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... feeling that age had made his mother's face very anxious and eager . " The old women at Smyrna are like sacks . You ... feel that he was come home to a mother who was to be consulted on all things , and who could supply his lack of the ...
... feeling that age had made his mother's face very anxious and eager . " The old women at Smyrna are like sacks . You ... feel that he was come home to a mother who was to be consulted on all things , and who could supply his lack of the ...
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... feel that he was the same who had been her boy , her little one , the loved child of her passionate youth . An hour seemed to have changed everything for her . A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams ; a shadow annihi- lates them . The ...
... feel that he was the same who had been her boy , her little one , the loved child of her passionate youth . An hour seemed to have changed everything for her . A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams ; a shadow annihi- lates them . The ...
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... feel humiliated by , as by a familiarity from a servant who knew too much . Denner identified her own dignity with that of her mistress . She was a hard - headed , godless little woman , but with a character to be reckoned on as you ...
... feel humiliated by , as by a familiarity from a servant who knew too much . Denner identified her own dignity with that of her mistress . She was a hard - headed , godless little woman , but with a character to be reckoned on as you ...
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... feel a woman's hunger of the heart forever unsatis- fied . Yet Mrs. Transome's cares and occupations had not been at all of an imperial sort . For thirty years she had led the monotonous , narrowing life which used to be the lot of our ...
... feel a woman's hunger of the heart forever unsatis- fied . Yet Mrs. Transome's cares and occupations had not been at all of an imperial sort . For thirty years she had led the monotonous , narrowing life which used to be the lot of our ...
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... feel sure that his uncle would thoroughly retain this satisfactory thread of argument in the uninspired hours of the morning ; but the old gentleman was sure to take the facts easily in the end , and there was no fear of family coolness ...
... feel sure that his uncle would thoroughly retain this satisfactory thread of argument in the uninspired hours of the morning ; but the old gentleman was sure to take the facts easily in the end , and there was no fear of family coolness ...
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Page 251 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to over-peer, — Rather than fool it so, Let the high office and the honour go To one that would do thus.
Page 146 - I say the truth in Christ; I lie not, (my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,) that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 358 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 66 - For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool : for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Page 146 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 301 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself,...
Page 448 - A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darknesg It is not true that love makes all things easy ; it makes us choose what is difficult.
Page 280 - His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Page 50 - ... there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.
Page 182 - For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces — a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.