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"Yes, in the case of wise and honest men like yourself, my good friend Petitot; but just as all your brothers have not your talents, so they have not your rectitude and loyalty, which are known to me." "Sire, your Majesty overwhelms me; but I beg you to be persuaded that my brothers have been calumniated."
The soldiers and the gaudily bedecked civil traders fell into procession before and behind, and I noted that a body of troops, heavily armed, marched on each of the mammoth's flanks. Phorenice turned to me with a smile. "You piqued me," she said, "at first." "Your Majesty overwhelms me with so much notice." "You looked at my steed before you looked at me.
"The storm is terrible," said the old man. "The ship is going down, and I will go with it." "Nay, nay; keep up a stout heart," urged John. "Verily, how can I, when danger overwhelms even the captain?" "If we must die, let us die like men, struggling for our lives," said John. "Remember your pledge to me. Care for her, for I will go. The ship may be saved, but my end I feel is near."
The lowest terrace of the "fortress" is faced with colossal boulders, many of which weigh ten tons and some weigh more than twenty tons, yet all are fitted together with the utmost precision. I have visited Sacsahuaman repeatedly. Each time it invariably overwhelms and astounds. To a superstitious Indian who sees these walls for the first time, they must seem to have been built by gods.
"Have you forgotten the letter you wrote to Miss Dionysia the evening of the crime?" broke in M. Magloire. Jacques looked first at one, and then at the other of his counsel. "What," he said, "that letter?" "Overwhelms us, my dear client," said M. Folgat. "Don't you remember it?
For that they are bound by the adamantine chain of destiny is most certain, if it be proved that they are never to exercise their own reason, never to be independent, never to rise above opinion, or to feel the dignity of a rational will that only bows to God, and often forgets that the universe contains any being but itself, and the model of perfection to which its ardent gaze is turned, to adore attributes that, softened into virtues, may be imitated in kind, though the degree overwhelms the enraptured mind.
In the extant fragments Oenomaus addresses the god in Delphi and overwhelms him with insults. But we are expressly told—and one utterance of Oenomaus himself verifies it—that the attack was not really directed against the god, but against the men who gave oracles in his name.
It was a dangerous experiment that she tried, in leaving him so long; but it seems she knew her man. I pity you for the inundation of your good countrymen, which overwhelms you; 'je sais ce qu'en vaut l'aune. It is, besides, expensive, but, as I look upon the expense to be the least evil of the two, I will see if a New-Year's gift will not make it up.
The worst calamity in a calamity if I may use such an expression the most deplorable thing in any of the great evils of life, occurs when the selfish instinct within us is aroused, by want or terror, to such a degree that it overwhelms all social limitations, absorbs every sympathy, and leaves nothing but an intense individualism.
How often have I said, nay, sworn, that I would not hazard myself on such peril, and yet, step by step, I have done so! I cannot tell there is in that man's looks and words a good faith which overwhelms me; and, what is almost incredible, my belief in him has increased in proportion to his showing me how slight my power was over him.
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