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But he died within a year afterwards of the lues venerea, which disease has been spread over almost the whole world, as I have seen many infected with it 400 miles beyond Calicut. It is there called pua, and they affirm that it was not seen there till about seventeen years before; yet it is there more grievous and destructive than with us in Italy.
But I fear that I may never behold him again upon earth, and that is grievous to think of. 'Alas! she said, 'how may this be? Is he slain? 'I did not say that, replied Sir Gawaine, 'but he is sorely wounded, and is more likely to be dead than alive. And, maiden, by this shield I know that he is Sir Lancelot. 'How can this be? said the Maid of Astolat, 'and what was his hurt?
There was nothing for it but to wait, and Markham became aware that love, in addition to being all the things that he and Hermia had described it, was a grievous hunger which would feed upon no food but itself. He was quite wretched, painted abominably by day and prowled in the streets by night, his disembodied spirit off among the highways of Vagabondia.
So then I thought I'd have my liberty too, and show I didn't care no more than they, and spite you all. 'How little one thinks of the grievous harm a little selfish heedlessness may do! sighed Louis, half aloud. 'If you had only looked to something better than me, Tom! And so you ran into mischief? Half confession, half vindication ensued, and the poor fellow's story was manifest enough.
The cholera of 1832, which decimated Bilston and Wednesbury, did something toward calling attention to the grievous social and sanitary wants of this district. In that pestilence several clergymen and medical men died, like heroes, in the discharge of their duties. Some churches were built, some schools established; but an immense work remains to be done.
And there were the fast-days which occurred two or three times a week, and especially the long fast of Lent a grievous nuisance when the husband wanted to give a dinner-party just on those particular days! On the vigil of festivals, Monnica would spend a good part of the night in the Basilica. There were many of these chapels even too many in the opinion of austere Christians.
Olivia's sympathetic manner, the pitying kindness in her eyes, appealed strongly to Greta Williams, the lonely girl isolated by the worst curse that can affect humanity grievous hereditary vice the innocent scape-goat of another's sin. Alas, how many homes even in our favoured land are desolated as well as desecrated from this one cause.
At the first moment it did not even occur to him that he had done a grievous wrong to Chilo, and had him flogged for the very acts for which he had rewarded him previously. He was too much of a Roman yet to be pained by another man's suffering, and to occupy his attention with one wretched Greek.
He never could get up that hill again without hydraulic pressure. All might have gone well, and all would have gone well, except for the grievous mistake of Nature in furnishing women with eyes whose keenness is only exceeded by that of their tongues. The cook at the Hall, a superior person though lightly esteemed by Mrs.
His voice faltered with emotion as he proceeded: "I have been misled, gentlemen, and I have been labouring for a long time under a grievous mistake, which has led me to do much injustice and inflict many wrongs; for these errors I now ask the pardon of all, and especially of those who are most concerned.