...h power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our reli gion, and of saint like lives and triumphant dea... ...rom the depths of one soul into the depths of the other, as if it were too sacred to be whispered by the way; they had even spoken love in those gushe... ...anding in the world. For them the earliest salmon is caught in our eastern rivers, and the shy woodcock stains the dry leaves with his blood in his re... ...ous utterances that are audible throughout the earth. We appeal now to the sacred bond of sorrow, and summon the great multitude who labor under simil... ...made the artist shrink, especially as the question related to a subject so sacred as the absorbing dream of his imagination. “Folks do say that you ar... ... if any human spirit could have sufficiently rever enced the processes so sacred in his eyes, it must have been a woman’s. Even Annie Hovenden, possi...

...my hand, I have the glorious satisfaction of remem- bering I saw it run in rivers on the floor; I saw it forsake his cheeks, I saw him fall a martyr t... ...lm, Con Philips,* or any other heroine of the tender sex, which his- tory, sacred or profane, ancient or modern, false or true, hath recorded. We desi... ...atthews, “and one of the best men in the world he is, and an honour to the sacred order to which he belongs.” “You will judge,” replied Booth, “by the... ...hat he knew nothing of the matter, and no man’s honour is, I believe, more sacred. There was indeed an ensign of another regiment who knew my wife, an... ...unity! No man is fonder of true wit and humour than myself; but to profane sacred things with jest and scoffing is a sure sign of a weak and a wicked ... ...mes. “Your slut,” said she; “your wench, your shepherdess.” “By all that’s sacred!” cries James, “I do not know who the shepherdess was.” “By all that...

...treated? Let the hand of Dennis or of your poetasters be cut off; yours is sacred.” It was perhaps in keeping that those mutilated fingers were soon t... ...h to sport on Windsor’s blissful plains: Fair Thames, flow gently from thy sacred spring, While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing; Let vernal airs thro... ...HON. Say, Daphnis, say, in what glad soil appears, A wondrous tree 6 that sacred monarchs bears? Tell me but this, and I’ll disclaim the prize, And g... ...rove, While your Alexis pines in hopeless love? In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides, Or else where Cam his winding vales divides? As in the ... ...ove. And Delia’s name and Doris’ fill’d the grove. Ye Mantuan nymphs, your sacred succour bring; Hylas and Ægon’s rural lays I sing. Thou, whom the Ni... ...c of that murmuring spring Is not so mournful as the strains you sing; Nor rivers winding through the vales below, So sweetly warble, or so smoothly f... ...kies ascend, As weighty bodies to the centre tend, As to the sea returning rivers roll, 430 And the touch’d needle t... ...ere only opening the fountains, and clearing the passage. T o de- duce the rivers, to follow them in their course, and to ob- serve their effects, may...

...ed Miss W arren with extreme fervour. “The confidence of our friendship is sacred with me, and nothing, no, nothing, could ever tempt me to violate su... ... the arduous task of preparing herself, by application and study, for this sacred duty. The fash- ions of the day were rapidly running into the attain... ...e Orphans, who will have to wait; and surely a promise to a relation is as sacred as one to an acquaintance.” 12 James Fenimore Cooper “Acquaintance,... ...steam-boat, this was certainly the first. This, indeed, was a real letter: rivers rolled, and vast tracts of country lay, between herself and its writ... ...or the absence of my Anna; but so long as miles of weary roads and endless rivers run between us, perfect happiness can never reign in the breast of y... ...an never reign in the breast of your Julia. Anna, I conjure you by all the sacred delicacy that con- secrates our friendship, never to show this lette... ...he confidence of her friend. The whole subject was now beginning to be too sacred even for such a communication; and as the mind of Julia every hour b...

...NG JOHN : What earthy name to interrogatories Can task the free breath of a sacred king? Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name So slight, unworthy ... ...arried in league, coupled and linked together With all religious strength of sacred vows; The latest breath that gave the sound of words Was deep swor... ...any is not without such rheum; And he, long traded in it, makes it seem Like rivers of remorse and innocency. Away with me, all you whose souls abhor ... ...id the winter come To thrust his icy fingers in my maw, Nor let my kingdom’s rivers take their course Through my burn’d bosom, nor entreat the north T...

...ng windings of the hills; And drinks up all the pretty rills And rivers large and strong: 60 Then hur... ...en thine, though few thy wants!—Roof, window, door, The very flowers are sacred to the Poor, The roses to the porch which they entwine: Yea, all... ... His banner in accursed league with France, First open T raitor to her sacred name! 42 SONNET SONNET SONNET SONNET SONNET TO THOMAS CLARK...

