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Even the sound of the Waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mid-watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
Feeling her desolation, wild, melancholy, forsaken songs rose thereon from that frightful aerie, weeping, wailing tunes, that sob among the people from age to age, and overflow with otherwise unexpressed sadness, all rude, mournful ballads, old tearful strains, that Shakspeare heard the vagrants sing, and that rise and fall like the wind and tide, sailor-songs, to be heard only in lone mid-watches beneath the moon and stars, ghastly rhyming romances, such as that famous one of the "Lady Margaret," when
This encouraging incident, the first of the kind since the ship went into commission, also befell in one of my mid-watches, and an awful mess our unuse made of it.
Therefore because Al-Kyris delighteth in pride and despiseth repentance, so shall destruction descend furiously upon her, even as a sudden tempest in the mid-watches of the night, she shall be swept away from the surface of the earth, ... wolves shall make their lair in her pleasant gardens, and the generations of men shall remember her no more! Oh ye kings, princes, and warriors!
Often, yet, in the mid-watches of the night she started out of sleep and lay quivering along her exquisite body from head to heel, while the awful writing awoke and crawled and ate again, etching itself upon her flesh. "But but it made me miserable!" choked Dicky. "Miserable! Why?" "Because I wanted to grow up and marry you," he managed to say defiantly.
In the mid-watches of the night, commemorating the passing of Him Who with His own hands laid the head-cornerstone of His Father’s House of Worship in that land, seated within the hallowed precincts of His shrine, and keeping vigil in the company of His closest companions, I have more than once in the midst of my devotions prayerfully remembered those chosen ones of God on whose shoulders has fallen so weighty a responsibility, whose destiny is to bring to full fruition so excellent a heritage.
Even the sound of the waits, rude as may be their minstrelsy, breaks upon the mid-watches of a winter night with the effect of perfect harmony.
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