Its very language is borrowed from the art, and it is singularly suggestive that the initiation of a candidate into its mysteries is called, in its peculiar phraseology, work.
The steps of this Winding Staircase commenced, we are informed, at the porch of the temple; that is to say, at its very entrance.
How is it that it has thus become so intimately interwoven with Freemasonry as to make, to all appearances, a part of its very essence, and to have been always deemed inseparable from it?
I knew then that it was her soul I loved most; I had been swept all unwittingly to its very altar.
In vain he groped to reconstruct the process by which that other spirit--which he would fain have believed his true spirit--had been drugged and deadened in its very flight.
In war a people struggle with the energy of a single man against foreign nations, in the defence of its very existence.
In Spain certain provinces had the right of establishing a system of customhouse duties peculiar to themselves, although that privilege belongs, byits very nature, to the national sovereignty.
The foreign policy of the United States is reduced by its very nature to await the chances of the future history of the nation; and for the present it consists more in abstaining from interference than in exerting its activity.
Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant, and this stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation, its very dust is shared as a relic; and what is become of the gateways of a thousand palaces?
The first is to weaken the supreme power in its very principle, by forbidding or preventing society from acting in its own defence under certain circumstances.
The moderation of Caesar, well calculated even in its very semblance of excess, attained its object: the trembling anxiety of the propertied classes as to the impending anarchy was in some measure allayed.
Then, the pity of it, that a mind like hers should be withering inits very youth, like a young forest-tree, for want of the light and space it was formed to flourish in!
Its very turning in the lock awoke a hollow sound, and when she entered with a faltering step, the echoes that it raised in closing, made her start.
Well, its very kind of him, and I thank him heartily.
In her ignorance she thought it the worst day she had ever had, the most tormented; and when she went to bed she sought comfort in its very badness by telling herself that it was over and could never come again.
Who wants to be a flame, doomed to be blown out by the same gust of wind that has first fanned it to its very brightest?
Changing its sheen and texture, the feel of its air, its very scent, from day to day.
She had still that way of a child raising its eyes very quickly and looking straight at you with an eager innocence that hides everything by its very wonder; and when those eyes looked down they seemed closed--their dark lashes were so long.
Its very priority in mention may imply that it was but a means to an end, a part of the equipment for the true and proper work of preaching the coming of the kingdom and its King.
The narrative in Luke's gospel, in its very brevity, does yet distinctly suggest that retrospective and valedictory tone.
Wherefore, since fear implies an avoidance, in the first place and of its very nature it regards evil as its proper object.
And such like good is no better for lasting long or for ever: its goodness depends onits very nature.
I answer that, Hope of its very nature is a help to action by making it more intense: and this for two reasons.
But an end, inits very name, implies something that is last.
The "Immovable East" has been moved at last--moved toits very depths.
For, in its veryhour of apparent triumph, Western domination was challenged as never before.
Yet Mahdism, by its very nature, could effect nothing constructive or permanent.
Here he had in his mind the most false notions of poetry, which he had evidently imagined to be an art despising simplicity--whereas simplicity is its very soul.
And when all its glories are visibly crumbling into dust, it creates some imaginary power to overthrow the fabrics of human greatness--and thus attempts to derive a kind of mournful triumph even in its very fall.
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