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Updated: May 12, 2025
That sense of recovery, of waking, of new solidity, of the comfortable usual, a million-fold too intense for words how sweetly consoling it was! Again now, as I write, I can fancy and feel it the rocky solidity, the adamant ordinary, on which to base the feet, and live.
One early morning I began to pray, with an adamant determination to continue, to even die praying, until I heard the voice of God. I wanted His blessing and assurance that I would not lose myself in the fogs of modern utilitarianism. My heart was set to go to America, but even more strongly was it resolved to hear the solace of divine permission. I prayed and prayed, muffling my sobs.
It all looked so safe and soft, as if one might crush it in the hands; and yet these huge cakes of coral were like adamant, except the delicate fern-like spikes that were so viciously piercing the bottom of our boat.
Among all these plotters and intriguers, Katharine, adamant in her virtue, maintained her position as lawful wife and Queen. When Wolsey and Campeggio visited the Queen she was doing needlework with her maids.
In the American Genesis this is the Sarah and these be the Abrahams, the mother and fathers of multitudes. They begin our Begats. Mrs. Champneys sniffed at Mayflower origins, but she was firm on Pocahontas for herself, and adamant on Francis Marion for the Champneyses. The fact that the Indian Maid had but one bantling to her back, and the Swamp Fox none at all, didn't in the least disconcert her.
Notwithstanding this situation, however, a bill to give a vote for Presidential electors to women was introduced in the Senate and almost simultaneously one in the House asking for another referendum on a constitutional amendment by Representative Flowers, who had fought the suffrage battle for nearly a quarter of a century. The association protested but the sponsors of both bills were adamant.
This was the system which all attempted, which all resolved to adopt who were then living in the south of Ireland. But the system was impracticable, for it required frames of iron and hearts of adamant. It was impossible not to waste money in almsgiving. "Oh, Herbert!" said Clara, imploringly, as the woman prepared to start.
In a thing like that he's adamant. And he's adamant, too, when he's once taken a real dislike to anybody. There's no moving him." "You make me afraid!" said Mrs. Friend. "Oh, no, you needn't be " Mr. Alcott turned almost eagerly to look at her. "I hope you won't be. He's the kindest of men.
They replied, "We are not mad, but our stories are so wonderful, that were they recorded on a tablet of adamant, they would remain for examples to them who would be advised." "Let us hear them," said the sultan; upon which, the man who had been reading exclaimed, "Hear mine first!" and thus began. Story of the First Lunatic.
Charles Wesley was the hymn writer, the sweet singer, of the movement. The meetings began to grow larger, more enthusiastic, more impassioned, every day. John Wesley brought to his work "a frame of adamant" as well as "a soul of fire." No danger frighted him, and no labor tired. Rain, hail, snow, storm, were matters of indifference to him when he had any work to do.
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