He was naturally as brave as a lion: but he did not perceive any advantage in risking his life in a struggle that, even were he victorious, would produce neither profit nor glory.
I should not point him out to you, even were he amongst the loungers in the court at this moment: neither shall I mention his name--or rather the name by which he is here known.
I release myself from those silken chains, even were I able?
Further, we had quarrelled during our first campaign, because he had beaten one of my servants; we even were proceeding to fight with pistols, had not Colonel Winterfield interfered, and amicably ended our quarrel.
I thought that, even were I set upon, my horse would take me from danger more quickly than hillmen could run, and Howel, unwillingly enough, agreed that it seemed to be the only chance.
They were the Danish hounds, which had come hither with their masters, and were big and strong enough for any quarry, even were it the bear that yet lurked in the Welsh mountain wilds.
Even were it murder, I will pay the weregild for you, and you shall have cause to say that the place has no ill luck for you.
Yet he could not but long for some human creature, even were one to be found nowhere else but beneath his lowliest roof of all--in the churchyard.
It goes to my heart to part with people; even were it my sworn hereditary foe: one is going to see him no more.
Without this doctrine I should believe it necessary to plague myself with uncertainty and to beat the air with hopeless efforts, even were there no perils for the soul, no tribulations and no devils.
Natural reason, which groans so loudly under it and seeks to resist God’s action, would prove it even were it not taught in Holy Scripture.
And watching this good little man unobserved, many said, "By my faith, I should like to be this jeweller, even were I obliged to splash myself up to the eyes with the mud of Paris during a hundred years for it.
And the cunning Madame always came lightly attired, showing samples of her beauty, which would have made a patriarch neigh, even were he as much battered by time as must have been Mr. Methusaleh, with his nine hundred and sixty years.
We should not be willing to give thee our daughter, Mr. Bagby, even were she.
But in a moment of direst need, when I appealed to him, he failed me; and though now I better understand his resentment against my father and myself I could never bring myself to forgive his cruelty, even were my love not dead.
Within himself he finds the most infallible of the rules of conduct, a rule that will never fail him, even were he within the oft-discussed bull of Phalaris.
We could not explain its origin, or assign its cause on any other hypothesis, even werewe to limit ourselves to the consideration of physical love.
Moreover—even were he in England—he would have no need to spy about in the dark: he is on friendly terms with his brother, and might present himself boldly at the Hall.
Were the infant heir of Ravensworth abandoned to the designs of those dreadful men, his life would not be worth a month's purchase; and his mother would not dare to publish the foul deed, even were he murdered before her face!
Even were it the rankest poison known, you cannot show that I sent it to my brother.
Even were it shown, however, that altruistic conduct has been developed out of egoistic, the fact of its development would not alter its present characteristic.
But, even were such a definition as that proposed by Mr Spencer agreed to, it would be insufficient to provide a standard for human conduct.
Even were it successful it would be doing nothing to prevent destitution.
He understood that if he could run to the Via Portuensis he was safe, even were he to faint on it.
Here the thought of Ursus with his preterhuman power flashed into Vinicius's head; but what could be done by a man, even were he a Titan, against the destructive force of fire?
But now, even were Helios to go to Cimmerian regions from sorrow, I shall sleep, and do thou follow my example.
No; I would not leave Rome, even were ye to offer me the government of Egypt.
Her mother loves him as little as you do; and, even were he at the court of France to-morrow, her protest against the marriage would be sufficient to stop it.
I told him cuttingly, in answer to a question which he should not have asked, that, even were I not plighted in faith and bound by affection to another, I should never have felt for him aught but cold indifference.
It is not upon the testimony of any single person, even were it far more distinct than in the present instance, we can venture to peril the truth of the Christian religion.
Moreover, even were they to cross over into Arabia, how could they march across a dry and almost waterless country, for a thousand or two of miles?
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