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"What mercy do you practice, you who preach a gospel of mercy in the world, and cry for mercy now?" the Infante asked him. "But this is an infamy! What harm have those poor children done? What concern is it of theirs that I have offended you in performing my sacred duty?" Swift into that opening flashed the home-thrust of the Infante's answer. "What harm have my people of Coimbra done?
The Duke glared around him into the circle of half-curious, half-terrified faces, for this was a piercing home-thrust, his eye dwelt for a moment on Sagan, towering tall and rugged and strong as one of his own native rocks, and he recognised that his cousin, although ten years his senior as age is counted, was infinitely younger in his unimpaired energies and rude health.
Ha, ha! home-thrust there!" while thus turning over the leaves, and rending them asunder with his forefinger, regardless of the paper cutter extended to him by the shopman, a gentleman, pushing by him, asked if the publisher was at home; and as the shopman, bowing very low, answered "Yes," the new-comer darted into a little recess behind the shop. Mr.
"Then what made you tell that wapper for, the other night, about cutting that Indian's throat?" "How do you know it was a wapper?" asked Joe, somewhat what embarrassed by Sneak's home-thrust. "Bekaise, don't I know that I cut his juggler-vein myself? Didn't the blood gush all over me? and didn't he fall down dead before he had time to holler?" continued Sneak, with much warmth and earnestness.
This was a home-thrust, and for the moment threw the little casuist off the track. She carefully folded up the idea, and laid it away on the inner shelves of her mind till she could think more about it.
When he soldier, and general say shoot ten, forty, t'ousand Frenchmen, den he say; stop, general no hurry let cap'in t'ink. Bye'm-by he'll go and take scalp; eh!" It exceeded our old soldier's self-command not to permit the blood to rush into his face, at this home-thrust; for he felt the cunning of the Indian had involved him in a seeming contradiction.
Name the day, and be quite certain that I shall anxiously look for it." "I should have been sure of your compliance, if you had not given me cause to doubt it." "It is a home-thrust, but I deserve it." "And I hope it will not make you angry. Now I am happy. Our friend is M. de Bernis, the French ambassador. He will come masked, and as soon as he shews his features I shall present him to you.
A home-thrust, which Fleda parried by saying he had hardly got accustomed to it yet. "What's been his business? what has he been doing all his life till now?" said the sewing-woman. Fleda replied that he had had no business; and after the minds of the company had had time to entertain this statement she was startled by Miss Lucy's voice at her elbow.
They strip what we say of all delicate shadings and illusory phrases, and reduce it to some bare question of fact, with which they make a home-thrust at us. "Yes, that's it; are people never to get a new carpet?" echoed Jenny.
So the Apostle was fully warranted in appealing to Agrippa's knowledge, not only of Judaism, but of the history of Jesus Christ, and in his further assertion, 'I know that thou believest. But the home-thrust was too much for the king. His answer is given in the words of our text.
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