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Directing the sexton to lead the horse, he walked close by the murderer's side, and in this order they reached the village about the middle of the night. The people were all awake and up, for they were fearful of being burnt in their beds, and sought to comfort and assure each other by watching in company. A few of the stoutest-hearted were armed and gathered in a body on the green.
A thousand times in the course of a woods life even the stoutest-hearted will tell himself softly very softly if he is really stout-hearted, so that others may not be annoyed that if ever the fates permit him to extricate himself he will never venture again. These times come when long continuance has worn on the spirit.
Mother, just listen: she's dark as a gipsy. She's the faithfullest, stoutest-hearted creature in the world. She has black hair, large brown eyes; see her once! She's my mate. I could say to her, 'Stand there; take guard of a thing; and I could be dead certain of her she'd perish at her post. Is the door locked? Lock the door; I won't be seen when I speak of her.
It isn't bucking the bad that makes the fight so hard: it's bucking the wrong-idea'd good. Padre, one good man on the wrong side is a stumbling-block for the stoutest-hearted reformer ever born.
Catherine's age is twenty-six gone; her Peter's twenty-seven: one of the cleverest young Ladies in the world, and of the stoutest-hearted, clearest-eyed; yoked to a young Gentleman much the reverse. Thank Hanbury for this glimpse of them, most intricately situated Pair; who may concern us a little in the sequel.
Priests in long black robes stood around him, chanting in sepulchral voices the service of the dead. It is an ordeal under which the stoutest-hearted and most resolute have been found to sink. After enduring it for twenty-four hours he was led out to execution.
Now, the rain pouring down, all was pitchy darkness; and then suddenly a vivid flash of lightning showed the whole deck, and the pallid faces of the crew for even the stoutest-hearted looked pale; and well they might, for the raging seas threatened every instant to engulf them. Few men surrounded by such horrors can face death unappalled. Thus that dreadful night passed on.
He was with you the greater part of it? 'He was. Without him, I should have lacked my right hand. He is an older man than I; but nothing can conquer him. 'The cheeriest, stoutest-hearted fellow in the world. 'He has a right to be. He has a right to he. A better creature never lived. He reaps what he has sown no more.
The mention of his name alone created terror in any household; in every pioneer's cabin it made the children cry out in fear and paled the cheeks of the stoutest-hearted wife. It is difficult to conceive of a white man's being such a fiend in human guise.
Summon the stoutest-hearted of thy youths, and I will lead them to a sortie, ere the evil get past a remedy." "That were certain victory to the heathen. Thou hearest, by their yells, that 'tis no small band of scouters who beleaguer us; a tribe hath sent forth its chosen warriors to do their wickedness.
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