The preludes to the stories told on the island are poems addressed to the months of the changing year, and not one is free from the grievous suggestion of loss or the weary burden of fear and dejection.
Seven years before this time, Lucius Posthumius Megellus, who sprang from one of the noblest houses of Rome, and had been thrice Consul, was sent ambassador to Tarentum, with charge to demand reparation for grievous injuries.
And Elias went to shew himself to Achab, and there was a grievous famine in Samaria.
The parting with ready money was a grievous thing to Archie, though in this case the misery would be somewhat palliated by the feeling that it was a bona-fide sporting transaction.
And why was Lady Ongar anxious that the young man who was her friend should see the man who had been her husband's friend, and whose name had been mixed with her own in so grievous a manner?
Her present life was very grievous to her, and now had occurred that which would open to her new hopes and a new mode of living.
It was grievous to her that he should any longer have a choice in the matter.
Then her eye fell upon the card, and she saw, with grievous disappointment, that it bore the name of Count Pateroff.
In spite both of gods and men, the thing was sogrievous to Cecilia Burton that she could not bring herself to acknowledge that it was possible.
The people were really in need of the advocacy of a writer like Junius, for their burdens at this time were of the most grievous magnitude.
The king was at this time labouring under a severe attack of mental aberration: the situation of the country, his children, and his own peculiar sorrows, made impressions on his mind of the most grievous description.
He heard the grievous sound as he strained the poisonous mucus from the tiny throat and breathed the death-laden air into his lungs.
You do not know my real name nor my grievous history, and the more I love and honour you the harder becomes the revelation.
He saw, too, that the average popular magazine of 1889 failed of large success because it wrote down to the public--a grievous mistake that so many editors have made and still make.
From whatever viewpoint he has looked back upon this, which he now believes to have been the crisis in his life, he is convinced that his mother's instinct saved him from a grievous mistake.
There was a Butchers' Bridge on the Thames side, near Baynards Castle, to which the offal was brought from Newgate Street through the streets and lanes of the city, by which 'grievous corruption and filth have been generated.
Rahere determined to go to Rome, and after visiting the shrines of St. Peter and St. Paul, he was taken ill with a grievous sickness.
King for the safe keeping of a beast called an 'oure,' which was in danger from certain persons who threatened to do grievous harm to the keepers, 'and atrociously to kill the said beast.
Riley, referring to the superfluity of Norman laws, describes them as 'laws which, while unfortunately they created or protected few real valuable rights, gave birth to many and grievous wrongs.
Are your rules and principles such as to justify your persecution of Him Who, at your bidding, hath presented Himself before you, your rejection of Him, and your infliction on Him every day of grievous injury?
Thou, too, shalt erelong take abode therein and find thyself ingrievous loss.
More grievous became Our plight from day to day, nay, from hour to hour, until they took Us forth from Our prison and made Us, with glaring injustice, enter the Most Great Prison.
This, verily, is more than they can bear, and is a grievous injustice.
He, verily, is of them that have followed their own desires, and shall erelong find himself in grievous loss.
So grievous became His plight on every side that He instructed His companions to disperse.
Those who follow their corrupt desires and lay aside the fear of God are indeed in grievous error.
To do so is to inflict a grievous injustice upon yourselves, if ye be of them that reflect upon the verses of your Lord.
And if thou knowest not, this indeed is a more grievous error, wert thou of the God-fearing.
They, truly, are wrapt in a dense and grievous veil.
The thing was verygrievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son.
Still, however grievous it may be, it is according to the divine mind that we should abidingly "stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
It is a bitter thing to seek, in any wise, to manage for ourselves; we are sure to make the most grievous mistakes.
It was a grievous affliction--one which has embittered life to me: and if I could overcome the dread of death, I should long to lie down in our family vault, to rest in peace with the dead of past generations.
While we had the light we rejoiced in it; but I fear that, like the church of Ephesus, we have lost our first love; and as we have not repented and done our first works, the Lord has visited us with this grievous judgment.
My case was grievous to her and she wept: then she said, "I will tell thee my story in turn.
