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He was edified over his scanty meal by melting descriptions of the mother-bird returning to the desolated home, of her positive sorrow and her probable pining to death. True, the eggs were not speckled and small, but of a very pretty white, and quite a handful for the juvenile fingers.
And when they saluted her, she asked, "Wherefore come ye?"; whereto they answered, "The Commander of the Faithful saluteth thee. Indeed he is desolated for want of thy sight; he letteth thee know that this be to him a day of joy and great gladness and he wisheth to seal his day and complete his pleasure with thy company at this very hour. So say, wilt go to him or shall he come to thee?"
Those of the customs, those of the divers loans, the dividends upon the Hotel de Ville in all times so sacred all were suspended; these last alone continued, but with delays, then with retrenchments, which desolated nearly all the families of Paris and many others. At the same time the taxes increased, multiplied, and exacted with the most extreme rigour completed the devastation of France.
Kummer was tormented by the women and children, who came every moment to touch and feel the fineness of his skin, and to take away some fragments of his shirt, and the few things which he had left. During the evening, fresh questions were put to him respecting the cruel wars which desolated France; he was obliged to trace the account of them, on the sand in Arabic letters.
She gave hopes to women who had been hitherto barren, she sent dreams to reassure jealous old men concerning the fidelity of the young wives whom they had suspected without cause, and she protected the country from plagues, murrains, famines, tempests, and dragons of Cappadocia. But during the troubles that desolated the kingdom in the time of King Collic and his successors, the tomb of St.
Add to this list the ruined families, some of whose members fell victims to the Inquisition, and then remembering that Spain was but one of the countries which it desolated let the student judge of the huge total of human agony caused by this awful institution. One special crime of the Church in this age must not be forgotten: her treatment of Roger Bacon.
If you feel a really irresistible desire to get drunk," she said, "that is a waste of talent far more appreciable by the critics of the Alcazar; my brother, being unfortunately absent, will be desolated at missing this performance." She regretted her temerity even before she had finished. His face seemed to age as she looked.
Cavendish, regarding with redoubled pity the now doubly desolated exile in this last resignation of his parental friend to a foreign grave, attempted to persuade him to return with him to dinner. He refused the kind invitation, alleging, with a faint smile, that under every misfortune he found his best comforter in solitude.
"A true dream," says Milman, "for he will scent out heresy and apply the torch to the faggots;" but, as will be seen later, this observation does not rest on undisputed evidence. In the year 1191, when Spain was desolated by a terrible famine, Dominic was just finishing his theological studies.
O children of Romulus! how noble do you appear when thus fiercely contrasted with the wild boars who desolated your vineyards!
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