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This unknown spirit angel or fiend, or other sentient being is permitted to challenge mankind and draw attention to its existence. A mystery, I grant, but its Maker has now willed that some measure of this mystery shall be revealed to us. We are called to play our part in this spirit's existence.
Whether he meant to challenge it, I do not know; but the comparison is unescapable. Tennyson did not invent the story, and any poet has the right to use the material in his own fashion. Knowing Mr.
That's nature's challenge to man in this country." Evelyn recognized that it was an impressive one. The great trunks ran up far aloft, tremendous columns, before their brighter portions were lost in the vaulted roof of somber greenery. They dwarfed the rig and team; she felt herself a pygmy by comparison.
Yet ever the challenge of danger was one to draw him forward, not to hold him back. If for a moment he had hesitated, his mind was now suddenly resolved. "Your Grace," said he, "your wish is for me command, and certainly in this instance is peculiarly agreeable." "As I thought," replied the regent.
Why lie? You are engaged to May Hutchings," and the girl looked at him with flaming eyes. "I don't know why you should ask me, or why I should answer, but we have no motive for concealment yes, I am." His words were decisive; his reverence for May and her affection had been wounded by the insolent challenge, but before he finished speaking his manner became considerate.
It was past midnight. Deep darkness and heavy silence lay upon Thebes, broken only by dogs howling at the stars and the occasional challenge of soldiers on the walls. Side by side in their golden bed the wearied Pharaoh and his queen slept heavily. Presently Ahura woke.
The reason, I believe, is that the exponents of the different theories have failed to agree on a definite standard of comparison. The mathematical principle implied in the construction of a honey-comb, we are told, can challenge comparison with the ripest results of human science.
Christ accepts the challenge, and goes on to claim that He not only gives, but Himself is, for all men's souls, all and more than all which the manna had been to the bodies of that dead generation. Like it, He came but in how much more profound a sense! from heaven. Like it, He was food.
Rick and Scotty looked at each other, and rose to the challenge. "We will," they stated flatly. Steve nodded. "All right. You're known in Whiteside and my men are not. An influx of strangers, or even one inquisitive stranger, would attract attention. But that's not all. I have another job for you, too." They waited eagerly. "I want a survey of the area.
Less than this would have sufficed to rekindle the wrath of Maurice. He forgot everything in saying to himself that to disturb this fete by his appearance would be a vengeance worthy of him. "I will go and challenge Martial now, on the instant, in the presence of the revellers," he exclaimed. But Jean interrupted him. "No, not that! They are cowards; they would arrest you.
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