wight by the arms and led him forward unresisting to within about ten paces of the king. Through Veld and Forest An African Story Kings have stones on them when they die, And here Kingstone under a stone doth lie; Nor Prince, nor Peer, nor any mortal wight, Can shun Death’s dart—Death still will have his right. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account The Pipe that is so lily-white, Show thee to be a mortal wight, And even such, gone with a touch, Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce White has no doubt been reinforced by wight, valiant "Oh for one hour of Wallace wight Or well-skilled Bruce to rule the fight." The Romance of Names Enter Wallace:— Here come I, Sir William Wallace, wight, Who shed his blood for Scotland's right; Without a right, without a reason, Here I draw my bloody weapon. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Whence, what art thou? art thou a fairy wight Caught sleeping in some lily’s snowy bell, Where thou hadst crept, to rock in the moonlight, And drink the starry dew-drops, as they fell? Poems Upon her head she hath a gear Even such as wights of ruddy cheer Do use in stalking of the deer. The Book of Humorous Verse Stay where you are, and tell me when it is wight,” Rosalind cried gaily, and ran across the room on her tiny pink silk slippers. About Peggy Saville A vision drear did then appear unto that sexton's eyes; Like that poor wight before him straight he in a coffin lies. Rookwood What hast thou to do with fairies and elves, dwarfs and wights? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 What, all the world against one luckless wight! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Perfumers men of scents must be; some Scilly men are bright; A brown man oft deep read we see, a black a wicked wight. The Book of Humorous Verse I ken the wight, he is of substance good. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] I shall not soon forget it; it is a spot I always held in ill odour ever since Miss Porter's "Scottish Chiefs" taught my unsophisticated youth to weep over the wrongs of Wallace wight. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. The streets resounded with their profane psalm-singing, and ill fared it with the unlucky wight that ventured to remonstrate, or dared to find fault with their provoking use of meat on the prohibited days. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 “These villain wights have a damsel imprisoned in yonder keep!” Pipefuls Dolly said he was "quite wight," and backed up Raikes in every way. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot 20 wield? The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Parker's railroad eye and engineer's discernment bitterly condemned the divagations of the wight who wandered first along that trail and imposed his lazy dodgings on all who might come after him. The Rainy Day Railroad War Woe to the unlucky wight who, purposely or through negligence, failed to doff his hat or drop a coin into the box placed in convenient proximity! History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 So he continued to question the strange wight, and finally, after eliciting many unintelligible sounds, was able to make out the single word "butler." Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North For his guardian against lightning had been a vortex-magnet at the moment when a luckless wight had attempted to abate the nuisance of a "loose" atomic vortex. The Vortex Blaster I ken the wight: he is of substance good. The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] "I dess dat's wight," said Fay, very soberly. Frank Merriwell's Bravery About this time, we had a dining-room waiter, who, one day, was such a luckless wight as to be very impertinent to me. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren "Thou art a selfish and a drunken wight, and the donkey is dying of thirst," said Fanchon with many reproaches for his evil conduct. The Counts of Gruyère That wight died, of course—they almost always do—and the vortex, instead of being destroyed, was simply broken up into an indefinite number of widely-scattered new vortices. The Vortex Blaster He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree: 'Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee. English Songs and Ballads Richard Cleave and his horse, two tired wights, turned a corner in the wood and came with suddenness upon a vedette, posted beneath a beech tree. The Long Roll She starts at the least thing, she is the most impressionable of beings, "the ferfullest wight that might be"; even the state of the atmosphere affects her. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance With confident hopes they return to the farmhouse, and are refused admittance, in spite of all weather, till some lucky wight guesses aright the peculiar roast the maidens are preparing for their comfort. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries But that distemper is too beneficial to them, not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Let this memorial be only committed to Vulcan's base keeping, without any longer abode than the reading thereof, yea, and with no mention made thereof to any other wight. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth But she always took the side of right and virtue against wrong and vice, and woe betided the luckless wight who fell under the ban of her just displeasure. Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea Not with devotion's flame his heart was fired; Not prayer and fasting occupied the sage; Though on mankind he shut his door, No vows of poverty he swore: The wight was wealthy. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse Those are the most miserable wights in being, they destroy the rights of nature, and disappoint the blessings of Providence. The Beaux-Stratagem They will say that their only use is to repeat them after some unhappy wight has “gone wrong.” Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Those dazzled eves with pride, which great ambition blinds, Shall be unseal'd by worthy wights whose foresight falsehood finds. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth How many poor, unlucky wights turn up deuces all their life, while others, born under luckier stars, hold a fistful of kings and queens! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 O Masters! let nor hate nor spite Mar the tongue of any wight 'Twixt night and night. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV This wine is surely no Christian wight, And yet you never complaint will hear That it’s not baptised with water clear. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines It is not much higher than the human stature; and hither descends that Ateista Fulminato, Don Juan, or any other wight unlucky enough to be consigned to the infernal regions until the curtain drops. