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Like every giant, he was gentle. The truly great are always sensitive and sympathetic. In proportion as the mountain goes upward in size does it gain in power to return the strong man's shout, or the sigh of the lost child, echoing and reëchoing the cry of need. Sympathy is the soul journeying abroad, to bind up the wounds of him who has fallen among thieves.

Several times in the course of their journey, Leland was upon the point of beseeching his enemies to kill him at once, and end his misery; and had he reason to believe that they would have gratified him, he would not have hesitated a moment; but such a request would have been useless. At noon, as usual, the party came to a halt, and a couple proceeded to bind Leland to a tree.

I brought them up full, and Jackson stopped them up with some of the rags which I had torn to bind round his wrist, and put them all three in his bed-place. "That will be a much better arrangement," said he, "as now I can pour out the liquor into the pannikin as I want it; besides, I mean to take a little water with it in future.

Seize the great thought, ere yet its power be past, And bind, in words, the fleet emotion fast. All this, considering the usual subject-matter of poetry, is perhaps only saying that the poet must be sincere. Accordingly, our poets have not been slow to remind us of their passionate temperaments.

In fact, such service had not been demanded of them, and they would have lived in virtual neutrality, had not many of them broken their oaths and joined the French war-parties. For this reason Cornwallis thought it necessary that, in renewing the pledge, they should bind themselves to an allegiance as complete as that required of other British subjects. This spread general consternation.

Circumstances have altered his position towards the world found his father's affairs in a bad state: only chance of paying off father's debts to undertake management of business, and bind himself to so much a year. But there, Tom, if you won't read it, you miss the poor young fellow's character.

If Mary wanted him for a husband, and could capture him, both, in his opinion, would have pretty nearly got their deserts. Kitty, however, fell into a reverie, after which she let him see a face of the same startling sweetness as she had several times shown him of late. "Do you want me to be nice to her?" She nestled up to him. "Bind her to your chariot wheels, madam!

I shall not even bind you or Nora to keep the secret longer than you think it her interest to declare it. She shall have the marriage certificate in her own keeping, and every legal protection and defense; so that even if I should die suddenly " Nora gasped for breath. "she would be able to claim and establish her rights and position in the world.

"May God in heaven bless you, my beloved," he said, and imprinted a long fervent kiss upon her forehead. "You have taught me my Saviour's will, and I will meet it. Yes, she was the idol of his young affections; he felt her words were true, and when she was gone there would be naught to bind his spirit to this world. It would be needless to lift the veil from Herbert's moments of solitary prayer.

Persons of marked individuality crooked sticks, as some of us might be called are not exactly the easiest to bind up into a fagot. But, so long as our union should subsist, a man of intellect and feeling, with a free nature in him, might have sought far and near without finding so many points of attraction as would allure him hitherward.