So, altogether, Bob was satisfied that he had come through the ordeal in a manner that demanded thankfulness to a protecting Providence.
You will then enter on the ordeal you desire, but remember that, in doing so, you must reduce Being as far as possible into Mind.
You are to undergo anordeal which Mejnour himself does not profess to describe as a very tempting one.
Your mind is fevered by a desire for truth: you would compel it to your embraces; you would ask me to impart to you, without ordeal or preparation, the grandest secrets that exist in Nature.
The most terrible part of the ordeal is in the temptations that our power affords to the criminal.
I leave thee for one month; if at the end of that period, when I return, the tasks set thee are completed, and thy mind prepared by contemplation and austere thought for the ordeal, I promise thee the ordeal shall commence.
Didst thou not foresee that, until the ordeal was past, there could be no equality between thy wisdom and her love?
If, on the contrary, she fall to me, I know not what may be her lot; but I know that there is an ordeal which few can pass, and which hitherto no woman has survived.
Take away the doctrine of another life, of requital hereafter, of the smile of a Father upon our sufferings and trials in our ordeal here, and what becomes of patience?
For an ordeal that the most daring courage only can encounter, the most ethereal natures alone survive!
Thou knowest that for the pure and unsullied infant spirit, the ordeal has no terror and no peril.
Thine ordeal has been the easiest that neophyte ever knew.
At last I recognise the true ordealand the real victory.
It is for these reasons that we are not only solemnly bound to administer our lore only to those who will not misuse and pervert it, but that we place our ordeal in tests that purify the passions and elevate the desires.
Now that her ordeal was over, she felt how severe had been the strain of those weeks of unaccustomed hard work.
To play such an important piece as the "Fruehlingslied", which needed to be accompanied by a full orchestra, was indeed an ordeal for a girl hardly sixteen years of age.
It was a decided ordealto face all the monitresses, even though Mildred was one of them, and she felt it humiliating to be obliged to confess her failure.
A few favoured brains in the form enjoyed them, but the majority, including Lesbia, heaved sighs of relieved emancipation when the inky ordeal was at last over.
The ordeal of her first lesson was over, and, though things had not gone altogether smoothly, she had managed the form by herself, and had not been obliged to call in the assistance of any other teacher to read the riot act.
To deliver a lesson under the eye of the Principal was an ordeal for any junior assistant mistress even if she were well prepared.
Once had he passed through the fire; to suffer that ordeal again was beyond human endurance.
This turned to an ordeal for Piers what would otherwise have been a pleasure, his call upon John Jacks.
He had, as yet, hardly glanced at her; he durst not; his ordealwas to be gone through as became a man.
There followed a few words about the beauty of spring in the moorland; then: "Your ordeal approaches.
Well, since it must be, the sooner the ordeal is over the better," said Suwanee, with increasing irritation.
I shall not have any rest of mind till this ordeal is over.
The contemplation of these encouragements fortified her until the return of her jailors, and during the ordeal of being swept through congested traffic by the side of a Nicolai Sergieevitch Epifanoff, in a bright red motor car.
The ordeal on the first Indictment was very short; for, at the Judge's bidding, the Jury acquitted me of trying to murder Corporal Foss before I had been ten minutes in the dock.
But I declare that I had neither art not part in fitting the thumbscrews to the Spanish captain, and putting the boatswain and his mate to the ordeal of flogging and pickling.
According to Kaegi this ordeal would appear to be unknown in Europe before the ninth century.
Although Tacitus mentions the same ordeal among the Germans, it is not early Indic law, not being known to any of the ancient legal codes.
The girl has her own ordeal (not generally mentioned among ordeals!
When one adopts the oath as an ordeal the misfortune of the guilty is supposed to come 'quickly.
As an offset to the later Indic tendency to lighten the severity of the ordeal may be mentioned the description of the floating-test as seen by a Chinese traveller in India in the seventh century A.
Walking on Fire: There is no ordeal in India to correspond to the Teutonic walking over six, nine, or twelve hot ploughshares.
Meg was going through the ordeal that her friend had set for her, and she strung herself to endurance.
Grettir told him everything exactly as it was, and declared that they were all alive when he escaped with his fire; he was ready to undergo any ordeal which the king considered that the law required.
But a little later, when he had developed the picture of the fox, and found it to be a fine one, he forgot his anger and the ordeal he had gone through, for Sid was a true naturalist.
In that time most of the students had settled in their new rooms, the freshmen found their places, some were properly hazed, and that ordeal for others was postponed until a future date, much to the misery of the fledglings.
Sylvia knew not only of the ordeal of the morrow, but also of that nightmare dread of what might have to follow.
Downstairs in the dining-room Miss Munns had been consulting with Whitey as to how the patient was to be prepared for the ordeal of to-morrow, and by whom the news should be broken.
The hair- cutting ordeal had tired her out, and there was, besides, a deep-seated wearing pain in one foot and ankle which made her long to lie still and rest.
The prejudice against the employment of the latter power had even increased since the Liverpool and Manchester Bill underwent its first ordeal in the House of Commons.
It is not necessary to state that to have passed through his severe ordeal scatheless needed no small amount of courage, intelligence, and ready shrewdness on the part of the witness.
Still he persisted, "They who pass through the ordeal of purification come forth with limitless vision and with mental powers unbounded.
What rendered the battle so severe an ordeal to the nerves was the new conditions under which it was fought.
This done, the little force waited for the lifting of the mist, when the ordeal of battle would begin, and when for the first time the exact situation could be discerned.
I had the ordeal by torture, which done me good, and I been whar Moses went, and the Lord Christ too, seeking the medicine of the Almighty Father.
Footnote 33: Hallam says, "It appears as if the ordeal were permitted to persons already convicted by this verdict of a jury.
This idea is corroborated by the fact that the trial by ordeal was specially prohibited only four years after Magna Carta, "by act of Parliament in 3 Henry III.
He expected to meet Ida at the table, and the ordeal of meeting the woman to whom he was pledged in the presence of the woman he loved was like the ancient Trial by Fire.
His first impression, that Miss Burton had passed through some experience, some ordeal of suffering that separated her from ordinary humanity, often reasserted itself more strongly than ever.
The poor girl had looked steadily at Miss Burton while speaking, but the moment the ordeal was over her lip quivered like that of a child, and she hastily left the table.
The result, certainly, had not been brought about as he expected, nor in a way tending to increase his self-complacency, but he felt that he would be a broader and better man for the ordealthrough which he had passed.
