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The marvellous feats that we have all seen performed in Cockspur Street have been accomplished as the defendants have all along stated through will sheer will power and nothing else; and I intend producing evidence to show that the secret of the wonderful efficacy of all the charms and spells sold by the Sorcery Company, lies in will power also.
He showed it them by sheer mechanical instinct, and slept again in that dead weight of slumber the moment he was alone.
"What thy work is, do," replied the monk sententiously. "But 'tis sheer idlesse! 'Tis not work at all. It is but to wait till I am called to work." "The waiting is harder than the work," replied Wilfred, again laying down his pen. "If thou be well assured that waiting is thy work, wit thou that 'tis matter worthy of the wits of angels, for there is no work harder than to wait for God."
Everything about them was beautiful, the height, the sheer, straight walls, the myriad little blue shadows of tiny projections on their faces. Night came so early in the pits that long before they wished they were compelled to camp. In a blind pocket, walled like a room and round as an apple, they stopped, and Billy spread down the blanket he had taken from Drumfire's back.
She opened at the right page, and stood reading an incongruous figure amid Ridgeley's masculine belongings in her sheer negligee of faint blue. She closed the book, put it back on the shelf, and was moving away, when her eyes were caught by two words "For Anne," at the top of a sheet of paper which lay on Ridgeley's desk.
He went away to his little town firmly convinced that this could not last. No longer in the army! He felt suddenly strange to the earth, like a disembodied spirit. It was impossible to exist. But at first he reacted from sheer incredulity. This could not be. He waited for thunder, earthquakes, natural cataclysms; but nothing happened.
He was as one who laboured in the depths of the earth, crushed even in imagination, yet conscious that somewhere birds sang, and the sun shone, and water ran. He understood his own state well enough, and perceived that he had come to a reality of faith that was new to him, for it was sheer faith sheer apprehension of the Spiritual without either the dangers or the joys of imaginative vision.
It is well known that the lampalagua is the strongest of all God's creatures, and that if a man, stripped to the skin, engages one, and conquers it by sheer muscular strength, the serpent's power goes into him, after which he is invincible." I laughed at this fable, and was severely rebuked for my levity. "I will tell you the strangest thing that ever befell me," said Blas Aria.
Beneath his feet the drop was so sheer that he could have kicked a pebble to the bottom without its touching the face of the cliff in its fall the shadows of the mountain lay black on the mesquite flat. He gazed across that wide plain and the mesas climbing heavenward beyond it in a series of glowing steps.
Alas, the supply of soda considered sufficient by the Dry Store authorities never lasted beyond Wednesday. On Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday the dinner-tin had to be cleaned out not by alkaline agency, but by sheer slogging hard labour.
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