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Updated: June 27, 2025
"The Astoria, is but a wretched tub, and we crawl along at the rate of four or five miles per hour, halting here and there to avoid the wrecks of the war, panting for breath, longing, 'as the heart panteth for the water-brook, to see once more the shores of our beloved New England. Never will this excruciating sail be forgotten.
He listened, too, with much devotion to the Psalm, "As the hart panteth for the water-brooks;" and he spoke faintly at long intervals of the Magdalen, of the prodigal son, and of the paralytic.
And as he continued in this case lo! a pastern of the palace, which was carefully kept private, swung open and out of it came twenty slave girls surrounding his bother's wife who was wondrous fair, a model of beauty and comeliness and symmetry and perfect loveliness and who paced with the grace of a gazelle which panteth for the cooling stream.
And great plenty of wrought wood had I and of all sorts, it having long been my wont to collect the best of such as drove ashore and store it within those caves that opened on Deliverance Beach. Thus, after no great search, I had discovered all such planking as I needed and forthwith began to convey it down to the boat. "Hold!" cried she. "He sweateth, he panteth purple o' the gills!
Ah, there is thirst in me; it panteth after your thirst! 'Tis night: alas, that I have to be light! And thirst for the nightly! And lonesomeness! 'Tis night: now doth my longing break forth in me as a fountain, for speech do I long. 'Tis night: now do all gushing fountains speak louder. And my soul also is a gushing fountain. 'Tis night: now do all songs of loving ones awake.
With the wisdom of a long life old Jolyon did not speak. Even grief sobbed itself out in time; only Time was good for sorrow Time who saw the passing of each mood, each emotion in turn; Time the layer-to-rest. There came into his mind the words: 'As panteth the hart after cooling streams' but they were of no use to him. Then, conscious of a scent of violets, he knew she was drying her eyes.
They do not spare their shoes by reason of economy, but because they walk better without them. Donned for propriety, doffed for convenience. The young lady who is "on the market" is expected to wear leather on high days and holidays, and she submits another martyr to fashion. Yet even as the hart panteth for the water-brooks, so longeth her sole after her native turf.
"I suppose `to thirst' means to earnestly desire. `Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, you remember. And David says, `As the hart panteth after the water-brook, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God! And in another place, `My soul thirsteth for Thee." Gertrude neither moved nor spoke, and Christie went on
Grant that thy holy angels may watch over us this night, and guard us from temptation, excluding all improper thoughts, and filling our breasts with the purest sentiments of piety. Like as the heart panteth for the water-brook, so let our souls thirst for thee, O Lord, and for whatever is excellent and beautiful in learning and behaviour.
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light for mine eyes, it also is gone from me. These are the words, sighs, complaints, prayers, and arguments of a broken heart to God for mercy; and so are they 'Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness; according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
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