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Corinth was already sacked by Mummius, and Jerusalem was to be by Titus, and Rome herself was finally to receive a still direr chastisement at the hands of Goths and Vandals. So Providence moves on in his mysterious power to bring to naught the grandeur and power of rebellious nations—rebellious to those mighty moral laws which are as inexorable as the laws of nature.
But who marries one like me but a fool? and I could not marry a fool. The man I marry I must respect. He could not respect me I should know him to be a fools and I should be worse off than I am now. As I am now, they may look as pious as they like I laugh at them!" And so forth: direr things. Imputations upon wives: horrible exultation at the universal peccancy of husbands.
Dire was his thought, who first in poison steeped The weapon formed for slaughter direr his, And worthier of damnation, who instilled The mortal venom in the social cup, To fill the veins with death instead of life. Anonymous. "Upon my Word, Mr.
Not even the news of Flodden brought direr dismay to Hechnahoul than Mr. Maddison's brief note. Lord Tulliwuddle an impostor? That magnificent young man a fraud? So much geniality, brawn, and taste for the bagpipes merely the sheep's clothing that hid a wandering wolf? Incredible! Yet, on second thoughts, how very much more thrilling than if he had really been an ordinary peer!
The second visit was the more dangerous, and fraught with direr consequences. Theodore was unexpectedly detained by pressing business, and Pliny seized upon that unfortunate evening in which to go home; and he reeled back to his room at midnight, just sense enough left to find his way home, with the aid of a policeman.
Hatred, jealousy, and malice strove and struggled within her, and something direr still a terror that she could not quench nor stifle; for late that night her husband had said to her suddenly, without a word of warning or preparation "Helen, do you know a Frenchman called D'Arblet?"
"My thoughts were far, far away from hence," said Mr Vernon Wycherley; "the subject of them was my comedy, which, as you know, I intend to offer for the prize at the Haymarket." "Your comedy be hanged!" interrupted Frank. "I fear that even a direr fate than that awaits it," resumed its author.
Shrapnel's cottage to aim his javelin at the bosom containing the prized young life to come, but, like the smoke of waxing fire, he shadowed forth his presence in wreaths blacker and thicker day by day: and Everard Romfrey knew that the hideous beast of darkness had only to spring up and pass his guard to deal a blow to his House the direr from all he supposed himself to have gained by masking it hitherto.
Having this trusty weapon, he composed a short song as follows: "Behold! The rough burden which I bear with straining crest, shall unto crests bring wounds and destruction. Never shall any weapon of leafy wood crush the Goths with direr augury. It shall shatter the towering strength of the knotty neck, and shall bruise the hollow temples with the mass of timber.
Miss Levering stood at the door with an anxious eye on the stair, as if fearful of the home-coming of 'her fellow-coward, or, direr catastrophe old Mr. Fox-Moore's discovering the damning fact of this outlaw's presence under his roof! Yet, even so, torn thus between dread and desire to pluck out the heart of the new mystery, 'the militant woman, Miss Levering did not speed the parting guest.
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