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His chief snare at this time was, that he was too bad for Christ to save; it was a terrible thought to him, and had so much of seeming truth in it, that he at times almost despaired; then again he remembered that he could not be too bad for Christ to save; no, HE could save to the very uttermost all that came unto Him; Abe tried to believe that with all his heart, and as he struggled against his doubts and fears, faith grew stronger and bolder, then in a moment the snare broke, the dark cloud over his soul burst, and out from the cleft there came a voice, which thrilled his whole being.
She has still a few long months to live and she needs nourishment. Were it not better, then, to lodge the eggs in the immediate neighbourhood of the present home and to continue her hunting with the excellent snare at her disposal? The watching of the nest and the easy acquisition of provender would go hand in hand. The Spider is of another opinion; and I suspect the reason.
"So you have got your persecutor," cried the latter with a croaking voice, "who has made you thus wretched, the lovesick godly fool, here under your roof! he has run of his own accord like a silly rabbit into the snare: and you are shillishallying about cutting his throat."
We wondered why those parties happened to take their dinners at such erratic and extraordinary hours, for we never called at a time when an exemplary Christian would be in the least likely to be abroad on such an errand. The truth was, it was a base fraud a snare to trap the unwary chaff to catch fledglings with. They had no English-murdering clerk.
Here he got you blamed for something he'd done again, and nearly spoiled things just when they were beginning to look better." "But he didn't know that, Zara. He did something wrong, but he couldn't have known that I was going to be blamed for it, you know." "Aren't you angry at him at all?" "Yes, for killing that beautiful bird with his horrid snare. But I'm sorry for him, too.
The housekeeper had emerged from a little sitting-room, and had overheard this conversation. "No, sir," she said, "we have no one here of that name." Captain Copplestone's dark face grew deadly pale. "A trap!" he muttered to himself; "a snare! That letter was a forgery!" And without a word to the people of the house, he darted back to the street, sprang into the chaise, crying to the postillions,
Nobody felt like going far afield just then, even after game, but they had set the snare that Nicholas told the Boy about on that first encounter in the wood. Nicholas, it seemed, had given him a noose made of twisted sinew, and showed how it worked in a running loop.
What a terrible conflict of feelings! But perhaps all this might gain a more satisfactory aspect by daylight. Now he felt as though he had entangled himself in a snare. Besides, other thoughts drove sleep from his couch.
But where, Lucius Piso, was your heart, that it fell not into the snare that caught Calpurnius? 'My heart, I replied, 'has always been Fausta's, from childhood 'Our attachment, said Fausta, interrupting me, 'is not less than love, but greater. It is the sacred tie of nature, if I may say so, of brother to sister; it is friendship. 'You say well, replied the Queen. 'I like the sentiment.
I must take you from this terrible place. Jane, awake!" The girl's eyes moved. "Who speaks my name?" she whispered. "It is I I, who loves Esperance!" Jane opened her eyes quickly. "Esperance! Oh! not here it must not be!" She began to sob convulsively. "I know all, my beloved!" he answered, soothingly, "I know the snare that was laid for you. But why do you repel me, dearest?"
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