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25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My seventy-four antlers are hollow like flutes. When I turn myself towards the south wind, sounds go forth from them that draw around me the ravished beasts. The serpents come winding to my feet; the wasps stick in my nostrils; and the parrots, the doves, and the ibises alight u... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, when I turn towards the north wind, my horns, more bushy than a battalion of spears, emit a howling noise. The forests thrill; the rivers swell; the husks of the fruit burst, and blades of grass stand erect like a coward's hair. Listen!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The silky texture of my scarlet hair mingles with the yellowness of the sands. I breathe through my nostrils the terror of solitudes. I spit forth the plague. I devour armies when they venture into the desert. My nails are twisted like gimlets; my teeth are cut like a saw; and m... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one, Antony, has ever seen my eyes, or those who have seen them are dead. If I but raised my eyelids--my eyelids red and swollen--that instant you would die."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! that thing! ... Well! well! As if I had any such longing! Its stupidity... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take care! You are about to fall into my jaws! I drink fire. I am fire myself; and from every quarter I suck it in--from clouds, from pebbles, from dead trees, from the hair of animals, and from the surface of marshes. My temperature supports the volcanoes. I cause the lustre of... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Off I gallop! Off I gallop!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are about to come with us into our unfathomable depths, never penetrated by man before. Different races dwell in the country of the ocean. Some are in the abode of the tempests; others swim openly in the transparency of the cold waves, browse like oxen over the coral plains,... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O bliss! bliss! I have seen the birth of life; I have seen the beginning of motion. The blood beats so strongly in my veins that it seems about to burst them. I feel a longing to fly, to swim, to bark, to bellow, to howl. I would like to have wings, a tortoise-shell, a rind, to ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boy chieftain knelt and kissed the hem of the darling little maiden's purple robe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll make them rue their words ere this day's sun cross the dome of the Smoking Hill,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The throng of tenants greeted him with a rousing birthday cheer,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This way--toss it this way, Aufidius; our good Sejus will need more lessons from old Trimalchio, the gladiator, ere he outranks us at _trigon_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faith, my Marcus, said Sejus, as he caught the ball with difficulty,"
},
{
"from": "... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Marcus, he exclaimed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Highwaymen, indeed! said Sejus, indignantly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dost think the knaves could mistake the noble Marcus Verus for a cowardly sheep-stealer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What says your philosophy now, O Marcus?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That nothing happens to any man, O Sejus, which he is not fitted by nature to bear. But I have had enough. Let us go our way in peace."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For me; this for me? he said, and, in seeming surprise, laid his hand upon the arm of his friend Aufidius. Then, as if remembering that he was a Stoic, whose desire was to show neither surprise, pleasure, nor pain, let what might happen, he read the scroll carefully, placed it i... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hens are well conditioned, O Antoninus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what said I? his uncle exclaimed gayly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What cares a prefect of Rome for the scratching hens of Lorium? As for me, most noble Prefect, I am but... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "says the old record,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was here no doubt that he learned the wisdom of the words he wrote in after life:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not have such an opinion of things as he who does the wrong, or such as he wishes ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most noble Prefect, said the shepherd, with a low salutation,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am a free herdsman of Lake Sabatinus, and I ask for justice against a band of terrible highwaymen who lurk on the Via Cassia, near to old Veii. Only three days since, did t... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ho there, bring him back!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So, my shepherd, said Marcus,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O noble young Prefect! O wise beyond thy years!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold! said Marcus, ascending the tribunal,"
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But there is such a thing as too much self-denial, my Marcus,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, this is not self-denial, my mother; it is simple justice, replied the boy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are not Annia and I children of the same father a... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here they come! With the flutes playing merrily, with swaying standards and sacred statues gleaming in silver and gold, with proud young cadets on horse and on foot, with priests in their robes and guards with crested helms, with strange and marvellous beasts led by burly keeper... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and while he looked upon such shows as dangerous and wasteful (for in those days they cost the state immense sums), he felt, still, that the people enjoyed them, and he said simply:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We cannot make men as we would have them; we must bear... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on that far-off March day there came a bright little fellow of ten or eleven years, a rope-dancer and a favorite with the crowd. Light and agile, he trips along the slender rope that stretches high above the arena. Right before the magistrate's box the boy poises in mid air, and... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What means that shout, Aufidius? he asked his friend, who rode in the escort. But the only reply Aufidius made was to join his voice with that of the enthusiastic throng in a second shout;"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I lose a son, but gain an emperor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my mother, the boy replied, proudly,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man, to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, with affection and freedom and justice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--he teaches us all, boys and men alike, a lesson of real manliness. Here are two of... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He who knows not fear of foe, Fears the ford of Killaloe; Fears the voice that chants his dree, From the rock of Carrick-lee."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See--see! said Cogoran, grasping his young lord's arm;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So fair a fiend should bring me naught of grief, said young Brian, stoutly enough, though it must be confessed his heart beat fast and loud."
