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Of evenings small bunches of the boys would call to chat and be sung to; to threaten to desert if not soon sent to the front; and to blame all delays on colonels and brigadiers "known" by them to be officially jealous of They gave only the tedious nickname. "Why belittle him with that?" queried Miranda, winning Anna's silent gratitude. "It doesn't belittle him," cried Charlie. "That's the joke.
"It is so!" replied Jurand, nodding his head affirmatively. "No punishment for him, nor vengeance? Is that your desire?" "It is!" and he nodded again. Open discontent was shown in the murmurs and anger of the men, but the priest did not wish to belittle such an unheard-of deed of mercy. He turned to the murmurers and exclaimed: "Now who dares to oppose the saint? Down upon your knees!"
It would be out of place, and would lead us too far, to discuss here these various practical outcomes of the foolish attempt to belittle the immense racial importance of motherhood. It is enough here to touch on the one point of the excess of infantile mortality.
"Every good gift is from God, mother, and we ought not to belittle them, ought we, now?" "I'm sure I don't know, John. I've been brought up with cotton-spinners, and it is little they praise, if it be not good yarns and warps and wefts and big factories with high, high chimneys." "Well, then, cotton-spinners are mostly very fine singers. You know that, mother."
When laughter is directed against sacred things and holy persons; when it is used to belittle and degrade what is great and reverend; when it is employed as a weapon with which to torture weakness and cover innocence with ridicule then, instead of being the foam on the cup at the banquet of life, it becomes a deadly poison.
He took a step backward and stood with soldierly rigidity, one hand held with the palm toward her, like a shield and defense against her intention to belittle him and his token of homage by a reward. His look said, and said dramatically, that her thought of him did him wrong; it said that he was ashamed of her for not knowing better.
He was very fond of hunting, both for the sport of it and because the peal of the horn and the sight of the circle of beaters recalled to him the days of his youth, when he had kept many hunters and many famous hounds. Of his whole kennel but two dogs remained, and now they wanted to belittle the glory of one of these!
You sure enough belittle me, if you think you'd have a chance in a million of getting away from me!" She fought him, then, with a great, inner relief that the situation was at last swinging around to a normal kidnapping. Still, Al Woodruff seemed unable to play his part realistically. He failed to fill her with fear and repulsion.
Is that true?" Naglovski started and turned pale. For a moment he was taken entirely off his guard. "Ah!" went on Stürmer in his deep, thick voice, Rasputin having risen to go to the sideboard, "I see it is true. Now, what can you gain by endeavouring to belittle the efforts of our dear Father for the salvation of Russia? Think. Are you patriots? No.
Is there not a disposition on one side to magnify wrongs and outrages, and on the other side to belittle them or justify them?
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