Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Bent, James" to "Bibirine" by Various

4. After Beowulf has reigned prosperously for fifty years, his country

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is ravaged by a fiery dragon, which inhabits an ancient burial-mound, full of costly treasure. The royal hall itself is burned to the ground. The aged king resolves to fight, unaided, with the dragon. Accompanied by eleven chosen warriors, he journeys to the barrow. Bidding his companions retire to a distance, he takes up his position near the entrance to the mound--an arched opening whence issues a boiling stream. I The dragon hears Beowulf's shout of defiance, and rushes forth, breathing flames. The fight begins; Beowulf is all but overpowered, and the sight is so terrible that his men, all but one, seek safety in flight. The young Wiglaf, son of Weohstan, though yet untried in battle, cannot, even in obedience to his lord's prohibition, refrain from going to his help. With Wiglaf's aid, Beowulf slays the dragon, but not before he has received his own death-wound. Wiglaf enters the barrow, and returns to show the dying king the treasures that he has found there. With his last breath Beowulf names Wiglaf his successor, and ordains that his ashes shall be enshrined in a great mound, placed on a lofty cliff, so that it may be a mark for sailors far out at sea.

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1. Chapter 1 2. 2. (From the O. Eng. _beonet_, a coarse, rushy grass growing in wet 3. 1691. An able writer and skilful diplomatist, Bentivoglio was marked out 4. 1794. His father owned the _General Evening Post_ in conjunction with 5. episode of 1832-1833. As the South under Calhoun's lead became 6. 1854. An unsuccessful campaign for the governorship of Missouri in 1856 7. 1. Beowulf, with fourteen companions, sails to Denmark, to offer his 8. 2. All fear being now removed, the Danish king and his followers pass 9. 3. Richly rewarded by Hrothgar, Beowulf returns to his native land. He 10. 4. After Beowulf has reigned prosperously for fifty years, his country 11. 5. The news of Beowulf's dear-bought victory is carried to the army. 12. 1863. The chief articles of export are cereals, flour, wool, hemp, skins 13. 2. BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, wife of Antiochus Theos 14. 3. BERENICE, the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene, and the wife of 15. 4. BERENICE, also called CLEOPATRA, daughter of Ptolemy X., married as 16. 5. BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Auletes, eldest sister of the great 17. 2. BERENICE, daughter of Agrippa I., king of Judaea, and born probably 18. 1729. In 1730 his enemy and rival, Prince Dolgoruki, was interned here 19. 5140. It lies pleasantly in the narrow well-wooded valley of the 20. 1587. He succeeded to his mother's estate of Charlton in Wiltshire, was 21. 24. VI. Songs and lyric choruses with orchestra, two vols. VII. Songs 22. 1842. The English language is universal. The colony is ecclesiastically 23. 1609. Sir George, from whom the islands took the alternative name of 24. book i. by William, abbot of St Thierry near Reims; book ii. by 25. 1820. He was educated at Sherborne school, and Trinity College, Oxford. 26. 1846. He was specially interested in legal history and in church 27. 1824. Prince Frederick removed the ducal residence to Ballenstedt in 28. introduction to his story of Arthur of Little Britain he excuses its 29. introduction to _Huon of Bourdeaux_ (Early English Text Society 30. 1880. In 1878 she published a prose sketch, _Dans les nuages; les 31. 1893. During those ten years she made several extended tours, including 32. 1896. In that year she made a success with an adaptation of Alfred de 33. Introduction and General View, 1836; pt. ii, Greek Poetry, 1845; pt. 34. 547. Aethelfrith, king of Bernicia, united Deira to his own kingdom, 35. 1755. He became known as one of the most expert epigrammatists in the 36. 1759. Having finished his literary studies, he was, according to custom, 37. 6. 45 Assyrian " 526 " 38. 1853. He published in 1883 a work _Ethnographie moderne des races 39. 1776. Although Thomas Reynolds in his _Iter Britanniarum_ (1799), an 40. 1698. His second marriage, with Anne Bulkeley, took place in 1700. As a 41. 167. It is in poor preservation and was partly rebuilt in 1820. Remains 42. 1895. He died at Hampstead, on the 9th of June 1901. Sir Walter Besant 43. 1796. His vocation for literature was assisted by his tutor, the poet 44. 1. LUCIUS CALPURNIUS BESTIA, Roman tribune of the people in 121 B.C., 45. 2. LUCIUS CALPURNIUS BESTIA, one of the Catilinarian conspirators, 46. introduction and notes by G. Gravier (Rouen, 1874), and an English 47. 5281. It lies near the lower end of the fine Nant Ffrancon (valley of 48. 1905. Bethlehem has often been called the American Bayreuth. Among the 49. 1736. He taught the belles-lettres from 1739 to 1744 at Brescia, where 50. 2866. The Worcester-Shrewsbury line of the Great Western is here joined 51. 1783. With his father, who was an _avocat_ in the parlement of Grenoble, 52. introduction to the Daru family, with which the Beyles were connected. 53. introduction of additional cards. The cards rank as follows:--Ace, ten, 54. 1850. In 1851 he set up as a medical practitioner in Bombay, where his

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