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The belief in lucky and unlucky days has a distinct popular flavor, but it is doubtful whether the ordinary public consulted the priests, as a general thing, in order to find out what days were lucky and what not. It is more plausible to assume that the priests embodied in their official calendars some of the notions that arose among the people, and gave to them an official sanction.
Such as his training made him, such he was. He had large capabilities for good and aptitudes also for evil, quite enough: quite enough to make it needful that he should repel temptation as temptation only can be repelled. Much had been done to spoil him, but in the ordinary acceptation of the word he was not spoiled.
I now began to read the papers and cultivate politics enthusiastically; however, the social intercourse of the civic world did not attract me sufficiently to make me false to my beloved academic associates. I followed them faithfully from the guard-rooms to the ordinary bars, where their splendour as men of the literary world now sought retirement.
You can explain the underclothes in some absurd way, if you like you can say that Mark always changed his underclothes whenever he interviewed anybody from Australia but why, in that case, my dear Watson, why didn't he change his collar?" "His collar?" said Bill in amazement. "His collar, Watson." "I don't understand." "And it's all so ordinary," scoffed Antony. "Sorry, Tony, I didn't mean that.
Many a young peasant will now thoughtlessly disguise himself, and when the consecration of the water is performed, will stand and look on passively like an ordinary spectator! It would seem that the Devil, like his enemy the Pope, is destined to lose gradually his temporal power. But all this time I am neglecting my new acquaintance on the top of the stove.
"There's ginger enough in an ordinary policeman to make three of you. But I'm not going to let you lose Ellen Berstoun if I can help it. Run away now and complain to your auntie." In pointed silence Andrew availed himself of this permission, while his father remained to light a cigar and meditate upon the disadvantages of unalloyed respectability.
Joy and trouble mingled in an indescribable way to constitute his ordinary mood; one moment he would laugh at a thought, and before a companion could glance at him his gladness would be overshadowed as if with the heaviest anxiety.
Bellingham wearing?" "Oh, an ordinary sort of watch-guard." "I mean was it a chain or a ribbon or a strap?" "A chain, I think or perhaps a ribbon or it might have been a strap." His lordship flattened his eyelids, but made no further sign and Mr. Loram continued: "Did you or did you not notice what kind of watch-guard Mr. Bellingham was wearing?" "I did not.
Ignorance of the Soveraign Power, in the place of a mans ordinary residence, Excuseth him not; because he ought to take notice of the Power, by which he hath been protected there. Ignorance Of The Penalty Excuseth Not
No tale of elf born from a cleft rock, touched by magic wand, ever more completely fascinated any big-eyed city child, than did the tales which Layson told her commonplace and ordinary to his mind: mere casual account of routine life about his family and friends down in the bluegrass, the enchanted region separated from them where they sat by a hundred miles or so of rugged hills and billowing forests.
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