The supernatural and miraculous gifts which St. Francis had received from God, gave great weight to his discourses.
In fact, no one can deny that they add great resplendency to the merits of the saints, and, consequently, give great weight to the example they afford us.
Florence had that weight of care ever at her heart, and Bertha was wondering by what means she could smuggle the letter to Mrs. Aylmer out of her daughter's hands.
Then Florence Aylmer fell on her knees, and the tears which all this time had lain like a dead weight against her eyeballs, were loosened, and she sobbed as she had never sobbed before in all her life.
Oh, Miss Keys, I have a great weight on my mind; I am a miserable girl.
The reading of the essay occupied exactly ten minutes, for Sir John read it slowly, pausing often to give fullweight to the words which he read.
Quickly the water ballast was dispelled from the supplementary tanks, and relieved of this weight the vessel slowly rose until her conning-tower and deck were awash.
The picket-boat, having a dead weight of fifteen tons exclusive of the crew, was capable of dealing a heavy blow, but Crosthwaite realized that that would mean her own destruction.
The midshipman's inert body, which at first seemed hardly any weight to drag, now began to feel as heavy as lead.
Beyond the swish of the inrushing water that was automatically admitted to compensate the loss of weight caused by the speeding torpedo, not a sound broke the deadly stillness pervaded the interior of the submarine.
A sanguinary heavy-weight encounter was followed by the first bout of the feathers and the second of the light-weights, and then it was Allen's turn to fight the Harrow representative.
St Austin's was his School, and he was by far the best middle-weight there.
Tony ducked sharply, and brought his right across with every ounce of his weight behind it, fairly on to the point of the jaw.
He had been up to Aldershot three times, once as a feather-weight and twice as a light-weight, and each time he had returned with the silver medal.
There was a considerable weightof evidence against him, which I have since found to be perfectly untrustworthy, but which at the time seemed to me almost conclusive.
On the day following Mr. Hamilton called to see her--a task to which, under the dreadful weightof his sorrow, he was scarcely equal.
For example, on letters of one half-ounce weight or under, the rate for distances not exceeding five hundred miles was made five cents, and for greater distances ten cents.
The new system was founded on a uniform rate for uniform weight without regard to distance, and this rate the lowest unit of coin,--with prepaid stamps, and the abolition of the franking privilege.
My neck would learn the weight of my more solid proportions.
Brother Thomas caught me behind the knee-joints, and I was on the ground with hisweight above me.
Not having opportunity to reach the stables and mount, Michael Hamilton fled on foot, with what speed he might, but sorely impeded by the weight of his armour.
Under my weightit yielded gently, and I stumbled across the threshold of a room that smelled strangely sweet and was very warm, being full of the sun, and the heat of a great fire.
It was body to body, weight against weight, short strokes at close quarters, and, over our heads, bills striking and foining at the English.
And for this cause perforce, if he needed more proof of my manhood than the weight of my fist, he must tarry for the demonstration which he desired.
And the door was bolted that the penitent might be private with his confessor, for he has a heavy weight to unburden his sinful soul withal.
By this faithful conduct he gained great weight in the Alexandrian councils, till, corrupted by the poisonous habits of the place, he gave way to luxury and vice.
The war was still going on between Antiochus and the Romans; and Epiphanes soon sent to Rome a thousand pounds weight of gold and twenty thousand pounds of silver, to help the republic against their common enemy.
Euergetes was so bloated with disease that his body was nearly six feet round, and he was made weak and slothful by this weight of flesh.
The haughty orders of the senate at first had very little weight with the two kings.
Ptolemy Soter lived two years after he had withdrawn himself from the cares of government; and the weight of his name was not without its use in adding steadiness to the throne of his successor.
But their arguments for peace carried no weight with him; and he denied that his father, Antiochus the Great, had ever given Coele-Syria as a dower with his daughter Cleopatra to Epiphanes.
The coins are not of the same weight as those of Greece; but Ptolemy followed the Egyptian standard of weight, which was that to which the Jewish shekel was adjusted, and which was in use in the wealthy cities of Tyre and Sidon and Beryttus.
In some cases, with a sad want of taste, the weight of the roof rests on the weak head of a woman.
