United States or Côte d'Ivoire ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
More impassable than the gulf of distance with the estranging sea, more separating than the gulf of death, is the great gulf fixed between souls through deceit and shame. It is as the sin of Judas. Said a sorrowful Psalmist, who had known this experience, "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me."
"Do you do any guiding yourself, now?" he asked, most innocent of manner. But I flared up. "You damn ungrateful pup," I said, "go to the devil in your own way," and turned square on my heel. But the young man was at my elbow, his hand on my shoulder. "Oh, I say now, I'm sorry. I didn't rightly understand.
Nevertheless he asked no questions as he led the way out of the ravine. The sergeant showed the heel prints to Shepard, and beyond question they had been made by a woman. By careful scrutiny they found a half dozen more leading in a diagonal direction up the side of the mountain, but beyond that the ground was so hard and rocky that they could discover no further traces.
The night was very dark, and so noiseless were the movements of the Indians that, till I actually touched Sigenok's heel, I fancied at one time that I must be alone. The shouting and shrieking of the Sioux as they sang their songs of triumph yet farther assisted us to approach. In another moment the death volley would be given, and most of those fierce savages would be laid low.
This monarch left his cabinet, advanced a few paces, embraced Monsieur d'Orleans with an air of great superiority, pointed to the door of the cabinet, and instantly turning on his heel, without the slightest compliment, entered there. The Regent followed, and Prince Kourakin after him to serve as interpreter.
As he opened it he said, 'By the way, is the date of the marriage fixed? but without turning towards her. She said, 'Yes, the 8th of December, and she saw his shoulders brace, and the weight of his body come backwards from the ball of the foot on to the heel. 'Ah! I shall be in Africa by then, he said.
When tea was over, Mrs. Wragge, at a signal from her husband, retired to a corner of the room, with the eternal cookery-book still in her hand. "Mince small," she whispered, confidentially, as she passed Magdalen. "That's a teaser, isn't it?" "Down at heel again!" shouted the captain, pointing to his wife's heavy flat feet as they shuffled across the room. "The right shoe. Pull it up at heel, Mrs.
"Render restore him!" interrupted Montreal, stamping on the ground with such force that the splinters of the marble fragments on which he stood shivered under his armed heel. The woman little heeded a violence at which the fiercest warrior of Italy might have trembled; but she did not make an immediate answer.
Nearly every child had regular tasks; they were taught to use their hands as well as their eyes and thoughts, and Ruth was very proud that she could hemstitch nicely, and "set the heel" of a stocking, and finish off its toe. After Vinal brought the letter from Ruth's father Mrs.
The Moor at the first encounter reeled To earth, from his saddle bow; And the Christian knight, dismounting, Set heel on the neck of his foe. He cleft his head from his shoulders, And, marshalling his train, Made haste once more on his journey Across Toledo's plain.
Word Of The Day