He would tell him everything, he would reveal his hapless position in the plainest terms, and he would beg for an immediate temporary loan of money, which he would promise to faithfully repay when the cloud was lifted from his house.
Many a struggling man never discovered to whom he was indebted for the timely assistance which lifted him out of his troubles, and started him on the high road to prosperity; many a widow had cause to bless this mysterious dispenser of good.
Part of the responsibility seemed to be alreadylifted from her shoulders.
In the course of this mental debate he was plunged at times into the lowest depths of self-abasement; but the strength of his character and the serious issues at stake lifted him out of these depths.
You are acting like a sensible man, and you havelifted yourself out of your difficulties.
Now that the weight of a secret sin was lifted from his heart he had no fears of poverty.
They would have been spared the suffering of despairing days, the horrors of a despairing death; they would have been lifted from the gulf of shame and ignominy.
Hats were lifted to them, women and children left flowers at their door; rich was the harvest they gathered for their charity.
With feverish haste he lifted the little hand, the head, the body, and for all the response he received he might have been handling an image of stone.
I now lifted up my heart to the Lord, beseeching Him to give me grace to give up my own will in this thing.
I knew that there would be money needed this morning, for many things in the Orphan-Houses, and my heart was therefore lifted up to the Lord.
He lifted an arm of the inert figure at his feet; when he released the grip, it flopped limply back to the deck again.
One of them, iron-hard, suddenly coiled under his armpit and lifted him lightly as a feather from the deck.
One long tentacle lifted slowly upward, and their captors at once started towards the throne with them.
Faster and faster ran the podokos, their long and scale-covered necks stretched far out ahead while their tails lifted correspondingly, much like that of an airplane about to take off.
The monarch stretched a mighty arm towards Keith, and, as in a dream, he felt himself lifted out of his guard's grasp.
The blunt bow lifted where the sun made dazzling brilliance of her sweeping curves, and with a blast that thundered from her stern the first unit of the space forces of the Earth swept upward in an arc of speed that ended in invisibility.
A woodworker by trade, he had as a youthlifted himself out of the ruck of his party by energy, ambition, hard work and straightforwardness.
The edict lifted the "state of siege," which had existed since the outbreak of the war.
All that was sweet and wise, shone in her heavenly eyes, and their light lifted her higher than all his thoughts; they were so soft and deep and compelling.
And the squire laughed good-humoredly, lifted his cap, and in their sight dropped five gold sovereigns into it.
With these words, the kind-hearted, scrupulously honorable gentleman lifted his hat, and as he did so, fifty paper caps were lifted as if by one hand and the men who wore them rose as one man.
Her hair was dressed in the mode, lifted high and loosely, and confined by an exquisite comb of carved ivory; the frontal curls were pushed behind the ears, but fell in bright luxuriance almost to her belt.
With lifted caps, they went away in the stillness of that happiness, which the language of earth has not one word to represent.
He could not resist the lifted paper cap of the humblest man and his lofty stature and dignified carriage won everyone's notice.
In whatever direction I looked there was nothing but high brick mills, with enormously lofty chimneys lifted up into the smoky atmosphere.
And as he took it every man lifted his paper cap above his head, and gave him a hearty cheer, and no man in England was happier at that moment than Antony Annis, Squire of Annis and Deeping Hollow.
His humour was gratified; and, laughing boisterously, he lifted the messenger from the ground.
Meanwhile his master lifted up one of the grey stones, took a bundle from beneath it, and equipped himself in such a suit as a trooper of Campbell's regiment usually wore.
And he lifted a parcel carefully sealed, and addressed to Donald.
He reached it, lifted the latch, and remembered no more until he found his mother and Jeanie hanging over him and chafing his benumbed limbs.
But one day as they were labouring and rolling, the ship straining and cordage creaking, Thorbeorn lifted his head, and bore hard upon the helm.
