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Then Joshua opened his heart to the man of God and told him the questions he had asked himself during the past sleepless night, and to which he had found no answer. The latter listened quietly, and in deep, faltering tones answered in broken sentences: "The lawlessness in the camp ay, it is ruining the people! But the Lord placed the power to destroy it in our hands. Woe betide him who resists.
This is a metal which resists the action of acids, resists oxidation by heat, and change of any sort; and which, therefore, I may heat in the atmosphere without any flux. I bend the wire so as to make the ends cross: these I make hot by means of the blowpipe, and then, by giving them a tap with a hammer, I shall make them into one piece.
If he resists, I'll punch him with this," added Tom, demonstrating the movement by a few vigorous thrusts with the bayonet. With some hesitation Joe took a revolver from the pocket of the soldier, and handed it to Tom. "Examine all his pockets. Take out everything he has in them," added Tom, cocking the revolver, and pointing it at the head of the prisoner.
A stone of five hundred weight seems to rest quiet on the earth, nevertheless, it never ceases for an instant, to press with force upon the earth, which resists or repulses it in its turn. Will the assertion be ventured, that the stone and earth do not act? Do they wish to be undeceived?
"Do not fear, maiden;" said Adam Warner, laying his hand upon the loosened locks that swept over his bosom, "for though I am old and feeble, God and his angels are in every spot where virtue trembles and resists. My lord king, thy sceptre extends not over a human soul!" "Dotard, prate not to me!" said Edward, laying his hand on his dagger.
Who, in Emily's position, could have read that joyously-written letter from Switzerland, and not have lost heart and faith, for the moment at least, as the inevitable result? A buoyant temperament is of all moral qualities the most precious, in this respect; it is the one force in us when virtuous resolution proves insufficient which resists by instinct the stealthy approaches of despair.
If the landlord resists, it is a bad job for the League. The local lawyer is discredited in the eyes of his clients, and if he is to get any fees he must come down upon his clients for them. Naturally his clients resent this. If Mr.
The mighty car-warrior Kritavarman, however, alone, resisted, in that battle the Pandavas thus rushing in fury and wrath with their followers against thy host. As the continent resists the surgings, even so did the son of Hridika resist the troops of the Pandavas in that battle.
"And wherefore should you wish that, my lord?" said Morton, who even then entered the apartment; "the council have decided for the best we have had but too many proofs of this lady's stubbornness of mind, and the oak that resists the sharp steel axe, must be riven with the rugged iron wedge. And this is to be her page?
On the other side, the genius of Europe is active and creative: it resists caste by culture; its philosophy was a discipline; it is a land of arts, inventions, trade, freedom." "Plato came to join, and by contact to enhance, the energy of each."
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