For a while they smoked in silence, enjoying the beauty of the night, though each was thinking only of the storm that swept over the scene the Sunday previous and of the tragedy that was borne upon its wings.
Thus have We found you, and thus have We reckoned up your actions and borne witness to all your doings in this day.
My body hath borne imprisonment that your souls may be released from bondage, and We have consented to be abased that ye may be exalted.
Thou hast borne for My love that which most people have never endured.
I, verily, bear witness unto Him, even as He hath borne witness unto Me.
Nay, their blood continually imploreth and beseecheth the Lord of the worlds that it might be spilt upon the dust in His path, and their heads yearn to be borne aloft on spears for the sake of the Beloved of hearts and souls.
Bear ye witness unto that whereunto God Himself hathborne witness, that the company of His favoured ones may be illumined by the words that issue from your lips.
They have fought for thee, they have suffered by thee, they have borne much at thy hands to do thee good, O Mansoul.
The reek of vodka was borne up in the heated atmosphere, mingled with the nauseating odor of filthy clothing.
At home, they thought her merely at the studio, while she had been borne away through the air as by a witch on a broomstick.
She couldn't have borne the suspense had she not been all alone.
But notwithstanding the workers of iniquity shall seek your destruction, the arm of the Lord will be extended, and you will be borne off conqueror if you keep all His commandments.
President Smith, borne upon the shoulders of his stalwart bearers, took the lead, while we followed, assisted by our strong walkingsticks.
In going to his fields of labor, he has invariably borne his own expenses, even when on some occasions obliged to borrow money at a heavy and exorbitant percentage.
The corpse of a child, wrapped in white, was borne to the grave, without a coffin, in the arms of a Mussulman, attended by the parents and a few friends.
The odds were too much for Joe and Spike, and they were borne down by the weight of numbers.
Joe, much elated that his diagnosis of his opponent had been borne out, again took his place in the box.
He hung back, friendless and alone, and it was borne on him with a rush just how friendless and alone he was when he saw so many others greeted by friends and mates.
The courage and endurance that had borne her to this hour deserted her.
Just then Nella-Rose could not have borne any investigation of her throbbing heart.
He himself was clothed in a shining hauberk of steel rings, with a hood of the same, but with his chapel de fer, shield, and lance, borne by esquires on foot.
You cannot but feel how horrible it is to see my brother and my promised husband armed against each other's life--meeting in lists, from which one or the other must be borne a corpse.
The only suit he had was that which he then wore, the pourpoint, namely, over which at Evesham he had borne his armour.
You have borne up so long; don't give way when a little courage may save everything.
Leaden and cold it fell over the corpse of that poor woman as it was borne up to the tavern, with the seaweed trailing from it and the wet garments clinging to the limbs like cerements.
She had borne a good many similar afflictions from Mrs. Harrington's friends, but it was too much that they should be forced upon her just then.
Whatever was to be borne she would endure alone; she would keep her promise to the very letter.
His agitation made Elizabeth more sternly cold; she knew that look, she had borne it in his suspicious, jealous moments in the old time.
I could have bornebeing maimed for life had I seen the brute's hoofs trampling you down as I fell.
I ought to have bornethis trouble alone from the first.
That the best of sailors might do worse than even I alone was bornein upon me not a league from Boston docks, where a great steamship, fully manned, officered, and piloted, lay stranded and broken.
Before the fair Celts had intruded themselves in Britain and Ireland, the seeds of pre-Celtic culture, derived by trade and colonization from centres of ancient civilization through their colonies, had been sown and had borne fruit.
It must be borne in mind that the lengths of these periods are subject to revision.
An interesting fact to be bornein mind in connection with these relics of the activities and beliefs of the early peoples is that they represent a distinct culture of complex character.
It must beborne in mind that among the producers and users of Neolithic artifacts were the Easterners who collected and exported ores.
It should be borne in mind in this connection that the Ancient Britons stained their bodies with woad.
It is fully believed by distinguished physiologists, that the teeth themselves will last longer for being considerably used; and they seem to be borne out in this conclusion by facts.
But those whom they called "rustlers" must haveborne Nola away.
