In Bridget's stomach, the cockles swam restlessly in a river of wine.
He may yet be ripped open, like Actaeon; or, if the war is quick and triumphal, he may drink deep of Bacchus's river of wine and yank his clothes off, like one of the revellers in Titian's "The Andrians," although that seems unlikely.
They will live amid rivers of wine and honey, and be married to 72 black-eyed virgins.But should their bombings count as sinful suicide or glorious martyrdom?
These accounts describe rivers of wine, houses built of cake and barley sugar, streets paved with pastry, and shops that gratuitously give goods to everyone.
In one message he retweeted a verse from a poem by Omar Khayyám in which the 11th-century Persian poet attacks pious hypocrisy: "You say rivers of wine flow in heaven, is heaven a tavern to you?
But instead of getting what he expected — a heaven of "dark-eyed maidens and rivers of wine" — Amir ends up wandering the skies of the Holy Land watching Guttman and his daughter, as well as Amir's own father, deal with the aftermath of the attack.
Likening heaven's promise of rivers of wine to a tavern and of virgins to a brothel, it referred to a poem by the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyam, Mr. Say said in a text message from Slovenia, where he had just arrived for a concert.
Emerson found much to praise in "the old, the rich, the strong nation, full of arts & men & memories," and much that offended him, including the easy tolerance of endemic prostitution and the "rivers of wine" consumed at mealtimes to wash down vile English food such as "whale-blubber mutton and old peas".
In another, he asked whether the rivers of wine and beautiful women promised by the Quran to the devout in the afterlife meant heaven was like a brothel or pub.
But this is still more compelling and awe-inspiring to me than the notion of angels, or rivers of wine, or the pearly gates, or eternal torment in hellfire.
These grower-producers account for no more than a trickle of foam in the river of sparkling wine that flows out of Champagne.