Antigonus then turned the weight of his mighty kingdom against the little island of Rhodes, which, though in sight of the coast of Asia Minor, held itself independent of him, and in close friendship with Ptolemy.
Roman help, Rome gained nothing but thanks, and that weight in their councils which is fairly due to usefulness: the senate asked for no tribute, and the citizens took no bribes.
But they now hoped, by means of the king's friendship and the weight which his wishes must carry with them, to have a Greek translation of the Bible which should bear the stamp of official authority.
And they gave him seventy weight of silver out of the temple of Baalberith: wherewith he hired to himself men that were needy, and vagabonds, and they followed him.
When the wind is of sufficient force to hold up the plane, the scales will show the same pull, neglecting, of course, the weight of the plane itself.
Gradually the question of weight is solving itself.
The question is often asked, why do the builders of aeroplanes place most of the weight up close to the planes?
It must be obvious to the novice that the lower the weight the less liability of overturning.
This is an easy matter, because while going at twenty miles an hour, the weight of the machine on the surface of the ground is less than one-tenth of its weight when at rest.
A barometer is a device for measuring the weight or pressure of the air.
A is shown to be equipped with the supporting plane B and the tail a, so they are adjustable simultaneously at the same angle, and the weight D is placed below, similar to the other structure.
It is the weight of a moving body, multiplied by its speed.
If this figure is divided by 62 1/2 we shall find the cubical contents of the pontoons, not considering, of course, the weight of the material of which they are composed.
The ability to shift from one position to another; to apply the weight where required instantaneously; to be able during the brief exciting moment of flight to know just what to do, requires alertness.
Or, as in some cases the body may be made triangular in cross section so that as it is submerged its sustaining weight will increase at a greater degree as it is pressed down than its vertical measurement indicates.
Gordon was not unpopular, and indeed some of his escapades were really funny, as, for instance, when he cut through the string of the chapel organ on which a weight is attached to show whether the organ is full of air or not.
But the School House was always playing against superior weight and strength, and more than once had found itself unable to sustain their efforts, and after leading up to half-time went clean to pieces in the last ten minutes.
He had a long moustache, his clothes carried the odour of stale tobacco, his legs seemed hung on to his body by hooks that every day appeared less likely to maintain the weight attached to them.
But weight told, and during the whole of the last half the House were penned in their twenty-five, while the school got over twice.
Further on, we saw the spot where the fainting Saviour fell under the weight of his cross.
I suppose that by this time they know the dimensions of that rock to an inch, and its weight to a ton; and I do not hesitate to charge that they will go back there to-night and try to carry it off.
I certainly was the younger and the lighter of the two, but my knowledge of the use of my hands stood me in good stead of both weight and age.
When a carriage ascends a hill, the weight or gravity of the whole is decomposable into two--one perpendicular, and the other parallel to the road.
Hitherto, we have been accustomed to see compilations of pretensions similar to the present, executed with little regard to neatness or unity, or weight or consideration.
Yet only see the consequence; that's all that needs be done To change the weight of sadness to unmitigated fun.
Every moment of delay increases theweight of the charges that I shall bring against you before the magistrate.
She would do so too; she would accustom herself at first to the weight of little burdens, and go on increasing them until at last she could carry the very heaviest.
When I staggered and fell to the ground beneath the weight of my misery, you thought only of yourself; your gentlest word to me was 'miserable man.
Ernestine slowly passed the quiet confessionals, where so many sorrow-laden hearts had unburdened themselves of their weight of woe and received forgiveness in the name of the Lord.
He writhed like a worm on the ground beneath the weight of reproach with which this artless creature thus heaped him.
The child's foreboding soul, precociously matured by misfortune, felt the entire weightof her desolation; and she hid her face in the pillow, that Rieka might not hear the convulsive sobs wrung from the depths of her misery.
This was enough to prove to Leuthold that the ground was unsteady beneath his feet, and for a moment he succumbed under the weight of this new anxiety.
The only sure acquisition that physiology may be able to boast in this matter is that the relative weightof the feminine is not lighter than that of the masculine brain.
But Reuben tells me,” she added—“that boy is really worth his weight in pearls—that the main body are to attack at midnight.
