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We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance of domestic ties. Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If he has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it.
Decimus Saxon whistled a few bars of a sprightly tune, and then continued 'My perseverance in these exercises soon led to my being singled out from among the other prisoners, until I so prevailed upon my gaolers that the doors were opened for me, and I was allowed out on condition of presenting myself at the prison gates once a day. What use, think ye, did I make of my freedom?
He looked at his bride, noting that she wore a broach which might have belonged on a set of harness. "Yip! Yip! Yee-ough!" "I am deeply conscious of my own unworthiness and not insensible to the fact that the gods have singled me out for special favor " Any reference to the gods was considered a mark of learning and eloquence, so Symes's humble admission was loudly applauded.
The glow which irradiated his outlook with an abrupt transfiguration was to him the glow of universal joy, though he knew it to be but the vanishing beam of youth and the end thereof age. It seemed to him that he was singled out securely set apart by some beneficent hand for some supreme good which, in his limited observation, he had never seen put forth in the lots of others.
As of late the Emperor on the Throne held learning and propriety in high esteem, His Majesty called together and singled out talent and ability, upon which he deigned to display exceptional grace and favour.
John Dory looked behind to be sure that the door was closed. Then he stopped for a moment to gaze at the wonderful diamonds, and finally sat on the table by his subordinate's side. "Not exactly that, Saunders," he said. "To tell you the truth, I came down here because of that list of guests you sent me up." Saunders smiled. "I think I can guess the name you singled out, sir," he said.
But there ain't many of us that know all poor little Mamie Riley's stood, and cares about her the same way we cared for Sarah Castle that feels like laughing tonight!" She tossed her head as though proud of her courage, then singled out Dale for a parting shot. "We're sorry, Mr. Lynch, that you're too good to come with us! The meeting'll be a long one." And just as Mrs.
Any one of the others, thus enlightened, might have exposed the horror and defeated it; but HE, the one weaponless and defenceless spectator, the one whom none of the others would believe or understand if he attempted to reveal what he knew HE alone had been singled out as the victim of this atrocious initiation! Suddenly he sat up, listening: he had heard a step on the stairs.
Eames slightly to reflect that he was not the only resident singled out for such aspersions; that the more harmless a man's life, the more fearsome the legends. He suffered, none the less.
His father, with anxious conscientiousness, debated with himself as to whether it would be right for him thus to set one of his sons above the rest. He could not afford to have them all taught Latin, so would it be fair to the others that John should be thus singled out from them? The mother, on the other hand, had no such misgivings, and she was clear that John must have his Latin.
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