...laces, dismal to behold! The two great streets through which the two great rivers dash, and all the little streets whose name is Legion, were scorchin... ..., each, a shirt, a pair of trousers, and a red sash, with a relic, or some sacred charm like the bonbon off a twelfth cake, hanging round the neck. Th... ... lovely than the changing views of the harbour, and the valleys of the two rivers, the Polcevera and the Bizagno, from the heights along which the str... ...en hats, walking under crimson parasols: and, here and there, a species of sacred street lamp hoisted on a pole. We looked out anx iously for the Cap... ...eerful archways in the newer por tions of the town. Again, brown piles of sacred buildings, with more birds flying in and out of chinks in the stones... ...istrict which gradually became more marshy from the overflow of brooks and rivers in the recent heavy rains. At sunset, when I was walking on alone, w... ...of two columns from the house of Pontius Pilate; of the stone to which the Sacred hands were bound, when the scourging was performed; of the grid iron... ...Charles Dickens with the bodies of the poor, on their way to burial in the Sacred Field outside the walls, where they will be thrown into the pit that...

...a chief part of his duty; but would any one regard the inhibition of a Beggar on Horse- back? He might plant palm branches: it did not in the least fo... ... then there were exceptions. There were female chiefs and (I am assured) priestesses besides; nice customs curt- 38 In The South Seas seyed to great ... ...r platform, a single joist of the temple or dead- house still remained, its uprights richly carved. In the old days the high place was sedulously tend... ...s of paper— the last work of industrious old hands, and the last earthly 90 In The South Seas amusement of a man that was much of a hero. In the sac-... ...arrassing in the eagerness with which grown and holy men regard these trifles; but it was touching and pretty to see Orens, his aged eyes shining in h... ...ip there lay a pond in the bot- tom of a jungle; here the maids of the isle came to bathe, and were several times alarmed by our intrusion. Not for th...

...a dell of green turf, where a streamlet made a little spout over some stones to serve me for a water-tap. ‘In a more sacred or sequestered bower . . .... ... if by magic in the swift current, and the white boulders gave one a model for cleanliness. T o wash in one of God’s rivers in the open air seems to m... ...pported by the sense of duty. If you kill a wolf, you meet with encouragement and praise; but if you kill a dog, the sacred rights of property and the... ...could bear the stuff no longer, and replaced it with some generous and scented Volnay; and now I drank to the moon’s sacred majesty upon the road. It ...

...loud settled on Saint Antoine, which a momentary gleam had driven from his sacred countenance, the darkness of it was heavy cold, dirt, sickness, igno... ... it! Weep for her, then, and for me! Good gentlemen, thank God! I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart. O, see! Th... ...ed to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country. That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as i... ...late to Monseigneur’s lips. One lacquey carried the chocolate pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled and frothed the chocolate with the little... ...took me away. It carried me into great and unex pected peril; but it is a sacred object, and if it had carried me to death I hope it would have susta... ...e of Two Cities – Dickens 250 corn, along the fruitful banks of the broad rivers, and in the sand of the sea shore. What private solicitude could rea... ...d and distracted had the Revolution grown in that December month, that the rivers of the South were encumbered with the bodies of the violently drowne...

...; and resistance to bad government would become, in his language, the most sacred of duties. In any argument with such a man, he would be found immedi... ... an unconsciousness of language used by his party little suited to his own sacred calling, or to the noble sim- plicities of Christianity. Certainly i... ...ng, there would be no difficulty at all in that point; bishops, and other ‘sacred’ people, if they ever go a-masquing, for their own sakes will not be... ...ted down and recast into washing vessels for the priestly service. Now the sacred utensils, as we know from other sources, were undeniably of copper. ... ...did not save a youthful English marriage party from being atrociously mas- sacred; a grave English professional man with his wife from being carried o... ...onu- ments of the past—involved in one common mist of antiq- uity with the rivers and the hills of the district, with the cathedrals and their own anc...

... Did I see in this public body an assemblage of men, bound together in the sacred names of Liberty and Free dom, and so asserting the chaste dignity ... ...was the scenery, as we approached the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, at all inspiriting in its influence. The trees were stunted in thei... ... were, in comparison with it, full of interest. At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat and low and marshy, that at certain seasons of th... ...smal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him! An enormo... ...public institutions are a Jesuit college; a convent for ‘the Ladies of the Sacred Heart;’ and a large chapel attached to the college, which was in cou... ...r and autumnal seasons. Just adding, that it is very hot, lies among great rivers, and has vast tracts of undrained swampy land around it, I leave the... ...able decomposition is annually taking place; where there are so many great rivers, and such opposite varieties of climate; there can not fail to be a...

...hey went on and on, and traveled a long way, and passed over mountains and rivers, and sailed over seas. Here, and there, and everywhere, they made co... ...tial tone, as if addressing some unseen personage inside of the mountain. “Sacred oracle of Delphi,” said he, “whither shall I go next 64 TanglewoodT... ...he most beautiful objects ever seen on earth. It was hung upon a tree in a sacred grove, where it had now been kept I know not how many years, and was... ... scare Jason if possible, “you must yoke them to a plow, and must plow the sacred earth in the Grove of Mars, and sow some of the same dragon’s teeth ... ...side by side, stealing through the streets of Colchis, on their way to the sacred grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was suspended to a t...

