Indeed what could better prepare them for the supreme sacrifice and for a death nobly met than these prayers, this music and even these flowers?
It is scarcely a week since I met in a lobby at General Headquarters a smart and resolute blue hussar, who, after having saluted correctly, stood looking at me, not venturing to address me, but surprised that I did not speak to him.
And that is the reason why I met on my way those inestimable troops, alert and fresh, miraculously revived, who were on their way to the front to continue the holy struggle.
Yesterday in one of the forts of Paris garrisoned by our sailors, I met an old naval petty officer who, in former days, had on two or three occasions sailed under my orders.
He met her at Dunoon the Fair Week, and I've seen her monument.
He was not to be met on the accustomed streets, and St Kentigern's Kirk having been closed since July for alterations and repairs, it was useless to go there in search of its beadle.
It was with the joy of a man who has made up his mind he has lost a sovereign and finds it weeks after in the lining of his waistcoat, I unexpectedly met Erchie on Saturday.
On the following day I met Erchie taking the air in the neighbourhood of his new domicile, and smoking a very magnificent meerschaum pipe.
Once I met Duffy, and asked him what had become of the old man.
I met him comin' hame wi' his Sunday claes on, and the three pound ten he got for the horse.
Three years ago I met Giessler at the meeting of the British Association, and, though he denied it, he was palpably aging.
But not having met us they will naturally conclude that we have gone on toward Caracas.
For a considerable distance it ran between a double row of magnificent mimosa-trees which met overhead at a height of fully one hundred and fifty feet, making a glorious canopy of green leaves and rustling branches.
As, moreover, most of the men I met had served in the Peninsular war, we had quite enough to talk about without touching on topics whose discussion might have been incompatible with good fellowship.
I did not, of course, take this assurance literally, and had I not been on the right side, I should doubtless have met with a very different reception.
The next time I met Mr. Fortescue was at Harlow Bush.
Nearly every civilian whom I met in the streets was in mourning.
Layers of dust met the eye everywhere, and there was a perfect network of dangling spiders' webs in all the corners.
I accidentally met him in Galicia, where he was pursuing his secret plans.
Every time I met him I used to say to him: 'Well, what do you say to our fighting our duel now?
Soon after arrived the colors taken by General Washington with that array, which were brought by Colonel Humphreys to Chester, there met by Colonel Tilghman, and thence conducted hither by those two Aid-de-Camps of the General.
I hope you may have met with the success due to your zeal and abilities; I shall ask no greater.
I hope this may have been the case, for if she sailed on the 1st of March, according to my orders, she must have metwith some unfortunate accident.
The applications have met with inattention, which personally I have disregarded, but which I could not but feel, from the consequences involved in it.
Mr Gorham and Mr Hamilton, two members of a committee of Congress for conferring with the Secretary of War, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and myself, relative to disbanding the army, met this morning.
The sums drawn on him may be met by sales of the bills.
Her eyes met his, and a vivid flush overspread her face, but she said nothing.
She sprang up and ran to the nursery stairs, but the scorching flames met her, and she retreated to the window, shrieking for help, only to get a glimpse of someone through the smoke climbing toward her.
To-day I met the most miserable looking cripple sliding along without any limbs.
For two days no letter came, and then Mr. Hayden received two, which he handed to the girls as he met them on the street the same evening.
That question had puzzled me more than all else, and I asked every healer whom I metas to the correct solution.
Hang it all--I'm getting blisteringly tired of the modern refinements in crime, and yearn for the period when the highwayman met you on the road and made you stand and deliver at the point of the pistol.
Thus did I permit myself to be persuaded, and the next afternoon at five, Holmes and I met in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
I did not see Raffles Holmes again for five days, and then I met him only by chance, nor should I have known it was he had he not made himself known to me.
We havemet before, I think,' said Raffles, coldly, as his eye fell upon Holmes.
His jaw was set, set hard; she could see the powerful maxillary muscles knotted there where the throat-cords met the angle of the bone.
Their lips met again and for a time the girl's heart throbbed on his.
Another rush, met by a paying-out, a gradual tautening of the line, a strong and steady pull.
In point of tactics, the twentieth century met the tenth.
Barbarians as the folk still were, they met with a vociferous affection.
Their lips, long hungry for this madness, met there and blended in a kiss of passion and of joy.
Her arms went round his neck; their lips met and thrilled in a long kiss.
It would be hard to describe accurately the picture thatmet his eyes.
