la légende des siecles

Et le bien bondissant effare ceux qu'il sauve. (Dieu.)
If man had been unselfish,
L'ombre immense serait son fauve auxiliaire. (Ibid.)
Of war,
Elle chantait, terrible et tranquille, et sa bouche
Fauve bavait du sang dans le clairon farouche.
(Changement d'Horizon.)
La fauve volupté de mourir. (Mangeront-ils?)
It is applied even to sound. 'Le fauve bruit' is used in L'Ane of the battles of primeval
monsters, and more mystically in La Vision d'où sortit le livre of the passing of the
Spirit of Fatality.
Also of smell
Que l'homme au ciel s'égare ou qu'il fanatise
Avec la fauve odeur des bûchers qu'il attise.
(Religions et Religion.)
Nor must the strange well-known line in La Bouche d'Ombre be forgotten
Le fauve Univers est le forçat de Dieu.
Fauve is always used of what is dark and gloomy, just as vermeil is always applied to
what is bright and pleasant.
cimier. See note on LE MARIAGE DE ROLAND.
mélusine. A heraldic figure, half woman, half serpent, bathing in a basin. Taken from
the name of a fairy, celebrated in the folklore of Poitou.
alérion, a heraldic figure, representing an eagle without beak or claws.
le manche d'une guitare is the small end.
bourguignotte, a small helmet without throat-piece, so called because it was first used
by the Burgundians.
Diane éblouissait le pâtre: a reference to the `old sweet mythos,' as Browning calls it, of
Diana, the goddess of the Moon, stooping from heaven to kiss the shepherd Endymion,
as he lay asleep on Mount Latmos.