...ind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred majesty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own c... ...try, but always held me fast by a leading string. We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges: and ... ...sea port in the whole kingdom: and those parts of the coasts into which the rivers issue, are so full of pointed rocks, and the sea generally so roug... ... wholly excluded from any commerce with the rest of the world. But the large rivers are full of vessels, and abound with excellent fish; for they seld... ...among us; and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers. Her majesty said, if I would contrive a boat, her own joiner shou... ...ient cities in ruins, and obscure villages become the seats of kings; famous rivers lessening into shallow brooks; the ocean leaving one coast dry, an...

...usty band of cavaliers from Paris, surprise Carisbrooke, and carry off His Sacred Majesty. Eustace was eager to go with them, and would listen to no r... ... themselves to labour of mind and of hand, producing works of devotion and sacred research, and likewise making a paradise of the dreary un- wholesome... ...phew. Remember from hence- forth that whatever passes in secret council is sacred, and even if told to thee inadvertently should never be repeated. No... ...uld have been incapable, though they showed absolutely no reverence to the sacred place; and I must own the ladies showed as little, for every one was... ...ry letter from England told how the enemy were proceeding to hunt down his Sacred Majesty. What a change it was when my son and I had to go into waiti... ...o the gardens, and with palings painted of fanciful colours. All along the rivers and canals there were little painted houses, with gay pavilions and ...

...still offered, though in miniature, by certain provincial towns, where the rivers are overhung with wooden houses, and where, as at Vendome, the basin... ...votion that should ani- mate a martyr? Are you ready to endure all for our sacred cause? Do you fear the tortures applied to the Councillor du Bourg, ... ...e Prince de Conde, “I pledge my honor as a noble that your family shall be sacred for the house of Navarre; I will bear it on my heart and serve it in... ... Blois without run- ning any risk. Our enemies the Guises do not watch the rivers, only the landings. Thus you will be able to see the queen-mother to... ...Guises are my friends. I shall save the king,” cried the surgeon, with the sacred enthusiasm of a conviction bestowed by genius, “and God will save Fr... ...audieu wishes to see his son. “Let him come in!” cried Christophe. “Oh! my sacred martyr!” said the minister, embracing him; 204 Catherine dé Medici ... ...not to leave fathers and mothers and wives and children, all, all, for the sacred cause of Calvinism; nay, must we not suffer all things? Ah! Christop...

...lue shark was a mark indelible, which all the waters of Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Dam- 24 Omoo ascus, could never wash out. He was an Englishman, ... ... hundred hogs, ten houses in different parts of her native valley, and the sacred protection of an express edict of the Taboo, declaring his person in... ...ort, it is Sunday—their “Taboo Day”; the very word formerly expressing the sacredness of their pagan observances now proclaiming the sanctity of the C... ...gal authority. Laid upon the sacrifice in the temple, it made the offering sacred; and with it the priests chastised and put to flight the evil spirit... ...o this mode of capturing them. At almost any time of the day—save ever the sacred hour of noon—you may see the fish-hunters pursuing their sport; with... ...test com- 264 Omoo motion by a conjugal assault and battery made upon the sacred person of Pomaree by her intoxicated Tanee. Captain Bob once told me...

...tle Ellangowan), “a steady loyalist, and full of zeal for the cause of his sacred majesty, in which he united with the great Marquis of Montrose, and ... ...hat behalf. He had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by his most sacred majesty, and was sequestrated as a malignant by the parliament, 1642... ...ished integrity of the family were respectfully remembered; above all, the sacred veneration due to misfortune, which in Scotland seldom demands its t... ...ur bosom so frequently are.— But to my tale—let it be, my friend, the most sacred, as it is the most sincere, pledge of our friendship. “Our hours her... ...erity.] is much practised at the mouth of the Esk, and in the other salmon rivers of Scotland. The sport is followed by day and night, but most common... ...arent towards the memory of her whom you have lost, attend at least to the sacred claims of misfortune; and observe, that the slightest hint of such a... ...in, endeavour- ing to catch the tone of revelry— “Gin by pailfuls, wine in rivers, Dash the window-glass to shivers! For three wild lads were we, brav... ...of the T eviotdale mountains, and bordering close an Liddesdale, where the rivers and brooks divide as they take their course to the Eastern and Weste...

...fits the peasant drew from the church where his fathers worshipped and the sacred piece of turf where 63 George Eliot they lay buried were but slight... ...ng through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of... ...had been the work of cleansing to the strictest purity every object in the sacred chamber, and of removing from it every trace of common daily occupat... ... be dark- ened with a fair white sheet, for this was the sleep which is as sacred under the bare rafters as in ceiled houses. Lisbeth had even mended ... ...ace scarf out of the linen-press, and a pair of large ear-rings out of the sacred drawer from which she had taken her candles. It was an old old scarf... ...with a wife who waddles. Y es! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resi...

... for them; but, sisterless herself, she thought the bond of sisterhood too sacred to be rashly interfered with by a stranger’s hand; besides, she cons... ...my beloved Black Prince,’ continued Elizabeth piteously; ‘you know he mas- sacred the people at Limoges.’ ‘I cannot do without him,’ said Anne; ‘he wa... ...can understand why monasteries should have been built in damp places, near rivers or bogs, both for the sake of the fish, and to be useful in draining...