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Among the officers, some were oppressed with anxious forebodings of evil those peculiar sensations which, when death approaches nearly to the outward senses, alarm the heart; others experienced no feeling but that of manly fortitude and determination to die, if necessary, like men; in others, alas; in which party, small as it was, the captain was pre-eminent fear and trepidation amounted almost to the loss of reason.
But, the next moment, they remembered the vanished dwellings, and the faces and characters of the inhabitants, far too distinctly for a dream. The village had been there yesterday, and now was gone! "Alas!" cried these kind-hearted old people, "what has become of our poor neighbors?"
Poor heart, he spoke but the truth, but he spoke it as bravely as he could. "Hush, John," Dorothy hastily broke in; "you must not say such things." "Alas! you little know, my sweet one, to what misery you would consign yourself if you proved staunch to me," he continued.
He must have known heroes and talked with gods to be able to hew out of the rocks such perfection of shape and attitude as his 'David. Alas! my strength of brain and hand is mere child's play compared to what HAS been done in sculpture, and what WILL yet be done; still, I love the work for its own sake, and I am always trying to render a resemblance of "
Does it follow, because God can no longer be conceived as Providence, because we take from him that attribute so important to man that he has not hesitated to make it the synonym of God, that God does not exist, and that the theological dogma from this moment is shown to be false in its content? Alas! no.
Peter muttered grimly, raising his glass to his lips. Bernadine accepted the challenge. "It is not I, alas! who may call myself Cæsar," he replied, "although it is certainly you who are about to die." Sogrange turned to the man who stood behind his chair. "If I might trouble you for a little dry toast?" he inquired. "A modern, but very uncomfortable, ailment," he added, with a sigh.
Bertram, "I cannot afford to meet preposterous terms, for I, alas! am poor." "Dear, dear, I'm truly sorry to hear it, Mrs. Bertram. And with your fine young family, too. That lad of yours is as handsome a young fellow as I've often set eyes on. And your girls, particularly Miss Catherine, are specially genteel."
"Alas!" he cried, "that I should live to know my King overthrown by such a felon! What have I done that I should have caused the deaths of the good knights, Sir Gareth, Sir Gaheris, and Sir Gawain, and yet that such a villain should escape my sword!"
Be heaven or hell mixed up with it, I fear not. Heaven will not hurt me and Satan I defy." "I know thy bold, proud spirit, Philip, thy strength of mind. If any one could bear the load of such a dreadful tale, thou couldst. My brain, alas! was far too weak for it; and I see it is my duty to tell it to thee."
"Alas! no; this night she was stolen from us, and we saw her borne away before our very eyes." "Was there no one by to strike a blow for her, no one to render you aid?" "Yes, one there was, an honest friend who lives in the next cottage. He was aroused by the noise, and outraged by the violence he beheld, he rushed upon the thieves, but they struck him bleeding and dead to the earth.
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