Little did I guess at the time what service that noble horse would render in our sorest need.
It was muggy and thick, no doubt, but still not sufficiently so to render it bad or even remarkably unpleasant.
These were defended by gates of bronze, and also, as we afterwards learnt, it was possible to let down a portion of the roadways themselves by withdrawing certain bolts, and thus render it quite impracticable for an enemy to pass.
I can quite understand how it is that primitive people become sun worshippers, especially if their conditions of life render them liable to exposure.
Should our hope of a good result be realized, so that we may be enabled to offer you for the subsequent works a proper remuneration in money, it will be a pleasure to us to render thereby your connection with us agreeable to you.
At any rate, the latter research does not render the former superfluous; they should go hand-in-hand.
In order to render the following annotations by Mattheson properly intelligible, the statements of Mainwaring to which they refer are inserted with them.
The service I was able to renderan official personage connected with ----College in New England procured me access to the library belonging to that institution.
Think, if it were your father, brother, or a son, in that hopeless condition, would you not render them all the assistance in your power?
The fact of the case is, however, several of our fellows have deserted, and no doubt will join the organization in the States, and render good service to the cause there, in a military point of view.
With one hundred Continental troops--he writes with his usual modesty to Greene--he should be able to render important services.
This noble lady, whose grace of demeanor is represented as quite equal to her patriotism, presided at her table, in such a manner as to render all parties at home.
He was a man of wealth, and the effect of wealth in perilous times is but too frequently to render selfishness equally cowardly and dishonest.
To have written such a book is to render a supreme service, for it is as well to know what the rough work means of subjugating inferior races.
No man could render more valuable services than he may be expected to do in turning to account for genuine Liberalism the reaction already beginning to set in against the reign of the Tories and the Jingoes.
I am willing and always was willing to render full justice to the motives which inspired the action of the minority.
As not a moment was to be lost, we acted with a promptness and decision suited to the urgency of the case, in order to avoid a complication of interests which might render our relations more difficult and involved.
My troops already occupy many positions in the country that you are to abandon, and thousands and thousands are approaching from every quarter to render assistance and escape alike hopeless.
It overpays all the services I have attempted to render my country.
When a soldier was attacked with cholera he was the first to render assistance by the application of friction to the extremities in order to attract the fluids from the large internal vessels to the surface of the body.
When that shall render it proper in his opinion to withdraw you from your present command, his determination to do so will be made known to you.
Such a person you will not find, especially as the only result would be, for the adviser and mover to suffer wrongfully, and, without forwarding matters, to render good counsel still more dangerous in future.
But Demosthenes spoke with peculiar reference to those accounts, which men in official situations at Athens were required to render at the close of their administration.
Better die a thousand deaths than render homage to Philip, or sacrifice any of your faithful counselors.
The commonest means which the ascetic and saint employs to render life still endurable and amusing consists in occasional warfare with alternate victory and defeat.
Then the Epicurean makes use of his higher culture to render himself independent of prevailing opinions, he raises himself above them, whilst the cynic only remains negative.
We estimate services rendered to us according to the value set on them by those who render them, not according to the value they have for us.
On the other hand, you see that the Venetians never tried to render in painting the impression of real, open sunlight.
Then one feels the want of a life's study, such as Turner devoted to landscape; and even then what a botch is any attempt to render it!
I made her sit to me and tried to render what I saw.
Yet, at that very moment, events were in progress, in the hidden course of Providence, which were to render all his hopes a perfect mockery.
Thou shalt have the office; but, meanwhile, as I do nought without requital, thou must render me a small service.
I have come to thank thee for the good report of me, which, in my absence, thou didst renderher Highness yesterday.
It would be impossible to render more forcibly the blissfulness of rest when the body has been racked by the exhausting labour of the soil.
I found no unfortunates who were sick, hungry, or cold, to whom I could render immediate assistance, with the solitary exception of hungry Agafya.
In these quarters, therefore, there were none of the sort of people whom I could render happy by a present of money.
When I encountered this want, I always found that it had already been relieved, that the assistance which I had intended to render had already been given.
In answer to the question, Would not this unaccustomed toil ruin that health which is indispensable in order to render service to the people possible?
