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God and conscience be your judges! Even now ye have compassed many frauds, connived at many meannesses, trodden down the good, and set the bad on high all for gold hard gold; and are ye the honest the upright? Speak out manfully your excuse, if you can find one, ye respectables of merchandise, ye traders, bartering all for cash, ye Scribes, ye Pharisees, hypocrites, all honourable men.
When he set his mind on the higher walk of his profession, and desired to come to the Scotch Bar, the necessary expense could only be compassed by the devoted mother selling her newly built house, and casting in her lot with her son. Dr Burton was no great letter-writer.
Then the queen was told that her messengers had compassed naught. Rightly it did vex her, and with wrathful mood she made another plan. Through this brave heroes and good must needs thereafter perish. In older English "arras" is used also for tapestry. ADVENTURE XXXI. How They Went To Church. "My coat of mail groweth cold," said Folker. "I ween the night hath run its course.
She calls me her father, and you may do the same, Tom, if you like, for I will be as good as a father to you, if you are as good a boy as you now seem to be. I like to be called father, somehow or another it sounds pleasant to my ears. But come in now, I think you have compassed the compass, so you must learn something else.
My poor uncle! he did not know what was the matter with his heart, but certain it was, he lost all faculty of scolding when little Edward was in the case, and he would rub his spectacles a quarter of an hour longer than common when Aunt Betsey was detailing his witticisms and clever doings. In process of time our hero had compassed his third year, and arrived at the dignity of going to school.
Mr. Augustine Birrell says of it: "We have all heard of the young architect who forgot to put a staircase in his house, which contained fine rooms but no way of getting into them. 'Sordello' is a poem without a staircase. The author, still in his twenties, essayed a high thing. For his subject 'He singled out Sordello compassed murkily about With ravage of six long sad hundred years.
Even though you guessed and shuddered, you would forget it presently in the amazement with which you opened the door beyond and looked in upon a room where the chill atmosphere of the whole place could find no lodgment. This was Jean's room, held sacred to her own needs and uses, in defiance of the dreariness that compassed it close.
When, in after years, this same Mitsuhide treacherously compassed Nobunaga's death, men said that the opening of the Demon's Gate had entailed its due penalty. It was not in Settsu and at Hiei-zan only that the Buddhist soldiers turned their weapons against Nobunaga.
Now.... He gave another quick shiver, for his mind came back to what beset him and compassed him round about perils seen and hidden. The peril seen was ever before his eyes. Against the light of day it loomed a gigantic and portentous shadow, and it threatened him the figure of Ste. Marie who knew.
The scale of these entertainments, as I figured it, and the florid frescoes, just damp though they were with newness, and the free lemonade, and the freedom of remark, equally great, with the mothers, were the lavish note in him just as the fact that he never himself fiddled, but was followed, over the shining parquet, by attendant fiddlers, represented doubtless a shadow the less on his later dignity, so far as that dignity was compassed.
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