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She was a talking woman, and it was easy for her, who had been so much at home in the General's family, to strengthen his reputation wherever she might touch the public. He wanted somebody to know what his real resources were somebody who could, from personal knowledge of his affairs, assert their soundness without revealing their details. He believed that Mrs.
We know instinctively that, in the solitude of their meditations, they must experience poignant regrets that they are not as other people, and that they must pass through life under a handicap. =The sound body.= It is evident, therefore, that soundness of body is a condition precedent to complete living.
Sainte-Foix hastened to reply, upholding the soundness of the views he had advanced. It is not to be supposed that Louis XIV would have chosen a family vault in which to bury a log of wood.
Well, he has come through, and I believe he is recovering it; but the three threads of our being have all had a terrible wrench, and if body and mind come out unscathed, it is the soundness of the spirit that has brought them through.
Artillery, provisions, baggage, he insisted upon seeing all himself. He examined the equipment of every soldier; assured himself of the health and soundness of every horse. It was plain that, light, boastful, egotistical, in his hotel, the gentleman became the soldier again the high noble, a captain in face of the responsibility he had accepted.
In a few minutes he was fast asleep sleeping with such heavy deathlike soundness, that the policeman passing him on his beat, after one or two vain attempts to rouse him, was seized with a rare compassion, and suffered the weary outcast to slumber on. When Jasper woke at last in the grey dawn, he felt a strange numbness in his limbs; it was even with difficulty that he could lift himself up.
No lapse in what he writes at such times indicates aught like dreaming or madness, or any condition of mind incompatible with soundness and health, with that perfect sanity in which all the mental powers move in order and harmony under the control of the rightful sovereign, Reason.
Now for another leap, when she dropped for that purpose; but the bullet and two buck shot of old smooth bore were too quick, as he lodged them all exactly in the brain of the savage monster, and stretched her dead on the spot where the hunter had slept but a short time before, in the soundness, of a mountain dream.
Indeed, many officers go so far as to recommend flanking across the south-east Trade with a fore-topmast studding-sail set. Although, I think, there can be no doubt of the soundness of this advice, I confess that it does require no inconsiderable degree of faith to adopt a course, which, apparently, takes the ship not directly away from her object, but very much out of the straight road.
And this made clear to him the soundness of what had been hitherto a merely instinctive conviction; since they had not left her body dead, they had taken it away alive and with no intent to kill elsewhere. For, if murder were to be done, the dead was safest of all behind them in the place of the theft.
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