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Lastly, he desired, by return of post, a verbatim report of the quarrel that, as he was informed, had occurred on the school board when a prominent Roman Catholic threatened to throw an inkstand at a dissenting minister who, coram populo, called him the son of "a Babylonian woman."
"You will experience some trouble in finding your way back," said he, "allow me to accompany you." When we had got out he gave me to understand that chance had led me to the "Orange Coffee House," the most disreputable house in London. "But you go there." "Yes, but I can say with Juvenal: "'Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.
He had met me in the road and I had asked him to tell me where Professor Coram lived, not knowing that he was in his employ." "Exactly! exactly!" said Holmes. "The secretary came back and told his employer of the woman he had met. Then in his last breath he tried to send a message that it was she the she whom he had just discussed with him."
'I don't think I ought, and I won't. 'You won't! shouted Melmotte. She merely shook her head. 'Do you mean that you, my own child, will attempt to rob your father just at the moment you can destroy him by your wickedness? She shook her head but said no other word. 'Nec pueros coram populo Medea trucidet. 'Let not Medea with unnatural rage Slaughter her mangled infants on the stage.
I hope you have escaped often since, old sinner. Ah, what a lucky thing it is, for you and me, my man, that we are NOT found out in all our peccadilloes; and that our backs can slip away from the master and the cane! Just consider what life would be, if every rogue was found out, and flogged coram populo! What a butchery, what an indecency, what an endless swishing of the rod!
Whenever you comes over to England, I shall be werry 'appy to see you in Great Coram Street, where dinner is on the table punctually at five on week days, and four on Sundays; and with best regards to Mrs. Nimrod, and all the little Nimrods, I remain, for Self and Co., yours to serve,
The vow was threefold, comprising stablitas, perpetual adherence to the monastic order; conversio morum, especially voluntary poverty and chastity, which were always regarded as the very essence of monastic piety under all its forms; and obedientia coram Deo et sanctis ejus, absolute obedience to the abbot, as the representative of God and Christ. This obedience is the cardinal virtue of a monk.
The reckless violence of Rita's energy, indeed, interpreted by a competent actress played, for instance, as it was in London most admirably by Miss Achurch is almost too painful for a public exhibition, and to the old criticism, "nec pueros coram populo Medea trucidet," if a pedant chooses to press it, there teems no reply.
This young Todd, of Coram Street, Russell Square, was Master George's great friend and admirer. They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hardbake and raspberry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent's Park and the Serpentine, when the weather permitted; for going to the play, whither they were often conducted, by Mr.
Then the fore-topmast crosstrees reports a sail on the weather quarter, the Richard is brought around on the wind, and away we go after a brigantine, "flying like a snow laden with English bricks," as Midshipman Coram jokingly remarks. A chase is not such a novelty with us that we crane our necks to windward. At noon, when I relieved Mr.
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