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On the one hand there was the peril of acquiescing in sacrilege the Prior twisted in his seat as he heard this and on the other of wilfully and petulantly throwing away their only opportunity of saving their priory. He asked for time. Several more made speeches, some in favour of the proposal, and some asking, as Dom Anthony had done, for further tine for consideration.
Behold, how he was suffering for a single and simple breach of the law. At the thought he paused and asked himself: "Am I suffering for the sacrilege?" The admission would entail a terrifying complexity.
Silk hats, canes, shoes, hats, baby clothes, an expensive fur, lay buried in the stone and dirt. As I stood horrified, looking on this scene of death and destruction, the phrase came into my heart: "And the veil of the temple was rent in twain." And this scene, too, shall remain as one of the Silhouettes of Sacrilege.
There was something so intimate in the touch of the book that he felt he was committing a sacrilege, looking as it were into Kitty's soul. Most men would have gone through the set. Thomas put the book away. Thou fool, indeed! What a hash he had made of his affairs! He saw Killigrew at breakfast only. The merchant preferred his club in the absence of his family.
She has sold herself to a brute oh, Mildred, such a brute she has deserted me for a man who is not even a gentleman." "Perhaps she was forced into it." "Forced! nonsense; we are not in the Middle Ages. A good woman should have been forced to drown herself before she consented to commit such a sacrilege against herself as to marry a man she hated.
Many, no doubt, would consider it a sacrilege to quarter English troops in this sacred edifice, but the exigencies of war required its use for this purpose, and of all the buildings occupied by us during our stay in Delhi, the church was found to be cleanest and best ventilated, free from the noisome smells and close atmosphere of the native houses.
A power which I cannot resist compels me to let thee know, that I am here because I committed sacrilege and charged another with the crime; but now, mark me, that thou mayest hear something not to render this encounter so pleasant: Pistoia hates thy party of the Whites, and longs for the Blacks back again.
Were she to cast herself to the lions, like Saint Blandine, he would still cry out 'sacrilege." "He did not see her the day before yesterday," said Alba, "nor the expression upon her face when she recited the Credo. I do not believe in mysticism, you know, and I have moments of doubt.
For one moment his answer was delayed held back by the torrent of words that rushed to his lips; then, at last, as his tongue freed itself, he threw out his hands in a fierce gesture. "Outrage! Outrage and sacrilege!" he cried. "We have been duped deceived tricked. We, the Chosen the Elect!" "Duped? Deceived?" She echoed the words, faintly. "What do you mean? What has happened?" "Everything!
"At midday the head man of the schooner takes a thing through which his eye looks at the sun, and then he makes the sun climb down out of the sky to the edge of the earth." "Now this be evil medicine!" cried Opee-Kwan, aghast at the sacrilege. The men held up their hands in horror, and the women moaned. "This be evil medicine.
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