URSULA. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait: So angle we for Beatrice; who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture.

The welcoming rite — referred to as a wiccaning, a saining, or a paganing — serves a threefold purpose

The whole thing looked remarkably like an implacable force meeting an unflappable object.

yet I have found, that the dry salt, remaining in pipkins, being dissolved in a due proportion of water, would very considerably infrigidate it