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Updated: September 21, 2025
The Advocate General, hearing the well-known voice inquiring for him in no friendly key, would hurry away through an opposite door, and dive into the woods adjoining Government-house, and there gnaw his nails, in perturbation of spirit until he thought the evil was overpast.
The French general was an intrepid old fellow, who believed that a general should be near his fighting men. So his headquarters were always being shelled. Then he would not retire, but preferred to descend into the cellar until the evil times were overpast. The despatch rider with Chapman had his bellyful of shells.
Was I in truth at a banquet or was I only dreaming that I sat as a guest at the richly spread board? The only certain matter was that the storm was overpast, and that no hail nor rain now beat upon the window panes. How wet must my Hans be, who had ridden forth in court array, without a cloke to cover him.
"Then listen!" says the damsel in the ruined castle to the seaman whom she meets "Then listen! when this day is overpast, A fearful monster I shall be again, And thou may'st be my saviour at the last, Unless, once more, thy words are nought and vain; If thou of love and sovereignty art fain, Come thou next morn, and when thou seest here A hideous dragon, have thereof no fear,
Sleep on, beloved, sleep, and take thy rest; Lay down thy head upon thy Saviour's breast; We love thee well; but Jesus loves thee best Good night! Good night! Good night! Until the shadows from this earth are cast; Until He gathers in His sheaves at last; Until the twilight gloom be overpast Good night! Good night! Good night!
Well, thou'rt dead a small handful of gray dust, long since perchance thou hast got thee wisdom ere now poor fool O Fool Divine! As thou art now, thy sleepless nights forgot the carking sorrows of thy life all overpast, and done so must I some time be, and, ages hence, shall smile at this, and reckon it no more than a broken toy heigho!
Every shadow of danger for him was gone and overpast; he had already bid Ursula farewell, and was to ride forth next morning to Genoa, leaving the plague-stricken city behind him, and would take ship there.
I come, the messenger of glad tidings, for the day of persecution is overpast. The heart of the king, even Charles, hath been moved in gentleness toward us, and he hath sent forth his letters to stay the hands of the men of blood. A ship's company of our friends hath arrived at yonder town, and I also sailed joyfully among them."
They 's a depth an' a ca'm to the feelin' of it, 't them 't sets on fringe an' damarsk sofys don't know nothin' abeout." "You must have required a great deal of oil in sawing up the old log, captain," I said. The captain gave the restful sigh of battles overpast. "Mebbe you think 't the drippin's o' one skunk did it," said he; "but they didn't.
So they sail and have wind at will; but when a few days were overpast, there arose a great storm on the sea, and the waves were to behold even as the foam of men's blood; but Sigurd bade take in no sail, howsoever they might be riven, but rather to lay on higher than heretofore.
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