"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings".
The nēsteia was the day of fasting, with the women sitting upon the ground.
"The snow had frozen hard upon the ground and the river was drifting with huge masses of ice.
At a quiet spot beyond the roadway, he indicated that I should lay his sheet upon the ground.
("The Divine Majesty," Pius XI wrote, "regards with greatest detestation this horrible crime," that is, spilling one's seed upon the ground, or into a condom).
The fireman, on finding that the train was rushing to destruction, leaped from the tender, and, falling flat upon the ground, escaped unhurt.
At left are the executioners, mounted soldiers with spears, while in the foreground horrified spectators leave in haste, as women throw themselves upon the ground.
Its trunk broke freakishly — about twenty feet up — and the crown bent all the way over and spread the upper branches like a broom upon the ground.
"That reminds me — " "Ohweeh!" I cried out and fell upon the ground, as though unconscious, and began to writhe and moan.
Some stumps are high and wide enough to function as padded stools, while others are as small as three inches in diameter, or almost flat upon the ground.
And what verse it is, not least to an adolescent craving tragic glamour: "Let us sit upon the ground, / And tell sad stories of the death of kings".