Mrs. Mathews moved about as quietly as a nun, and with that humility and sense of self-effacement that comes of penances and pains, borne mainly for others who have fallen with bleeding feet beside the way.
She rolled it deliberately, in a compact little wad, her fingers as cold as her hope for the life of the man who hadborne it away.
The ache of the most intense anxiety that she ever had borne was upon Frances; hope was only a shred in her hand.
This was certainly a new pang, but I had already borne so much that night, that the very habit of suffering enabled me still to endure.
No injunction to secrecy had been laid upon me, but the Duke seemed to consider it perfectly unnecessary to enjoin me not to reveal the transactions of which I had been a witness, and in some of which I had borne a part.
I saw raining upon her such great joy borne in the holy minds created to fly across through that height, that whatsoever I had seen before had not rapt me with such great admiration, nor shown to me such likeness to God.
Constantine, transferring the seat of Empire from Rome to Byzantium, carried the Eagle from West to East, counter to the course along which Aeneas had borne it when he went from Troy to found the Roman Empire.
Of old it had borne a white lily in a red field, but in 1250, when the Ghibellines were expelled, the Guelphs adopted a red lily in a white field, and this became the ensign of the Commune.
The leaves, wherewith all the garden of the Eternal Gardener is enleaved, I love in proportion as good is borne unto them from Him.
She was off, bornefrom him on the rising tide of hysteria.
If it had been any other man he thought he could have borne it, for he might still have held her clean.
But, as the hours and the days went by, it was borne in upon him that there was absolutely no connection between Violet's inward state and that regenerated outside.
And while she blamed him for not having told her, she overlooked the fact that if she had been told she could not have borne the knowledge.
He felt her mystery, but he had never known the ultimate secret of this woman who ate at his board and slept in his bed and had borne his child.
And he told himself that he could have borne it if it had not been for that.
She wasborne on, breathless, unprotesting, to the white palings where the paygate was.
These white things came tumbling and tossing toward him from the gray confines of the slime; urged by a persistent and abominable life, they were borne perpetually on the darkness and were perpetually thrust back into it by his terror.
And as though to confirm him in that conviction, at that moment the voice of the siren, clear but soft, was borne to his ears.
His meditations must have run on, for the utterer of this sonorous salutation was he who, but a moment ago it seemed, was right away down there driving the cattle, yet he had had time to take them borne and return here himself.
For three days she had borne this terrible torture, this anguish of uncertainty.
I was violently borne off, and immediately enrolled as a soldier.
The pandours had left the cloister; they had found the adutant of the king and borne him off as a rich spoil to their commander, Colonel von Trenck.
Oh, my God, grant that this poor heart, which has borne such agony, may not now break from excess of happiness!
She floated smilingly and airily over the stage; her small feet seemed borne by the Loves and Graces.
And now, tell me how you have borne the fatigues of the journey, and if you have been received at every station with the marked attention I had commanded.
You see I have borne it well; all do not die who are burnt.
Professor Bierman instantly summoned assistance, and the insensible form of the president was borne from the room, and a messenger sent for a physician.
Princess Amelia had borne two days of this martyrdom, and her courage failed.
This supposition is borne out by the fact that Aristoxenus, who mentions the seven species as well known, does not give them names, or connect them with the keys.
This representation of the musical diagrams is borne out by the passage in the Republic in which Plato derides the experimental study of music: Rep.
Afterwards they began to speak of Melville, and all the past, in which Gilbert had borne such a noble part.
The Bristol clocks had struck eleven; and from time to time the noise of the voices of many people reached her, borne upon the still night air.
She had borne bitter scoffs and rudeness from her enemies; she had been laughed at even by her friends, and yet she had carried the banner of the Lord onward, and now in her old age the victory was won.
My reflections were interrupted by the musical notes of the lone settler, borne over the prairie on the wings of the night.
All the increase was branded and marked by the owner, the ownership being decided by the brand borne by the mother cow.
Nor could the loss be estimated at the death of their fellow braves, nor in the wounds borne by the cripples, nor in the number of horses that had been shot from under them, but in the blow to their tribal pride.
They were not only proud that they had borne the test successfully, but also were more pleased that they had lived up to the traditions of the family.