Her eyes met his a moment by the ruddy fire-glow and held true.
Their eyesmet and held true, there in the golden glory of the dawn.
And as the smith whirled to recover, a terrible left-hander met him just below the short ribs.
But though they ascended till the aneroid showed eight thousand five hundred feet, nothing met their gaze but the same pearly blue vapor which veiled the mystery before them.
And as he faced her, there in the tomblike vault, their eyes met silently.
Through the wind-swayed branches, little flickering patches of morning sunlight met his gaze, as they played and quivered on the forest moss or over the sere pine-spills.
Strong of body and of nerve as he was, he could not help but shudder at the numberless traces of sudden and pitiless death which methis gaze.
I therefore left a message for her that I had gone on, and, finding the street clear, met Sperry at his door-step.
Candle in hand, I stepped out into the hail, and was immediately met by a crash which reverberated through the house.
Why, this is the oddest genius of the sort I ever met with!
Well you can see him in another Room--Sir Peter and I haven't met a long time and I have something to say [to] him.
I have nevermet her," Hubbard said, and saw Dyall relax.
Then Emrys said, more calmly, "If that's so, why did everything change when I met Megan?
He showed him the bad policy of raising one state to a superiority over all the rest, which would deprive his master of all his allies, and oblige him to contend alone with the whole power of Greece.
The complaints of the oppressed provincials were incessant; but every governour had his friends amongst the leading men, whom he secured by a share of the plunder, and the weight of their whole interest was applied to screen the criminal.
Valerius laid this demand before the senate, and gave his opinion that the favour should be granted, and Appius, as usual, opposed it with outrageous fury.
Publick virtue then existed in its full force, and zeal for the national glory was the great spur to action.
The genius of nations differs perhaps as much as their climate and situation, which seem (at least in some degree) to be the natural cause of that difference.
He concluded by seconding the motion of Menenius for sending ambassadours to put a speedy end to the sedition upon the best terms they should be able to obtain.
When I consider the constitution of our own country, I cannot but think it the best calculated for promoting the happiness, and preserving the lives, liberty, and property of mankind, of any yet recorded in profane history.
The Athenians, sensible of their folly, displaced Chares, and gave the command to Phocion.
A plain proof that a multiplicity of rigorous penal laws are not only incompatible with the liberty of a free state, but even repugnant to human nature.
The very first proposalmet with so violent an opposition from the men of fortune, that a fray ensued, in which Lycurgus lost one of his eyes.
Agesistrata met death with the resolution of an old Spartan heroine, praying only that this whole affair might not prove prejudicial to her country.
Pisander at first met with violent opposition from the people;[118] and the enemies of Alcibiades in particular clamoured loudly against the violation of the laws, when his return was proposed, which they chiefly dreaded.
I have chiefly followed Livy in his beautiful relation of this affair, as the description he gives of this unhappy object, is not only much more striking than that of Dionysius, but one of the most pathetick I ever met with in history.
This accounts for the different reception which commerce met with in the two nations.
As persuasions had no effect, the senate metupon the occasion.
Marlborough received from Bolingbroke, the English Hanno, parallel to that which the victorious Hannibal met with from the Carthaginian, after the battle of Cannae?
We may conclude that the ambassadors met with as disagreeable a reception from the Carthaginian senate as they had done from Hannibal, and that he received orders from Carthage to proceed in his intended expedition.
I went out of doors feeling that London must be a very terrible place, if the folk there went about counting all whomet them as possible enemies.
I lingered there for some few minutes, looking at the ships, wondering why it was that Mr. Jermyn had not met me.
We seem to have met before," she said, "more than once.
But later a convention met at Harrodsburg and employed four evangelists; that was in 1857.
So they have met at last, the preacher and the singer.
I am thankful that I ever met you, and that we have learned to sympathize with each other.
He went into the adjacent country to practice, without having ever met the missionaries.
We have met a few storms, but the Captain said, 'Peace be still.
Some time before the Sidney experience, Mr. Carr met Smith on the street, and the young man grasped the minister's hand, while the tears shone in his eyes.
I sigh for the dear ones, That met me each morn at the door; I shall miss the goodnights and the kisses.
We may state parenthetically, that the reason the present writer never again met Mrs. Carr, though she often returned on visits to St. Louis, is because Dr.
The Christians metfrom house to house; the "disciples" in the old frame building at the corner of South Main and Depot streets, nearly opposite the public square.
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