United States or Rwanda ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I tould you, Phadrick!! There's the boy that can rattle off the high English, and the larned Latin, jist as if he was born wid an English Dictionary in one cheek, a Latin Neksuggawn in the other, an Doctor Gallagher's Irish Sarmons nately on the top of his tongue between the two."
Each has his gifts, and will be judged by 'em, and I suppose you've thought these matters over enough not to stand in need of sarmons when the trial comes. You'll find your happy hunting-grounds, if you've been a just Injin; if an onjust, you'll meet your desarts in another way.
"And what would you do in America?" "Oh, we could do plenty of things in America most likely we should buy a piece of land and settle down." "How came you to see the wickedness of the tramping life?" "By hearing a great many sarmons and preachings and having often had the Bible read to us by holy women who came to our tent." "Of what religion do you call yourselves now?"
You see," he added, recollecting as well as he could some Latin words he had heard used by the doctor, "the narves of the rigdum flagdum in circumnavigating through the humorous rusticus, deflastigated by the horrentibus oribus sort o' twist the aures arrectos into asinos, and that you see, to a man of larning makes the whole thing as clear as one of elder Sillyway's sarmons."
"What, a sermon?" asked one of Pritchen's gang, who was getting restless and anxious for something exciting to happen. "Mebbe a few sarmons wouldn't hurt ye," and Sol fixed his eye sternly upon the young man. "As I was a-sayin'," he continued, "I want to tell yez somethin'. When I was fust married me an' Annie were as happy as any couple in oh, well, ye'd better not know whar.
"Well, arter tea we sot and chatted awhile about fashions, and markets, and sarmons, and scandal, and all sorts o' things; and, in the midst of it, in runs the nigger wench, screemin' out at the tip eend of her voice, 'Oh Missus!
In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hour's lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen's Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises. "Shut up your sarmons, Pitt, when Miss Crawley comes down," said his father; "she has written to say that she won't stand the preachifying." "O, sir! consider the servants."
On the contrary, they often said and many of them with an involuntary sigh that "he was too purty to be made a priest of;" others, that "it was a pity to make a priest of so fine a young man;" others, again, that "if he must be a priest, the colleens would be all flockin' to hear his sarmons."
Yo' remember, durnd yo'? I wore it one charity sarmons. 'Aw remember, Amanda, said the parent, choking with the reminiscences of the past which the old hat and its yellow ribbon aroused. 'Naa see, mother, continued the girl, her eye fixed on the opening sky; 'it's like a great sea a sea o' buttercups, same as used to grow in owd Whittam's field when yo' couldn't see grass for flaars.
"Some sarmons and prars seem like bread made out ob bran, de bigger de loaf de wuss it is. Unc. says I'se very cole an backsliden, but I'd be a heap colder ef I didn't keep up de wood-pile. "And you help others keep up their wood-piles." "Well, I reckon I does, but dere ain't much 'ligion in dat. Dat's kin' ob human natur which de preacher say am bad, bery bad stuff.
Word Of The Day