The intellectual and moral corruption which was gnawing at the very vitals of the French nation, and threatened all Europe with its infection, filled him with increased anxiety.
You will surely plunge the avenging sword into your own vitals if, by persecution, you vainly endeavour to wound the saints of the living God.
He feels his very vitals die, All waxeth pale and wan; Nay, worse, he fears to misery He shortly must be gone.
May their vitals be burned with the fire unquenchable, and may their thirst be slaked with molten metal.
Hadj Absalam angrily, on hearing the mention of the hostile tribe, "May their vitals be devoured by insects, and may their bodies be given unto the wild beasts!
Though that dragon cannot sting the vitals of the elect mortally, yet that Beelzebub can fly-blow their intellectuals miserably.
What charm shall calm my pangs when this wise burn ✿ Longings of love which in my vitals glow?
Some of the criminals whom Fath Ali Shah of Persia put to death by chopping down the fork, beginning at the scrotum, abused his mother till the knife reached their vitals and they could no longer speak.
But when Badr al-Din looked upon his son his vitals yearned and his heart fluttered, and he hung his head earthwards and sought to make his tongue give utterance to his words, but he could not.
Her vitalswere wrenched and twisted, groaning in protest.
They were thrown headlong and an awe-inspiring rumbling came up from the vitals of Antrid.
This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire.
Although the wounds of civil war appeared completely healed, its mortal poison still lurked in the vitals of the constitution.
And so, along with nobler incitements to hatred, went the fiend envy, which just now plucked at poor Dickie's vitalsas the vulture at those of the chained Titan of old.
The chill of the fog struck cold into his vitals now, giving him the strangest physical sensation.
Selfishness, indolence, and the worship of the fossilized party spirit, had eaten into the very vitals of this section of the political world.
This one thing positive struck into my vitals with a chill premonition, as of something unnatural and, to me, unfathomable.
For five years they have been groping and wrenching in the vitals of other people.
And when the Church observes this collapse taking place in every quarter, and then discovers that back of it lies the theory of evolution, is she not justified for being intolerant of that thing which is gnawing at the vitals of her faith?
For the Church, therefore, to fail to fight a theory that strikes at her very vitals would be to become a traitor to the Lord who bought her and sent her into the world to preach His gospel.
To be forced to kneel before the hideous images, to kiss the cross,--sooner would I rush out to the mob that was passing, and let them tear my vitals out.
Had the German submarine been a surface ship, it would have seen the wake and probably escaped by flight; but still it sailed nonchalantly on its way, never suspecting for a moment that a torpedo had missed its vitals by only a few feet.
So he clasped her in his arms and strained her fast to his breast and sucked her lip, till the honey-dew ran out into his mouth; and he laid his hand under her left-armpit, whereupon his vitals and her vitals yearned for coition.
The tongue of Love within my vitals speaketh, viii.
O favour like the full moon's face of sheen, indeed I'm he * Whom thou didst leave with vitals torn when faring on thy way.
But what more than all beside was gnawing at its vitals was the rivalries by which it was distracted, the corroding suspicion and distrust in which each of its members lived.
O Prince of True Believers, whenever I call him to mind my vitals are consumed, for that I have not yet won my wish of him, and but that I fear to die, without seeing him, I had assuredly slain myself.
Then name me not or chide for aught I did in passion-stress, * With vitalsgone and frame consumed by yearning-malady!
FN#386] Would Heaven ye wot the whole I bear for love * Of you, with vitals clean for you undight!
I' faith mine eyelids are with tears chafed sore: * My vitals plain to you some cure to see.
Has not this truth already come home to you now, when this cruel war has driven its claws into the vitals of Europe?
Therefore it is ready to send its poisonous fluid into the vitals of the other living peoples, who, not being nations, are harmless.
Then she cut his navel-string and wrapping him in some of her own clothes, gave him to suck, harrowed at heart, and with vitals sorrowing for the estate she had lost and its honour and solace.
And as he looked at her and considered her curiously, an object to enamour an ascetic and make a devotee lovesick, fire was lighted in his vitals and he cried, "Folk say that whoso taketh up his abode in this house dieth or sickeneth.
If, then, thou feel capable of what they claimed for thee, come thou to the task and understand that a man's son and heir is the very fruit of his vitals and core of his heart and liver.
Tiberius, while he fortified the vitals of his own domination, afforded the Senate a shadow of their ancient jurisdiction; by referring to their examination petitions and claims from the provinces.
In his old age he preserved with the Prince rather the outside than the vitals of authority: the same had happened to Maecenas.
Then up again like a shot; and the keen cutlass tore its way through the vitals of the fish.
He had hardly got the last words out of his mouth before there was another grinding shock, and a dull rattle away down in the vitals of the ship.
It shall be laid by the best gunner on board the Ivan, and your hand shall send the shot, I hope, into the vitals of these accursed works.
The clutch of a parricidal rebellion is grappling at the national existence, and what shall we think of those men who would stay the arm of Government from stabbing at its vitals by interposing constitutional scruples?
And strangely enough, we obey his command, While he strikes at our vitals and plunders the land!
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