As they entered the second sleeper, they met the porter, who was forced to elevate his hands and precede them.
While they were engaged in robbing the passengers in the second Pullman, the train conductor entered, and was compelled to elevate his hands, with the rest.
Horatio, as, chancing to fix his gaze on the other, he noticed him suddenly elevate his gun, as though tempted to shoot the same.
If it does not elevate their minds, it deadens their susceptibilities, and as they are not permitted to be women, they try to convince themselves that it is God's will they should be slaves.
In all ages of the world, the most enlightened and prosperous nations have been those who sought to refine and elevate woman by the practice of monogamy, or the one-wife system.
One of the wisest and wittiest divines who have ever ascended the pulpit, he has left behind him a fame second to none who have labored to elevate and make their fellow creatures better.
The life, the existence of our country, of our Union, is the mighty question; and we must elevate ourselves to all those considerations which belong to this high subject.
We must elevate ourselves to the level of the great occasion.
There is nothing classical in his treatment, nothing to redeem or elevate the nudity and associations of the subject.
They have always instinctively recognized the fact that the Christian religion is their champion, and in its consolation the women of the Britons found much to alleviate their common distress and to elevate their status.
Those, on the contrary, who were more favored in this respect were advised toelevate their robes, as if it were to give access to air, that the passer-by might see and admire their trim feet and ankles.
Pauline never attempted after that to elevate the moral tone of her step-brothers.
I often think if each professing Christian took hold of one poor beggar and tried to elevate him, we should solve the problem a great deal sooner than by starting so many societies to improve them in the aggregate.
Some of the particles are carried back by contrary winds, but most of them lodge on or behind the dunes, or in the moist soil near the lake, or are entangled by vegetables, and tend permanently to elevate the level.
Were the Actual indeed opposed to Truth and Beauty, it would be necessary for the artist, not to elevate or idealize it, but to get rid of and destroy it, in order to create something true and beautiful.
But only my will is this fountain; and only when I acknowledge this will to be the true seat of moral excellence, and actually elevate it to this excellence, do I attain to the certainty and the possession of that supersensuous world.
The personal conduct of the Divine author of Christianity tended to elevate the female sex to a degree of consideration in society unknown before.
The intellects of the girls seemed greatly quickened by the grace in their hearts; thus illustrating the power of the gospel, to elevateand improve the whole character and life.
Might not the philosopher elevatehimself above faith in grammar?
They had only served to elevate Israel, and as the prophecies of evil were verified, so they might trust that the prophecies of good would not remain unfulfilled.
And receiving them again from him, he shall elevate them in the sight of the Lord: and they being sanctified shall belong to the priest, as the breast, which was commanded to be separated, and the shoulder.
And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.
Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?
The priest shall take from her hand the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall elevate it before the Lord, and shall put it upon the altar: yet so as first, 5:26.
There is ample opportunity here to elevate his mind and spirit to a high plane, and, by talking of the wonders of inheritance, to give many a hint for future reflection.
Undoubtedly the country child is in a better position to receive instruction, but whether this instruction tends to refine his feelings and elevate his heart depends altogether upon how it is given.
A class of cultivated, well-trained, intelligent nurses would soon elevate the employment of attending on the sick into the noble calling it ought to be, and secure for it its appropriate rewards.
A vivid and sudden perception of truth, or a severe scrutiny after it, may elevate the voice, and burst with an irruptive heat on the subdued tone of conversation.
They bend to the spirit of the age, but they do not elevate the public to them; they care not for truth, but only study to produce effect, and they do nothing for fame but what obtains an instant purpose.
It is the prerogative of genius to elevate obscure men to the higher class of society.
These are they whose "published labours" have benefited mankind--these are they whose thoughts can alone rear that beautiful fabric of social life, which it is the object of all good men to elevate or to support.
Inconstant men will write on constancy, and licentious minds may elevate themselves into poetry and piety.
Above all, let no false tenderness substitute sympathy for judgment; and remember well, that, while casting out a faithless Senator, you willelevate the Senate and inspire the country.
If your last judgment in this case were not of incalculable importance both for the Senate and the country, helping to elevate the one and to inspire the other, I should not venture again to claim your attention.
It is not now, sir, in the power of the honorable member to give it dignity or decency by attempting to elevate it and to introduce it into the Senate.
Is it not possible better to elevate and to do good to the colored race in this than in any other land to which they may be sent?
Here is not the place to make any extended observations on the intellectual and physiological effects of the union of different races in the same people, to elevate and give them tone and character.
To send only the degraded and the low in intellect is not the method to elevate and ennoble a new land.
