Citing Stilling after Dale Owen, and quoting Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace's Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural, p.
Stilling had not contemplated marriage; but, in the company, he saw, for the first time, a young woman who he felt was his destined wife.
And so the Lord did avenge His own elect, stilling the babble of unfriendly tongues, restoring to her all the lost confidences, together with a wealth of added hopes and prospective honours.
Again she sleeps, perhaps twenty-four hours, seemingly in perfect comfort, while the life-stilling winter winds drive over the feeble wall of snow which shelters her from the chilly death outside.
He leaned over the bed in his eagerness, and, stilling the throbbing excitement of his blood, tried to speak in a tone of commonplace indifference.
Salt," he continued, his voice stilling the laughter it had raised, "is the Man behind the Unity League.
Salt, stillingwith the measured passion of his voice the rising murmurs of assent.
Thirty years had passed, since Sir George Grey waded into the surf where savagery and civilisation meet, stilling it for the latter.
In the meek, solemn, soul-stilling hush of Academic Bowers!
He found happiness in science, in books, in conversation, in medicine, stilling and cookery.
The third of these--the stilling of the storm--differs from the other two in this, that it is miraculous and supernatural.
And once I surprised a shadow as of wings sweeping darkly across, star on to glittering star, shaking the air, stilling the sea with the cold dews of night.
They believe that by stilling the mind, which is like a lake reflecting the sky, the Higher Self communicates a knowledge of Itself to the lower consciousness.
This is achieved by daily discipline in stilling the mind and directing the consciousness inward instead of outward.
If we assume any pleasure to be connected with the earliest acts of assimilation, it must be that of the satisfaction of a want, the stilling of pain in the form of hunger.
The motive is pain, and the end is either simply the stilling of pain or an additional positive pleasure.
It was to that quarter that Paris looked for the stilling of its hunger, the satisfying of its desires.
We had no longer the means of stilling our hunger, we had consumed every thing, and my father's cross of St. Louis was our last possession.
You shall find within your heart the great stilling calm of God, as steadying as the rock of ages, as exhilarating as the subtle fragrance of flowers, and as restful as a mother's bosom to her babe.
The man in full sweet harmony with God in all of his life knows the stilling ecstasy of peace, and the marvelous outgoings of real power.
That sense of homelessness may be an agony or a joy, a curse or a blessing, according to our interpretation of its meaning, and our way of stilling it.
For the stilling of our own hearts, for the satisfying of our own nature, for the strengthening and joy of our being, we need to go beyond ourselves, and to fix upon something external to ourselves.
The mother, with her heartstrings quivering after The Master's stroke, sits underneath the cross; The sad wife stilling all the childish laughter Of his sweet babes, too young to feel their loss.
Silent, and stilling the breath which heaved in both quick and fitfully, Lucy and Clifford sat together.
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