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"We soon after found ourselves alone and in the vicinity of Indian settlements, and we were therefore obliged to move with the utmost caution, which had the effect of rendering our progress extremely slow.
In dying, do they not rather waste away mournfully, rendering unto God, little by little, their existence, as these trees render up shadow after shadow, exhausting their substance unto dissolution? What the wasting tree is to the water that imbibes its shade, growing thus blacker by what it preys upon, may not the life of the Fay be to the death which engulfs it?"
My opinion is that they are making a clean job of looting the barge." "If that is so, our barrels of gold are gone, rendering it the more necessary that we should carry away every kreuzer our friend Stahleck possesses. Call, therefore, every man except one from the door. Greusel has the keys, and will lead you to the treasury. Hoist the bags to the north window.
They stood or sat about in groups with smiles fixed on their lips, and the light from balloon-like lamps fell in patches on their heads and hands and shoulders. Someone had just finished rendering on the piano a composition of his own.
In order to show the liberties taken with the text we can compare with it the Genevan edition printed in 1556. The second verse of that presumptuous rendering reads, "The wonderous works of God appears by every days success The nyghts which likewise their race runne the selfe same thinges expresse." The fourth,
We had become accustomed to our situation; it is wonderful how soon the soldier does; rendering death familiar, and disarming him of half his terrors; but calamities can, and do occur, to bring back an army to a sense of its true nature and its dependence on Providence.
"I regret that Fate makes us enemies, and if at the last moment I can save you from being entirely crushed, I will." "Thank you. I, too, may find an opportunity of rendering you a service, my lord."
More he should know of her on my return; but at present I confided her to his honour, and begged he would prove his friendship for me by rendering her whatever attention she might require in her humble abode.
He felt a kind of intuition that this was nearer the correct rendering. "Well," observed Ada, "she's got a silly look, don't you think?" Leander was less narrow, and gave it as his opinion that she had been "done from a fine woman." Ada remarked that she herself would never consent to be taken in so unbecoming a costume.
They looked for a minute at me in a perplexed way my mud-baked clothes, unshaven face, and general unkempt condition evidently rendering me a stranger in their eyes. Then one of them screamed: "Golly! Mass' Douw's ghost!" and the nimble cowards were on their feet and scampering like scared rabbits to the orchard, or into the basement of the great house. So I was supposed to be dead!
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