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Not for himself, if there were only himself to think of, he felt assured, he could laugh poverty want even to scorn; but that his little Virginia should feel the pinch was damnable! Two years had made marked changes in Virginia.
To obtain eternal life he was to sell all he had, give up house, friends, position, respectability, and lead a vagrant life in Palestine with this poor carpenter's son. Alas! eternal life is not to be bought on lower terms. Beware of the damnable doctrine that it is easy to enter the kingdom of heaven.
There is no blackmail about this, even if you choose to call it so. It is an ordinary business proposition, as you have been told a hundred times!" "'It's a damnable crooked scheme, as I have told you a hundred times, and I shall have nothing to do with it! This is final! Father's tones rang out clearly and distinctly, quivering with suppressed fury.
He saw before him the speedy accomplishment of his fiendish purpose the gratification of his inveterate hate and long sought revenge, by the commission of the most damnable act known this side of the "bottomless pit" of darkness; and his sin-polluted heart actually swelled with venomous delight, and demoniac exultation.
This is the first time he has dared do this in my presence. Nevertheless, by looking at him steadily and sternly for several minutes, I compelled him to vanish. This proves my contention. He does not exist. If he were an eternal form I could not make him vanish by a mere effort of my will. This is getting damnable. To-day I gazed at him for an entire hour before I could make him leave.
Out upon such justice and such laws, which tolerate such barbarities to one whose misfortunes should be pitied, not visited by the damnable cruelty of the base hirelings of a corrupt misgovernment! It is not our wish to devote much time to the relation of unimportant particulars; suffice it to say, that Dr.
And this Cain saw; wherefore he adds in the process of his complaint, "And from thy face shall I be hid": "I shall never come into thy kingdom, I shall never see thy face in heaven." This is therefore the highest of all complaints; namely, for a man from a certain conviction that his condition must without fail be damnable, to condole and bemoan his forlorn condition. "Thou hast driven me out."
But although the general clamour of the public room, in which the guests mixed with each other, related chiefly to their own commercial dealings, there was a general theme mingling with them, which was alike common and interesting to all; so that, amidst disputes about freight, tonnage, demurrage, and such like, were heard the emphatic sounds of "Deep, damnable, accursed plot," "Bloody Papist villains," "The King in danger the gallows too good for them," and so forth.
Here it is used in the sense of "fortune" or "fate ;" like "days" and "days and nights." See my Pilgrimage, etc. Ali was slain with a sword-cut by Ibn Muljam a name ever damnable amongst the Persians; Mu'awiyah escaped with a wound and Kharijah, the Chief of Police at Fustat or old Cairo was murdered by mistake for Amru. After this the sectarian wars began.
"I tell you calmly that you've done a damnable thing; that you've brought disgrace upon the name of Lightfoot." "It is not my name," replied Dan, lifting his head. "My name is Montjoy, sir." "And it's a name to hang a dog for," retorted the Major. As they faced each other with the same flash of temper kindling in both faces, the likeness between them grew suddenly more striking.
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