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, fool and double fool am I,--fit brother to Sitric the blind, the black King of Dublin! Why, 't is no banshee, O noble young chief, 't is but thy foster-sister, Eimer, the daughter of Conor, Eimer the golden-haired!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, is it so? S... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "so strong and free were they. When the clans of Munster gathered for battle, it was the right of the Clan of Cas to lead in the attack, and to guard the rear when returning from any invasion. It gave kings to the throne of Munster, and valiant leaders in warfare with the Danes, ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou hast come in right fitting time, O son! said Kennedy the King."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here is need of strong arms and stout hearts. How say ye, noble lords and worthy chieftains? Dare we face in fight this, so great a host?"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, fathers of Clan Cas, he cried, all aflame with excitement,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "so says the record,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beacon fires blazed from cairn and hill-top, and from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "from Shan... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ill-luck was it for the foreigner, says the record,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "First to face the foreign foe, First to strike the battle blow; Last to turn from triumph back, Last to leave the battle's wrack; Clan of Cas shall victors be When they fight at Carrick-lee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "White Lady of the Rapids,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "these two"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as the brothers are called in the curious and wordy old Irish record, left their mud-walled fortress-palace by the Shannon, and with"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "went deep into the forests of Cratloe and the ro... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chieftain of the stainless shield, Prince who brooks no tribute fee; Ne'er shall he to pagan yield Who prevailed at Carrick-lee. Rouse thee, arm thee, hark and heed, Erin's strength in Erin's need."
},
{
"from": "h... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better days await thee, Brian, my brother, she said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mahon the King bids thee meet him at Holy Isle. None dared bring his message for fear of the death-dealing Danes who have circled thee with their earth-lines. But what dare not I do f... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And what wishes my brother, the king, O Eimer of the golden hair? he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knows he not that Brian has sworn never to bend his neck to the foreigner?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That does he know right well, replied the... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where, O Brian, are thy followers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Save the fifteen faithful men that remain to me in the caves of Uim-Bloit, said the lad,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou art but a boy, O Brian, and like a boy thou dost talk, said th... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "this remarkable"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rock of Cashel"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hear, now, O King! Ivar, the son of Sitric, King of Limerick and sole Over-lord of Munster, doth summon thee, his vassal, to give up to him this fortress of Cashel, to disperse thy followers, to send to him at Limerick, bounden with chains, the body of Brian the outlaw, and to r... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ard-righ, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "High King of Erinn. The reign of this great king of Ireland was peaceful and prosperous. He built churches, fostered learning, made bridges and causeways, and constructed a road around the coast of the whole kingdom. In his... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember the glories of Brian the brave, Though the days of the hero are o'er; Though lost to Mononia and cold in the grave, He returns to Kincora no more! That star of the field, which so often has poured Its beam on the battle, is set; But enough of its glory remains on each s... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Freedom! whose smiles we shall never resign, Go tell our invaders, the Danes, That 't is sweeter to bleed for an age at thy shrines Than to sleep but a moment in chains!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brian of the Tribute."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "St. Olaf."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Skoal to the Viking! Hael; was-hael!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Skoal to the Viking! Hael; was-hael! and in the centre of that throng of mail-clad men and tossing spears, standing firm and fearless upon the interlocked and uplifted shields of three stalwart fight... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olaf the King is on his cruise, His blue steel staining, Rich booty gaining, And all men trembling at the news. Up, war-wolf's brood! our young fir's name O'ertops the forest trees in fame, Our stout young Olaf knows no fear. Though fell the fray, He's blithe and gay, And warrio... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Venice of the North,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greymantle, one of the tributary kings of Norway, had fallen a victim to the tortures of the haughty Swedish queen; and now his son, a boy of scarce thirteen, but a warrior already by training and from desire, came to avenge his father's death. His mother, the Queen Aasta, equip... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Skoal to the Viking!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To your ships, O King; to your ships! he cries."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olaf, the Swedish king, men say, is planting a forest of spears along the sea-strait, and, except ye push out now, ye may ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we, then, land, Rane, and fight our way through?