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The other a virago to look at, with eyes that glared from under the pent of her black bonnet had pulled the grey-headed preacher down by his coat-tails, and, mounting in his room, clung with an arm around the lamp-post and defied the persecutors. "Why am I here, friends?" she challenged them. "O generation of vipers, why am I here? Answer me, you men of Belial you, whose fathers slew the prophets!
It was to be expected that she would seek excitement until her present fears were allayed and her persecutors silenced. He determined to order Spaulding to have her shadowed constantly for at least a fortnight and note made of every person in whose company she appeared to be at all uneasy, whether they were of her own set or not.
Fondling the trembling creature against her cheek, she talked first to him, then to his abashed persecutors. “You sweet, little, darling puppy, you! Did they tie the wicked cans to his poor little tail!” and then—“if ever I catch one of you boys treating a poor, helpless animal like this again, I’ll shake the breath out of your body—was he the beautifullest dog that ever was?
The Perseids of Mycenæ thus boasted of an illustrious descent, which continued down to the last sovereign of Sparta. The labors of Hercules are among the most interesting legends of pagan antiquity, since they are types of the endless toils of a noble soul, doomed to labor for others, and obey the commands of worthless persecutors.
Mac insinuated himself brusquely between the victim and his persecutors. He took the dirty object away from the priest with scant ceremony, in spite of the whisper, "Infection!" and gave it back to the wrathful owner. "You talk his language, don't you?" Mac demanded of Nicholas. The Pymeut pilot nodded. "Tell him, if he'll lend the thing to me to wash, he shall have it back." Nicholas explained.
"Speak," said Sir Francis Varney, as he entered the dungeon "If the occupant of this dreary place live, let him answer one who is as much his friend as he has been his enemy." "I have no friend," said Charles Holland, faintly; "unless it be one who would come and restore me to liberty." "And how know you that I am not he?" "Your voice sounds like that of one of my persecutors.
Amen." It is clear that, in this chapter and the one preceding, we have two grand parallel and comprehensive histories in one, the process of corruption in the so-called church and the final judgments that overtook these cruel persecutors of the Lord's people; in the other, the setting apart and sealing of God's servants, their preservation from the contaminations of an apostate church, and the final glorious triumph of all who endure unto the end.
To an impartial critic this statement will show in an even more curious light the excommunication jealously issued by the academic painters against French artists, who, far from revolting in an absurd spirit of parti-pris against the genius of their race, are perhaps more sincerely attached to it than their persecutors.
Craigie, and told her of Erica's change of views. "It is a great grief," he wrote, "and she will be a serious loss to our cause, but I am determined that we will not enact over again the course of action which drove both you and me from home. Odd! That she should just reverse our story! Anyhow, you and I, Jean, have been too much persecuted to turn into persecutors.
The relentless persecutors of our Presbyterian forefathers were not content with removing this eminent servant of God, by a violent death; as if to throw upon him the utmost indignity, his body was buried in the common grave of felons, at the lower entrance of the Greyfriars Church-yard, a plain slab of stone erected over the spot, stating that the dust of the Rev.
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