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No, Murat did not say anything, he only pointed, but my cousin made a better homily and application than parson ever preached." "And pray what were either of you doing in Apulia with the brother-in-law of Buonaparte?" cried the Duke, who compounded for the sin of private cowardice by excessive public patriotism. "You were at Vienna at the time, and ought to remember," said my Lord, quite calmly.
And Armand? he had been out all night, and at that moment was walking with M. de Marsay in the Gardens of the Tuileries. The elder members, of Mme de Langeais' family were engaged in calling upon one another, arranging to read her a homily and to hold a consultation as to the best way of putting a stop to the scandal.
He gave me such a homily before I left Oxford on the absolute necessity of keeping up with books, that I could do nothing less than set up a "subject" at once.
In some confusion he confessed that he had brought none, whereupon I read him a homily on the duties of a cavalryman, and sent the whole outfit to San Fernando to get the horses reshod and provided with extra shoes for the trip. We arrived at Baguio in a howling typhoon. When we emerged from the hills into the open, and our horses got the full sweep of the storm, they at first refused to face it.
After some trouble I persuaded Winnie to tell me what was the homily that this aunt of hers preached
His eloquence was held to be bad style, and it started the form of literature known to the Cynics as χρεία, 'a help', or διατριβή, 'a study', and by the Christians as ὁμιλία, a 'homily' or sermon. This passionate and ascetic old man would have attracted the interest of the world even more, had it not been for one of his disciples.
Many mistake this for repentance and an intention to reform, when generally it is only the desire for a new shuffle of the cards. Let us have a fresh pack and a new deal, and start fair. It seems idle, therefore, for the moralist to indulge in a homily about annual good intentions, and habits that ought to be dropped or acquired, on the first of January.
You do not game!" "True as a gospel! Hark you, Clifford, and save us the homily. I am a ruined man ruined by the d -d dice and the deceptive cards. I shall pay you back the hundred dollars, but I shall have precious little after that." "But, surely, I was not misinformed. You were rich a few years ago." "A few months! But the case is the same. I am poor now. My riches had wings.
The good pope replied to her with a gracious homily, written with his own hand, in which he told her that when human science and things terrestrial had failed, we should turn to Heaven and implore the grace of God.
I was shortly bidden to give my mind to other than worldly things; and with that he began a homily, which lasted for many a weary mile, upon the vanities of the world and the glories of Paradise a homily of the very tritest, upon subjects whereupon I, myself, could have dilated to better purpose than could His Ignorance.
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