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fight our way through? said old Rane, who had been in many another tight place in his years of sea-roving, but none so close as this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wh... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unship the rudder; hoist the sail aloft! commanded Rane the helmsman"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sound war-horns all! Skoal to the Viking; skoal to the wise young Olaf!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Down the fiord sweep wind and rain; Our sails and tackle sway and strain; Wet to the skin We're sound within. Our sea-steed through the foam goes prancing, While shields and spears and helms are glancing. From fiord to sea, Our ships ride free, And down the wind with swelling sa... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hail to the serpent banner! Hail to Olaf the Brave! said King Ethelred, as the war-horns sounded a welcome; and on the low shores of the Isle of Dogs, just below the old city, the keels of the Norse war-ships grounded swiftly, and the boy viking and his followers leaped ashore."... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out oars! he cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "says the chronicle,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And before King Ethelred,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Unready,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "London Bridge is broken down-- Gold is won and bright renown; Shields resounding, War-horns sounding, Hildar shouting in the din! Arrows singing, Mail-coats ringing, Odin makes our Olaf win!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "London Bridge is fallen down, fallen down, fallen down-- London Bridge is fallen down, my fair lady!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of his dragon-ship, the young sea-king lay asleep; and suddenly, says the old record,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Olaf... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "said his stout old follower."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, home in haste, for Norway shall be either Hakon's heritage or mine!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said the trusty helmsman;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "somewhere between the mouths of Humber and of Tees, on the English coast, King Olaf, with bu... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True, 't is a good omen, King,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "was largely clay, moist and slippery, and as the eager young viking climbed the bank his right foot slipped, and he would have fallen had not he struck his left foot firmly in the clay and thus saved himse... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They speak truth who say of the house of Eric that ye be handsome men, said the King, studying his prisoner's face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But now, Earl, even though thou be fair to look upon, thy luck hath failed thee at last."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am come, he said to his mother and his stepfather,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Throne-home, of Nidaros, the royal city, now called on your atlas the city of Drontheim. For fifteen years King Olaf the Second ruled his realm of Norway. The old record says that he ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hail and Health to the Viking!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His was but a straw-death."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gilbert of Crispin, said the herald,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir herald, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rescue! rescue and succor from our Duke!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Open; open in the name of the Duke!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good Crispin, said the boy duke as his faithful liegeman came forward to greet him,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fair Cousin William, so loyal and loving a concession as is this of thine, at a time when blows were far easier to give, merits more from me than thanks. The fealty of vassal to suzerain is well, but so fair a deed as this of thine is the height of knightly valor. And where such... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good cousin, this is not to be borne. I have done King Henry's will, and been faithful to my fealty vows, but this passeth even my bent. Fling out our standard. Summon every loyal Norman to our aid--knight and archer and cross-bowman. Cry '_Maslon!_' and '_Dix aie!_'[J] and let ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thurstan Goz, said the duke,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truce of God,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the mass, a wondrous hit! exclaimed the older knight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, man, he drew that shaft from nocking-point to pile.[K] I would have sworn that mortal man--let alone a lad like that--could not have drawn such a bow, or sped so true a shaft... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten thousand curses on this coward Truce! he exclaimed beneath his breath as the duke, all unconscious of his danger, hurried past the ambush."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But for that I might even now speed my shaft and wing the tanner where he stoops above his ga... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow's venture,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up, up, my lord duke! Open, open! Where art thou, Duke William? Wherefore dost thou sleep? Flee, flee, or thou art a dead man! Up, up, I say! All are armed; all are marshalled; and if they capture thee, never, never wilt thou again see the light of day!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SO, HOLLO, MY LORD DUKE, SAID HUBERT,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WHAT TAKETH THEE ABROAD IN THIS GUISE SO EARLY?"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, hollo, my lord duke, he cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hubert, said the duke,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And why not, was the reply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have I ever played thee false? Speak, and speak boldly."
