"Rune" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish. Others say this is nonsense. Another idiom reported for the sign is 'runsten' /roon'stn/, derived from the fact that many of the interesting features are Viking rune-stones. ...
— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0
... were like the rune of the heart of the forest, like the music of deep streams. I turned away my head ashamed, and strove to think of nothing but the waking ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... silver lake, and away in the distance we caught glimpses of the sea. Before us were graceful, piled mountains, the crenelated mass of Les Trois Couronnes glittering with wintry diamonds. Against the morning sky, stood up, clear and cold, the cone of far La Rune. ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... September afternoon My heart is wide awake, yet full of dreams. The air, alive with hushed confusion, teems With scent of grain-fields, and a mystic rune, Foreboding of the fall of Summer soon, Keeps swelling and subsiding, till there seems O'er all the world of valleys, hills, and streams, Only ...
— In Divers Tones • Charles G. D. Roberts
... lived, and did but sleep as he sat from weariness after fight, with helm and mail upon him. Shield and axe rested on either side of him, ready to hand, against the chair; and behind him, along the wall, were his spears, ashen shafted and rune graven. ...
— King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet • Charles W. Whistler
... their fold, Betrayed by crystals on a crest That ride this kingdom's batter'd gnomes, A fitful syrinx stills all groans As chasms roar with devils' glee. Then fancies greet each goblin's eye, Each donga's depth and mount unsunned: A quire's rune, in onyx dress, And black-linkt harps with eyes that see Each blood-set jazel in a sky, Where heights eternal reign unstunned, Pierce sylvan airs that wizards bless. Come from sequestered shoals of hell Blithe pixies and lithe naiads fair That revel till the ev'ning skies ...
— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque
... old man! Keep mysteries for Rune-carved staves and kindred tricks. What mean this message and this plot and this rescue? I have left my truest friend and twenty stout followers besides in yonder hall. I myself have had to flee for my life from a yelping pack of Jemtland dogs; and for aught I know, Ketill and the rest of ...
— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston
... hath hired Indians agst the English and we not knowing Indians by face and because the Indians hath cast of their sachem, and if any of the Indians or other by night will come in to the towne in despit of eyther watch or ward upon the third stand to shoote him or if thay rune away to shoote him" (April ...
— John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records • William Wallace Tooker
... greatest singer Who tries the loftiest themes, He is the true joy bringer Who tells his simplest dreams, He is the greatest poet Who will renounce all art And take his heart and show it To any other heart; Who writes no learned riddle, But sings his simplest rune, Takes his heart-strings for a fiddle, And ...
— Memories and Anecdotes • Kate Sanborn
... Bele in King's-hall stood, Beside him Thorstein Vikingson, that yeoman good, His battle-friend with almost a century hoary, And deep-marked like a rune-stone with scars ...
— Essays on Scandinavian Literature • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... sun or moon, By banks o' Ayr, or Bonnie Doon, The waters lilt nae tender tune But sweeter seems Because they poured their limpid rune ...
— Afterwhiles • James Whitcomb Riley |
