To a spirit less meek and brave, the darker shades of the picture would have obscured these cheerful gleams; for the situation was lonely and the inconveniences innumerable.
Costeclar in presence of each other,--the one as imperious and haughty as she had seen him meek and trembling; the other more humble still than he was arrogant with her.
Thaller condescended to receive them; and they became at once as meek as lambs.
His words here ended; but his meek aspect Silent yet spake, and breathed immortal love To mortal men, above which only shone Filial obedience: as a sacrifice Glad to be offered, he attends the will Of his great Father.
O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who well had sacrificed; Is piety thus and pure devotion paid?
Her surpassing beauty, her unconscious superiority, her attainments, her trembling simplicity and modesty and her meek purity of mind.
The Good Shepherd exercises care, which absolves the sheep from care, and in the present case means that my only duty is meek following and quiet trust.
Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
Honeysuckle, whose trustful, meek heart he had once so cruelly derided.
The aunt little knew that this meek well-behaved maiden was giving the first warp to that upright truth that had been the one sterling point of Kate's character!
I look to Thee, Thou shalt my example be; Thou art gentle, meek and mild; Thou wast once a little child.
Be patient, Be prayerful, Be humble, Be mild, Be wise as a Solon, Be meek as a child.
Then with true Siberian politeness, and without a word of apology, the gorgon turned upon him, a small meek man, who was utterly powerless to compete with this dread vision of the night.
This will be no place for a quiet, meek soul like me!
Subdued by sorrow and watching, she was touchingly meek and resigned, enduring with the patience of real faith, and only speaking to entreat that Mr. Fulmort would pray with her for her poor child.
I believe I did say it crossly, and I am sorry I denied it,' and poor Sarah's voice was low and meek enough.
I'll put on my lilac muslin with the innocent little frill, and do my hair under his favourite net, and look like such a horrid little meek ringdove that he will be perfectly disgusted with himself for having ever taken me for a fishing eagle.
Bertha stood up for her rights, declaring that what mamma and Miss Fennimore allowed, she would not give up for Juliana; but the only result was an admonition to the governess, and a fierce remonstrance to the poor meek mother.
I remember you were always meek and forgiving--you forgive me now, my poor mother?
Listen to Christ's own words: 'Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
If you was as meek as Moses and twice as good you couldn't stand me much longer;" and the poor fellow felt that there was considerable truth in the remark.
Rab behaved well, never moving, showing us how meek and gentle he could be, and occasionally, in his sleep, letting us know that he was demolishing some adversary.
Mr. Accleton, who was a meek man, being sent down by his wife to reconnoitre the parlour fire, came back and reported that it was "dead out.
Three or four times a year he would make trips to Toronto or New York, drink gloriously, spend hundreds of dollars, and return home meek and dutiful, almost praying Annette not to say what he knew was in her mind.
Be thou meek in heart, in word, and in deed; Think not that thou wouldst any man over lead; Be soft and lowly in speech to every wight; And use none array that staring is to sight!
Yet, if he be detected, poor soul, he will be Harlowed-off, as well as his meek mistress.
The meek will he guide in judgment; and the meek he will teach his way.
You allow that before his conversion he persecuted unto death the "weak and defenceless disciples of the meek and lowly Jesus.
Now he must stand idle, in meek submission, while his sworn enemies burned his cabin and filled the air with their curses because they could not find the object of their vengeance and tear him to pieces bit by bit.
Once I was a raging lion, to-day I am meek and lowly.
But Mr. Meek had his own ideas respecting his daughter's career, and Mrs. Meek had long since ceased to voice her own.
I know no one more charitable," said Mrs. Meek warmly.
Mr. Meek could provide the labour at a moment's notice for the work of digging out the imprisoned couple, and to him she went direct.
Mr. Meek sat apart, bowed with depression, his face lined and haggard with grief.
Mr. Meek is so narrow-minded and autocratic in domestic life.
In the case of the former, he inspired more fear than respect, and Mr. Meek could tell of mischievous rumours afloat which he had done his best to dispel so far as his influence went.
Mr. Meek is a Methodist who came out some years ago and married a school friend of my mother's.
I have just come from Mrs. Meek who is prostrated with grief.
The coffin, made of packing cases and covered with black calico, was carried by pastors, and the service was conducted by Mr. Meek himself, who scourged himself to perform the pathetic task as a penance to his soul.
I fear I shall get into trouble, but the Meeks could not afford more than one nurse and Mrs. Meek and I were both worn out.
Mr. Meek had learned a great deal more from his converts of the sayings of the villagers and their feeling against Captain Dalton, all of which Mrs. Meek recounted to Honor in order that she might put the doctor on his guard.
Though Mrs. Meek had not seen her daughter for the best years of her childhood, her love for her had become the absorbing passion of her life.
The Bible begins with a meek Moses who teaches by saying "The Lord said unto Moses," and it comes to its climax in a lowly and radiant man who dies on a cross to say "I and the Father are one.
Having with my whole heart recourse to humility and approved rules I serve my meek and truthful lords ever observant of virtue, regarding them as poisonous snakes capable of being excited at a trifle.
Thereat, bashfully bowing down unto her father's feet, the meek maid went out without hesitation, in compliance with the words of her sire.
If you are a meeklady they snub you, and if you are undecided they give you bad advice.
One would like to offer up a meek plea for originality were one not aware how unpopular it would be.
