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'I know, said Elsmere quickly; I know! I cannot conceive it, nor could you. Imagine standing up Sunday after Sunday to say the things you do not believe, using words as a convention which those who hear you receive as literal truth, and trusting the maintenance of your position either to your neighbor's forbearance or to your own powers of evasion!
"Why, it's a word-picture a 'spoken picture, to be literal. I took some lessons in it at Bertillon's school when I was in Paris. It's a method of scientific apprehension of criminals, a sort of necessary addition and completion to the methods of scientific identification of them after they are arrested.
The blatant defiance of this muscular preacher outraged him. This canting hypocrite, this wolf in priest's clothing must be brought to book. But how? Mrs. Allison had admitted the literal truth when she had told him that there were no letters, no photographs. There was no use commencing an action for breach of promise if there was no evidence to support it.
This raft, though of such literal dimensions, was very easy and simple to build, as there was no shaping of timbers and no elaborate workmanship of any kind required, the only matter involving any considerable degree of care being that the two pontoons should be watertight; and this of course was very easily managed.
What Fred saw in her was always a puzzle to me. I knew what was going on between them, though nobody else did. But, Jan, I'll tell you what astonished me more than everything else when I learned it that Lionel should have married her subsequently. I never could have imagined Lionel Verner taking up with another man's wife." "She was his widow," cried literal Jan. "All the same.
The margin of the Revised Version gives the literal rendering of the word translated 'condescend. 'To be carried away with, is metaphorically equivalent to surrendering one's self to; and the two clauses present two sides of one disposition, which seeks not for personal advancement or conspicuous work which may minister to self-gratulation, but contentedly fills the lowly sphere, and 'the humblest duties on herself doth lay. We need not pause to point out that such an ideal is dead against the fashionable maxims of this generation.
If he should discover that she had lied to him, he would never forgive her, and she would lose what little regard he had for her. He had a Puritan insistence upon the literal truth. "How beautiful Constance was," he sighed. An inarticulate murmur escaped from Miriam, which he took for full assent. "Did you ever see anyone half so beautiful, Miriam?"
Inasmuch as the sun had not been made, how could the first day be realized? Therefore, these statements have significances other than literal.
There is a curse upon the earth, though not one which, by altering the laws of nature, has made natural facts untrustworthy. Man's work is too often the curse of the very planet which he misuses. None should know that better than the botanist, who sees whole regions desolate, and given up to sterility and literal thorns and thistles, on account of man's sin and folly, ignorance and greedy waste.
That saying of the Psalmist is not an exaggeration, nor even a forgetting of the other elements of future blessedness, but it is a simple statement of the literal fact of the case, 'I have none in heaven but Thee! God is the heritage of His people.
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