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After these clauses everything is sustained by a longer class of sentences, as if they were erected on these as their pedestal: "Depressam, caecam, jacentem domum pluris, quam te, et quam fortunas tuas, aestimâsti." It is ended with a dichoreus; but the next sentence terminates with a double spondee.

Concedis justas, leges et consuetudines esse tenendas, et promittis per te eas esse protegendas, et ad honorem Dei corroborandas, quas vulgus elegit, secundum vires tuas ? It would appear, from the text, that the Charter of Liberties and the Charter of the Forest were sometimes called "laws of the land."

When he was in the cart, first he commended his spirit into God's Hands, saying In manus tuas, etc.; then he besought all Catholics that were present to pray for him; I saw a good many who signed themselves in the crowd; and then he said some prayers in Latin; with the psalms Miserere and De Profundis.

He repeated these last words over and over again, as if the struggle were very sore. "Decide," said Sidroc. "I have decided 'In manus tuas, Domine," he breathed out, "'commendo spiritum meum." "Let fly," cried the chieftain, "and let the obstinate young fool know what death is."

So do I leave thee to cherish all those that have known wrong and woe by reason of my selfish life! Dear son, bury me with thy noble mother, but let me lie at her feet, Beltane. O had I been less selfish in my sorrow! But God is merciful! Benedict kiss me and thou, my Beltane God calleth me to rest. In manus tuas Domine!"

"May the holy Julian stand by us and the thrice-sainted Christopher!" "If there be such peril, Sir Oliver," quoth Sir Nigel, "it would be very knightly and fitting that we should show our pennons. I pray you. Edricson, that you will command my guidon-bearer to put forward my banner." "And sound the trumpets!" cried Sir Oliver. "In manus tuas, Domine!

He was Bernard's friend, and Laura's but he was not the keeper of Bernard's honour. . . . But Hyde and Laura . . . alone . . . the train with its plume of fire rushing on through the dark sleeping night. . . . "In manus tuas . . ." Val raised his head, and shivered, the wind struck chill: he was tired out.

And when Earl Godrich had so sworn, the King shrived him clean of all his sins. Then having received his Saviour he folded his hands, saying, "Domine, in manus tuas;" and so he died. There was sorrow and mourning among all the people for the death of good King Athelwold. Many the mass that was sung for him and the psalter that was said for his soul's rest.

A man accustomed to cruelty, and firm in his fanaticism, he was as ready to endure suffering as to inflict it; repeating to himself the necessary prayers, he called Fray Gerundio to witness that he died, however unworthy, a martyr, in charity with all men, and in the communion of the Holy Catholic Church; and then, as he fitted the cord to his own neck, gave Fray Gerundio various petty commissions about his sister and her children, and a little vineyard far away upon the sunny slopes of Castile; and so died, with a "Domine, in manus tuas," like a valiant man of Spain.

"Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, Amor me llama, And Love is my name; Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; Porque ensenas, For instruction meet A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" Fantine alone refused to swing. "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, with a good deal of acrimony.