And as the solemn festival of Easter was approaching, he commanded them to fast according to the custom of the faithful.
He vowed that if he escaped he would fast every Wednesday, and drink water for breakfast every Friday and Saturday, for the rest of his life.
He ended by advising Pierre l'Hermite that it would be well for the King to fast and do penance so that Heaven might enlighten him and preserve him from error.
When they had been made to fast a long time, they killed small fishes put into the tub.
As fast as this collects on the surface of the water, it is taken off and boiled over a quick fire.
But when they recognized the Frenchmen, mounted on horses and armed with their deadly muskets, their attitude changed; they {91} forgot their dignity and made off as fast as they could go.
After timing the watch closely it was tested in three positions and found to have a variation of eleven seconds fast pendant up as per second column, Fig.
The first five position test proved that the rate pendant up was extremely fast compared to all other rates as per second column Fig.
There are additional reasons for the suggestion of timing watches a few seconds fast rather than just correct.
Should the circumstances be just opposite, or the rate be fast in heat compared to the rate in cold, it will be necessary to move the screws away from the free end of the rims.
In most instances of slight wear the motion will be shorter and the rate fast which conforms to the general rule covering rate and motion.
After passing this extreme slow point the pendant up rate begins to grow faster until the extreme fast point is reached.
The theory of this is that all shortening of the coil from the fast to the slow point produces a slower rate pendant up, until the extreme slow point is reached.
Next wind the watch and place it in the cold box, and assuming that the variation is sixteen secondsfast at the end of twenty-four hours, enter this in the lower square of the first column as shown in Fig.
If it had been regulated to run four seconds fast in the middle or normal temperature it would time more nearly correct in the pocket.
It will be observed that the rates in the horizontal positions are on the fast side and those in the vertical positions are on the slow side.
And before he could jump out of the way the tree came crashing down upon him and pinned him fast to the ground.
The pond rose so quickly and the water rushed past so fast that people had to scramble out of their houses and begin working on them, to keep them from being washed away.
Kurt cranked up for pursuit, but his crude craft was not built on speed lines, and he saw the distance fast eaten up between him and the frenzied horse.
Kate felt a great deal better then, and before her father returned, she was fast asleep.
But Fanny did not wait for any reply, and ran away just as fast as she could.
Now go just as fast as you can, but be very careful and not spill the milk.
Learn as fast as thou may and can For our Bishop is an old man And therefore thou must learn fast If thou wilt be Bishop when he is past.
Financial transactions on such a scale as this would in any case have given the guild control over a town government whose expenses werefast increasing, and which in every time of need turned to its coffers for money.
The mayor being thus fast in the Fleet, Wetherby got the common seal out of the chest, sealed the bond of £100 to the abbot of S.
Thus the commons of Norwich made their decorous entry on the official stage, with a punctilious care to secure their dignity and make fast their liberties by countless ceremonial ligatures.
I am learning to be one as fast as I can, a real truly boy, I mean, and not a make-believe.
Make it fast in the bow this time," he called, as he flung the coil of rope.
As fast as they were landed they were led back into the woods and started towards Tacoma, which was but a few miles distant.
Fast as they were sailing, it seemed to Alaric as though the big canoe rushing after them was sailing faster.
It's the States fast enough; but not the end of the run by a good bit.
When Alaric looked at the water flashing by them it seemed as though he had never moved so fast in his life, while a glance at the big boat astern almost persuaded him that they were creeping at a snail's pace.
The other end was on board the sloop and made fast to the bitts.
He would fly so fast and so far that they could never follow.
Down heeled the canoe until it seemed as though she certainly must capsize; but Alaric, looking very pale and determined, held fast to the straining rope, and would not yield an inch.
After that you may rush along the other things as fast as you please.
So when she was made fast to the outer wharf at Victoria, on the island of Vancouver, the largest city in British Columbia, and its capital, he felt like one who receives an unexpected reprieve from an unpleasant fate.
When this was done, and the cable made fast so that the sloop should not drift back when the kedge was lifted, Bonny heaved up the latter and got it into the dinghy.
But though Prue's eye has as yet to fast from the sight of her betrothed, her ear at least is gladdened by his praises.
