These he caught and thrashed soundly, after the fashion of a schoolmaster with a refractory boy, and turned them adrift with a warning thenceforth to mind their own business.
His first severe trial in the perils of backwoods life had come--without warning or time for preparation; and he passed through it like a true hero.
One of the best series of modern antiques of this kind is a set of gargoyles at St. Nicholas's, Abingdon, executed about 1881, of which I think it worth while to append a warning sample.
Whether this be a rendering of the dishonest ale-wife, or a separate warning against the vice of Vanity, cannot well be decided.
A poetical writer raises a warning voice against the growing unchastity of the age:-- "Meet not with an harlot, lest thou fall into her snares.
The events witnessed on Mount Sinai remained engraven upon the hearts of thoughtful men; nor were warning voices wanting to recall the olden days of divine mercy, and to rebuke the people on account of their idolatry.
The youthful troop of prophets took the place of the warningvoice of conscience.
King Achish, however, expected so much from this alliance that he paid no heed to the warning of his counsellors.
His energies were entirely directed to exposing wickedness, to warning and exhorting the nation, and to holding before it the ideal of a future, to attain which it must strive with heart and soul.
Is not the sight of the unhappy wretch, as he sits cowering there, afraid, evidently afraid to meet my eye, a warning and a caution?
To be sure it was a signal warning to all men, as to the evils which might be expected to flow from any sipping of the Circean cup which such creatures proffered to their lips.
The warning of the verse teaches that the skittish god must not be scared by a premature exhibition of the noose hid beneath the sieve of corn.
The other day an earthquake shook the walls of Rome and sent a warning shock through St. Peter's.
Therefore the Church must still publicly condemn his memory, as a warning to the faithful.
Man is taking a direct straight road to destruction, and she must not stop him by so much as lifting a warning finger!
He lived as a warning of what was to come,--a warning of the wolves that were ready to descend upon the Master's fold.
He thought of making Alan's wild attempt to depart impossible by the simple method of warning the Asika, but, notwithstanding his native selfishness, was too loyal to let that idea take root in his mind.
Then without a word of warning he lifted Aylward's express rifle which he carried, and fired first one barrel and then the other, shooting the two leading soldiers dead.
He reached for the whistle and gave the long, warning screams.
Certainly we of the operating department hadwarning enough.
I might have expected this of Crane," he thought, half aloud, "after all the warningthat fool Brookings persisted in giving him.
I see now that we should have done as you suggested, and taken it before they had warning and put it out of our reach.
The miscreant started as if he had heard the warning of a rattlesnake at his feet.
Despite the warning uttered by his captor before leaving, the boy stole up the steps and stealthily tried the door.
He opened the door so quietly that, but for the warning rattle of the key, it would have been hard for the watchers to hear him.
A havildar of the Khan of Dir's Levies had promised the political agent to give warning of any actual assault, by lighting a fire on the opposite hills.
I am aware that Mr. Davis procured the most correct intelligence about the great night attack at Nawagai, and thus gave ample warning to Sir Bindon Blood.
Several, thinking that it was merely the warning for the movable column to fall in, waited to light their cigarettes.
On the 23rd he received an official warning from the D.
Just as the game was ended, he received a letter, brought in haste by two sowars, from Lieutenant Wheatley, the other subaltern at Chakdara, warning him that a great number of Pathans with flags were advancing on the fort.
He wore his scars proudly, a warning to all that adolescence was on him, as the young Heidelberg student flaunts his wounds.
Juno reappeared, the warning indicating that Genevra, whoever she might be, was a personage never mentioned, except by mother and son.
Mrs. Cameron, spoken as only she could speak it, with a prolonged buzzing sound on the first syllable, and warning the husband that he was venturing too far.
Suddenly Genevra's warning words rang in his ear: "God will not forgive you for the wrong you have done me.
To me, Tennyson shows more than any poet I know (perhaps has been a warning to me) how much there is in finest verbalism.
History is to record those three Presidentiads, and especially the administrations of Fillmore and Buchanan, as so far our topmost warning and shame.
In the deepest recesses of her being she knew that it was her unerring instinct warning her that she was about to hear something that would entail worse suffering than any she had yet endured.
She wondered what worry he could have on his mind to make him act so strangely and suddenly Keralio's words of warning came to her mind.
He was aroused from his reflections by an exclamation of warning from his companion.
For answer, the lawyer put his fingers to his lips with a warning gesture, and beckoning the young man to follow, retraced his steps on tiptoe along the narrow, dark hall and down the filthy, winding staircase.
Afraid that punishment might be visited on the child, she would obey the warning not to talk, and she will come here to Keralio's flat to-morrow at the time the letter stated.
She lighted a lamp to show me the inside of the roof and the walls, and also that the board floor extended under the bed, warning me not to step into the cellar, a sort of dust hole two feet deep.
As they come under one horizon, they shout their warning to get off the track to the other, heard sometimes through the circles of two towns.
Whereas in the mind of the nurse this relation is so vividly impressed that no sooner does the paper approach the flame than the unapparent fact becomes almost as visible as the objects, and a warning is given.
The history of Literature abounds in examples of critics being entirely at fault missing the old familiar landmarks, these guides at once set up a shout of warning that the path has been missed.
And the utility of the knowledge will be that of a constant monitor, warning the artist of the errors into which he has slipped, or into which he may slip if unwarned.
Almost at this moment there came a warning from without.
They went forward briskly and the hand of every man rested on his weapon, for the mysterious death of their companion had been a warning they could not but heed.
Just follow me; and if you mean what you say, warning shall be given at once.
From these, the warning of the simple, unlearned moralist and preacher, his reproof of their pride, their venality and inconstancy, would only have elicited mockery and derision.
The heaps of dead bodies were not permitted to be interred, but the horrible sight was intended as a warning to the survivors, that they should no longer dream of deliverance from the Roman yoke.
His tone was suspicious, he thought that Angelescu might have been warningthe girl against him.
Only, only, when a time of ease and peace comes to him in his middle age, let him not forget the warning of the latter part of the chapter.
I know that you here do not require thiswarning much for yourselves.
Virginia hurried into the room at this moment and looked a quick warning at the girls.
No, ma'am," interrupted Sam, with a warning look at the colored woman.
The Crusaders were called to arms by a warning which they deemed the voice of God, and they set out from their own homes to obey it.
