Doth he not support the semynaries of Rome and Rhemes to be thornes in the sides of their owne comon wealthes?
And let us passe that over, that otherwhile, they busy them selves so much, to purge other mens grounds: that their owne is overgrowen, and full ofthornes and nettles.
So that, suche as use them selves to speake suche churlishe and fumishe woordes, are taken for sharpe and sower fellowes: & men doe asmuche shunne their acquaintance: as to thrust them selves uppon thornes and thistles.
And yet Mrs Lookaloft is not fit companion and never has been the associate of the Thornes and the Grantlys.
The hall was hung round with family female insipidities by Lely, and unprepossessing male Thornes in red coats by Kneller; each Thorne having been let into a panel in the wainscoting in the proper manner.
Such a year or two since were the Thornes of Ullathorne.
They had dined at Ullathorne, and theThornes had dined at the rectory.
Only think what the Thornes will say if they hear that their parish clergyman spends his whole time philandering with this woman.
The Thornesand Dueros were dead, and had left no precedents for a case like this; and Lucian Spenser was alive (particularly so), and with Garda almost all the time.
A little dilapidated platform of logs, covered with planks, ran out a few yards into the water; the old boat of the Thornes lay moored at its end.
We Thornes are very English; but we are the English of one hundred and fifty years ago.
The hall was hung round with family female insipidities by Lely and unprepossessing male Thornes in red coats by Kneller, each Thorne having been let into a panel in the wainscoting, in the proper manner.
And yet Mrs. Lookaloft is no fit companion and never has been the associate of the Thornes and the Grantlys.
The place was ouergrowne with vnderwoods, as thornesand brambles, before that the church was begun to be builded there in this king Ethelberts daies.
Yes, dear; and after a time he said that the Thornes were a good deal in debt with him besides.
It had been quite in keeping with his ideas that the Thornes should taste the bitters of poverty, and know what being impecunious really meant.
I heard, on very good authority, that the Thornes have a young man staying in the house.
Let vs way that by his dolour came our ioye, our health grew of his infirmitie, of his death was deriued our life: and should we be ashamed to haue our head touched with a fewe thornes of trouble?
His garment-- With thornes together pind and patched was.
She finished with a sort of weary tone in her tired voice, and after that I let the little Thornes alone.
Teaching the littleThornes was hateful to me; yet I could teach ragged children in the Sunday-school for hours.
He rather thinks those Thornes who live opposite to him want a governess.
With whips of thornes and knotty vipers twin'd They rouse him, when his ranke thoughts need a sting.
Water'd by the showres they bring, The thornes that Thy blest browe encloses (A cruell and a costly spring) Conceiue proud hopes of proving roses.
I so you serue vs Till we serue you: But when you haue our Roses, You barely leaue our thornes to pricke our selues, And mocke vs with our barenesse Ber.
But howsoeuer thou pursuest this Act, Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue Against thy Mother ought; leaue her to heauen, And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge, To pricke and sting her.
She shal not pulle it out this nexte wyke; God sende mo swich thornes on to pyke!
We were greatly worried by the radio report," said her father, "but the call from the Thornes reassured us.
The Thornes came up and there were greetings all around.
The Thornes arrived promptly at the dinner hour and they visited at length over a leisurely meal.
What though she be no cousin to the Thornes of Ullathorne.
Have I a right to call the Thornesof Ullathorne my cousins?
The Greshams now stand much higher in the county than the Thornes do.
But the Thornes are as good a family as the Greshams," said Beatrice.
Now the Thornes of Ullathorne were of the very highest order of Tory excellence.
His father was a prebendary; his cousins and his best friends were the Thornes of Ullathorne, and the lady, who shall be nameless, was not thought to be injudicious in listening to the young doctor.
The Thornes of Ullathorne had made many overtures in a covert way.
The Thornes are as good a family as the Greshams, are they not?
The Thornes no longer occupied the little public house.
As to Reuben himself, I must own there's a good deal of force in what he says; and that until those Thornes have been sent out of the country, his story might follow him.
If you sticke some sharpe thornes at the roots of your stakes, they will make hurtfull things keepe off the better.
But you must be sure that your quicke thornes either grow wholly, or that there be a supply betime, either with planting new, or plashing the old where need is.
The Thornes were very delightful old people, and for hours I would sit and listen to them discussing the favorites of olden times, dating back to the advent of the Keans.
The Thornes were a great delight to me, as they had the entry to all the playhouses in Boston, and it was my joy to accompany dear Mrs. Thorne to every "first night.
The bryars and thornes no more shall scratch, nor hungry wolves at him shall catch He erring pathes no more shall tread nor wilde fruits eate, instead of bread for waters cold he doth not long for thirst no more shall parch his tongue.
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