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A feeble hand had half withdrawn the curtain, and through the gap my mother's stricken face looked out, a great fear stamped upon it.
They pay court to wealth and power, but when they find a fellow-being stricken to the earth by misfortune or sickness, imbibe a prejudice against him, and instead of stretching forth a kind and open hand to relieve, will be more likely to shake a clinched fist in his face. We cast loose from the wharf the following day, about the 20th of April, 1812, and proceeded down the harbor.
At which, such is the discipline of these orders, he looked steadily in front of him and seemed deaf with modesty. "But are you sure," said Hilda, suddenly considerate, "that it looks well?" "Is the gold lace, then, so very meretricious?" "It goes doubtfully with your cloth," she laughed, and instantly looked stricken with the conviction that she might better have said something else.
The concourse was great, the assembly brilliant; but the hero of the day, who had designed it for his glory, was stricken with sudden blindness. In one moment he comprehended the internal void he had created for his soul, and the blindness of the body was illumination to the spirit. The pride, power, and splendour of this world seemed to him a smoke that passes.
Then she fell to thinking of all the strange scenes in the life history of the world on which the moon had looked stricken fields, barbaric rites, unrecorded crimes, sacked and burning cities, the blackened remains of martyrs at the stake, enslaved nations sleeping fitfully after the day's travail, wrecks on uncharted seas, forgotten superstitions, pagan saturnalias all the thousand and one phases of life as it has been and is lived.
Every morning he swore to himself that nothing would induce him to mention the subject of rheumatism, but no sooner had the stricken old gentleman's head appeared above the fence than out it came. 'Morning, Mr Williams. 'Morning, Tom. Pause, indicative of a strong man struggling with himself; then: 'How's the rheumatism, Mr Williams? 'Better, thank'ee, Tom.
My father would not have kept the letter from me, had he not been stricken down with paralysis on the very day when it came. It is God who kept my happiness away from me. It is God who has spoilt my life and condemned me to regrets and wretchedness, when I had done nothing to deserve such a cruel fate!"
His soldiers were infected by the despondency of their leader, and many of them were stricken by the marsh-fever which haunts the unwholesome district of the Anapus. Above all the condition of the fleet showed the lamentable effect of long inaction and delay.
"Why, don't you know? They live with me at the Palace. And my doll. Why don't you bring my doll?" "She is delirious again," whispered the nurse. "You had better go. Evidently, she thinks she is a child again. Her doll!" "I want my doll! Why don't you bring me my doll?" persisted the stricken girl. "What doll do you want?" asked Alice. "My own doll," was the reply.
With a little sigh she picked up a stick of her own and followed after the girls. For a moment it looked as though the panic stricken sheep would rush straight for the shouting girls, and in that moment what was little more than an exciting game to the girls might have turned into a rather dreadful tragedy.
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