Thorstan thereupon liftedher up in his arms, and carried her into the room where Thorstan Ericsson lay.
He knew no more where he was than Einar himself could tell them; he lost count of days and nights, but estimated that he was three weeks at sea before the fog lifted and he saw the stars.
When helifted up the Host, she bowed her head, and used to hear her heart beating.
At last the fog lifted a little, and a light and fitful wind began to blow--from what quarter they had no means of knowing, but it was a chill wind.
Comedy but rarely touches these holy men; yet one may see in Moscow albums an amusing sketch of this gifted and fascinating man being lifted into higher place upon ladies' skirts.
One poor fellow, having no feet, has to be lifted on board the boat.
Then would they pray till the sun, darting his rays through the vapor, Lifted the smoke from the earth and baffled the witch's intentions.
Twice and again, but all in vain He lifted up his wail; His voice was all the pup could lift, For thereby hangs this tale.
In another five seconds he had lifted the supercargo up, thrown him over his left shoulder, and was running down to the boats.
We had him lifted up on deck and then carried into the cabin in a brace of shakes, and I saw that he had a bullet wound in his shoulder; the ball had gone clean through.
For fully ten seconds not the faintest indication proved that the husband had heard, except that he lifted his bridle-hand, and the well-trained pony stopped.
Once at the fire, one of the men seized the tightened rope in one hand, reached well over the animal's back to get a slack of the loose hide next the belly, lifted strongly, and tripped.
A new strength ran through me, and actually the grey mist thinned and lifted for a moment, until I could make out dimly the line of cliffs and the tumbling sea.
Then, too, I was ruffled, in the senseless manner of youth, by the sudden altitude to which his changed fortunes had lifted him.
The waiter had come up, and with the giant's help lifted Carucci; and between them they half carried him to a doorway at the side of the room.
Oh, it wasn't the pain;" she smiled with lifted eyes.
We rode through the river into the wood, and found the spot where the savages had lifted their prisoners over the fence, and led them to its northern end.
I rose on one knee, cautiously lifted my rifle, and aimed as well as I could for the darkness, at the object whose indistinct outline now covered nearly the whole bush.
I then hacked the ribs with the axe, lifted the entire side up, which broke the hacked ribs, and thus opened the interior of the animal, like lifting a trap door.
No sooner had the savages seized the three young men in the field than they bound them, liftedthem over the fence, and then carried them to their horses.
I sprang on the beast's back, held it between my knees tightly, and lifted it into the shallow water while it lashed its tail madly.
He lifted his eyes, from which the tears were flowing, and raised himself from the earth.
He lifted his eyes and they fell on the magistrate; from him they wandered to Doctor Louis; from him they wandered to me.
Was the man's body," I inquired of the constable, "lifted from this spot?
He did not meet violence with violence; after a pause he gently lifted Eric's hands from his shoulders, and with a sad look turned away, Eric gazing at his retreating figure in a kind of bewilderment.
We liftedhim on to the bed,--a featherweight he was to lift.
Each graft is lifted with forceps or the fingers and applied with the cut surface downward, and then is carefully unfolded by means of two probes and stretched evenly over the surface.
Double clubfoot is usually accompanied by an awkward and unsteady gait, in which each foot is in turn lifted high to clear the foot on the ground, and the toeing in is, of course, excessive.
If the epidermis only is lifted up there is quick, scarless healing, but in the majority of cases the deeper tissues are involved.
By tightening these sutures, over a button or metal plate, the ulcer can be lifted from the underlying tissues.
She lifted two startled blue eyes to my face and her lips began to tremble.
My mother, with lifted brows, made surprised assent.
The grandsire had justlifted his head and was about to deliver his beautiful speech of trust and hope, when he was stricken helpless by the entrance upon the stage of a boldly advancing small person of most amazing appearance.
Its isolation dominated the last effort with which I made for the line of the Jura in that summer twilight, and as I blundered on my whole spirit was caught or lifted in the influence of the waste waters and of the birds of evening.
