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Have you not often told me that I am answerable to God for the talents he has endowed me with, if I neglected to cultivate them? Your praises were to me as a sharp spur: I applied myself to study with more ardour, insatiable even of my moments.
They stood fast; and with an obstinacy for which the Quakers were chiefly answerable, insisted that they would give nothing, except by a bill taxing real estate, and including that of the proprietaries. Ibid. But now the Assembly began to feel the ground shaking under their feet.
He swore to be answerable for our safety, with his head and all that was his, and we lived with him for many days on the side of the mighty mountain. The shooting was not good, however; it was not the season, but otherwise our stay was very pleasant.
A. The cranked axle of locomotives is always made of wrought iron, with two cranks forged upon it toward the middle of its length, at a distance from each other answerable to the distance between the cylinders. Bosses are made on the axle for the wheels to be keyed upon, and bearings for the support of the framing. The axle is usually forged in two pieces, which are afterward welded together.
"Christopher had better be careful of himself! He will have to be answerable to me now." "Do be prudent, Evangeline dear," Lady Merrenden said, gayly, "or you will have Robert breaking the head of every man in the street who even glances at you. He is frantically jealous."
PARTRIDGE lieth under a dilemma, either of disowning his Almanack, or allowing himself to be no man alive. Therefore, if an uninformed Carcass walks still about and is pleased to call itself PARTRIDGE; Mr. BICKERSTAFF doth not think himself any way answerable for that!
It was rumored that she deceived him quite openly, but people pardoned her offense and received her just the same, because, they said, "she's not answerable for her actions." "Oh that Leonide!" the Countess Sabine contented herself by murmuring, smiling her faint smile the while. With a languid movement she eked out the thought that was in her.
"Come away, Sir, come away," cried Dr Lyster, who now saw that Cecilia was greatly agitated, "I will not be answerable for the continuation of this scene;" and taking him by the arm, he awakened him from his frantic rapture, by assuring him she would faint, and forced him away from her.
At the bar of His tribunal no one is answerable for another; each answers for himself alone; one is responsible only for one's own acts.
The legate was his superior-officer, and he sent her every day some present or flowers. Up to this time she had borne with him, and had tried to excuse him, and to think herself answerable for much of what she endured.
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