},
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as desire dictated or opportunity served, gave a secret chuckle of joy as Duke William and his slender escort of knights and men-at-arms rode into the palace yard at Poissy, only a few miles north-west of modern Versailles. And when at last he saw the youth an actual suppliant a... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Magnificent was William's destiny. Can we avoid accepting him as the Founder of the predominating empire now existing in the civilized world? Never does the sun set upon the regions where the British banner is unfurled. Nay, the Stars and Stripes of the Transatlantic Republic wo... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nocking-point to pile in old-time archery meant the full length of the arrow from the point where it"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Infidel, --of the tomb of Him whose mission was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Peace on Earth; Good-Will to Men."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me thy gittern, Isa, said the boy, a ruddy-faced youth, with gray eyes and auburn hair;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Magali! thy witcheries In vain shall try me! When thou art fish, I'll fisher be And fish for thee!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, my lord, rather let me try the gittern, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See, now will I charm this snaily from its cell with the air that Réné taught _me_, and together the two heads bent over one of the vicious little"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he cried, with sudden vehemence, dancing around the room in pain,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The saints protect us! exclaimed the palmer, drawing back in surprise and clapping a hand to his face."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doth the king of Jerusalem keep a catapult in this his palace with which to greet his visitors? Then, spying the two young people, wh... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou the king! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou that Baldwin of Jerusalem whom men do call the hero of the Jordan, the paladin of the Sepulchre, the young conqueror of Bostra? Thou--a boy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It ill beseemeth... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knights and barons of Jerusalem, he said, as he and the pilgrim emperor entered the audience-hall,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rescue, rescue from the Infidels! Out of the Crusader's camp poured swift and speedy succor: a flight of spears and arrows came from either band, but the dividing distance was too great, and with a yell of triumph the Saracens and their fair young captive were lost in the thick ... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rings the shrill war-cry of the Turkish host, and the Crescent presses down the Cross. But hark! a new cry swells upon the air."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Conrad! Ho, a Conrad! Rescue for the Cross!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cursed be he who does not stain his sword with blood. The city seemed doomed to capture. But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the camp of the Crusaders the exultant leaders were already quarrelling over whose domain the conquered city should be when once its gates... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, said the Grand Master, as he read the scroll,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gallant lords and mighty princes, he said, with well-assumed candor, returning to the council."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And is it thus, my lords, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "King Baldwin, said Conrad,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, by the Forty Martyrs, cried the young king hotly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brave youth, said Conrad, picki... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah forbid, said this chivalrous Oriental,"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the will of God!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Christ conquers, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the will of God."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But will it stay hooded, say'st thou? the boy inquired, as he listened with satisfaction to the tinkling bells of the nodding bird which Abderachman had just taught him to hood."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can he not shake it off?"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your Highness must come with me, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nay, Baron Kapparon,--am I never to be at my ease? he asked."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me, I pray thee, play out my day here at La Zisa, even as thou didst promise me."
... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well blown, _ser Sirocco_! [Q] he said, insolently,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cross at thy peril, Baron Kapparon! he cried;"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who threatens the King of Sicily?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So! is it thou, Count Diephold; is it thou, Aloe of Acerra? he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By what right dar'st thou to question the Baron of Kapparon, guardian of the king, and C... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold your hands, lords of Apulia! stay spears and stand aside. Yield up the king to me--to me, the Chancellor of the realm!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "CROSS AT THY PERIL, BARON KAPPARON,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Off now, thou false Chancellor!... |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How now, thou pig-headed pirate of Kapparon, broke out Count Diephold;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ho, for Palermo, all! which chief shall first reach St. Agatha's gate with me, to him will I yield myself!"
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The quarry hath slipped, laughed Count Diephold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By St. Nicholas of Myra, though, the lad is of the true Suabian eagle's brood. Try we the test, my lords."
}
] |
27157 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord of the World"
}
] |
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