For when my arm to its true distance came, I nothing touch'd but a fantastick flame.
But love is such a mystery, I cannot find it out: For when I think I'm best resolved, I then am most in doubt.
For when my peace of mind at length was stole, I thought no whit of Intellect or Soul, Nay!
For when we came where lies the child We lost in other years, There above the little grave, O, there above the little grave, We kissed again with tears.
For when I try to snare this prize, Earnestly and patiently, All my skill the rogue defies, Lurking safe in Aimee's eyes.
For when of pleasure she doth sing, My thoughts enjoy a sudden spring: But if she doth of sorrow speak, E'en from my heart the strings do break.
All that we could be sure of was that the native evidence would be bad enough to blast Biel's character for the rest of his service; for when a native begins perjury he perjures himself thoroughly.
I must have lost consciousness, for when I recovered I was lying on my stomach in a heap of soft white sand, and the dawn was beginning to break dimly over the edge of the slope down which I had fallen.
It could do no more, for when it advanced pieces of sharp shale flew from the windows.
For when a certain rich young man asked the Lord, 'What shall I do to inherit eternal life?
For when she is bridled in Christian man's heart she holdeth him so short that he falleth not in deadly sin.
When Bors saw this he wist well it was a great tokening; for when he saw the great bird arose not, then he took his horse and yede his way.
For when I sought worldly adventures for worldly desires, I ever enchieved them and had the better in every place, and never was I discomfit in no quarrel, were it right or wrong.
For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless ye him, and sing praises to him.
For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn?
For when I shall have taken away the nations from thy face, and shall have enlarged thy borders, no man shall lie in wait against thy land when thou shalt go up, and appear in the sight of the Lord thy God thrice in a year.
For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.
I went on, "I suppose this upset him, for when we were in town on Thursday last he had a sort of shock.
But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I explored further.
I'll shew you land--for when we have tugged through that chapter, the book shall not be opened again this twelve-month.
Indeed, I think that I must have fainted, for when I came to myself the sun was straight overhead, and it seemed to me that I had dreamed I heard a familiar and hateful voice.
I must have slept for many hours, for when I awoke it was far on into the night.
Men of a white race would have rejoiced thus to escape, for when death is near all other loss seems as nothing.
Even the colour of our beards seems to have been inherited from an ape-like progenitor; for when there is any difference in tint between the hair of the head and the beard, the latter is lighter coloured in all monkeys and in man.
For when in a group in which the sexes are usually alike, the male differs considerably from the female, he is not coloured in a quite new style.
It is possible that the roaring of the lion may be of some service to him by striking terror into his adversary; for when enraged he likewise erects his mane and thus instinctively tries to make himself appear as terrible as possible.
For when I came to the edge of the land against the will of the King, he smote me, and then cast me out.
For when I am gone I shall be remembered of them but a little while.
For when we came aland this morning we found a skiff of the aliens tied to a great spear stuck in the bank of the haven; so that there will be one foeman at least abroad in the island.
I twigged it, knew it; had had the gift, might readily have prophesied it--for when I clapped my eye upon his skull I saw it.
Charlie was not there, for when he found that Rose stood firm, and had moreover engaged Mac as a permanency, he would not go at all and retired in high dudgeon to console himself with more dangerous pastimes.
A little of everything I should say, for when I look into my mind there really doesn't seem to be much there but odds and ends, and yet I'm sure I've read a great deal more than some girls do.
But there would be one satisfaction in it, for when I'd lost my beauty and given away my money, I should know who really cared for me.
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