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They are being defeated, and about to lose their one chance of the proud distinction of holding the championship of Canada. From man to man Campbell goes as he finds opportunity his face white, his eyes ablaze, adjuring, urging, entreating, commanding, in a way quite unusual with him. A new spirit seizes the men. Savagely they press the enemy.
Titian himself was powerless to imagine movement like that of Aphrodite floating in the air, or of Madonna adjuring Christ in the "Paradiso," or of Christ Himself judging by the silent simplicity of his divine attitude the worldly judge at whose tribunal He stands, or of the tempter raising his jewelled arms aloft to dazzle with meretricious brilliancy the impassive God above him, or of Eve leaning in irresistible seductiveness against the fatal tree, or of S. Mark down-rushing through the sky to save the slave that cried to him, or of the Mary who has fallen asleep with folded hands from utter lassitude of agony at the foot of the cross.
On the same evening, I placed one of the notes in Rory's hand, adjuring him not to let the storekeeper know anything about it, but to depart from me while he was safe. He shrank from the note as from a lizard, while his lip quivered, and he tried to swallow his emotion down.
During the night preceding, he had climbed one of the lower peaks of Baal-zephon and, amid the raging of the tempest and the roar of the hissing surges, sought the Lord his God, and felt his presence near him. He, too, had not wearied of pleading the need of his people and adjuring him to save them.
They have complained against thee to the consul." Iskender begged for food, which she could not refuse, though she produced it unwillingly, and stood over him while he ate, adjuring him, for the love of Allah, to make haste. "O my terror, my despair!" she wailed. "All the slaves of power are out in search of thee. They have been here already, threatening me with torture.
Returned home, and found Colonel Russell there on a visit. Then we had dinner, and afterwards the making up this miserable Journal. March 5. I have a letter from our member, Whytbank, adjuring me to assist the gentlemen of the county with an address against the Reform Bill, which menaces them with being blended with Peeblesshire, and losing of consequence one half of their franchise. Mr.
Though Alexander and Metternich had for months refused to exchange a word or a look, yet the news of Napoleon's adventure brought about a speedy reconciliation; and when the compromising paper from Paris was placed in the Czar's hands, he took the noble revenge of sending for Metternich, casting it into the fire, and adjuring the Minister to forget recent disputes in the presence of their common enemy.
Grey's head was now hanging forward and his chin rested on his chest. There came the sound of Rainy-Moon's voice adjuring the dogs outside the door of the dugout. The trapper's eyes flashed evilly in the direction of the unconscious Indian. " to do what I wanted," he resumed. "No more no less; and I set out on foot." He was anxiously watching for Grey's collapse.
He threw himself on the flagstones, embracing his niece, begging her to renounce so evil a way of life, and adjuring her to reclothe herself, and walk on her feet like a human being, ransomed by the blood of Jesus Christ. But she replied only by sharp yelps and lamentable shrieks.
Swings attracted the attention of the ladies; and I regret to say that the particular young lady I escorted who was of the mature age of twelve passed most of the afternoon in a state of oscillation, and was continually adjuring me to push her.
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