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The silence was crushing or rather sucking my life out of me up into its own empty gulfs. The horror of the great stillness was growing deathly, when all at once I rose to my feet, with a sense of power and confidence I had never had before. It was as if something divine within me awoke to outface the desolation. I felt that it was time to act, and that I could act.
Canst thou imagine thou shalt at the day of account outface God, or make him believe thou wast what thou wast not; or that when the gate is shut up in wrath, he will at thy pleasure and to the reversing of his own counsel, open it again to thee? Why shall thy deceived heart turn thee aside, that thou canst not deliver thy soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
She swayed forward from the waist as if her backbone could no longer support her. At her feet a tin pail emptied wild cherries on the ground. Mabyn scrambled to his feet, shamed, chagrined, furious. "What do you want around here?" he cried brutally even now seeking to outface her. The piteous, stricken girl moistened her lips; and essayed more than once to speak, before any words came.
And there was a Man of Sorrows Whose word was this, that He came 'not to bring peace on this earth, but a sword. For good cannot outface evil but strife must needs follow. Behold now here another sword, my Beltane; keep it henceforth so long as thou keep honour."
Were it not better, Because that I am more than common tall, That I did suit me all points like a man? A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh. A boar spear in my hand; and in my heart, Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will, We'll have a swashing and a martial outside. As many other mannish cowards have That do outface it with their semblances.
"Peace, you babbler," she said. "I am done with your God. When I meet Him I will outface Him. He has broken His compact and betrayed me. My riches go to the Burgrave for the comfort of this city where they were won. Let your broken rush of a Church wither and rot!" Scared out of all composure by this blasphemy, the Cluniac fell to crossing himself and mumbling invocations.
Ellen wondered how it was that Richard had always spoken of his mother as if she needed his protection, when her voice was so nearly coarse with the sense of being able to outface all encounterable events, and she felt a flash of contempt for his judgment.
Now I shall be obliged to confess the truth, and he will have a right to claim me instead of my supposed sister." "But," said Tu, "I have a prior right to that of Wei, for it was I who found the arrow. And in this matter I shall be ready to outface him at all hazards. But," he added, "Wei, I am sure, is not the man to take an unfair advantage of you." "Do you really think so?" asked Jasmine.
It was probably to confront and outface "Aristophanes and his comedians," and to "abrogate the scurrility" of the "sea-dogs" and "land-critics," that our Resolute lexicographer prefixed to the Enlarged Edition of his Dictionary and to his translation of Montaigne, his portrait or effigies, engraved by Hole.
To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I: And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou! "This is mere madness," observes the queen. Tone it down! August 12th.
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