And never was there a community or a city where Truth asserted her sway more potently in the midst of evil than in San Francisco in the trying days of her youth.
She did not look up at the windows of the scattered dwellings in passing, although more than one acquaintance watched, from one and another of these, the straight, slender figure that held on its rapid course without sway or falter.
It was not more than three minutes, but it seemed an hour, before will asserted its sway so far as to call back the blood in a tingling rush to the heart and extremities.
But those who were laboring for the development, and were opposing the exploitation of San Francisco, saw in Langdon's course the first sign that Abraham Ruef was not to have undisputed sway in San Francisco.
But she got no farther, for a moment later the end wall, on which Henry Burns had stood shortly before, was seen to sway violently.
He was the only man in the town who had persistently refused to associate with the summer residents, which some attributed to the fact that he feared lest their coming might disturb his sway over town affairs.
Lastly, did you surmount all these difficulties and reach some land beyond the sway of Egypt, you would be an exile for life.
Sit quite easily, andsway backward and forward with the motion of the basket.
The god, who throned within my breast resides, Deep in my soul can stir the springs; With sovereign sway my energies he guides, He cannot move external things; And so existence is to me a weight.
They may not coerce genius, but they dictate and sway every action of the clay-born.
For fifty years England held undisputed sway upon the sea, controlled markets, and domineered trade, laying, during that period, the foundations of her empire.
I observed that her own eyes were red; but all she did was to sway herself backwards and forwards and say, "Dearie me!
A sailor rushed forward, picked her up, and advised the young lady to sit down; the wind was a little fresher and the vessel would sway a trifle.
But the crowning achievement is when the hips begin to sway too, and, while she is going back and forward, execute a rotary movement like that of the bent part of an auger.
And I did sway this way and that, as we did struggle; and surely it was as that the Man had never made to use the lower arms, save to hold unto prey, the while that it did use the upper arms to strangle, as I do think.
Black Mounds all along without of the Circle, and did rock and sway with a force of strange life that did set an horror into my soul as I ran; for truly they did be the visible signs of monstrous Forces of Evil.
And immediately, the Slug-Beast went again to searching, and the head to sway from this side unto that side of the Gorge; and by the wideness and ease of this swaying shall you perceive the utter greatness of the Beast.
And she came running, and was lost with faintness, and did sway this way and that, stumbling; and she went sudden to the earth, and did be still.
My father has said that evil powers hold sway out there; only here among the mountains could I fare safely and without harm!
Spirits and elves hold sway in mountain and hillock, and on the bottom of the river lives the nixie,--so father has said.
East and West live in amity and concord beneath the sway of one ruler.
Oh thou, whosoe’er thou art, that holdest sway in Olympus, was it thy humour to make such mockery of mankind?
The world shapes itself after its ruler’s pattern, nor can edicts sway men’s minds so much as their monarch’s life; the unstable crowd ever changes along with the prince.
Women bear sway among the Medes and swift Sabaeans; half barbary is governed by martial queens.
Panics like the one we have described might bow and sway them like reeds in the wind; but they stood up like the oaks of their own forests beneath the thunder and the hail of actual calamity.
Nor yet grown stiffer by command, But still in the Republic's hand, How fit he is to sway That can so well obey.
The Luciferian influence held sway over these people in a peculiar manner.
Because the human etheric body was withdrawn from the influence of the astral body in the manner above indicated, the generative faculty was not included in the sphere of human consciousness, but was under the sway of the spiritual world.
Such is the sway of their desires, that the lamp of conscience and reason hath been quenched in their hearts.
Under his sway the town was modernized and developed, but the finances were badly administered, and Fazy became more and more a radical dictator.
Michael that it 'Smote and felled Squadrons at once; with huge two-handed sway Brandished aloft, the horrid edge came down Wide-wasting.
So that whatsoever power or sway in mortal things weaker men have attributed to Fortune, I durst with more confidence (the honour of Divine Providence ever saved) ascribe either to the vigour or the slackness of discipline.
Institutions which will diminish the sway of greed are possible, but only through a complete reconstruction of our whole economic system.
In obedience to this belief, new portions of the earth's surface are continually brought under the sway of industrialism.
The great minds are the dominant thinkers; theysway the multitude, mold public opinion, effect legislation and shape the nation.
Then with a sigh of relief, they resigned themselves to the sway of that potent charm of blending magnetic and spiritual auras, which so swiftly transports reunited lovers to a paradise of their own.
The benign influence of this musical wave, has shown a constant tendency to extend its sway in all directions.
They, in turn, recognized and paid willing homage to a noble soul, a great genius, whose power to sway and control them was not in the least deflected or dimmed by a thought of his deformed body.
Yet the Roman sway was sustained chiefly by force, and never extended over the entire island.
It is believed that this presentation of a literature which held unrivalled sway over the imaginations of our ancestors, for many centuries, will not be without benefit to the reader, in addition to the amusement it may afford.
Astolpho added that the island was in great part subject to the sway of Alcina.
Some lose theirs by yielding to the sway of the passions; some in braving tempests and shoals in search of wealth; some by trusting too much to the promises of the great; some by setting their hearts on trifles.
The Pharaohs were not ambitious of holding direct sway over the tribes of the desert, and scrupulously avoided interfering with their affairs as long as the "Lords of the Sands" agreed to respect the Egyptian frontier.
So Genius triumphs, and her sway extends, By means minute attaining greatest ends.
Scarcely arrived at his twentieth year, he had quitted his family, his studies, and Norway, the land of his home, to give himself wholly up to a passion which had held sway within him from his infancy.
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