What Bauer told her from his own knowledge of Van Shaw's immoral life in Burrton roused all her mother instincts to protect her child from a fate worse than death if she should marry a man who had already fallen.
It is a terrible loss to lose the physical strength and face death at a sure distance.
She seemed so happy, that the smith did not dare to inform her of the death of Cephyse, and reserved himself to communicate the same at a more fitting opportunity.
But surely I may punish the wrong done to my children, and avenge the death of my wife,' cried the marshal, much exasperated.
Yes, this man of iron nerves, who had coolly braved death in so many battles, felt the habitual firmness of his character give way at sight of the scenes of desolation and mourning which Paris offered at every step.
At the moment their mourning for their mother drew near its close, the tragical death of their grandfather had again dressed them in funereal weeds.
On his return to Paris, after his long exile, in spite of all the happiness he felt in at length embracing his children, Marshal Simon was deeply affected on learning the death of their mother, whom he adored.
And the death of his father, killed almost in his arms!
But then the poor mind lay itself all dim, And ruffled with the outer restlessness Of striving deathand life.
The youth knew little; but he read old tales Of Scotland's warriors, till his blood ran swift As charging knights upon theirdeath career.
My steps have led me to a door, With iron clenched and barred; Grim Death hides there a ghastlier store, Great spider in his ward.
Nor hast thou ceased the making of it yet, But wilt be working on when Death hath set A new mound in some churchyard for my sake.
Joined in one The streams flow to the gate; Death is turned backward to the sun, And Life is hailed our Fate.
I dare to write, because I am crowned bydeath Thy equal.
So with hearts hoping for a simple joy, Yet high withal, being no less than the sun, They laid them down in nightly death that waits Patiently for the day.
I think, my boy, deathhas two sides to it, One sunny, and one dark; as this round earth Is every day half sunny and half dark.
We drive out sometimes; but I am sick to death of crawling slowly up and down by the Serpentine staring at people's bonnets.
One is sorry for the fate of Agamemnon; but one is infinitely more sorrowful for the crueldeath of that English Richard in the dungeon at Pomfret, who was a very insignificant person as compared to the king of men and of ships.
I see her death recorded here, but she is described by her Christian name only.
Within a month or two of Matthew Haygarth's death a kind of melancholy came over him," said the rector.
He died before his brother, Lord Durnsville, and left neither chick nor child to inherit his money, nor yet the Durnsville title, which was extinct on the death of the viscount.
He does acknowledge this with his own lips, and immediately after cries out that his race is run, and ye hand of death is upon him; which I cannot but take as ye voice of ye enemy speaking through that weak mouth of ye flesh.
Go and talk to your prosperous friends, Miss Halliday; I am sick to death of hearing about your new frocks, and your holidays, and the presents your mamma is always bringing you.
With her mother's death faded the one ray of light that had illumined her desolation.
She was as gentle towards death as she had been to all the world.
When the death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales threatened to interrupt the direct succession of the crown, the unmatched brothers of the Regent thought of taking unto themselves wives.
In December 1820, another princess gladdened the hearts of her parents, only to quench the newly-raised joy by her deathin March of the following year.
With the increased means placed at their disposal by the death of the Duke of York, there was but trifling increase of expenditure.
She will sleep with the great ones of the earth, with princes and kings, whose power is at an end, amongst whom there is hardly room to be found, so closely do they lie together, and so prompt is death to fill the vacant places.
Thoughts of death under the window of the girl of your dreams?
The poor child had been quite alone in the great town since the death of her father and the times were so unruly that the weak in society were virtually at the mercy of all random oppression and insolence.
The cannons on the Brabant side of the Scheldt and the cannons on the Flemish side are ready to spit out death and destruction onto any venturesome vessel that dares to make its way upstream in the direction of Antwerp.
Your father's death was a great loss, but now you're my problem.
When I passed over the field after the fight one young warrior who was near to his death asked me to take him over to the medicine-man's side, that he might die with his knife in the old conjurer's heart.
He did not discriminate as to the value of life, but with his respect for deaththere grew the speculation, which to him became a truth, that the fearsome beast was of the other world, and bore the lost souls of the tribe.
When the sadness of his first wife's death was over, and the drudgery of toil was ended, he was happier than he had ever been.
Death did but brush away a little film that hung before distant eyes.
Not until after his death was the full amount of his renunciation apparent even to those who thought they knew him well.
The beautiful "Threnody" on the death of his boy, reveals the sorrow of a soaring mind rather than the grief of a crushed heart.
I cannot better convey my thought than by recounting the essence of two sermons that I heard some years ago from eminent preachers in different American cities; the first was on the death of Charles Darwin.
Generalities," says a good man, "are the deathof prayer.
Is it the apparently mysterious discipline through which some may be passing--bereavements threatening your dwelling, or the hand of death already on your loved ones?
When death comes, Hope smoothes his dying pillow, wipes the damps from his brow, and seals his eyes.
With many an arrow deep infix'd My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.
