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From this hall we passed into Luther's room a little cell, ten feet square; the walls covered with inscriptions from his writings. But it was the cell itself which affected me, the windows looking out into what were the cloisters of the monastery. Here was that struggle that mortal agony that giant soul convulsing and wearing down that strong frame.
They have not yet saved Europe in its independence and civilization, they have only succeeded in convulsing it. They have not added to the honour and renown of England, but they have placed the honour and renown of this country in peril.
She kept us waiting for our papers ten whole minutes the other day while she discussed better classroom ventilation with him. 'O Doctah, don't you think we might do something about this mattah of ventilation?" she mimicked, convulsing Allison with her likeness to her English teacher. "That's an idea!" said Allison suddenly. "No, don't ask me what it is. It would spoil things.
Throughout the melancholy annals of the Church and the world, it has been the fountain of innumerable woes, spreading baleful influences through society, paralysing the energies of reason and conscience, dimming, all but extinguishing, the light of religion, convulsing nations, and desolating the earth.
Curtis turned from the crowd with desperation convulsing his features. Tearing off the broad-brimmed hat which he wore, he flung it on the ground with the exclamation! "By God, I'll die this way first!" and, drawing his head down and folding his arms about it, he dashed forward for the center of my company, like a great stone hurled from a catapult.
At the time when the abolition of the slave-trade was convulsing England, women contributed more than any other laborers to that great triumph of humanity. The women of England refused to receive into their houses the sugar raised by slaves. Seventy thousand families thus refused the use of sugar in testimony of their abhorrence of the manner in which it was produced.
Ceased he then, right worshipful, when both the warring champions instant stemmed their battle, and in sign of peace and unity returning, 'neath their feet reclined their weapons. Sudden at a signal either stamped his foot sinistrine, and the loud report of bursten bladder stunned each ear surrounding, like the roar of thunder from on high convulsing heaven and earth.
Then to these wrestling specters for in the dim smoke and Tartarean atmosphere the actions of loading and aiming take the shape of huge writhing, convulsing, monstrous, grappling come quick-moving lines of help. They rush through them, over them.
If she could only fancy for a moment that the well-made but awkward man who traverses the room before her, carried in his breast a soul of such ardency and volume that it subjected his very motion arbitrarily to its own excitements, its own convulsions; that the very awkwardness which offended her was the result of the most deep and passionate feelings feelings which, like the buried flame in the mountain, are continually boiling up for utterance convulsing the prison-house which retained them shaking the solid earth with their pent throes, that will not always be pent!
But I, a lad of twelve, had seen her face just as the thing caught her, and if I live to be a hundred I shall never forget that face that horrible, horrible fear convulsing it. 'But that fear, my boys, was as nothing to the sinner's fear at death! Only a few more hours a few more minutes, perhaps and then judgment!
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