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Only when we are sure of God's faithfulness can we lift up thankful voices to Him, 'because His mercy endureth for ever. A despotic monarch may be all full of tenderness at this moment, and all full of wrath and sternness the next. He may have a whim of favour to-day, and a whim of severity to-morrow, and no man can say, 'What doest thou? But God is not a despot.
Here must be strictness, possibly sternness of discipline; but this is not incompatible with the qualities mentioned. It is a principle at Mettray to combine unbounded personal kindness with a rigid exclusion of personal indulgence. This principle produces good results that are two-fold in their influence. First, personal kindness in the teacher induces a reciprocal quality in the pupils.
As a matter of fact David Dowd Langford allowed no one not even Sheila to look into his soul. What emotions slumbered beneath the mask of his habitual imperturbability no one save Langford himself knew. During all his days he had successfully fought against betraying his emotions and now, at the age of fifty, there was nothing of his character revealed in his face except sternness.
"I do not think you would try any means to make a man break his promise," Crosby said. The grey eyes looked straight into hers, and the voice had that little tone of sternness in it which she had noted that day at Newgate. "Perhaps not," she said; "but it is provoking. To have a nameless partner in such an affair as this is to have more mystery than I care for." "Did you ever hear of a Mr.
And then I would have known if I had not known before that she was no other than Jane Ryder, the little lady of the top-buggy. I looked in her eyes, and they fell; in her face, and it was covered with blushes; and somehow I was happier than I had been in many a long day. "Come!" said I with some sternness, and held out my hand to her.
Lots of worse things are printed and sold by thousands, but, someway, I can't seem to reconcile you and your glorious voice with a cook-book." "Allan Conrad," said Miss Wynne, with affected sternness, "if you hadn't studied medicine, would you be practising it now?" "No," admitted Allan; "not with the laws as they are in this State."
Just now her face was set in a sternness which did not seem an expression natural to it; the fine lips were much more akin to smiling sweetness, and the brows accepted with repugnance anything but the stamp of thoughtful charity. After the first glance at Hubert she dropped her eyes.
He raised his head hastily, as Edward stood uncertain whether to advance or retire, and Waverley perceived that his cheeks were stained with tears. As if ashamed at being found giving way to such emotion, Colonel Talbot rose with apparent displeasure and said, with some sternness, 'I think, Mr. Waverley, my own apartment and the hour might have secured even a prisoner against
Therefore, upon setting down her glass, this purposeful woman would squarely fix the bureau that stood opposite her, would for a moment keep her gaze upon it with a sternness that forbade movement, then gently would close her eyes.
The troops, the people, were gone, and there alone in the road stood Stephen Brice. The others close behind her saw him, too, and Puss cried out in her surprise. The impression, when the room was dark once more, was of sternness and sadness, and of strength. Effaced was the picture of the plodding recruits with their coarse and ill-fitting uniforms of blue. Virginia shut the blinds.
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