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The sons of Rome, who came to civilize as well as to conquer, were next produced before the princely assembly; and the manager of the revels had correctly imitated the high crest and military habits of that celebrated people, accommodating them with the light yet strong buckler and the short two-edged sword, the use of which had made them victors of the world.
Make it go in make your words felt; don't talk to them in that sickly, languid way that makes no impression make them know it. If you have not enough of the Holy Ghost for this, go to your closet till you have, and then come and drive the Word home to their conscience as a two-edged sword, dividing asunder soul and spirit.
He is like Milton's angels, in one respect at least: you may thrust him through and through with the two-edged sword of your satire, and at the end he shall be as intact and integral as at the beginning. Am I sufficiently obvious?" "It is very obvious that I am both, according to your definition."
Mornings after the heavy snows are steely blue, two-edged with cold, divinely fresh and still, and these are times to go up to the pine borders. There you may find floundering in the unstable drifts "tainted wethers" of the wild sheep, faint from age and hunger; easy prey.
He stepped to the shelf, took down his Bible and opened it, not looking himself, but holding the page under his brother's eyes. "Well, what does it say?" he asked. "It says," John answered, "'Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand." Charles closed the Bible and restored it to its shelf; then faced his brother again, still with his inscrutable smile.
Like all powerful arguments they cut two ways, and of all powerful arguments they are the most clearly two-edged. However we may limit their range, some will remain which we must face; which, according to what is settled about them, either that they are true or not true, will entirely change all that we think of religion.
"I will not hold my peace," reiterated the strange and unnatural voice; "is this a time to speak of peace, when the earth quakes, and the mountains are rent, and the rivers are changed into blood, and the two-edged sword is drawn from the sheath to drink gore as if it were water, and devour flesh as the fire devours dry stubble?"
It is awful to look therein; an awfulness of honor, and a trembling of love. The enemies thereof I hate vehemently; O that thou wouldst slay them with thy two-edged sword, that they might no longer be enemies to it: for so do I love to have them slain unto themselves, that they may live unto thee." As an example of the hermeneutical manner in which St.
Anything in the pockets?" "Nothing absolutely nothing!" "Nothing torn? No appearance of having been robbed?" "No. Merely the cut where the blow was given." "Just so, sir. About the weapon an ordinary knife, should you say?" "No; from the appearance and general character of the wound it was caused by a two-edged blade." "H'm! Sort of dagger stiletto kind of thing?" queried the sergeant.
Did it suffer from implications, he readjusted, defended and championed. Did it arrive at the extremity of duplications, he always got light sentences for his clients. But not always was Lawyer Gooch the keen, armed, wily belligerent, ready with his two-edged sword to lop off the shackles of Hymen.
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