Now, however, the tide had turned, and the founder of the last Moslem dynasty on Spanish soil was glad to avert the possible loss of his kingdom by surrendering a tithe of his possessions to the Christians.
I wish I dare tell you the half I saw, or a tithe of the ravishment of mind and soul wrought by that picturesque, haunting, old ancestral city of mine.
But, dear me, I will never get through if I try to tell you a tithe of what I have done and seen.
The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps.
If I could say, in fact, but a tithe of what his name calls up within me, I could write a paper on the Noctes, but the theme would run away with me.
What has been accomplished is but a tithe of what might have been accomplished if every one had been true to his vision, had not allowed it to be blotted out by doubt.
Our minds are so intent upon what other people have and are doing that we do not get a tithe of the enjoyment and satisfaction out of our own work, out of our own possessions, that they should afford us.
Christian king, and for whom he accordingly levied a tithefrom the churches of Europe.
Do you think I'd dirty my hands wid killin' a snakin' tithe procthor?
This last bit of Larry's waggery produced great merriment amongst the by-standers, for the unfortunate tithe proctors were looking at that moment most doleful examples of wretchedness.
Sure when the titheis wanst buried, what more have we to do?
Such is the wild legend of this wild spot; and here was the interment of the titheto be achieved, as an appropriate addition to the "Devil's Bit.
All was soon ready for the interment; the tithe coffin was lowered into the pit, and the shouting that rent the air was terrific.
Come here," said Larry to thetithe proctors; "come here, antil we put you into your regimentals.
The other distinguished portion of the train was where the two tithe proctors played their parts of chief mourners.
These chief mourners were two tithe proctors, who had been taken forcibly from their homes by the Lanigan party, and threatened with death unless they attended the summons of Larry to be present at "The Berrin'.
If they were not greatly molested in other respects they did have to endure very heavy taxation, even including the tithe for the benefit of the Christian church.
The masters of caravans coming from the Sudan were to pay a tithe also, but they were not liable to any further tax in the country northwards.
Fishermen, fowlers, and hunters were to pay an octroi duty of one-tenth of the value of their catches when they brought them into the city, and a tithe of the cattle was to be set apart for the daily sacrifice.
Mr O'Toole; it's a very likely thing to insinuate that I should have a tithe proctor in my bed.
That I had been held up to the resentment of the inhabitants as a tithe collector, and an attorney with a warrant, was quite sufficient, I felt conscious, to induce them to make away with me.
I have overheard all that passed between your mistress and you, and that McDermott has stated that I am a tithe collector and an attorney, with a warrant.
What will ye say to Kathleen, when you affront her by supposing that a maiden girl has a tithe proctor in bed with her?
Go out then, and get some from the middle of the stack, Kathleen, and be quick; we have others to attend besides the tithe proctor.
The crowded resorts do not give one a titheof the character or local colour to be had from a stay in some little market-town inn of France or Germany.
The buildings are not of any particular interest, until we come to the last one, with the two arches under it and the fine relief of a lion on the façade: once the head-quarters of the tithe collectors.
No other church has had much more than a tithe of such toil.
In 1122 Thomas Ardern and his son Thomas gave to the monks of Bermondsey the tithe of the corn in their lordship of Horndon.
Many temples had their origin in this practice;[414] we meet also with ludi, special sacrifices, or a tithe of the booty taken in war.
Besides a mere declaration on the part of the government, that the tithe must be paid, nothing more was done.
As far as he could see, and as far again in every direction, was his domain, paying him tithe of fat cattle and heaping granaries.
Philip, to give him no titheof advantage, rose too.
On the following day the Marquis de Lacoste proposed that the new debt should be paid out of the funds of the clergy, and that tithe should be simply abolished.
He had no fellow-feeling with his brethren, but he intended that the tithe should enrich the State.
His proposal to restore the national credit by the surrender of tithe had been rejected.
The Archbishop of Paris had surrendered the tithe to be disposed of by the nation; and he afterwards added the gold and silver vessels and ornaments, to the value of several millions.
The Assembly deemed it a good bargain to restore the tithe to the land; and the clergy knew so well that they had no friends that, on August 11, they solemnly renounced their claim.
It was then proposed that the tithe should be commuted; and the clergy showed themselves as zealous as the laity to carry out to their own detriment the doctrine that imposed so many sacrifices.
The landlords who had bought their estates subject to the tithe had no claim to receive it.
These, however, were but a titheof the spectators, who encircled the Place of Arms in one serried horde which was kept back by a line of soldiers.
