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Occasionally they saw a church tower or steeple, that had stood for a time black against the glowing sky, become suddenly wreathed in flames, and, after burning for a time, fall with a crash that could be plainly heard above the general roar. "Surely such a fire was never seen before!" Captain Dave said. "Not since Rome was burnt, I should think," Cyril replied. "How long was that ago, Cyril?
Closing the Parsonage-gate, the first thing she did was to creep across the long grass to her mother's grave. "Oh, mother, mother! why did you go and leave me? I should never have loved any one if my mother had not died!" And burning tears fell, and burning blushes came.
Nothing could be too good for a scribe sent by the highest authority of the Jewish religion, the high priest himself! Not until late in the evening did Symeon's visitor arrive from his long journey. At dinner the men ate in dignified silence, but Symeon was burning with curiosity.
And that wall stretcheth from the south to the north, and it hath not but one entry that is closed with fire, burning; so that no man that is mortal ne dare not enter. And in the most high place of Paradise, even in the middle place, is a well that casteth out the four floods that run by divers lands.
Well, they've always known about the gas out there; they say there are places in the woods where it's been burning ever since the country was settled. "But when you come in sight of Moffitt my, oh, my! Well, you come in smell of it about as soon.
Every now and then he would relieve my feelings by suggesting that the most interesting part of it was yet to come. We had now pursued our journey some fifteen miles under a burning sun, when we came to a running spring, beside which the major drew up his team, and, dismounting, proceeded to fill his bucket.
But, from this point of view, we must hold that sacrifices, to be sacrifices in the specific must not merely be destroyed or consumed, for then anything that could be destroyed by fire would be capable of becoming a burnt-offering; and the burning would simply prove that the offering was acceptable a proof which may in some cases have been required to make assurance doubly sure, but which was really superfluous, inasmuch as no one who desires his offering to be accepted will make an offering which he thinks to be unacceptable.
The fire was still burning in secret, but needed to be rekindled by potent artificial breath. A dessert spoonful or two would have saved them. Avaunt! you wicked 'Temperance' medallist! repent as fast as ever you can, or, perhaps the next time we hear of you, anasarca and hydro- thorax will be running after you to punish your shocking excesses in water.
Osgood puts the Guardian back with a half a million dollars' liability scattered about down town." "Don't talk of so terrible a possibility as the burning of Boston," said the girl. "There has been one very great fire here. Surely there will never be another." "Surely not," agreed Smith. "At least for the sake of your fellow citizens and my fellow underwriters I cordially hope not.
Father Massias, who was five years older than Pierre, whose fellow-student however he had been at the seminary, had a tall, spare figure with an ascetic countenance, framed round with a light-coloured beard and vividly lighted up by burning eyes, He was neither the priest harassed by doubt, nor the priest with childlike faith, but an apostle carried away by his passion, ever ready to fight and vanquish for the pure glory of the Blessed Virgin.
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