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I say I compared this with the song I allude to, "Drink and drive care away, Drink and be merry; You'll ne'er go the faster To the Stygian ferry." I compared this with that awful admonition of Scripture how to pass the time. Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
Oh, why did I come to foreign parts with a wicked, guzzling, gambling, chambering Chaplain, that's in league with the very host and the drawers of this thieving inn against me that burns me a guinea a night in wax candles, and has had a freehold farm out of me in Burgundy wine."
Pont, the housekeeper, did in her leisure time. This man's face was pink and fair, his hair golden. "Warn him not of the hilt-thrust, Seymour, lad," he said suddenly. "Give it him first for a sneering, bullying, taverning, chambering knave." The tall gentleman glanced at his down-flung cup, raised his eyebrows, and drank from the bottle. "Such would annoy you, Hal, of course," he murmured.
Eagerly I seized the volume of the apostle and opened and read that section on which my eyes fell first: "Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."
These forty-five pillars standing in the midst, by the others, may also be to show that in the time of the trouble of the church in her wilderness state, there will be those that will stand by and maintain her apostolical doctrine, though for so doing they bear the burthen of the whole. But I read of no chambers for ease or rest in this house, here is no room for chambering.
What should I speak of the lusts and uncleanness, gluttony and drunkenness, chambering and wantonness, prodigality and lavishness, excess of riot, masking, and balling, and sporting, when Germany and the Palatinate, and other places, were wallowing in blood, yea, when there was so much sin and wrath upon this same kingdom?
The two, without further parley, tied their horses' noses close to their front fetlocks, and sat down back to back on the surface of the prairie. Each was armed with one of the new 44-40 Winchesters, just out, and with a brace of Colt's revolvers, chambering the same-sized cartridge as the rifle. "How you heeled?" inquired Alfred. The stranger took stock. "Fifty-two," he replied.
Then said she, 'O folk ye have made me to break the bounds of modesty and the circle of free born women and indulge in idle talk of chambering and wantonness, which beseemeth not people of learning. But the breasts of free-borns are the sepulchres of secrets' and such conversations are in confidence. And among the tales they tell is one of
Ay, and, moreover, who is to receive my bonny bride, that I hope to bring up the wynd one of these days?" "Ah, Harry Harry," said the old woman, shaking her head, "this is not the way to prepare an honest man's house for a young bride: you should be guided by modesty and discretion, and not by chambering and wantonness." "I tell you again, this poor creature is nothing to me.
He answers, "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying: but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the works thereof."
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