Look--read, behold the tidings that restore me to my name and to myself!
Now first I told him of my passion; of the doubts and fears that had distracted me, and of the tidings that had suddenly dispelled them.
The cruel Sacharissa had proclaimed who I was, and that a reward had been offered throughout the country for any tidings of me; and they had seen a description of me that had been forwarded to the police office in town.
Though I had anticipated deliverance, I cannot tell you what a rush of delight these tidings gave me.
The day before she had offered to tell his fortune; but he refused point- blank, for surely no good tidings could come to him from those lips.
In his sickness he yearns for a sight of the familiar faces, and sends for wife or mother; or wife or mother, unable to bear longer the uncertainty, when she can get no tidings from the absent, starts for Washington.
When the tidings reached her father, he wished that he had never been born, so sad was he in the sorrow of his beautiful daughter.
Many came out of their houses to have the pleasure of hearing the joyful tidings from Susan herself.
Truly, my lord," answered one, "tidings came to us that the Trojans were sorely pressed and that with the Greeks was the victory.
For himself, she told him to fit out a ship with twenty oars-men, that he might sail to a land where he should get tidings of his father.
For eagerly did they long for tidingsof many a warrior who now lay dead on the field.
They brought her tidings of his doings, and of the glory he had won.
There, pretty maid, spread thetidings among thy gossips, that they have a tender-hearted Queen, and a gracious King.
Tidings came forth on the parting from the French King that the English Court was about to move to Gravelines to pay a visit to the Emperor and his aunt, the Duchess of Savoy.
He was louder voiced and fuller of strange oaths than ever, and in the utmost haste, for he had heard tidings that, "there was to be a lusty game between the Emperor and the Italians, and he must have his share.
Would that I brought him the same tidings as to thee!
In the afternoon there were tidings that the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Rest, had been sent for to my Lord Cardinal, who just at this time, during the building at York House, was lodging in his house close to Temple Bar.
They were hatched out and reared here; hence, as often as Thou rememberest thy servant, open the cage and set one of them free; it will bring me tidings of thee, and I will kiss and fondle it as as But go now!
Simple people listened to these tidings eagerly, first, because they agreed with facts, second, because the man who told the story was himself like a spirit it was not known whence he came nor whither he had vanished.
All these tidingswere collected by the most worthy Sem and his assistants.
My soul was rushing forth toward thee, Ramses," said he, "and all the more ardently the better were the tidings which I had of thee.
No one mentioned these disagreeable tidings to Tutmosis directly, but the chief of the pharaoh's guard felt their existence everywhere.
These tidings flew, like a flock of birds, along the Libyan boundary, and found credit quickly.
He presided at every military council, he was present at the examination of every spy, and in proportion as tidingswere brought in, he indicated on the map with his own hand the movement of Egyptian armies and the positions of the enemy.
When tidings were brought him that King Ferdinand was laying waste the Vega, he took a sudden resolution.
A few days cleared up the mystery of their fate: tidings were brought that their bloody heads had been borne in triumph into Granada.
Evil tidings never fail by the way through lack of messengers: they are wafted on the wings of the wind, and it is as if the very birds of the air would bear them to the ear of the unfortunate.
The tidings of this event reached the sovereigns just after the surrender of Cambil and Albahar.
When thetidings arrived of the fall of Ronda, and the consequent ruin of the frontier, a tumultuous assemblage took place in one of the public squares.
They entered its gates, but before they reached the castle the nature of their tidings was known to the queen by the shrieks and wailings from the streets below.
The tidings of this rout and of the safety of the Christian army arrived at Cordova just as reinforcements were on the point of setting out.
He brought tidings to Muley Abul Hassan of the attack upon Alhama.
When the tidings arrived that Illora and Moclin had fallen, the people were seized with consternation.
The fortune of war bore hard against the old monarch; his mind was harassed by disastrous tidings brought each day from Baza, of the sufferings of the inhabitants, and the numbers of the garrison slain in the frequent skirmishes.
The reply of the queen determined Ferdinand to persevere, and when his determination was made known to the army, it was hailed with as much joy as if it had been tidings of a victory.
Tidings came that the enemy was advancing with his triumphant legions to lay waste the country about Granada.
The tidings of the investment of Velez Malaga at length roused the attention of the old men and the alfaquis, whose heads were not heated by the daily broils, and they endeavored to arouse the people to a sense of their common danger.
The tidings spread far and wide that Boabdil el Chico was once more in the field and was victorious.
Sitting anxiously awaiting a response to her missive, or her young friend to come in person, Miss Rogers watched and waited for Jay Gardiner, or any tidings of him, in vain.
He removed it entirely a week later, and bowed his bared head silently, when a fellow-Whig told him, with moist eyes, that the decisive tidings were brought to the hero as he stood in a social gathering of friends.
The first thing I heard when I reached home was tidings of that worst of bugbears to a Southern woman—an impending insurrection.
The tidings of this was a thunder-stroke to Mary and her party, who became instantly the victims of the cardinal's revenge.
So, in the active discharge of duty as a seaman, and in the enjoyment of the company of one or two intimate companions, George confessed that he soon chased, in a great measure, the mournful tidings from his recollection.
Mr H---- sent everywhere to inquire for the unfortunate young man, but nae tidings could be had.
And when, one day, tidings reached them of this strange new preacher, they left all and streamed with all the world beside to the Jordan valley, and stood fascinated by the spell of his words.
But as the hours passed, the tidings of the empty grave were corroborated by the vision of the Risen Lord, and they were convinced that He who was crucified in weakness was living by the power of God.
Tidings had, without doubt, been brought to him of our Lord's first miracle in Cana of Galilee.
