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They have neither the epileptical rant nor goatish impulses of the Methodists, nor the drowsy uniformity from which not all the solemn beauty of the service can redeem the Liturgy of the Church of England. In singing, the whole congregation generally take a part a circumstance which, however it may impress their worship with a proof of sincerity, certainly adds nothing to its melody.

When composed sufficiently to distinguish and recognize individual objects, he looked upon the gloomy visage and threatening eye of his brother, and shrunk back with a terror almost epileptical. "Oh!" he exclaimed, "save me! save me from that man, and I'll discover all!" Anthony calmly folded one arm into his bosom, and his lip, quivered with the united influence of hatred and despair.

Once he brought home a plaster-of-Paris Venus the Melos one with the beautiful arch to her torso of a bow that instant after the arrow has flown. Hanscha cuffed him for the expenditure, but secretly her old heart, which since childhood had subjected her to strange, rather epileptical, sinking spells, and had induced the drinking, warmed her with pride in his choice.

"The captain is the highest in his department, and the doctor in his: now Doctor Staines is strictly within his department, and will be supported by me and my officers. You are bilious, and epileptical, and all the rest of it, and you are to be cured by diet and blue water."

'Cast away the ring, it's diabolical; God cannot bless you, if you do not cast the ring away. The ring was cast into the well, whereupon the maid became epileptical as formerly, and endured much misery for a long time. At last her parents cleansed the well, and recovered the ring again; the maid wore it, and her fits took her no more.

Staines came in, and bowed to Lady Cicely, and eyed her a little uncomfortably. She began, however, in a way that put him quite at his ease. "You remember the advice you gave us about my little cousin Tadcastah." "Perfectly: his life is very precarious; he is bilious, consumptive, and, if not watched, will be epileptical; and he has a fond, weak mother, who will let him kill himself."