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 No foreign banish'd wight shall anchor in this port; Our realm it brooks no strangers' force, let them elsewhere resort. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Anna was an industrious little wight, active in all housewifely labors and domestic accomplishments, and attentive to her lessons. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 You worthy wights, king, lords, and knights, Or queen and ladies bright: Cupid invites you to the sights He shall present to-night. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV The Gods deal many an ill to such a client, Who sent of impious wights to thee such crowd. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus And blessed ye, in silly pastors' sight, Mild creatures, in whose warm crib now lies That heaven-sent youngling, holy-maid-born wight: Midst, end, beginning of our prophecies! In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World The workmen and artisans especially had, through the assistance of the little wights, far more holidays than are marked in the calendar. Legends of the Rhine S. "God save his soul! best of any wight." Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth Eight hundred minstrels slunk away—two hundred stayed to draw,— Now Heaven protect the daring wight that pulls the longest straw! The Bon Gaultier Ballads When placed a wight In dock, when pleader would draw tears, the while He grins. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus She had not been in Wallington Three quarters and a night, Till on the ground she coud not walk, She was a weary wight. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Then rose up the rich one, much warriors around him, 400 Chosen heap of the thanes, but there some abided The war-gear to hold, as the wight one was bidding. The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Some incredible wight who, worse than late—isn't going to show up at all?... Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs He bounds and flies over and beyond them, gratified by the distress, and utterly reckless and ruthless of the cries, and danger, and suffering of the luckless wight who bestrides him.” Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales What God than other Godheads more Must love-sick wights for aid implore? The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus There is no luck for the wight who does not eat a mince pie at Christmas. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide And thrice spoke the monarch: "The cup to win, Is there never a wight who will venture in?" The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 And whence the dreadful stranger came, Or who, no mortal wight can tell; But no one doubts the form of flame, For Alva's sons knew Oscar well. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales But woe to the luckless wight who thought to find repose by throwing himself carelessly down on this hitherto untried structure! Cape Cod Folks "That chap inside thinks he's out of it," he said, "so that's all wight." The Captain of the Kansas ‘Dilly Jones’ is one of those unfortunate wights ‘just whose luck’ it is never to succeed in any thing they undertake. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Peace I bid every wight; Stand as still as stone in wall, Whiles ye are present in my sight, That none of ye clatter nor call; For if ye do, your death is dight. "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays The spot our village children know, For there the earliest wild flowers grow; But woe betide the wandering wight, That treads its circle in the night! The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales "Or all colors at once!" roared a nameless wight at the foot of the table. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain It had fallen like a bolt from heaven on those young wights. Confessions of Boyhood The followers in peril of Ian the Earl, The race of the wight of hand; Sink the eyes of the foe, of the friend's mounts the glow, When the Murdoch's high blood takes command. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century He who frowns or looks awry, sir, Faith, a witless wight is he! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) O for one hour of Wallace wight, Or well-skilled Bruce, to rule the fight, And cry ‘Saint Andrew and our right!’ Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Thank thou Him, for He hath removed the veils from thy wight and shown thee a Glorious Face! Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas I praise all good wights that Thorolf came not with us; for if he too—nay, strong though I be, that had been too heavy for me to bear. The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. Or— When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme In praise of ladies dead, and lovely knights, and so on. Platform Monologues Therefore Jupiter is put in the place of Thor, since all evil wights fear him. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda Then again I sing 'till the roof doth ring, And it echoes from wall to wall— To the stout old wight, fair welcome to-night, As the King of the Seasons all! Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse "Instead of that," said Charlie, "let the unlucky wight who makes the greatest number of blunders, have the privilege of proposing the first game to-morrow." Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside Meat, bread and wine he gives to many a wight; Capons and pheasants on his board abound, Where serving men and pages march around; Choice chambers, torches, and wax candle light. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series When only I, the only wretched wight, Weary of life that breathes but sorrow's blast, Pursue the flame of such a beauty bright, That burns my heart, and yet my life still lasts. Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana In fame's full bloom lies Florio down at night, And wakes next day a most inglorious wight; The tulip's dead! The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 And blessed ye, in silly pastor's sight, Mild creatures, in whose warm crib now lies That heaven-sent youngling, holy-maid-born wight, Midst, end, beginning of our prophecies! Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse The crudity of the verse will be sufficiently illustrated in the first line: As to the weary wandering wights whom waltering waves environ. The Growth of English Drama I have a mind to tell you one of my own youthful adventures, in which a poor wight of a sheep had a prominent share. Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match |
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