The tempest may be sighing overhead, and the wild shriek of danger and death rising from some helpless bark that is borne like a weed on the maddened waters.
Is it the prospect of your own death that is filling you with apprehension?
Nigh the same spot, the footsteps of our blessed Redeemer Himself lingered, when death was hovering over the couch of the friend He loved at Bethany.
Look back from these valleys of death and tribulation, to the gleaming summits of yonder distant Mizar hills!
But ties stronger than death link her soul to the one who had shared for ten years her joys and sorrows.
Where Thou goest I will go, and where Thou dwellest I will dwell; and death itself shall not separate between Thee and me.
His Psalms seem to utter the language of one who lived in God's presence, and to whom the withdrawal of that endearing intercourse and communion would be death indeed.
The mists of death are dimming my eyes to the things below, but they are opening on the magnificent vistas of eternity.
I see death marks on him," said Njal, "but no signs of life; but why hast thou not closed his eyes and nostrils?
That cannot be, kinsman, for I have to tell thee the death of thy brother Eyvind, and he has left thee his heir at the Gula Thing, and now thy foes will seize thy heritage, unless thou comest to claim it.
Who on outlying headlands Abode ere the fight; I say that King mighty To death now is done, Now low before spearpoint That Earl bows his head.
Then those tidings were heard from Iceland, which many thought great news, the death of Gunnar of Lithend.
Holmstein hurled a spear at Kari, but he caught it in the air, and sent it back, and it was a man's death in Flosi's band.
When death came it was the duty of the next of kin to close the eyes and nostrils of the departed, and our Saga, in that most touching story of Rodny's behaviour after the death of her son Hauskuld, affords an instance of the custom.
Then Kari smites at him, and the sword fell on his shoulder, and the stroke was so mighty that he cleft in twain shoulder, arm, and all, and Snowcolf got his death there and then.
Gunnar's slaying was heard of, and ill spoken of throughout the whole country, and his death was a great grief to many a man.
Hjort had been the death of two men, and the Easterling leapt on him and smote him full on the breast.
Before begining the Arctic Expedition I called all the men up and explained what it might mean--death hardships were all discussed but they willingly agreed to go, in fact urged the expedition.
By keeping silent this morning, by facing certain death upon charges that are worse than the punishment to a soldier, in that they blast his fame," said the general.
How this lady interfered to prevent an important military manoeuvre, the object of which was the destruction of the Federal flagship by a torpedo, and incidentally the probable death of Captain Sempland.
The men who went to their death beside the Housatonic in Charleston harbor were Lieutenant George F.
He may have you and you may have him, but my death will be ever between you.
The qualities and characteristics of that death trap, the David, were well known to everybody.
Was it because she loved him so that, fancying the expedition promised certain death to him, she had taken this unfortunate method of preserving his life?
And, after all, he was not to be pitied for that he died the deathof his choice.
I could not see him condemned to death and not raise a hand to save him.
He was a sailor, and after my mother's death he sought constantly to be in active service.
Without so much as a warning shriek or a death rattle the Pallas Athene gasped and stopped.
The maker of death has cultivated enough sudden deathin this germ-farm to wipe out London in a night, and all Britain in a week.
Somewhere along the River, down past the Pool, the Death Maker has a laboratory--a germ-farm crawling alive with all the most hideous disease cultures you can think of.
The year 1790 was notable in two events, the birth of our patent system and the death of Benjamin Franklin.
For some years before his death Mr. Clarke was the president of the Singer Company.
Then the Queen of France loaded Wilfrid with rich presents, and sent him over to England in a gallant ship to bear the mournful tidings of poor Prince Edwin's death to England's king.
The words made Yusef at once set spurs to his horse: having himself so narrowly escaped a dreadful death in the desert, he naturally felt strong pity for any one in danger of meeting so terrible a fate.
The royal Athelstane never ceased to lament the death of his unfortunate brother, Edwin.
After a glorious reign, Edward died in the year of our Lord 925, and at his death a great dispute arose among the nobles as to which of his sons should succeed him in the royal dignity.
The shadow of death was changed for them into the morning.
Sadi was gently placed on the horse, for it would have been death to remain long unsheltered on the sand.
He was back, knee-deep in trench bilge, tortured in all his being, looking at death from behind a sandbag.
Support was withdrawn by those who had suddenly perceived that the New Dawn meant the death of privilege; that "this flowering of mature and seasoned personalities" threatened the supremacy of the old order of industrial slavery.
He could hardly recall the verse, hardly recall that he had faced death or the strange girl.
And, as I say, she feels as I do about life and death and the absurd little compartments into which we used to pack religion.
Tell her,' he breathed, 'that she sent me to my death so that she might become only a bird in a gilded cage.
All tickled to death but one near-Whipple and he's only annoyed.
Young America, not yet perusing in large enough numbers the New Dawn, was to be sent to its death that capital might survive--the dollar be still enthroned.
It came to the Wilbur twin that these days until Saturday were like the days intervening in a house of death until the funeral.
Your little man no longer starved to death nor toiled twelve hours a day.
