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Responsibility sobers, and as we age and succeed we become more moderate, for most of us have a method in our madness. In brief, I determined to give up political knight-errantry and to stick to sober business. Very carefully and in the most conservative spirit I took stock of the situation.
Nothing will be such a help to resistance and victory as to be able to say, 'So did not I because of the fear of the Lord. Even if a man 'sobers down' after 'sowing his wild oats, which is a very problematical 'if, what bitter memories of wasted days, what polluting memories of filthy ones, will haunt him! And if he does not sober down, what then?
Among them the Master saw Leclair and Rrisa. No one showed fear. The white feather was not visible; but a grim tension had developed. Death, imminent, sobers the boldest. From the engine-room, shouts, orders, were echoing. The engine-room door flung open. Smoke vomited thick, choking, gray. Auchincloss reeled out, clutching at his throat. "What chance?" the Master cried, staggering toward him.
I suppose those who don't know him call him stern, but he has carried a pretty heavy load all his life, and that sobers a man and takes the spring out of him of course you know, though." But the woman said nothing. The man paused, regarding her a moment, then he let his gaze follow hers. "I was thinking of the fountain," she said; "how it once flashed and sang and played and now "
That is to say, the blessedness of keeping up such a continual consciousness of touch with God is, first and foremost, the certainty of infallible protection. Oh! how it minimises all trouble and brightens all joys, and calms amidst all distractions, and steadies and sobers in all circumstances, to feel ever the hand of God upon us!
However, since no one turned him out, and Anna Sergyevna even presented him to her aunt and her sister, he soon recovered himself and began to chatter volubly. The introduction of the commonplace is often an advantage in life; it relieves over-strained tension, and sobers too self-confident or self-sacrificing emotions by recalling its close kinship with them.
'Or Solo chips in an' lifts the pile. We must keep it dark till this field sobers up a bit. The tub of dirt taken from the bottom of their hole that is, the deepest part of the strata of alluvial deposit, to which the best of the gold almost in variably gravitates was extremely rich.
These speculators offer for sale greasy soup, slices of horse, and every species of alcoholic drink. Each company has, too, its cantinière, and round her cart there is always a crowd. It seldom happens that more than one-half of the men of the battalion are sober. Fortunately, the cold of the night air sobers them. Between eight and nine in the evening there is a gathering in the tent.
I longed impatiently for the nurse to return, that I might despatch her for the leech; not that I thought anything could be done, but for my own comfort and greater satisfaction afterwards, and that my mother might not die without some fitting attendance. The house remained quiet, however, with that impressive quietness which sobers the heart at such times, and I could not do this.
Out of that tangle of folly is my house to be struck down? It looks as if the fellow with his infernal "humanity," were the bad genius of an old nurse's tale. He's a good fellow, colonel, he means well. This fever will cure him, they say it sobers like bloodletting. He's a gallant fellow; you know that. He fought to the skeleton in our last big war. On my soul, I believe he's good for a husband.
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