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We might, with unbroken blessedness, possess Him in our hearts, and instead, we have only 'visits short and far between' Alas, alas, how often do we drive away that indwelling Christ, because our hearts are 'foul with sin, so that He 'Can but listen at the gate And hear the household jar within. There might be a line of light never interrupted running all through our religious experience.
When he came back, alas! the zeal of the business was gone by. Louisa could not listen at all to his account of a conversation which he had just held with Dr Shirley: she was at a window, looking out for Captain Wentworth; and even Henrietta had at best only a divided attention to give, and seemed to have forgotten all the former doubt and solicitude of the negotiation.
It is not what English people call 'proper' for you to go to the Casino alone, or only accompanied by a stranger for I, alas! am still a stranger to you." There was no touch of coquetry or flirtation in the voice in which he said those words. Sylvia blushed violently, but she did not feel annoyed, only queerly touched by his solicitude for well, she supposed it was for her reputation.
Nouzhatoul-aouadat whom you in your bounty gave me for a wife to gladden my existence, alas!" at this exclamation Abou Hassan pretended to have his heart so full, that he could not utter more, but poured forth a flood of tears.
The question was repeated by a lady who stood with her, whose face I remarked then as I did to the last, alas! too little; dazzled at the first by outward beauty, perhaps because so utterly unaccustomed to it. "It is indeed a wonderful picture," I said, timidly. "May I ask what is the subject of it?" "Oh! don't you know?" said the young beauty, with a smile that thrilled through me. "It is St.
It was a pitiable sight: her short, crisp yellow curls broke here and there, rebelliously, through the folds of the linen bandages; and I thought how she used to shake them, responsive to the quiverings of the cadenzas and trills that poured from her bird-like throat. 'Alas! I said to myself, 'poor throat! you will never sing again!
Alas! should I ever find another dart like that, never to be recalled, to launch in the right direction, and fix quivering in the eye of the target? God alone could know. After the one hopeful excitement of my prison-life, my spirit drooped deplorably for a season, and all occupation became distasteful to me.
"But, alas! it is many summers since I saw her last, nor had I heard any tidings of her for a long, long while, until you told me that she had taken flight from Norway. Tell me now, what is the name of him whose succour she wished to seek in Gardarike?" "Her brother's name," said Olaf, "is Sigurd Erikson."
They told him of the cruel loss their tribe had suffered at the hands of the "Long-knives;" but they spoke of it as the fortune of war, as a thing to be deplored, but to be also revenged: it was after the manner of their own war, and it did not strike them as brutal or cowardly; for, alas! they knew no better.
She did not read it at once, it lay on the table while she was dressing, and she was uncertain whether it would not be better to put off reading it until she came back from St. Joseph's. "Alas, from our first meeting, and before it, we were aware of the fate which has overtaken us.
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