Death is not only change, or sleep; it is God’s seal to sanctify the soul’s advance.
II A little thing it is indeed to die: God’s seal to sanctify the soul’s advance— Or silence, and a long enfevered trance.
No wonder I had a dream I was a seal with my feet clemmed on to an iceberg.
The great seal was taken from him, and given to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, by the title of lord keeper.
The king had beforehand had the precaution to grant a pardon to Danby; and, in order to screen the chancellor from all attacks by the commons, he had taken the great seal into his own hands, and had himself affixed it to the parchment.
Halifax, finding that, notwithstanding his past merits, he possessed no real credit or authority, became refractory in his opposition; and his office of privy seal was given to Arundel.
It may be worth remarking, that the lord keeper refused to affix the great seal to the declaration for suspending the penal laws; and was for that reason, though under other pretences removed from his office.
During the interval, Shaftesbury, whose intrigues with the malecontent party were now become notorious, was dismissed from the office of chancellor; and the great seal was given to Sir Heneage Finch, by the title of lord keeper.
If she accepts the offered terms I shall sign, seal and ship herself and clan off from Cork direct.
That summer I had been thrilled to the inmost life by coming suddenly, by moonlight, on a seal moving across the last sand-dune between this place and the bay called Port Ban.
His body is the body of Angus, the son of Torcall of the race of Odrum, for all that a seal he is to the seeming; but the soul of him is Judas.
True, I saw no white arms upthrown, as the seal plunged into the long wave that swept the shore; and it was a grey skua that wailed above me, winging inland; yet had I not had a vision of the miracle?
Visited only occasionally by seal hunters and trappers over the following centuries, the island came under Norwegian sovereignty in 1929.
Populated by large numbers of seal and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.
The Reverse inscription relates that in 1653 Bulstrode Whitelock was keeper of the Great Seal of England, Constable of Windsor Castle, and High Steward of Oxford.
He filled many other offices during the protectorate, and was a commissioner of the Great Seal in 1659.
Here likewise is shown a gold seal ring, found many years ago in a field near Stratford church, on which, delicately engraved, appear the letters W.
The latter thereupon issues a writ in the name of the king under the great seal proclaiming an election.
Even while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow.
In the privacy of her chamber, she broke the seal and read her first love letter.
She comprehended fully her father's warm interest in his friend's suit, which the speaker was too diffident to imply, and how this expression of his wishes set the seal upon her fate.
Given at Versailles under the seal of our secret, Louis.
Lepaute would ever undertake to appropriate to himself this escapement which it will be seen I confided to him under the seal of secrecy?
The State sealof California is Minerva, with a spear and shield and the grizzly bear at her feet.
The seal rocks is where the sea lions or seals can always be seen.
A scrap of newspaper, bearing the seal of the State of New York with the motto "Excelsior," suggested the poem of that name.
Fortunately, a high and rugged rock appeared before him; he made towards it, and succeeded in scrambling up its side just as the seal reached his heels.
The captain, though somewhat bruised, and having his clothes torn by the teeth of the seal which had attacked him, was not otherwise the worse for the encounter.
Matters were growing serious; for he had well-nigh lost his breath, and the seal was so close to him that he could not venture to turn round and strike at her.
I think we should not give up all hopes of catching a seal or two," observed the doctor.
The seal now stopped, seeming doubtful at which of his assailants he should next rush.
In the meantime, Paul Lizard had succeeded in hauling the seal he had struck up to the boat, when a few blows killed it.
Paul ran on as fast as his legs could move; but the oldseal kept way with him as long as he remained on the level ground.
Paul, having learned a lesson from experience, dodged behind a tree, and when the seal nearly reached him, sprang on one side, giving her a blow with his club on the nose.
The Lord 'ain't set no sealon my lips ez I knows on.
He 'ain't set no seal on yer lips, ter jedge by the way ye wallop yer tongue about inside o' 'em with fool words.
I obeyed, and drew from the well-worn charm-case a small, cylindrical sealof chalcedony.
Anu hath set his seal upon Ea, and our city must be overthrown, but let the spy be killed so that he may not furnish report unto those who sent him hither.
Would that my tongue had been torn from its roots, and my lips sealed by the seal of the Death-god, ere it should have been my duty to make this my announcement.
Come, give me thine answer quickly, and before sundown our written undertakings under seal shall be secretly exchanged.
The sprawly characters I recognised instantly as Azala's, and on tearing it open I found it bore the seal of her ancient signet-ring, shaped like an Egyptian scarab.
At the end was the signature of some scribe, and appended the seal of Semiramis herself.
Keep the seal of silence ever upon thy lips and obey the command of Azala Fathma quickly, that thine endeavours may be approved.
Behind both the Sultan and his guest stood court tasters, who broke the seal of each dish and ate portions of the food before it was handed to their masters, lest poison should be introduced.
Nay, more, thou knowest the seal stamped on the decree which bears my fate.
For aught I know, death may seal me in oblivion, and there shall be no more of me.
He broke the seal of the parchment; between the folds he saw a tiny scrap.
Write it with thine own hand, andseal it with the stamp of Imperial Rome.
I might have fled the Temple, sought refuge in the mountains, escaped your fury, but she who has been your High Priestess would not have the seal of cowardice stamped upon her soul.
And at the same time she handed him the letter sealed with the seal of Rome.
During the interregnum the society was directed by the great-prior who bore the seal of the Master.
Philip de Voet, on being interrogated, said that he did not believe that he had sent that letter; hisseal had often lain in the hands of his secretary; he had always advised the prisoners to speak the truth.
He broke in pieces the ancient Great Seal of Scotland, and substituted a new seal.
The common seal of the aforesaid realm of Scotland' is stated to be impressed on the charter, and the seal of John is attached.
The voice of the seal may be compared to the barking of an angry dog.
However this may be, the above reasons are a sufficient foundation to presume, that the small seal is the phoca of the ancients; and there is also great reason to conclude, that it is the same as that M.
The small black seal of India and the Levant; the common seal of our seas; and the great seal of the northern ocean.
The sealis a social animal, at least great numbers generally frequent the same places.
The Mediterranean seal, or the phoca of the ancients, is still less; therefore there only remains the seal Mr. Parsons has described, which agrees with that mentioned by Denis.
The seal of Providence is sure upon thee, And thou wert born for yet unheard-of wonders: Oh, thou wert either born to save or damn me!
No; innocence is the real great seal of Solomon, which not even the terrible Eblis dares to break.
Twice a seal attempted to climb upon the slippery hull for a rest, but, to the amusement of the boys, slid back into the water.
The food consisted of boiled fish and liver, probably walrus liver, soaked in rank seal oil.
Had he not departed promptly, there would have been friedseal steak and roast seal heart for supper.
While in Nome he had made the acquaintance of a former British seaman, who had cruised Arctic waters in the late eighties, when Japan was disputing the rights of Great Britain and the United States to close the seal fisheries.
But--the ice clears at the crucial moment, you push on and on for two years; you live on seal meat and whale blubber.
Now if we could only locate a seal in some water-hole, it would help out our scanty supply of food.
Well, first, you know, Uncle Sam has some valuable seal islands in the Aleutian group.
The story had to do with the defense of seal fisheries against the Japs, and Jones was sure that a Japanese seal-poaching boat had bombed them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
