Frederic Edwin Church Cross in the Wilderness painting

Frederic Edwin Church Cross in the Wilderness paintingFrederic Edwin Church Rainy Season in the Tropics paintingWilliam Merritt Chase Idle Hours painting
need rope," Rukh said. He was about to turn away, but the old woman stopped him.
"The only rope that could hold her," she told him, "would be the cord with which the old gods bound the Fenris-wolf. That one was made of fishes' breath, bird spittle, a woman's beard, the miaowing of a cat, the sinews of a bear, and one thing more. I remember—mountain roots. Having nocage her," she said to the two men. "She'll sleep till sunrise, whatever racket you make—unless, in your accustomed stupidity, you touch her with your hands. Take the ninth cage to pieces and build it around her, but beware! Thene of these elements, nor dwarfs to weave them for us, we'll have to do the best we can with iron bars. I'll put a sleep on her, thus," and Mommy Fortuna's hands knitted the night air while she grumbled a few unpleasant words in her throat. There was a smell of lightning about the unicorn when the old woman had finished her spell.