O guests, ye have done us a grievous wrong, for we made it a previous condition with you that whoso spoke of what concerned him not, should hear what should not please him.
Quoth the Afrit, "It is grievous to thee to kill thy lover.
And his grief and chagrin relaxed from him and he said, "This is more grievous than what happened to me!
And his case was grievous to her and her heart ached for him, though she knew him not to be Ghanim.
When the Khalif hears this, it will begrievous to him and he will weep: then will he cause recitations of the Koran to be made over her and will watch by night over her tomb.
The wound was a grievous one, and the surgeon in attendance declared amputation to be necessary.
Oh, it was grievous unto heart-breaking to see and hear all this!
I told him the certain consequence would be, that he would fall into grievous errors.
It is quite evident, in my opinion, that the deceased nobleman, like other men, was not without his faults, and those perhaps more grievous than could be passed over by God without punishment in this life.
Therefore, we pray: O Father, comfort our conscience now and in our last hour, for it is now and will be hereafter in grievous terror because of our sin and Thy judgment.
What godless work that he could commit would be a more grievous crime against the truth of God, than this unbelief of his, by which, as much as in him lies, he convicts God of being a liar and a maker of empty promises?
God's testament, and burdening the world more and more heavily with grievous sins of idolatry, to its deeper condemnation.
But if these most grievous sins do not prevent one's salvation, how foolish it is to reserve those lighter sins!
Preserve us from Thy great plagues, pestilence, the French sickness, and other grievous diseases.
In truth this traffic in rents must be a sign and symbol that the world, for its grievous sins, has been sold to the devil, so that both temporal and spiritual possessions must fail us, and yet we do not notice it at all.
It is better that there should be in a city one living based on an honest freehold or revenue, than a hundred based on an annuity; indeed a living based on an annuity is worse and more grievous than twenty based on freeholds.
Moral imperfection is ever a grievous curtailment of life, but many exquisite flowers of character, many gracious and potent things, may still thrive in the most disordered scene.
The vast waste which this limitation of prospect entails is the mostgrievous rejection of moral treasure, if it be true that nothing enriches the nature like wide sympathy and many-coloured appreciativeness.
Indeed, ye have not laboured long in glorious battle to destroy the Trojans, against whom ye have takengrievous hatred.
For indeed I have this grievous wound, and my hand is penetrated on every side with acute pains, nor can the blood be stanched, but my shoulder is oppressed with it.
But both Greeks and Trojans rejoiced, hoping to have respite from grievous war.
O my son, why do wretched I live, having suffered grievous things, thou being dead?
Then indeed some other greater and more grievouswrath and indignation had fallen upon the immortals from Jove, had not Minerva, greatly fearing for all the gods, leaped forth from the vestibule, and left the throne where she sat.
O son of warlike Peleus, surely thou wilt hear a very grievous message, which--would that it had not taken place.
Then coming out, he stood before the tent, for he still wished in his mind to behold the grievous conflict of Trojans and Greeks.
He tells us, indeed, that he broke off his over-mastering habit by vigorous efforts; as he also tells us that opium is a cure for most grievous evils, and especially saved him from an early death by consumption.
The murder of the Carraras was a national sin; the execution of Foscarini a grievous blunder.
You do a grievous wrong," he vehemently exclaimed; "you possess the fairest State in Italy, yet are not satisfied.
And that faith had begun to reel undergrievous blows dealt it in the last four years.
The scorn and bitterness, of which he was the object, were very grievous to Ilbrahim, especially when any circumstance made him sensible that the children, his equals in age, partook of the enmity of their parents.
Such manner, or semblable words, he said daily to her, and the woman was the more desirous and grievous to the young man, and he always forsook and refused the sin.
But I say he found them alive; at which he fell into a grievous rage, and told them, that seeing they had disobeyed his counsel, it should be worse with them than if they had never been born.
So when he arose, he getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel, and goes down into the dungeon to them, and there first falls to rating of them as if they were dogs, although they never gave him a word of distaste.