It is not only the little innocent who has already crossed the flood of whom she is thinking, but also of that other one in the room upstairs, whose feet are so fast nearing the ford.
On catching sight of her Franky Harborough precipitates himself towards her as fast as his fat legs will carry him.
In an instant they bear down upon him as fast as their fat legs will carry them.
But mammy told me to come,' urges Lily in eager self-defence; 'she told me to run fast that I might be sure to overtake you!
Margaret's heart has begun to beat so suffocatingly fast that she can hardly draw her breath.
But by my system I conveyed the power to the machine by means of a steam pipe, which enabled the engine to which it was attached to be driven either fast or slow, or to be stopped or started, just as occasion required.
At one of the strongest parts of the building a strong oak chest, iron-plated, had been built in, held fast by a thick wall of stone and mortar on each side.
Recruits were sent away as fast as they could be drilled.
The aeronaut was busy talking fast and urgently to this person, who nodded to Andy and said: "That's all right Do you know how to run an automobile?
Again reaching a fair height, he tipped the biplane on an angle of five degrees and came down so fast that the spectators thought something was wrong.
He was fast forgetting all about the Talbots and his former troubles at Princeville.
It was Chase, sodden with drink andfast perishing.
There she rode in warmth and comfort, safely seated astride of a soft, rounded walrus thong, which passed under the arms of the mother and was made fast around her neck.
He especially displayed his skill in the successful pursuit of the polar bear, whether on land along the coast, on the fast ice under the frowning snow-cliffs of Humboldt Glacier, or on the moving ice-floes of Smith Sound.
When the sledge is stopped or stuck fast in deep snow, the perfectly delighted dogs lie down, and the driver has to himself extricate the sledge and apply persuasion to set his team in motion.
My beard was frozen fast to the fur of my coat, and it was the warm hand of Kalutunah's wife that thawed away the ice.
The boatswain seized a hind leg of the deer, but Master Wolf, not at all disconcerted, held fast to the other end in which his sharp teeth were deeply fixed.
The others ran behind the sledge, holding fast each to one of the upstanders.
The daring animal at last dropped his end of the deer, but stood fast within a yard or two, ready to renew his attack at a favorable opportunity.
The half-famished fox had no mind to lose his breakfast, and holding fast to the boot fled up the hill, to the disgust of the cook and to the amusement of his comrades.
Some one starts the game by offering a prize, which is won by him who pierces the bone and holds it fast with his stick.
Gripping the ortchok fast with his teeth, with a knife in his right hand he cuts it off as near the lips as he can, swallowing it with a gurgle of joy.
With one of its occasional fits of uncontrol, the team started on the jump, and dragged the spirited Egerton, who held fast to the traces, a hundred yards through rough ice-masses before he could gain control.
The ice holding the ships fast until the spring of 1848, it was necessary for Captain F.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised): 10:24.
Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession.
That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.
But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.
The last days of the half-century are fleeting fast as we write, and we are yet at peace with Europe, as when Victoria's reign began.
He wondered how he could just stand there so apparently calm, instead of letting out a shriek and running as fast as he could for the rocket ship.
He'd slam the airlock door and bolt it and then blast off as fast as he could get the motors going, Harding or no Harding.
In this manner he was prevented from coming any nearer to the boat, the boat moving through the water as fast and as long as he pressed his head against the point of the lance.
All were busy, and at work asfast as possible, in capturing whales, cutting and boiling.
We started in the direction of the huts, and traveled on as fast as we could, though at the best very slow.
The plea of saving your battery is a very handy one; but if you are afraid to remain here with us, you may run as fast as you wish.
In fact, it soon became impossible to load the guns; for, asfast as the men picked up a rammer or sponge, they were shot down.
As soon as they were secured, Frank made the torpedo fast to the bank, after which he and his men, with the prisoners, disembarked, and commenced marching toward the house.
Sam, still holding fast to the colonel's horse, at once turned off into the woods, through which we with difficulty worked our way.
After making his skiff fast to a tree on the bank, he rigged his pole, baited his hook, and dropped it into the water.
We were fast approaching the shore, and the engines appeared to be working in vain against the strong current.