And they will render his material existence free from care, which they will not do for people who are striving to acquire property.
The verses recited in playing it render it probable that the Cushion Dance is a later development of the game known as Sally Waters.
These verses and the fact that Sally Waters is related to the Cushion Dance that is danced at weddings, render it probable that Sally Waters originated in a marriage celebration of heathen times.
We know indeed that those corrupters of princes will render account to Heaven, but not easily to us.
The Prince, he repeatedly says, must avoid all that will render him despicable or odious, especially injury to the property of citizens, or to their honour.
I cannot but venture to suspect that, if this distinguished critic were a native, he would discern such differences of style, as render this hypothesis improbable.
Superstition it might be in the many, fanaticism in a few; but both of these imply the qualities which, while they subsist, render a religion indestructible.
Virgil first threw a romantic charm over his Camilla; but he did not renderher the object of love.
The rhyme very often compels him to employ expressions, words, and even lines which frequently render the sense obscure and the passage crooked, without producing any other effect than that of destroying a fine stanza.
Paracelsus maintained the animation of everything; all minerals both feed and render their food.
The savage character of Tamburlaine, and the want of all interest as to every other, render this tragedy a failure in comparison with those which speedily followed from the pen of Christopher Marlowe.
It may render this more clear, if we mention a few of the growing corruptions, which have in fact transformed the Latin into French and the sister tongues.
But when he had made the important discovery of this concealed power, he employed every means to render his elocution perfect.
At the period when the first troubles broke out in the country, he was proprietor of a considerable estancia; which, by his skill and perseverance, he had been able to render a model establishment.
Professor Vogel seldom leaves his studio except to render courtesy to friend or stranger: and it is happy for those who have the privilege of his acquaintance, to know that such labors of love draw him frequently forth.
That child, a daughter, has hitherto lived abroad; circumstances now render it desirable that she should make her home with me.
Very early next morning, before the heat of the day came torender the open intolerable to his lordship, he espied her from his window moving amid the azaleas in the garden.
He came, spruce and debonair once more, having exploited the resources of Port Royal so to render himself.
But the others dissuaded him from betraying an impetuosity usually foreign to him, and born entirely of chagrin and mortification, emotions which will render unreasonable the most reasonable of men.
He was splashed from head to foot with blood, and there was blood from a scalp-wound that he had taken matting his hair and mixing with the grime of powder on his face to render him unrecognizable.
Should you choose to serve King William out here during this war, your knowledge of the West Indies should render you a very valuable servant to His Majesty's Government, which you would not find ungrateful.
It was not so much that he was concerned to deliver a message as to render it a vehicle by which to plead his own cause.
He chose for his objective the island of Barbados, whose natural strength was apt to render her defenders careless.
The very mention of the theme is sure to renderhim irritable and unhappy.
Quite early enough to allow of my being able to render you a slight service; without, however, the satisfaction of its having demanded any effort from me.
It is not enough that you make me your nominee, but you must also render me eligible to become so.
Olivia blushed; Mrs. Kennyfeck looked happy, and the elder sister bit her lips, and threw up her eyebrows, with an expression we cannot attempt to render in words.
If you can do this for me, then, you will render me a considerable service.
Knowing as he did what was due to God, and animated by a profound desire to render to God His due, he would have been horrified had he intercepted in his own person aught of the honour and glory which were His.
He recognised in Abner one of those men of consummate ability who are born to rule, or at least to render the highest service to the actual ruler of a country by their great influence over men.
For when the Philistines had got time to recover, they again came up, pitched again in the plain of Rephaim, and appeared to render unavailing the signal achievement of David at Baal-perazim.
Let your question and the answer be: "What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits toward me?
A wound on the animal or an effusion of blood, would spoil the victim, and render the sacrifice useless.
To this source of evil they offer some oblations to abate his vengeance, and render him propitious.
She speaks English plainly and distinctly, with a little of the Irish emphasis, and has the use of words so well as to render herself intelligible on any subject with which she is acquainted.
The first thing to be done on the morning of the seventh was to render Magdalen Bay useless, in order to prevent all communication with distant ships.
