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Besides, Buck Tom took nothin' from me, an' ye wouldn't have me shoot a man for missin' me surely. If you're so fond o' killin', why didn't you shoot him yourself? you had a rare chance!" Crux grinned for his ugly mouth could not compass a smile as he thought thus to turn the tables on his comrade. "Well, he's got clear off, anyhow, returned the comrade, an' it's a pity, for "
Twelve girls will play different animals, and the crisis and crux of the whole thing will be the appearance of "poor ghostie," which part Hollyhock will undertake herself. I warn you beforehand that, as you are so very timid in the presence of false ghosts for, of course, I personally do not believe in real ghosts it would be wise for you to remain in your bedroom, and thus keep out of the way.
Every child has heard of the Crusades, in which the nobles and knights and soldiers of the Middle Ages went to fight against the Turks to win back the Holy Sepulchre. These wars were called "crusades," from the cross which the Crusaders wore as badges. The word was made from the Latin word crux, which means "cross." But crusade has now become a general word.
His Robin Goodfellow instinct tried to be serviceable at a crux of his meditations, where Edith Averst's consumptive brothers waved faded hands at her chances of inheriting largely. Superb for the chances: but what of her offspring? And the other was a girl such as the lusty Dame Dowager of fighting ancestors would have signalled to the heir of the House's honours for the perpetuation of his race.
If this "vast system" is a crux to any one, we cannot think that even Dr. Newman's explanation will make it easier. He himself recoils, as any Englishman of sense and common feeling must, at the wild extravagances into which this devotion has run.
Are ye game for such a spin to-night?" The mare arched her glossy neck, put back both ears, and gave other indications that she would have fully appreciated the remarks of her master if she had only understood them. "Ah! Bluefire and I don't talk in that style," said Crux, with a laugh. "I give him his orders an' he knows that he's got to obey.
In a minute more, Captain Wragge's own observation informed him that one among the passengers who left Aldborough that morning was Mrs. Lecount. The main uncertainty disposed of, a serious question suggested by the events of the morning still remained to be solved. Which was the destined end of Mrs. Lecount's journey Zurich or St. Crux? That she would certainly inform her master of Mrs.
In fact, if it could be shown that the missing man left Hurst's house alive, or that he was wearing the scarab when he arrived there, things would look rather fishy for the Bellinghams for, of course, the girl must have been in it if the father was. But there's the crux: there is no proof that the man ever did leave Hurst's house alive.
The word cross and the many words in English beginning with cruci such as crucial, crucifix, and cruciform the adverb across, as well as the less common word crux, all come from the Latin word crux, "a cross."
That is really the crux of the whole matter; prayer must be conceived as an active intercourse between the worshipper and a Person other than himself, who is the object of his worship.
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