I had no desire to mortify Madame Piquette, but I was inclined to regret little Aunt Riflot at that moment.
Therefore mortify thy vanity, as soon as possible, or I shall be talking, and thou wilt be walking through this livelong night, to scanty purpose.
In these cases the legs and feet of the patient began to swell and mortify at the expiration fo three or four days; men are said to have lived in this state for a fortnight, and at last they expired from fatigue and mortification.
We’re here upon earth to mortify the flesh, not to indulge it.
In her heart of hearts, Miss Glover desired some horrible penance which would thoroughly mortify her flesh.
The best and most devoted men make mistakes; but it is perfectly certain that the more we are enabled, through grace, to mortify our own will, the fewer our mistakes will be.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Rochester, whose motive in patronising Otway at this time was solely a desire tomortify Dryden.
When I am old and weary of the world, I may grow desperate, And take a wife to mortify withal.
You have reason to mortify me and reproach me in recalling all the troubles I caused you, and especially that which you call treachery, the sale of your books, of which in part I was not guilty .
But your kings do not allow so small a thing to vex or mortify them.
You are the first man who ever saw her face: do not mortify her so much; do her the favour to look upon her, to speak to her, and confirm her in her good intentions to satisfy you in every thing.
It is far better to mortify the body through the spirit than the spirit through the body.
Let us see what the Bible says about covetousness:-- "Mortify therefore your members .
You are the first man that ever saw her face; do not, then, mortify her so much.
From this moment Fisher forgot all De Grey's former kindness, and considered only how he could in his turn mortify the person whom he felt to be so much his superior.
And it would really mortifyher to lose this prize--you know that she proposed it herself.
The Swedish brother told me that he was this winter taking a turn at milking--to mortify the flesh, I imagine, for he had never done this in his own home; and he used neither milk nor butter.
Moreover, they mortifythe body by early rising and by very plain living.
Indeed I won't, my dear; I am resolv'd to mortify you for being so wrongfully fond of a trifle.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye, through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Likewise afflictions are inflicted because of present sin, since in the saints they mortify and extinguish concupiscence, so that they may be renewed by the Spirit, as Paul says, Rom.
Lord Treasurer and the Secretary thought to mortify me; for they told me they had been talking a great deal of me to-day to the Queen, and she said she had never heard of me.
They were of opinion that in his turn the King, in order to mortify her and reduce her to terms, should not visit the Queen on the following night.
The frequent fetes, the private promenades at Versailles, the journeys, were means on which the King seized in order to distinguish or mortify the courtiers, and thus render them more assiduous in pleasing him.
I have studied how best to mortify in them the worldly sentiment of pride; and, only the other day, I had a pleasing proof of my success.
We mortify our bodies only to offer them at last a living sacrifice of rational service.
Over and over again I was on the point of saying "Not at home" to these interminably wearisome visitations, but refrained, out of sheer good nature and unwillingness to mortify my visitant.
But how could I know that she was pretty and lady-like, and would not mortify a man with her blunders?
The devout women of the present day attend Mass, mortify themselves in comfortable chairs, pray kneeling upon cushions, and sweep the dust of the sanctuary with their trains.
