Fourth Day: Looking Forward to the Cross And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.
He faced opposition without flinching and “stedfastly set his face to go up to Jerusalem” when he knew it meant death.
He accepted death consciously and “stedfastly set his face to go up to Jerusalem,” though he knew what was awaiting him.
The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt; but to the politics of his family he stedfastly adhered through all the temptations and dangers of half a century.
If Godolphin had stedfastly refused to quit his place, the Whig leaders would have been in a most embarrassing position.
He stopped when I began to speak, and looked stedfastly at me.
Occasionally his countenance exhibited tokens of alarm; he gazed stedfastly and wildly at the ceiling; and the exertions of his companions were scarcely sufficient to interrupt his reverie.
And starting up from the table, he seized the lamp, and advanced directly towards the side of the room on which his eyes had been fixed, still gazing stedfastly on the same spot.
Were you to oppose him firmly but stedfastly on points where reason, and right, and the welfare of the State were upon your side, however blind they might be for a time, the people would come over to your side in the end.
When this relation was finished, and we had been looking stedfastly for some time on the croud that was going by, we lost sight of that peculiarity of feature, which we had before remarked.
Council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
And as they were gazing stedfastly into the heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11.
Feyll men was hurt, bot na murnyng thai maid; Confermyt the sege, and stedfastly abaid.
At euirilk part a stalwart wach he maid; 755 Fermyt a sege, and stedfastly abaid.
Repentance, whereby they forsake sin: and faith, whereby they stedfastly believe the promises of God, made to them in that Sacrament.
I have sworn, and am stedfastly purposed: to keep thy righteous judgements.
And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking unto her.
And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.
And a certain maid seeing him as he sat in the light of the fire, and looking stedfastly upon him, said, This man also was with him.
Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we stedfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
And while they were looking stedfastly into heaven as he went, behold two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 who also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye looking into heaven?
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
With his fore-finger on his nose, and lifting himself on tiptoe, he lookedstedfastly in my face.
The governor again and again urged him, as if in a friendly way, to sacrifice; but Polycarp stedfastly refused.
Then looking stedfastly on him, and being terrified, he said, What means this, Lord?
Then Peter fixing his eves stedfastly on him with John, said, Look on us.
And act not as Moses who spread a veil over his face, in order that the children of Israel might not look stedfastly to the end of that which should be abolished.
And they persevered stedfastly in the doctrine of the apostles, and in communion, and in breaking bread, and in prayers.
He too stedfastly gazed on the innocent face, as if fearing that were he to turn round, the terrifying vision would again appear.
I was not deceived; after waiting a few moments, standing upright in the carriage, and stedfastly gazing at the wall, I perceived a curly head shaded by a large florentine straw hat, arise from behind it.
Valentine stedfastly gazed at her; when she observed it, she took up the nosegay and buried her face in it.
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