At the foot of the hill I prepared to enter the city, and I lifted up my heart.
That cheating gloom (which I think the clouds in purgatory must reflect) lifted from the valley as though to a slow order given by some calm and good influence that was marshalling in the day.
The mist rolled over them, hiding their summits and making them seem infinitely lifted up and reaching endlessly into the thick sky; the straight, tenuous lines of the rain made them seem narrower still.
Half a dozen will sometimes alight about some object out on the commons, and, with their broad dusky wings lifted up to their full extent, threaten and chase each other, while perhaps one or two are feeding.
As we were eagerly waiting some movement to confirm this impression, it lifted up its head, and lo!
Later in the day, when I had penetrated the heart of the old Barkpeeling, I came suddenly upon one singing from a low stump, and for a wonder he did not seem alarmed, but lifted up his divine voice as if his privacy was undisturbed.
In the margin of the pond we found the pitcher-plant growing, and here and there in the sand the closed gentian lifted up its blue head.
Dan will be a fine squire in Ameriky," but the priest only stroked his hand as it twitched and lifted on the coverlet.
Briley sentimentally, as he lifted her down, and helped her up again to the front seat.
The boy lifted his burden lightly, and turned with an eager smile to say farewell.
She was doing constant kindness by her example; but nobody can tell the woe of her long days and nights, the solitude of her spirit, as she was being lifted by such hard ways to the knowledge of higher truth and experience.
He lifted his fine head and gazed absently a moment at the wall before him.
She lifted her heavy lids and gave Louise a dull glance, which she let a sudden recognition burn through for a moment and then quenched.
They lifted the dead man under the arms, bent him into a sitting posture and let him down into the pit, gently, his hands folded in front of him.
Alice lifted her face out of the sponge stuff and began to study the buttons again.
With blazing eyes Sandoval stepped forward and lifted his sword as a signal for the combat to cease.
Then they severed the cruel bonds and lifted him tenderly into the open air, where the sightless face instinctively turned toward the glowing noonday sun.
Whereupon Huetzin suddenly threw his arms about her, lifted her lightly from the ground, kissed her full on the lips, and set her gently down again.
Tlahuicol, who had fallen to his knees with the force of his last effort, lifted his drooping head and looked to where Huetzin struggled in the grasp of two brawny priests.
As Huetzin, stepping into the canoe, lifted the lad to an easier position, a filmy scarf wound about his head, fell off, and a wealth of auburn hair tumbled over his shoulders.
At this juncture the curtains were torn aside, and the terrified girl was lifted from her soft nest in a pair of strong arms.
The rope, so arranged, was lifted some six inches above the surface of the road.
So it has ever been with me; in hard exercise, in sensuous pleasure, in the embrace of the sunlight, even in the drinking of a glass of wine, my heart has been lifted the higher towards perfection of soul.
Sometimes the wind came through the tops of the elms, and the slender boughs bent, and gazing up through them, and beyond the fleecy clouds, I felt lifted up.
The immense time liftedme like a wave rolling under a boat; my mind seemed to raise itself as the swell of the cycles came; it felt strongwith the power of the ages.
They lifted me--they gave me fresh vigour of soul.
The life of the earth and the sea, the glow of the sun filled me; I touched the surge with my hand, I lifted my face to the sun, I opened my lips to the wind.
In the rush and roar of the stormy wind the same exaltation, the same desire, lifted me for a moment.
Seeing it thus clearly, and lifted out of the moment by the force of seventeen centuries, I recognised the full mystery and the depths of things in the roots of the dry grass on the wall, in the green sea flowing near.
On the contrary,the less there has been accomplished the more anxious I am; the truth it teaches is that the mind must belifted out of its old grooves before anything will be certainly begun.
She knocked loudly at his door, and lifted up her voice to make him hear, and Stephen shouted; but there was no answer.
