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Like fire, it serves those who know its uses to the noblest ends, but in the hands of children and the people, the mob, can never ripen into manhood it is a destroying brand, raging and unextinguishable, devouring all around it, and destroying all that has been built and beautified by the past.

Her faith rocked like a palm in the tempest; her soul was tossed across raging billows like a vessel in the grip of the cyclone. Being so great, she suffered greatly; being so strong, she had strong passions to wrestle with and to subdue. Awhile, like that other Mary, who, unlike her, was a fleshly sinner, she strove, rent as it seemed to her, by seven devils.

I found out later on that the stream came almost straight from the mountain-tops of ice and snow. "You would not have bathed here five or six hours ago," said my companion, as he swam beside me. "The storm lasted but two hours, yet the river was raging here until long after midnight.

Perhaps, in his position, it would be too much to expect such a thing and, at all events, it never even occurred to him to attempt it. He consumed himself instead with inward raging and chafing at his hard lot, and his utter powerlessness to break the spell which bound him.

Perhaps someone in the Oa had sent word with him that she was wanted there for a day's sewing, and she knew nothing would please Coonie better than to have her refuse to listen. But by this time her tormentor, despairing of ever enticing her out by fair words, resolved to launch a bomb which he knew was sure to bring the besieged raging to the walls.

Beneath the quiet words of the man and woman there was raging the mortal struggle of will and personality, the woman in fierce rebellion, his iron egotism demanding submission. "'Oh, I see," she purred, softly. "There is to be but one man-god, arrayed and beautiful, if I may quote your formula. There may be many women-gods in paradise.

Farther on, we again beheld the great abbey or hospital of Kolotskoi, a sight still more hideous than that of the field of battle. At Borodino all was death, but not without its quiet; there at least the battle was over; at Kolotskoi it was still raging.

In vain Cameron rallies his powers; his nerve is failing him, his strength is done. Only five minutes to play, but one minute is enough. Down upon him through a broken field, dribbling the ball and following hard like hounds on a hare, come the Welsh, the tow-head raging in front, bloody and fearsome.

The storm raging in Dagon's breast ceased on a sudden. "What business can he offer me?" asked the banker, with a voice now calmed completely. "He will tell this himself, but first he must see thee." "Well, let him come to me." "He thinks that Thou shouldst go to him. He, as is known to thee, is a member of the chief council of Tyre."

For some years I continued the profession, and was fortunate in my speculations; but I cared little for gain; my delight was in roving from clime to clime, flying before the gale, in looking with defiance at the vast mountainous seas which threatened to overwhelm me, in the roaring of the wind, in the mad raging of the surf, in the excitement of battle, even in the destruction and disasters of the wreck.