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The enlightened Frenchman or Italian has a horror of sacerdotalism as the beginning of the end, always and everywhere, and as the only religion in those countries is sacerdotal, they are, alas, in their national capacity, bereft of any religious guidance or inspiration.

Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild your life with the drowsy gold of romance, to lose a creeping sorrow, to forget that too many of your hours are sullen, grey, bereft? What do you wish of Egypt? The Sphinx will not ask you, will not care.

Without ye then I dare not live, like a sorrowful man afflicted with disease, and bereft of the three attributes of morality, pleasure and wealth. Nor is there anything in the world that is unconquerable by these two, viz., Krishna and Arjuna. This handsome Bhima also is the foremost of all persons endued with might. Of great renown, what can he not achieve when with ye two?

And that state of inward harmony is spiritual power. Take also other spiritual principles, such as Purity and Compassion, and apply them in the same way, and, so exacting is Truth, you will be able to make no stay, no resting-place until the inmost garment of your soul is bereft of every stain, and your heart has become incapable of any hard, condemnatory, and pitiless impulse.

"Mon Dieu!" muttered Henry Clairville. "That has its mind and I I am sometimes bereft of mine. And you you " he pointed to madame, and though innocent and unoffending she quailed before the seigneurial finger. "You even you woman there you have not always your mind! Oh it is dreadful to think of it! I would be ill again and forget. Tell me is there, is there any resemblance?

In view of his earlier account of his purpose he could not avow his errand; it bereft him of naught to disavow it, for Uncle Nehemiah was one of those gifted people who, in common parlance, do not mind what they say.

My death approaches, and you will not be by to pardon my heavy offence, to close my weary eyes, to mourn by my solitary tomb! God oh God! If I am left thus lonely on the earth, thou hast punished me beyond what I can bear! He paused his emotions for the instant bereft him of speech. After an interval, he muttered to himself in a low, moaning voice 'I called her harlot! My pure, innocent child!

But there was sufficient comprehension in her eyes to warrant him in taking her hands in his. "You know why I didn't go to India?" he said, bending his face to hers. "I guessed!" she answered shyly. Then Collingwood, at this suddenly arrived supreme moment, became curiously bereft of speech.

She had by this time paid off sufficiently to have gathered head-way, and her crew actually managed to get her before the wind; but it was only for a few minutes, she soon broached to again; and being by this time almost entirely bereft of head sail her foresail alone remaining there she hung, in the wind's eye, helpless, and practically at our mercy.

Principally he was conscious of an urging of his entire being toward the slight figure in black, staring with wide bereft eyes into the gathering evening. On the other side of the mast, Indy was sleeping with her head upon her breast.