With a groan of fear the great fellow flung himself upon his knees, not to the head-priest who questioned him, but before the quivering shape of our guide, and to her put up half-articulate prayers for mercy.
Tell me, that at least my prayers may accompany you.
It was a monastery, for old monks dronedprayers upon its terrace.
In any case I cannot change the whole spiritual economy of Heaven with my poor prayers and confessions.
The very reviews I wrote were, in a sense, remote love letters, foreign prayersto your strange soul.
And not all the prayers in heaven can save a little white moth from her candle, once she has felt it shining upon her wings.
I have had what father calls a "revelation," when he is about to construe life for me according to theprayers he has said.
One who feels that answers to our prayers have been granted, asks that we still pray that the use of his limbs may be restored and that a beloved mother may long be spared to him.
He said he had been praying months to learn if the petition in itself were not acceptable to God, and had, he thought, studied a hundred prayers in the Bible, comparing his prayer with the acceptable and unacceptable prayers of the old saints.
She had kept it out of her prayers ever since she had thought of it.
One night at prayers she surprised them all by saying suddenly and vehemently: "I don't care if Peter was so wicked; I like him better than anybody in the whole Bible.
I placed the lamp, burning brightly, on the floor in the hall opposite my door, leaving the door wide open, then I lay down, and said my prayers in bed.
Our prayers are earnestly asked for an aged man, who has lost the home of his childhood, that he may feel that God does it for the best and may love God.
Then how can the men give thanks in their prayers that they are not born women?
And you were not behaving very well atprayers this morning, were you?
The fact that he had bearded a contemptible old beast like Jaegers was rather in his favour than otherwise, but his assertion that he did not say his prayers and knew nothing about God smacked of superiority.
You're nearly ten, and you can't read and you don't say yourprayers and your catechism and you know nothing about God Almighty.
They are to be found chiefly in the much later pages of the Sadder, where fifteen different genuflexions and prayers are required of the devout Persian every time he cuts his finger-nails!
After which they scourged themselves, chanting psalms and uttering prayers for deliverance from the plague.
Hymns and prayers are their principal forms of worship.
He knew the Scriptures by heart, and recited them after his prayers and psalms as if GOD were present.
It is impossible to believe that both these prayerscome from the same source; "sweet waters and bitter" do not alike flow from the fountain of Marah.
Dieffenbach doubts the common statement that the prayers are often without meaning, while agreeing that they are unintelligible to the majority of the worshippers.
We come next to the Visparad, a collection of prayers in three-and-twenty chapters, written in Zend, and of a similar tenour to those in the younger Yasna.
Both the excellencies and the short-comings of Magianism are shown in the confessions and prayers included in the Zendavesta.
He can be served only by prayers and offerings, by a life of purity and truth, by abstinence from sinful passions, by the banishment of sinful thoughts.
Eumæus has already had his prayers for the return of his master fulfilled, though he does not know it, and believes that they never will be fulfilled.
The present and living element is made up of Ulysses and his companions who are invoking by their rites and prayers the souls of the Underworld.
Offer up what prayers you like: they won't do any good.
I regard Mrs. Trevel as a most impious person for daring to rebel when her prayers are not answered.
On the contrary it will restore her faith," remarked the Squire coolly, "as it will show that her prayersare answered after all.
Dimitri had been stripped of his prospective title and guarded as a prisoner in his palace, while the names of himself and his mother were struck off from the prayers of the Church.
Brother Francis doesn't agree with her; I found him in here early one morning saying his prayers to it.
And I thank you now for the prayers you said for my mother when she brought me into the world.
All through breakfast, and the prayers which followed, Elisabeth's thoughts ran on this new Christopher, who was so much more interesting and yet so much farther off than the old one.
Carnal bonds are round them ’twining, Fiendish arts are undermining, All with deadly plagues are pining, But thy power and prayers combining, Safely shall we rise to thee!
Nor am I ashamed to own, that in the prayers which my poor uncle makes me read to him, in the absence of a very good clergyman who regularly attends him, I do not forget to put in a word or two for myself.
God Almighty, said she, hear your prayers in your most arduous moments, as you have heard mine!
She was well aware whose doing it was--poor man, and it was he who was the sufferer now; but she said herprayers for him all the same.
I am sure the Major has all our prayers for his safe return.
Aunt Agatha sat at her window, sobbing, and saying littleprayers aloud without knowing it.
The King and Madame de Maintenon saw him separately several times during the day, which was passed in prayers and reading.
An hour afterwards the Dauphine desired the prayers for the dying to be said.
On one side of the hall was a chapel, where the pupils assembled for prayers on first collecting in the morning, as also at noon, and again in the evening.
With earnest prayers that we might all providentially escape, our friends returned to their vessels; we continuing to steer as before to the west, while they stood away on the opposite tack.
Their lips moved like those of a Moslemite who says his prayerstowards Mecca.
And the words they uttered were indeed prayers of solemnest import.
Commends their faith and piety; exhorts them to persevere; 10 desires their prayers for himself and the church at Antioch.
Remember in your prayers the church of Syria, from which I am not worthy to be called, being one of the least of it.
For I stand in need of your joint prayers in God, and of your charity, that the church which is in Syria may he thought worthy to be nourished by your church.
He again exhorts to unity, and desires their prayers for himself, and for his church at Antioch.
Remember in your prayers the church of Syria, which now enjoys God for its shepherd instead of me.
We should have believed it indecent to officiate in a pulpit without wearing a gown, and that prayers should be read from a book.
His prayers are not answered; he gets no help from on high, and the pews are beginning to criticise the pulpit.
And they also believed that the Creator, the God, could be influenced by sacrifice, by prayers and ceremonies.
All the temples have been reared, all the altars erected, all the sacrifices offered, all the prayers uttered in vain.
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god that he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.
The Pope needs prayers for himself more than ready money.
Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers were said.
For the sentiments he has uttered, on soil consecrated by the prayers of Puritans and the blood of patriots, the earth should have yawned and swallowed him up!
By giving, you wiped out the offense, and better still you became participant in all the prayers of those to whom you gave.
She would not have rejected my prayers had she not given her word to Kromitzki.
I fancy that not I alone am in that position, and that of all those who go to church and mass on Sundays the prayers might be condensed in these words: "O God!
Ay, but the wench Thora told Ralph that 'tis prayers backward she says there.
Only remember in your prayers to ask that I may do the right," said Grisell, with clasped hands and weeping eyes.
Ay, and said her prayers backward, and had unknown books.