You may call it fun to scare people to death by flying your aircar below roof level along the city streets, but the Department of Air Traffic says that it is both dangerous and illegal.
If report spoke correctly, he could have told the tale as to how the death of gallant Captain Brownrigg, R.
Mr. Bryce Douglas and I got on very well together, and I for one regretted greatly his death shortly afterwards.
Sentence of death had been pronounced on a young man once employed in his printing-office.
It is managed by five trustees, who are chosen for life; and in case of the death of any of them, a public meeting of the inhabitants is called, when they elect a successor or successors in their place.
His last moments were marked with that fortitude which was the characteristic of his life, convinced of the purity of which, he met death with pleasure.
During the interregnum between the death of Governor Hunter and the arrival of Governor Gore, Mr. Grant, as senior member of the Executive Council, was President of Upper Canada.
We have the pleasure of declaring the account received in December last of the death of Col.
Since the death of the Duke, an officer of the 52nd, subsequently in Holy Orders,--the Rev.
After thedeath of the Duke of Richmond, Sir Peregrine became administrator, for a time, of the general government of British North America.
His death was occasioned by a wound he received in a duel fought the day before with John Small, Esq.
The officers styled Comte and Vicomte de Chalus derived their title from the veritable domain and castle of Chalus in Normandy, associated in the minds of young readers of English History with the death of Richard Coeur de Lion.
On the death of Mr. Russell, his property passed into the hands of his sister, who bequeathed the whole to Dr.
You have much need to consider death, for after death comes the judgment, and none of us can escape that.
Once again," continued Rosco, after a pause, "I tell you that I had no hand in the death of your son.
The worn out man still lay perfectly quiet, with closed eyes, and countenance so pale that the dread of approaching death again seized on the son.
Come now, delay this execution for a little, and let us talk together about this death which you think is due.
The idea of judgment took such a hold of him that he shrank from death with far more fear than he ever had, with courage, faced it in days gone by.
Is it not strange that I, who have faced death so often with perfect indifference, should draw back from it now with something like fear?
He had courage to carry the idea into effect but--"after death the judgment!
Upon his death this immense household passed into the possession of his Son Isaac; for "Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac" (Gen.
The death of Isaac must have taken place just ten years before the Descent into Egypt.
Magennis's death is uncertain; he seems, however, to have survived some years the accession of Queen Elizabeth, and on his death the see of Dromore became canonically united with Ardagh.
The first bishop of Dromore whom we find commemorated in the sixteenth century is Galeatius, whosedeath is registered in 1504.
De Oviedo, in 1600, it is merely mentioned that the see of Dublin was vacant by the death of Donald, late archbishop.
The Catholic University of Louvain has just been deprived by death of its first Rector, Mgr.
But Ware[27] tells us that the Armagh copy of these annals agrees with other histories in placing the death at Avignon.
The present volume gives the history of the Viceroys from the Norman invasion in the twelfth century down to the death of Henry VII.
His death has been a severe loss to his native land and to the Catholic Church in Belgium.
The Four Masters place in the year 1356 the deathof Farrell (son of Jeffrey) MacRannall, Primate of Armagh and representative of St. Patrick.
I did not know that the old custom still lingered of putting the hives in mourning, and telling the bees when there had been a death in the family, so they would not fly away.
I asked my father, but he could remember nothing, if indeed he ever had heard of her death at all.
I did not think often about Henry, though I mourned so much over his death at first, and I never was less nervous in my life.
At last there came a letter in which Kitty said, "I must tell you more of Mr. Bruce, if you are tired to death hearing of him; for it is really a perfect mystery.
The immediate cause of his death was, it is stated, an affection of the heart, a term covering a vast extent of unexplored ground.
Such is not the case; his death was a most unfortunate occurrence brought on by a misunderstanding.
During the thirty years that followed Crabbe's deathhis fame had been on the decline, and poets of different and greater gifts had taken his place.
Within two days of the wife's death Crabbe fell ill of a serious malady, worn out as he was with long anxiety and grief.
His wife's death had cast a permanent shadow over the landscape.
Wordsworth's fame and influence have grown steadily since his death in 1850.
Finally, however, she dies penitent, and it is the contemplation of her life and death that works a life-long change in the ambitions and aims of the old lover.
His intimacy with the Tovells was moreover to be strengthened by a sad event in that family, the death of their only child, an engaging girl of fourteen.
The death of the rector was followed by every token of general affection and esteem.
How little do children dream of the alterations that older people's feelings towards each other undergo, when death has caused a transfer of property!
In one tale the hero is held up to the unqualified admiration of posterity for having starved to death his son, in an extreme case of family destitution, for the sake of providing food enough for his aged father.
His death may be said to be the most important act of his whole life.
Whether their failure to follow the natural course of evolution results in bringing them in at the death just the same or not, these people are now, at any rate, stationary not very far from the point at which we all set out.
His birth, his marriage, and his death are all duly chronicled in type, perhaps as sufficiently typical of the general unimportance of his life.
