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While this type of religion is clearly present in the most primitive tribal worship, it is best exemplified when a racial or national purpose manifests itself aggressively and self-consciously, as in the cases of ancient Assyria and Egypt. Here God is identified with the kingship, both being symbols of nationality.
They require the spectacle of fasting and prayer a view of a candidate seated in sackcloth and ashes in outer darkness. You've got to wait for the Lenox, Plank." "I am waiting," said Plank, squaring his massive jaws. "You've got to," growled Mortimer, emptying his glass aggressively. Plank looked out of the window, his shrewd blue eyes closing in retrospection.
Rennick. Rennick chanced to overhear. Being aggressively in love with his wife, he did not content himself with discharging Schwartz. Instead, he thrashed the stalwart gardener, then and there; and ended the drastic performance by pitching the beaten man, bodily, out of the grounds. Schwartz collected his battered anatomy and limped away to his home in the hills just above.
His sardonic lips, his pointed chin aggressively pushed forward, presented the characteristic signs of a malignant spirit, a sagacity coldly cruel, that would surely enable him to divine all because he suspected everything.
The only curb to their impatience was the absolute knowledge that an attempt at faster running would result in not getting there in time at all. At every stopping place news from the front was eagerly sought for and canvassed. It was at all times aggressively meager.
From a side room appeared a thick, heavy-shouldered man with a feral countenance, who slouched aggressively forward, as the intruder announced himself. "My name is Banneker." "Cheest!" hissed the thick bouncer in tones of dismay, and stopped short. Turning, Banneker recognized him as one of the policemen whom his evidence had retired from the force in the wharf-gang investigation. "Oh!
There's more of the same kind, too, but you see " "Well, who's acting in collusion? What's collusion mean anyhow?" Slim demanded aggressively. "It means what we're aiming to do if anybody could prove it on us," explained the Native Son. "My oldest brother's a lawyer, and I caught some of it from him.
By four the back of the head was good, the military cap was pretty good, the nose was bold and strong, the upper lip sharp, but not pretty, and there was a great goatee that shot straight aggressively forward from the chin.
Being thus suddenly brought to bay, John did what men generally do when they are cornered he rushed into the thick of the battle, regardless of consequences. "I axed thee, as thou knows, a year ago," he broke out aggressively, as he gazed past her, "to have me. Thou didn't say much in reply; but what thou did say meant No, and now I ax thee once more, wilt thou have me?
Dyke; not other subjects, if you please! This dispute was not begun by me. Let it be carried no further, sir! Twins are not necessarily, nor invariably, of the same complexion. Let nothing more be said, Mr. Dyke. I trust the little girl may yet be found and restored to her family to to her brother! I trust she may yet be found, sir!" And he glared at Mr. Dyke aggressively.
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