We only catch a glimpse of it here in the 22nd verse, and again in the address of the apostle Peter to Cornelius, where he speaks of Christ preaching good tidings of peace throughout all Judaea (Acts x.
The tidings spread with wonderful rapidity that in the wilderness of Judaea one was to be met who recalled the memory of the great prophets, and whose burning eloquence was of the same order as of Isaiah or Ezekiel.
But had it not been for this sorrow they might never have been qualified to receive the first tidingsof the near approach of the Messiah.
From lip to lip the tidings sped of a great leader and preacher, who had suddenly appeared.
To the aged couple in the hill-country of Judaea, as to Mary and Joseph at Nazareth, must have come tidings of the murder of Aristobulus, of the cruel death of Mariamne and her sons, and of the aged Hyrcanus.
Jew, probably an emissary of the Sanhedrim, brought tidings to that little circle of true-hearted disciples of the work that Jesus was doing in Judaea, and drew them into a discussion as to the comparative value of the two baptisms.
I have since learned, from tidings received, as I am told, direct from yourself, that I was as wrong in the second statement as I had been in the first.
As the days passed by, and as other tidings came in, confirmatory of those which had before reached him, the archdeacon felt himself unable not to believe in the man's guilt.
The sad tidings were not told to Grace till the evening.
But on reaching Paris he heard tidings of Mrs Arabin which induced him to change his plans and make for Venice instead of for Florence.
The tidings she brought home with her to her husband were very grievous.
The idea that his bill would be dishonoured, and that tidings of his insolvency would be conveyed to the Commissioners at his Board, had been dreadful to him.
As for Grace, nobody even thought of asking her; and I doubt whether she would have heard anything about the contest, had not some tidings of it reached her from her lover.
Tidings had reached him that Grace was a great scholar, but he had never heard much of her beauty.
He spoke to his wife about it within a very few hours of the arrival of the tidings by those invisible wires.
This had been written by the major on the Friday before Mr Walker had brought up to him the tidings of Mr Toogood and Mrs Arabin's solution of the Crawley difficulty; but it did not reach Plumstead till the following morning.
These tidings we that sate upon the laurelled car had it for our privilege to publish amongst all nations.
Must we, that carry tidings of great joy to every people, be messengers of ruin to thee?
Then tidings assailed him, with dolour so rife, Burnt, burnt was his mother, and flown was his wife.
Sir Volmor came home from the red field of strife, Then tidingsassailed him, with dolour so rife.
No better tidings I have heard, Since from Denmark forth I hied.
Now will we turn unto sir Launcelot, that was right heavy that he could never hear no tidings of sir Tristram, for all this while he was in prison with sir Darras, Palomides, and Dinadan.
How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur's beard to trim his mantle.
But when Queen Isoud heard of these tidings she made such sorrow that she was nigh out of her mind; and so upon a day she thought to slay herself and never to live after Sir Tristram's death.
And when she had told him tidings the king bade get him a palfrey.
Then Sir Tristram said: Lady Bragwaine, ye shall ride with me till that tournament be done at the Castle of Maidens, and then shall bear letters and tidings with you.
So on the morn there fell new tidings and other adventures.
That is to me, said King Leodegrance, the best tidings that ever I heard, that so worthy a king of prowess and noblesse will wed my daughter.
THEN came tidings unto Morgan le Fay that Accolon was dead, and his body brought unto the church, and how King Arthur had his sword again.
Then King Mark asked Sir Gaheris what tidings there were in the realm of Logris.
The Reviewer mentions a plan "we believe" by Potemkin[259] for the purification of the Romaic; and I have endeavoured in vain to procure any tidings or traces of its existence.
Still the pay was found, in a certain measure, and the workmen came and went till dispersed by the appalling tidings that their Royal Saint had been deposed and murdered in the Tower.
How strange that any hearts should be callous under such an announcement; that any should fail to leap to it, as it were, and rejoice in it, as glad tidings of great joy!
It was a further token for good, that the lives of the priests' sons, Jonathan and Ahimaaz, which had been endangered as they boretidings for him, had been mercifully preserved.
And this fact, as well as the tidings of the victory, must at once be carried to David.
He had been a man of war, a man of the sword; he had been familiar with death, and had seen it once and again in his own family; but the tidings of Absalom's death fell upon him with all the force of a first bereavement.
The Lord hath sent me to preach good tidings unto the meek, to bind up the brokenhearted," and to comfort all that mourn.
When the tidings were brought him, that his temporal goods were destroyed, it appears that he quietly bore the loss of them, without giving any great sign of discontent at the appointments of Providence.
Jesus from heaven to comfort the afflicted, and to preach gladtidings to the distressed (Isa.
Many hear the glad tidings of the Gospel repeatedly, and yet are but little affected with what they hear.
He had been aroused by the tidings from the seat of war, and though, like Putnam, he lived nearly or quite a hundred miles away, he had hastened to be in the thick of the fight.
The messenger with the doleful tidings found him plowing in the field back of his house at Brooklyn Green.
Right worshipful cousin, if it please you for to hear of such tidings as we have here, the embassy of Burgundy shall come to Calais the Saturday after Corpus Christi day, as men say, 500 horse of them.
Moreover on Trinity Sunday in the morning came tidings unto my Lord of Warwick that there were 28 sails of Spaniards on the sea, and whereof there was 16 great ships of forecastle.
All were in good spirits, and no one believed in the dreadfultidings which at first had frightened them all so much: no one believed that peace had been made.
The disastrous tidings of the battle of Wagram had been followed a few days afterward by news fully as disheartening.
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