The Puritans brought upon England and America that relapse into the ancient asceticism which was shown in the burning of great pictures by Cromwell's Parliament.
He is an ugly dog--a fit emblem of the scholar's relapse into the canine temper which flies at the world as at a bone he means to gnaw.
Nevertheless when a cattle plague occurs many villages relapse into a normally extinct state of mind.
In dreams, especially when influenced by disease, a man may mentally relapse very far, and pass through kennels and styes, which are such even when somewhat decorated by shreds of the familiar human environment.
In some regions it is said a male and female snake appear whenever the master or mistress of the house is about to die, and the legends of the Unken sometimes relapse into the original fear out of which they grew.
His relapse was a reflection upon the efficacy of the hotel as a perfect cure!
He had been shockingly careless in his convalescence, had had a relapse in consequence, and deserved a good scolding!
The colonel, peering in at Lilla's face as she sat and watched her patient, saw very little chance of a relapse whilst she was Corbett's nurse.
This forms, as it were, a relapse of science into heathenism, and here, under a different form, fancy asserts her olden authority.
Perhaps her fitful efforts to advance were more frequent; but after each effort she used invariably to relapse into idleness and tedium.
After the first joy of meeting, she felt that she would relapse into her usual sadness.
A wrong step one way or other--a relapse into the ways of wickedness--might undo in a moment all that it had cost so much trouble to do.
He might get restive, and throw the Rector over just at the critical moment; or he might relapse into his lazy Continental habits, and give up church-going and other good practices.
We neglect all but the principal object, gather our force to make a great blow, bring it down, and relapseinto sluggishness and indifference again.
How is he to relapseinto the still-world of observation?
Bloody revolutions and devastations of civil war appear to posterity as a relapseinto an earlier and more uncultivated condition of society, or they are in reality accompanied by such a relapse into unbridled savageness.
Still the careful keeper need not be afraid of a relapse when he is patient and watchful.
That many of them do, after the profession of their repentance for their opposition to the cause and covenant of God, relapse frequently into the same sin.
That utter destruction is to be feared, when a people, after great mercies and judgments, relapse into this sin, Ezra ix.
To the distant and impartial observer, the greatest and most imminent danger to France appears to be a relapse to Revolution by means of liberalism.
Now," she added with a momentary relapse of weakness.
Madge apparently was suffering a slight relapseof self-denunciation.
Finally, after one of those painful moments, there was a relapse of chaos, fifty times more severe than any of the previous attacks.
The least I may do after causing that relapse is to nurse him for a while.
One would think his illness and relapse would have put some sense into his head, or knocked some nonsense out of it.
He, Jerry O'Brien, causes a relapse in Alfred's case by some indiscreet words spoken by him of Mrs. Davenport.
He had inadvertently caused his dearest friend a serious relapse in illness, and he was asked by another friend to help him over a horrible suspicion that this other friend had of his own sanity.
A relapse was possible, and a great delay to convalescence certain.
The Princess told us to-day about the Emperor of Russia's relapse and the cause of it.
Did not China after a trial of European methods also relapse during the Boxer craze into her old superstitions?
For a paragon of intelligence and courage, how pitiful this relapse into superstition!
Saul's first relief to be alone again, Rid of that nauseous presence, presently Was followed by depression and relapse From his instinctive tension to resist The unnerving spell of Shimei's influence.
The plot to cause Joan's condemnation, induce her abjuration and then provoke her relapse so as to justify her being publicly burned to death is being carried out to the letter.
After having abjured, you relapse into your damnable errors!
Immediately after she must be led by some skilful method to relapse into her previous heretical conduct.
The criminal relapse then gives us the right to condemn the penitent as 'relapsed.
They may be said to be simply a continuation of, or a relapse upon, the pure romance of adventure, with different dress, manners, and nomenclature.
You are suffering from morbid senile relapse into puerile enjoyment of indecency," he or Mrs. Momus (whom later ages have called Grundy) may be kind enough to say.
She saw it anew, caught a glimpse of it like a flash on a mirror; then he seemed to relapse farther back into the shadow.
Unless pains are taken to see that genuine and thorough transmission takes place, the most civilized group will relapse into barbarism and then into savagery.
While speech habits thus contracted may be corrected or even displaced by conscious teaching, yet, in times of excitement, intentionally acquired modes of speech often fall away, and individuals relapse into their really native tongue.
Many a patient suffering from typhus has lost his life or experienced a bad relapse and hemorrhages of the intestines through a mistake in diet,--through taking too much or unsuitable food.
He did relapse into silence at this--a silence that was born alike of mystification and utter weakness.
In his joy he allowed me to talk and to listen more than was for my good, probably, for I had some bad days immediately following; but the relapse did not come before I had learned much that was gravely interesting.
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