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Lichfield felt that only showed what came of treating poor-white trash as your equals, and gloried in the salutary moral. Meanwhile the two originators of so much Lichfieldian diversion were not unhappy. But indeed it were irreverent even to try to express the happiness of their earlier married life ...

Salat of Luzern thus gloried in his fanaticism: "Some, when asked, as they lay struggling in the agonies of death, whether they wished to confess and receive the holy sacraments, answered. Yes! and were thus preserved, according to Christian usage, and died as good Christians. Others, when so asked, made the sign of No!

THERE are waste places of the earth which fill one with terror not simply because they are waste; one has not such feelings in the desert nor in the vast solitude of the ocean. Very different is it where the desolation has overtaken a brilliant and flourishing product of man's head and hand. To know that . . . the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep

Oh, by the way, you threaten me with your vengeance. Know you not that I long to meet you front to front, and to the death? Did I not tell you so did I not try to move your slow blood to insult you into a conflict in which I should have gloried? Yet then you were marble." "Because /my/ wrong I could forgive, and /hers/ there was then a hope that hers might not need the atonement. Away!"

"Do not let us hear of swords and lances from you, Anne," said her mother. "Thimbles and needles become you better." "If I had been a man," exclaimed Anne, "and lived in the olden time, how I would have gloried in such an adventure! You, Faith, should have been the distressed damsel, I the valorous knight, and Father Holden a captured seneschal.

Then again you opened a door, expecting to step into the wilderness of a garden, and found yourself in a set of little rooms running off on a tangent, one after the other, and ending in a windowless closet and an open cistern. But the Agency gloried in its irregularities, and defied criticism.

He gloried in his slavery to Antonia, and seemed to glean hope from the most sterile circumstances. It was easy to hope, in Lattimore, then. It was not many days after our talk in the park before I noticed a change for the better in Giddings, even. Just before Jim's house-warming, he came to me with something like optimism in his appearance. I started to cheer him up, and went wrong.

The superior merit of the interpreter, or his language, inclines me to prefer the Italian version: but I wish that it were in my power to read the German, which is praised by the best judges. In the preface of the fourth volume, while I gloried in the name of an Englishman, I announced my approaching return to the neighbourhood of the Lake of Lausanne.

He realized what he had become and gloried in it, yet there, looking on with grave and earnest eyes, was his old self, the man of reason, of intellect, of culture, who had been a good man despite the failure and shame of his life. And he gave heed to the voice of warning, of conscience.

He figured in the list of the chiefs of Independency, if I may so express it, with an asterisk prefixed to his name. That asterisk was his Divorce Doctrine. He was an Independent with the added peculiarity of being the head of the Sect of Miltonists or Divorcers. In 1645 Milton still gloried in the asterisk.