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Yet often I have seen these things brought in to the sick in a state perfectly perceptible to every nose or eye except the nurse's. It is here that the clever nurse appears; she will not bring in the peccant article, but, not to disappoint the patient, she will whip up something else in a few minutes. Remember that sick cookery should half do the work of your poor patient's weak digestion.
"Then neither will I," said Madame Goesler. "One dash from a peccant oar would destroy the whole symmetry of my dress. Look. That green young lady has already been sprinkled." "But the blue young gentleman has been sprinkled also," said Phineas, "and they will be happy in a joint baptism." Then they strolled along the river path together, and were soon alone.
But the most enduring object is the fine granite cross which was erected long afterwards by the Maori Church to the memory of Henry Williams "a Preacher of the Gospel of Peace, and a Father of the Tribes." Collier calls the "peccant missionaries" there is not much to be said. One of them, Clarke, was certainly treated with strange injustice.
They were regarded not merely by the laity but by grave and reverend physicians of the Dark Ages as a sort of necessary vital crisis peculiar and appropriate to each particular age of life, a sort of sweating out and erupting of "peccant humors" of the blood, which must be got rid of or else the individual would not thrive.
Then she folded her clothes neatly, one by one, on a ohair; hid the peccant boa away in its own lower drawer; buttoned her neat little embroidered nightdress tightly round her throat; arranged her front hair into a careless disorder; and tried to cool down her fiery red cheeks with copious bathing in cold water. When Mrs.
The auction between Cleon and the sausage-seller in Aristophanes is a fair caricature of what would be always going on. Such an institution would be a perpetual blister applied to the most peccant parts of human nature. It amounts to offering 658 prizes for the most successful flatterer, the most adroit misleader of a body of his fellow-countrymen.
He defames a good title as well as most of our modern noblemen; those wens of greatness, the body politic's most peccant humours blistered into lords. He hath so raw-boned a being that however you render him he rubs it out and makes rags of the expression.
As he observed carefully all the usual forms towards his lady, he had the art to deprive her even of the compassion of the world; and useless and unavailing as that may be while actually possessed by the sufferer, it is, to a mind like Lady Forester's, most painful to know she has it not. The tattle of society did its best to place the peccant husband above the suffering wife.
"Not four-and-twenty hours since," cried he, "she expired! and she is hurried into the cold bosom of the earth, like a criminal, or a creature whose ashes a moment above ground might spread a pestilence. Oh, how can that sweet victim, Lady Albin, share such peccant blood?"
Lewis's other work in various forms is less offensive: but except in respect of verse-rhythm which does not here concern us hardly any of it is literature. What does concern us is that the time took it for literature, because it adopted the terror-style in fiction. The first was to observe strict "propriety" in her books a point in which the novel had always been a little peccant.
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