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'Through corn, deer, buffalo, and the sacred bundles, we worship Ti-ra-wá. The flesh was burned in the fire, while prayers were made with great earnestness. In the old Skidi rite the women told the fattened captive what they desired to gain from the Ruler. It is occasionally said that the human sacrifice was made to Ti-ra-wá himself. The sacrificer not only fled, but fasted and mourned.
"But, Helen," he cried, eagerly, "it is all right here at home. The same things are happening all about us every day don't you understand? The one biggest thing that came to me out of the war is the realization that, great and terrible though it was, it was in reality only a part of the greater war that is being fought all the time." She shook her head with a doubtful smile at his earnestness.
He shook his head; with that nagging thought of Jacky in the back of his mind, it was impossible not to smile at her dogmatic ignorance. "Because," Edith explained, "secrets trip you into fibbing." "You bet they do! I'm quite an accomplished liar." Edith did not smile; she spoke with impatient earnestness: "That's perfectly silly; you are not a liar!
He pressed her tenderly to his bosom, and after a minute's pause, resumed: 'I have done you wrong, sir, and I ask your forgiveness in no common phrase, or show of sorrow; but with earnestness and sincerity.
He sleeps among them at night, and in the morning he leadeth them forth to drink by the still waters, and feedeth them by the green pastures. He walks before them slow and stately; and so accustomed are the sheep to be guided by him, that every few bites they take they look up with earnestness to see that he is there.
Having, with great warmth and earnestness, used these arguments, he concluded, by plainly hinting to his wife that she had always been the apologist of the tailor, in all their disputes; and that she could not be so obstinately blind to the irrefragable reasoning he had urged, if she were not influenced by her old hankering after this fellow, and did not consult his interests in preference to those of her own family.
"It is so agreeable to discuss matters where there can be no great difference of opinion, at least, no more than sharpens the wit of the speakers, that you will rarely hear other subjects talked of here." "But have the great events which are yet passing no interest?" "Perhaps they interest too deeply to admit of much discussion," said she, with some earnestness of manner.
I expect opposition, but it doesn't matter. What I'm going to say now, GOES! See?" Bill looked almost ferocious in his earnestness, and Patty looked at him with admiration. He was so big and powerful, physically, and now his determined face and strongly set jaw betokened an equal mental power. "I'm at the head of this expedition, and in the present emergency, my word is law!"
Sometimes poor old women, from whom we could not extract much Catechism information about the unity in trinity and other theological mysteries, brightened up their old wrinkled faces when asked if they could sing, and when asked to give us a specimen of their singing, would raise their cracked and quavering voices and go through "There is a happy land," or "The Great Physician," or "Safe in the arms of Jesus," a good deal out of tune here and there, it is true, but on the whole creditably as regards music, and with an apparent earnestness and feeling that was hard to witness with dry eyes.
Des Pruneaux, a man of probity and earnestness, but perhaps of insufficient ability to deal with such grave matters as now fell almost entirely upon his shoulders, soon afterwards obtained audience of the King.
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