Each rhyming literary knacker scourges His cart-compelling Pegasus to trot, As folly, fame or famine smartly urges?
It scourges the two men like whips in the hands of the avenging Furies.
When God, provok'd with daring crimes, Scourgesthe madness of the times, He turns their fields to barren sand, And dries the rivers from the land.
Blest is the man thy hands chastise, And to his duty draw; Thy scourges make thy children wise When they forget thy law.
The scourges ply-- And from the lash the quiv'ring morsels fly.
Devotees are generally considered asscourges of society.
It furnishes the human race with a thousand ingenious means of tormenting themselves, and scatters amongst them scourges unknown before.
It is time that honest men should speak out, and fasten upon thesescourges of their country, their proper appellative.
The Keating kerne, the scourges of Wexford, did not agree with their Northern congeners: an affray took place, and blood was shed.
He disliked and distrusted Kildare, who declined all responsibility for his bastard kinsfolk, the old scourges of the marches living at free quarters and disdaining honest industry.
LXVII A wakeful, stinging care, on the other side Scourges and goads no less the cavalier; Lest, if he now from Agramant divide, He should be taxed with baseness or with fear.
I find that every prominent scoundrel known to us pursued his work of sin with an absolute unconsciousness of all moral law until pain or death drew near; then the scoundrel cringed like a cur under the scourges of remorse.
Now let us glance at the various sorts of these awful scourges who dwell in our midst.
History, which is so much occupied with celebrating the scourges of humanity, should take pleasure in commemorating one of its real benefactors.
The deceitful charms of prosperity destroy more souls than all the scourges of adversity.
O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people who make supplication to Thee, and turn away the scourges of Thy anger, which we deserve for our sins.
In Richard the world now sees a destroying "hero," one of the scourges of mankind.
The startled waves leap over it; the storm Smites it with all the scourges of the rain, And steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane.
Unquenched our torches glare, Our scourgesin the air Send forth prophetic sounds before they smite.
He scourges with a like severity certain faults into which Germans were prone to fall when engaged in warfare, viz.
Relentlessly he scourges them as he had scourged the Catholics.
They had their Manitou, but they feared them and gave them the character of the devil, one who should be propitiated by presents, by penances, or by scourges and feasts.
Who scourges themselves to-day, or tortures their flesh, or lives in the desert musing continually on death and hell?
Some of the young canons spoke of the sellers in the Temple, you know who they were--certain Jews who drove the Lord out withscourges in their hand, for I know not what misdemeanours.
The result was that the people kept possession of the glen, and that the proprietor and the oldest and most insatiable of Sutherlandshire scourges went to law, which ended in the ruination of the latter, who died a pauper.
It is a throng of white faces; they carry scourges in their hands.
Then the singing begins again: a miserere; they grasp their scourges more firmly and walk with a brisker step as if to a war-song.
Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.
But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.
Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sins may not appear: That they spare me not in their ignorances, etc.
That is, that the scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the lips.
But esteeming these very punishments to be less than our sins deserve, let us believe that these scourges of the Lord, with which like servants we are chastised, have happened for our amendment, and not for our destruction.
Among thescourges which afflict humanity there are none greater than virulent diseases.
And may not the reappearance of these scourges be accounted for by the reinforcement of the virulence?
Such terrible scourges as pyaemia and hospital gangrene were rife in all of them.
In these days, among the too familiarscourges of the hospital, his work was perpetually putting questions to him; to a man whose mind was open the answer might come at any moment and from any quarter.
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