How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity to Heaven and one another were adequately great.
I have suffered much; but this is the thickest darkness, and the straitest step of the way I have yet trodden.
And quoth another and quoth well, "And trees of Orange fruiting ferly fair * To those who straitest have their charms surveyed; Like cheeks of women who their forms have decked * For holiday in robes of gold brocade.
The good son would not disobey his sire's injunction, so gave them all they claimed; and they ceased not to deal thus with him, till his wealth was spent and he fell into straitest predicament.
The congregation was soon seated--a hardy race, reared on the hills, and disciplined in the straitest of creeds.
Nor dared Mr. Penrose administer the sacrament to one whose membership was not assured, for he ministered to those of a close sect, and a close sect of the straitest order.
How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity to Heaven and to one another were adequately great!
Here we find a striking consensus, at least in spirit, between the deliverances of the sternest science and of the straitest orthodoxy.
Bacon had been brought up in a Puritan household of the straitest sect.
If York House were gone, the town were yours, and all your straitest shackles clean off, besides more comfort than the city air only.
Let the straitest doctrinaire criticism of men of talent like Boileau and simpletons like Rymer be compared with the fullest appreciations of Coleridge and Hazlitt, of Sainte-Beuve and Mr. Arnold.
It is true that Hazlitt was only for a short time in the straitest shafts, the most galling traces, of periodical hack-work.
O my mother, my length of days was from the hand of a horseman who suddenly appearing joined us in our hardest stress and aided me in my straitest need and saved me from Death.
I see thou art tricked out with much worldly vanity, and thy father was one of thestraitest Friends.
But even among the straitestthere was a vague appreciation of beauty, as if it were a delusion and a snare.
Moreover, the gentleman in question represented the straitest sect of the old-time spoils politicians.
Three months respite was a prospect alluring to the straitest Puritan.
SONG OF SONGS Two singular books remain, about the inspiration of both of which the straitest sect of the Pharisees in the first century of our era had grave difficulties, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs.
Luther, though still a papist of the straitest sort, was filled with horror at the blasphemous assumptions of the indulgence mongers.
They were Calvinists of the straitest sect, and made all their opinions a bond of union.
You are wrong there," returned Faber; "for I was brought up in the straitest sect of the Pharisees, and know what I am saying.
The straitest sect of the Pharisees can hardly be the school in which to gather any such idea of a God as one could wish to be a reality.
He was trained in the strictest and straitest principles of rabbinical and orthodox Judaism.
His parents Moses and Scheindell, were strictly orthodox, and brought him up in the straitest customs of strict Judaism.
The straitest Protestant, who refuses to admit the existence of any source of Divine truth, except the Bible, will not deny that every point of the pneumatological theory here set forth has ample scriptural warranty.
Better have knelt at the poorest stream That trickles in pain from the straitest rift!
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