Some of the young squires who are fools enough to hanker after a few maids or look at the fairer ones get their noseswellnigh pinched off by Proud Cis's Mother of the Maids.
By the faint light of the candle, which was by this time wellnigh burned out, the place looked fully as ruinous and desolate as the peasants had represented it to be.
Indeed, the termination of the wars of the League had wellnigh undone what had previously been accomplished toward restricting the inordinate independence of the nobles; for Henry IV.
The boy ran across the deck nearly at the risk of his life; for though the sea and wind had both fallen, the little craft still pitched and heeled so much that he lost his footing and had wellnigh gone overboard.
His impatience had wellnigh ruined all, however; for, just as he was about to take one of the sheets from the bed to tear a hole for his head to pass through, the servant entered his room with a fresh supply of wood.
They say that he and King Louis have been stayed at Nantes by some troubles in the court; but nothing is neglected: day by day the troops are gathering round, and we are now wellnigh hemmed in by land.
Gareth spake Angered, 'Old master, reverence thine own beard That looks as white as utter truth, and seems Wellnigh as long as thou art statured tall!
He ended: Arthur knew the voice; the face Wellnigh was helmet-hidden, and the name Went wandering somewhere darkling in his mind.
For dark my mother was in eyes and hair, And dark in hair and eyes am I; and dark Was Gorlois, yea and dark was Uther too, Wellnigh to blackness; but this King is fair Beyond the race of Britons and of men.
The mere presence of Fitzpiers in the building, after his statement, was wellnigh conclusive as far as he was concerned; but Melbury resolved yet to watch.
By this time all the villagers knew of the circumstances, and being wellnigh like one family, a keen interest was the result all round.
This takes me unawares," said he, his voice wellnigh breaking down.
In the little time that was afforded for putting the house in order the sweeping of Melbury's parlor was as the sweeping of the parlor at the Interpreter's which wellnigh choked the Pilgrim.
Neither one but would have wellnigh sacrificed half her life to him, even now.
When dinner was over, Grace took a candle and began to ramble pleasurably through the rooms of her old home, from which she had latterly become wellnigh an alien.
Our little jars are ever wellnighended when Shakspeare comes in play.
He met the troop on its arrival in town, and finding Vinton wellnigh delirious with fever, had him taken at once to his lodgings.
It was nearly eleven o'clock, and I was wellnigh crazy with excitement and nervousness, fearing that I had made some mistake, and they could say I shirked the meeting.
Coming home we could not help noticing how many men there were standing in quiet groups about the Clay statue and all along Canal Street; but Royal Street, generally so busy and bustling, was strangely quiet, wellnigh deserted.
A desperate conflict was in progress from the Ourcq to Verdun, a distance of wellnigh one hundred and fifty miles.
The early part of the night between the 8th and 9th of September was clear and starry, but later the weather broke; the rain came down in torrents, and soon the marshes of the Gond were wellnigh impassable for wagons and guns.
Wellnigh half a million fugitives, not only from Antwerp but from all the countryside for twenty miles round, poured along the roads into Holland, or struggled on the quays to escape by water.
Yet the retardation of wellnigh a thousand years has surely been a giant price to pay.
He had had no idea he would find it wellnigh impossible to open a certain subject.
Hope came next, shyly, silently, still pale from the embrace of her sister Despair, trimming anew her little lamp, which the laboring breath of Despair hadwellnigh blown out.
She ran so fast that she was wellnigh breathless when she reached home.
These had brought on France the hatred of Europe, the tears of families, the ruin of fortunes, general invasion, and wellnigh national bankruptcy.
Wherever he came, the troops received him with acclamation; the citizens respected the misfortunes of one who had been wellnigh master of the world, and were silent where they could not applaud.
Baby blithe and bland, Reach but forth a hand None may dare withstand; Love, though wellnigh cowed, Yet would praise aloud Pride so sweetly proud.
Besides the ordinary march, high mountains had to be ascended for purposes of observation and these observations in winds of hurricane force and in piercing cold were wellnigh impossible to make.
Our success depended much less on fighting than on supply and transport arrangements, and these had been wellnigh perfect.
It was considered as a state secret of the greatest importance; and for wellnigh four centuries it was unknown to the Mahomedans.
Believe me, I was wellnigh thinking that we had done ill to take the cross--God forgive such an impious doubt!
I had wellnigh met you at the palace," said Hereward; while his heart throbbed almost as high as if he had actually had such a dangerous encounter.
For wellnigh three months I have been feeling wretched,” he wrote on Oct.
He protested that, for wellnigh three years, he had submitted to being trodden under foot by Luther, and had slunk along at his heels like a wretched cur, though there had been no end to the insult and abuse heaped upon him.
It is wellnigh impossible to conceive the demand which a little child makes upon its mother's vitality.
It is tossed on the spear-point of levity, it is clutched under the muck-rake of materialism, it is degraded and defiled till its pristine purity is wellnigh lost, and only a marred and defaced image rears its foul features from the mire.
The events of real life have but small radii, but the ripples of romance circle out over the whole sea of civilization, and wave succeeds wave till the impression becomes wellnigh continuous.
A girl receives such training that it is wellnigh impossible for her to be sincere.
A prohibitory duty on that article, or a duty that should seriously interfere with its importation, would wellnigh destroy the fisheries.
There he had seen strange mocking faces peering at him whichever way he turned, there he had been followed by strange shadowy forms from which escape had been wellnigh impossible; here at length was a kind and friendly mortal.
His nose was wellnigh as large as all the rest of his body, and his mouth was so big that it stretched from one ear to the other.
The old woman, who seemed little troubled by Undine's flight, had gone to bed and the fire was wellnigh out.
The hood was drawn forward and wellnigh hid his face, while the whole robe hung loosely around him, in great folds, so that at each step he must gather it up and throw it over his arm.
For days I have found it wellnigh impossible to fish in the lake, and even should I be able to do so I could not sell my fish.
The knight wellnigh smiled as he watched the maiden's wrath, but the old man was grieved that the stranger should see the wayward behaviour of his foster-child, and he reproved her for her anger.
When a little later she heard of the floods that had made the country around impassable, she wellnigh lost all hope of his return.
Already the storm was wellnigh over and the waters flowed more quietly.
She clothed herself in the cheapest and most lasting of printed linen sacques and mob caps, and hoods and aprons, fed herself and him and the children on morsels wellnigh miraculously.
And now the church was wellnigh done; One pillar it lacked, and one alone; And the grim Troll muttered, "Fool thou art!
It would seem wellnigh certain that they must be prompted by malicious fiends wishing to lure men on to destruction in the surest way.
By New Year's time the roads were many of them wellnigh impassable with snow.
It was the tide, merely the tide, which wellnigh caught us by surprise just as it did Sir Walter Scott's hero!
The Zealous and the new Astrolabe wellnigh perished, but my Nautilus is in no danger.
When I returned on board, I was wellnigh asphyxiated by the carbon dioxide saturating the air.
The great world was full of great problems which wearied and perplexed men's brains and seemed wellnigh unsolvable, but she had solved her own little problem in her own little way, and was at peace.
It is wellnigh impossible for the reality to equal what has through the filtering of fancy become scarcely more than a remembered dream.
Already I am wellnigh an old man, and it is the nature of my profession that I should be alone.
The grin expanded till it wellnigh circumnavigated the vast head.
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