It seems that the officer had pressed too hard on the frame of the portrait, thanks to the weight of his constable's hands.
If any one made a search or inspection, he did it chiefly for his own pleasure, especially if there happened to be in the waggon objects attractive to his eye, and if his own hand possessed a certain weight and power.
The throbbing of his heart was violent, almost terrible; theweight upon his breast intolerable.
But every league that brought me nearer to France seemed to remove a weight from my bosom, and my heart beat lighter.
The fosterer made a circuit, and examined that horse which erstwhile had not borne "the weight of Antony," but the Due d'Abrantes.
In height and weight we were equally matched; but his maniac strength was superhuman.
But her heart felt at times like ice, at times like burning fire; always a heavy, heavy weightwithin her.
Any one who has been oppressed with the weight of a vital secret for years, and much more any one the character of whose life has been stamped by one event, and that producing sorrow and shame, is naturally reserved.
At last she heaved the weight off her heart enough to say, in a faint, moaning voice, speaking with infinite difficulty: "I was so young.
Mr Benson seemed to speak as if he had a weight of care on his heart that God alone could relieve or lighten.
The weight of the evidence would seem to point to a justification of Germany.
The entire weight of decision now rests upon Your shoulders.
The identification of the instrument has been much discussed, but, from the standpoint of the history of musical instruments, the weight of evidence is in favour of the view that the Semitic kinnor is the Greek cithara (q.
In the meanwhile the compass went through a process of complete reconstruction in his hands a process which enabled both the permanent and the temporary magnetism of the ship to be readily compensated, while the weight of the 10-in.
As leader of the Liberal party in the House of Lords he acted with undeviating dignity; and in opposition he was a courteous antagonist and a critic of weight and experience.
There has been some dispute as to the exact site of the engagement, but the weight of evidence is in favour of the position mentioned above, on the South Carolina side of the line.
There is practically no mechanism; the system is simple, ingenious, and neither adds to the weight nor to the bulk of the instrument.
Phillida's eyes fell to the table, and she fingered a paper-weight with manifest emotion.
However wholesome and serviceable a critical skepticism may prove to an enthusiast in the full tide of health and activity, to Phillida broken in heart and hope it was but another weight to sink her to the bottom.
Then after a pause and an evident struggle to control herself she proceeded: "Do you think I would weight you down with a wife that will always be remembered for the follies of her youth?
Then a terrible sense of what was expected of her by mother and daughter came over her mind, and her spirits sank as under the weight of a millstone.
The weight of a brilliant success was now thrown into the scale, and Mrs. Frankland could speak with an apostolic authority hitherto unknown.
We saw them, a little knot of men with the heavy weight of the fallen mummer in their midst, moving slowly to the wall of vines and through it into the mysterious depths beyond.
He was a tremendous man, but there was something honestly heroic in his offering to carry Cornelius Gleazen's weight back over all those miles.
For the moment I yielded, and we stumbled along, arm in arm, with Gleazen now all but a deadweight between us.
Twenty minutes afterward, to the amazement of every man on deck, he came stamping up again, red with anger, followed by Willie MacDougald, who was staggering under the weight of his bag.
Exploring with my foot until I found a likely stone, I put my weighton it, and felt it turn.
When it struck her she shivered from stem to stern, and the combing of the wave fell with the weight of tons on the deck.
But, when taken seriously ill, it appears that the Lord laid the weight of her sins upon her, and she felt that she had slighted the means of truth, which was a trouble to her.
The bridge was broken, and the iron stanchions were twisted with enormous force, while the turtle-back was flattened by the tremendous weight of the water.
The weight of his body fell on the point of the pen.
He perceived the number of his sins, and felt the weight of his guilt.
It is of carved stone, gilded and coloured, shaped like a wineglass, and one wondered that even a small man should dare to trust his weight in it.
When he was too weak to sit on the music stool by himself, I used to stand behind him and support his weight against my chest to enable him to enjoy his communion with the divine and beautiful as long as he could.
On the other side of the island, where it faces the south, the Pacific hurls its weight upon rocky headlands and thunders in rocky caverns as stern and wild as Caledonia's coasts can show.
