Dickie Delacroix

boisterous

Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. “It isn’t fair,” she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head.

Till both thy eyes fly out."

meal

pence thirteen

But the merriest month in all the year Is the merry month of May.

Quoth bold Robin Hood, "Thou dost prate like an ass,

I'll licker thy hide

his limbs they were large,

quak'd

For he was a lusty young man.

With a hey down, down, and a down

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he places Robin Hood as living during the time of King Richard I and his brother, John

These tales also give him a romantic interest in Maid Marian

true outlaw

dolefuller

betwixt

undaunted courage.

He had yet remaining with him sixty thousand men, out of whom he composed three bodies, which contained each of them six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men; but all the rest he joined in one body;

The deformed savage

lamented

undaunted

I should find you a damosel of beauty and of goodness that should like you and please you, an your heart were not set; but there as a man's heart is set, he will be loth to return."

bereaved

Therewithal

shall not be without a sword this day."

high mass

"I give him God's blessing and mine, and bid him pray for my soul, and righteously and worshipfully that he claim the crown upon forfeiture of my blessing."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Ev'n

"My passion for Igerna is such that I can neither have ease of mind, nor health of body, till I obtain her; and if you cannot assist me with your advice how to accomplish my desire, the inward torments I endure will kill me."

He returned to his work of making more forms from the edge of the pond, but now he wasn't careful and made some without eyes or some with misshapen limbs. He thought they all were beautiful, although later he realized that he had erred in drinking the wine and vowed to not do so again.

He put that in his pack, along with palm nuts, maize, and other seeds that he found around the baobab tree.

Obatala was the curious orisha who wasn't content to live blissfully by the baobab tree.

Olorun lived in the sky, and with Olorun were many orishas. There were both male and female orishas, but Olorun transcended male and female and was the all-powerful supreme being. Olorun and the orishas lived around a young baobab tree.

This creation story comes from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo and Benin. In the religion of the Yoruba, the supreme being is Olorun, and assisting Olorun are a number of heavenly entities called orishas.