United States or Saint Barthélemy ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I excused myself, went over to her, and said: "Miss Caron, you are in trouble?" She looked up, her eyes swimming with tears and pointed to the tombstone. On it I read: Sacred to the Memory of HECTOR CARON, Ensign in the French Navy. Erected by his friend, Galt Roscoe, H.B.M.N. Beneath this was the simple line: "Why, what evil hath he done?" "He was your brother?" I asked.
He consults the omens with as patient a divination as the augurs of old; and so long as he carries an amulet in his pocket, though it be but a pebble or a polished nut, he is filled with an irresistible courage. For him the worst terror of all is the evil eye, and he would rather be hanged by an unsuspected judge than receive an easy stretch from one whose glance he dared not face.
Let the patriot, the friend of liberty and the Union of the States, no longer shut his eyes to the great danger, the master-evil before which all others dwindle into insignificance. Our Union is tottering to its foundation, and slavery is the cause. Remove the evil. Dry up at their source the bitter waters.
"It is done now," he thought, "and once more let me take the good along with the evil." So it befell that he returned to Hawaii by the first steamer, and as soon as it could be managed he was wedded to Kokua, and carried her up the mountain side to the Bright House.
At present we must all await our death from the hands of the Almighty. 'Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. "And now, gentlemen, I have to request your attention for a few moments to another matter, and one which is very different from this which we have discussed.
I do not know what evils we might find arising from a world of materialistic democracies. But I am sure we shall not banish the evil spirits which destroy human lives and nations and civilisations by any mere change in the methods of government. Nothing can save civilisation except a new spirit in the nations."
"Well," said the professor, "it isn't a transaction that's apt to be talked about much on either side." "I think," the banker interposed, "that there is some exaggeration about that business; but it certainly exists, and I suppose it is a growing evil in the country. I fancy it arises, somewhat, from a want of, clear thinking on the subject.
As the military protection of the linq of the Saskatchewan against Indian attack would be a practical impossibility without a very great expenditure of money, it becomes necessary that all precautions should be taken to prevent the outbreak of an Indian war, which, if once commenced, could not fail to be productive of evil consequences.
Slavish-Fear, Mr. No-Love, Mr. Mistrust, Mr. Flesh, and Mr. Sloth. It was also commanded, that he should apprehend Mr. Evil- Questioning's children, that he left behind him, and that they should demolish his house. The children that he left behind him were these: Mr.
Unlike the Shanars of Southern Travancore, they do not use the blood of sacrificial animals; they do not build separate temples to their bhutas. But they are possessed by the strange fancy that the goddess Kali, the wife of Shiva, from time immemorial has had a grudge against them, and sends her favorite evil spirits to torture them.
Word Of The Day