I felt also an interest in the scene from the consideration that these fleeting customs were posting fast into oblivion, and that this was perhaps the only family in England in which the whole of them was still punctiliously observed.
I found the tide of wine and wassail fast gaining on the dry land of sober judgment.
If ever it has been a just reproach of the church that its frequenters were so absorbed in the saving of their own souls that they forgot the multitude about them, that reproach is fast passing away.
It was these characteristics which prompted whalers to dub these animals the "right" whales to kill (as opposed to the ones that were too fast to catch and sank when killed).
Killer whales are extremely fast swimmers, capable of reaching top speeds of 25 knots or more, and have been reported "porpoising" and breaching.
Ecclesiastical history attests that during the fifty years preceding the death of Cyprian, [425:3] the principles here put forward were fast gaining the ascendency.
How strange that the very man whose feet, a few hours before, had boon made fast in the stocks, should now be the giver of this friendly counsel!
But this bigoted and intolerant spirit was fast passing away; and when the state now set on foot a persecution, it could not reckon so extensively on the support of popular antipathy.
When he was fast rising into power, it was alleged that he was constituted chief pastor of the Church by Christ himself; and a text of Scripture was quoted which was supposed to endorse his title.
It reflects strongly on the character and principles of some of the early Roman bishops; and as the Papal see wasfast rising into power when the statue was erected, it was obviously deemed prudent to omit an invidious publication.
Your pet fast bumpy ones, wide of the wicket, Perhaps look showy, but they are not Cricket.
White, the strong hitting shortstop, was the next batsman, but after knocking two high flies, he was struck out by a fast inshoot.
He swung viciously on the first ball that Bert offered him, which happened to be a fast in-curve.
Allen, the next man up, set himself for a fast one, and was completely fooled by the lazy floater that suddenly dropped a foot below his bat, just as it reached the plate.
Give him a fast one now, shoulder high," ordered the coach.
And your fast high one is so speedy that a fellow backs away from the plate when he sees it coming.
News travels fast in a college community and Drake had passed the word that Ainslee had uncovered a "phenom.
We'll have to go mighty fast to break the records we made then, won't we, old sock?
Bert was instructed to take it easy, and confine himself only to moderately fast straight balls, in order to get the kinks out of his throwing arm.
He knows their weak and their strong points, the ones that simply kill a low outcurve, but are as helpless as babies before a high fast one.
He had had comparatively little baseball experience in suchfast company as this.
Winters had gotten in with a fast set, and no argument or persuasion could induce him to see the error of his way.
It wouldn't be any trick at all for him to rig up something on the same principle that would give us an accurate idea of how fast Bert, for instance, could propel a baseball through the surrounding atmosphere.
They had discussed the game pro and con, when Dick said: "I wonder how fast a pitcher really can throw a ball, anyway.
He's in with a fast bunch, and I fear has been going the pace.
Then he pitched what looked like a straight, fast ball to the expectant batsman.
Before their time it used to be straight, fast ones and a slow teaser that was thrown underhand.
I could sew sofast I git my task over 'fore de others git started good.
De water so fast it wash him off he hoss and I ain't seed him since.
But I'd go to see dat gal every time, patter rolls or no patter rolls, and I gits trained so's I could run 'most as fast as a rabbit.
Barely did he hear Apollo's parting words: "Hold fastthe reins, and spare the whip.
My men shall beach your ship," he said, "and make her fast with a barrier of oars against the greedy tide.
Only if thou canst chain him by guile as he sleeps and hold fast the chains, undaunted by the shapes into which he has the power to change himself, wilt thou win his knowledge from him.
Thus he ran back, as fast as his legs could carry him, and Charlemagne smiled yet more when he saw the beautiful child, who knew no fear, return to the place where he had thieved.
Glancing up for a moment from the picture whose perfect colours grew fast under her slim fingers, Arachne fixed scornful eyes on the old woman and gave a merry laugh.
On the loom they stretched out two webs with a fine warp, and made them fast on the beam.
Skilfully the men on board her ran her through the surf, and beached her in a little creek between the cliffs, and made her fast to a rock by stout cables.
