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open, that he did not observe the apparition of three laughing faces, pink and white and chubby, but as vulgar as the face of Commerce as it is seen in sculpture on certain monuments. These three faces, framed by the window, recalled the puffy cherubs floating among the clouds that surround God the Father. The apprentices snuffed up the exhalations of the street with an eagerness that showed how hot and poisonous the atmosphere of their garret must be. After pointing to the singular sentinel

una determinata forma della lingua fonte, generalmente nella forma in cui ricorre più spesso, che non sempre è la forma singolare o, nei casi di lingue con flessione casuale, il nominativo. I termini cherubino e serafino sono arabismi. In ing. sono cherub e seraph. In italiano le forme antiche erano serafo (da cui serafico) e cherubo, che derivavano dal singolare della forma, mentre serafino e cherubino derivavano dal plurale. Stesso caso di assassino e magazzino. /Nell’italiano degli italo-americani:

Roman general, when he entered the city, amid all the head-turning splendor of a "Triumph," had behind him on the chariot a slave who whispered into his ear that he was mortal. When our statesmen are in conversation with the defeated enemy, some airy cherub should whisper to them from time to time this saying: Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island: Who rules the World-Island commands the World. 106 THE FREEDOM OF NATIONS Viscount Grey

Cherpille : (chèr-pi-ll', ll mouillées), n. f. Usage du Beaujolais suivant lequel les pauvres pouvaient faire la récolte malgré les propriétaires, quand le grain était à maturité. Chersonèse : (kèr-so-nê-z'), n. f. Terme de géographie. Presqu'île. Chérub : (ché-rub), s. m. Terme d'antiquité. Mot sémitique désignant des figures d'animaux et d'où provient chérubin. Chétron : (ché-tron), s. m. Terme de métier. Tiroir sur le côté d'un coffre. Chevage : (che-va-j'), n. m. Terme de droit féodal. Droit

morning." As he spoke he looked closely at Gervaise; he saw her eyes were red with tears and then, glancing at the bed, discovered that it had not been disturbed. He shook his head and, going toward the couch where the children lay with their rosy cherub faces, he said in a lower voice: "You think your husband ought to have been with you, madame. But don't be troubled; he is busy with politics. He went on like a mad man the other day when they were voting for Eugene Sue. Perhaps he passed the night

I loved children. But if anything excited my suspicion, and, putting on my spectacles, I saw that I was fondling a snake, or smelling at a bud with a worm in it, I sprang up in horror and ran away; or, if it seemed to me through the glasses that a cherub smiled upon me, or a rose was blooming in my buttonhole, then I felt myself imperfect and impure, not fit to be leading and training what was so essentially superior in quality to myself, and I kissed the children and left them weeping and wondering

manteau gris avec plus d’attention: « Respectable dame, lui dit-il, ou je me trompe, ou je vous ai vue autrefois. — Je ne me trompe pas, répondit la vieille; je vous ai vu, seigneur, il y a sept cents ans dans un voyage que je fis de Syrie en Égypte, 1 Chérub, en chaldéen et en syriaque, signifie un boeuf. quelques mois après la destruction de Troie, lorsque Hiram régnait à Tyr, et Nephel Kerès sur l’antique Égypte. — Ah! madame, s’écria le vieillard, vous êtes l’auguste Pythonisse d’Endor. — Et vous

PAGE 538 1 Love infinitely wise and altogether lovely, who "seeketh not her own." 3 6 9 Spiritual gateway Truth should, and does, drive error out of all selfhood. Truth is a two-edged sword, guarding and guiding. Truth places the cherub wisdom at the gate of understanding to note the proper guests. Radiant with mercy and justice, the sword of Truth gleams afar and indicates the infinite distance between Truth and error, between the material and spiritual, — the unreal and the real