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"And why, Ravenswood," answered Lucy, "should you think that possible? Why should you urge me with even the mention of infidelity? Is it because I ask you to delay applying to my father for a little space of time? Bind me by what vows you please; if vows are unnecessary to secure constancy, they may yet prevent suspicion."
Sails were sometimes dyed of various colours and with curious patterns. Huge ropes were fastened round the ships to bind them more firmly together, and the bulwarks were elevated beyond the frame of the vessels by wicker-work covered with skins.
And hence the laws that affect his intercourse with his fellow-men, although merely customary and the creatures of a generation, are more clearly and continually before his mind than those which bind him into the eternal system of things, support him in his upright progress on this whirling ball, or keep up the fire of his bodily life.
"And they'll wish they hadn't before I'm done with them." "Quiet!" ordered an unknown voice. "Members of the Deep Forest Throng, the prisoner is here!" the lad went on. "'Tis well, bind the captive to the sacrificial tree," was the response from some one in the crowd. Tom laughed. He was at ease now, for he recognized that those who had taken him prisoner were all lads of Andy's character.
Jan proposed to kill him, and was drawing his knife for the purpose when we interfered. "We shall have to do it, I fear, if we cannot bind his hands behind him," said Harry. "No, no; we must deprive him of his rifle and ammunition, and he will thus be compelled to follow us." "If he wanders away into the desert, his fate will be certain," observed Harry.
Obsolete conventions could not bind a prince who thought that he owed all to religion, and believed that a religious creed would sanctify any deed, however violent. Upper Germany was already overpowered. Lower Germany alone could check his despotic authority.
She determined to give an entertainment whose magnificence would startle the social world and be her defiant answer to the critics of her husband. At the same time it would serve the double purpose of dazzling and charming the imagination of Stuart. She would by a single dash of power end his indecision as to Bivens's offer and bind with stronger cords the tie that held him to her.
Wood urged them to seek their own safety, saying they could leave him with the Indians, or put an end to his sufferings at any time. Failing to induce the Indians to take him, it was decided to try to bind him on his horse and take him along on the hard journey. He suffered torture, but it was a day at a time and he had great fortitude.
"When the old man cast you off you thought you would tie yourself on to me," he cried. "You women are cunning oh, yes, you are, don't tell me you're not; and you are the shrewdest one I've come across yet. You lie when you say you meant to tell me what had happened beforehand, and you know it. But you'll find out at your cost what it means to bind me to a millstone for a wife.
With what shall we bind up these wounds that the brave Seymour has inflicted on him?" "You have publicly given the victor in the tournament a token of your great favor you have crowned him." "It was the king's order," exclaimed Catharine, warmly. "Well! He will not, however, command you to reward the Earl of Surrey also, if he likewise should gain the victory this evening.
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