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Struggle wildly as the poor blind creature would to avoid his grip, he was dragging her slowly to the stair while her screams were stifled by one rough hand over her mouth. But as he was doing this, the huddled figure rose. "I have been a coward long enough," said Pierre. "Don't touch her!" laying a restraining hand on Jacques' arm. Astonished, Jacques turned. "Who'll stop me?"

We can swim!" shouted Jimmy, and but for the restraining hand of Bobby he would have plunged into the water and made the mad attempt, so soon forgetful was he of his recent experience. "You'd freeze! You'd freeze! We couldn't swim in this cold!" Bobby protested. "I think we could have made it!" declared Jimmy, when Bobby let go his arm.

"You'll spare me, sir?" cried Cæsar. "I've seen the day but thank the Lord for restraining grace! Spare me? If you had said as much five-and-twenty years ago, sir, your head would have gone ringing against the wall." "I'll spare you no more, then," said Ross. "Take that and that." Amid screams from the women, two sounding blows fell on Cæsar's face.

Lady Niton looked at him, and then at Miss Drake, evidently restraining her sharp tongue for once, though with difficulty. Marsham lingered a moment making some last arrangements for the day with his sister.

Let us suppose that we have a friend of exalted intelligence and virtue, who has often exercised over us a commanding influence, restraining us from pursuits to which we felt an inclination, exciting us to virtuous conduct, and elevating, by his intercourse with us, our impressions of a character on which we wished to form our own.

"Sanjaya said, 'All the Panchalas, along with the other sons of Pandu, are looking up to Yudhishthira's face, blessed be thou, and he too is restraining them all. Multitudes of cars belonging to the Pandavas and the Panchalas are coming in separate bodies for gladdening Yudhishthira, the son of Kunti, ready to march to the field of battle.

But war is not the only agency that exerts a restraining influence upon self-destruction. Any great calamity which causes intense public excitement, and which at the same time draws people together in friendly sympathy and coöperation, lowers the suicide rate.

If He stood by Paul, saying, "Fear not," just as really and maybe as evidently will He stand by you: If He guided him in his work, restraining him from preaching here, and calling him to service there, He will give you also leadings just as certain and maybe as distinct.

They turned to the barred door. The cave was a sizable opening running far back into the mountain; indeed, the end of it had never been explored, but the vestibule containing the spring was fitted with rude benches and shelves for holding pans of milk and jars of buttermilk. As Johnnie's hand went out to the newly cut bar, her uncle once more laid a restraining grasp upon it.

He built a commodious jail and put up a gallows, and to his dying day he claimed with satisfaction that he had had a more restraining and elevating influence on the Indians than any other reformer that ever labored among them.