O reverend sir, my Andrew's soul The Wenham witch has caught; She holds him with the curled gold Whereof her snare is wrought.
But never yet would pilot steer Into the fog that wrapped it round, for fear Of running blindfold in that sightless mist On sunken reefswhereof no mariner wist: And so from all the world this happy isle Lay hidden.
What boots it tell The tale of hours whereof each moment was As like its fellow as one blade of grass Is to another, when the dew doth fall Without respect of any amongst them all?
While praying and hoping and earnestly laboring for much greater results, we can but exclaim, “The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.
And many other things they show us, whereof if I should write, this book would not hold all I should say.
In obscure cellars, squalid poverty languidly emits its voice of destiny to haggard, hungry villains, while landlords sit as counsellors of state, plotting and playing their high chess game, whereof the pawns are men.
No one was better fitted to know whereof he spoke than the great German historian of the Renaissance.
They (Magna Carta and Carta de Foresta) were, for the most part, but declarations of the ancient common laws of England, to the observation and keeping whereof the king was bound and sworn.
In witnes whereof I have sette my hande John Carver, Giles Heale, Christopher Joanes.
And if they like them at that rate at the devident I shall have nyne shares whereof I give as followeth twoe to my wife, twoe to my sonne William, twoe to my sonne Joseph, towe to my daughter Priscilla, and one to the Companie.
Bearing in mind your caution, I have devoted myself to beer, whereof there is an exceedingly pretty fall in this house.
The complexity lies in the questionable power of the husband to alienate in usum enfeoffments whereof he was only collaterally seized, etc.
But the best of it is that Forster and I have purchased between us the entire stock in trade of a conjurer, the practice and display whereof is intrusted to me.
So that, this being the Militia of the nation, a few noblemen discontented could at any time levy a great army, the effect whereof both in the Barons Wars and those of York and Lancaster had been well known to divers kings.
And is not every mannor a little commonwealth, whereof the tenants are the members, the land the body, and the lord the head?
O how many trades and handicrafts are now in England whereof the Commonwealth hath no need!
Here was treasure indeed whereof Black Meg did not fail to possess herself.
Remembering with shame, however, that there were various incidents of the evening of the supper whereof his memory was most imperfect, he concluded that this must be one of them.
Also deep down in his mind he had a sincerer and quite secret reason for reticence, whereof more in its proper place.
They draw near to your hearts, you whose day is done indeed, citizens of an accursed city whereof the very name shall be forgotten, and the naked towers shall become but a source of wonder to men unborn.
It was the ancient city of Zimboe, whereof the lonely ruins are known to us moderns as Zimbabwe.
First: he would not only be a whetstone to quicken and sharp the Bishop of Canterbury, whereof he hath need, but also would be a great confounder of the Anabaptists lately sprung up in Kent.
As they turned down the newly-worn track to the cottages, whereof the weekly progress had been for some time the delight of Elsmere's heart, they met old Meyrick in his pony-carriage.
Catherine was not there, so her novel was on her lap and her eyes were staring intently into a world whereof they only had the key.
There remains then only emigration, whereof we have already some specimen.
Thirty-two millions, therefore, of paper, whereoffourteen was apportioned to the Bank of England, was the bountiful allowance counted out for the daily augmenting wants of the first commercial nation of the world.
I may seem harsh and bitter toward my own son, but remember, Miss Ethel, I have had vastly more experience in the ways of the world than you have--and I know whereof I speak.
I tell thee that a closet whereof I have spoken, can contain naught save a treasure--perhaps in gold--perhaps in massive plate.
Then she took some bread in her hand, and hastened to the groves to pluck the cooling and delicious fruits whereof there was so marvelous an abundance.
Isaachar speaks naught save the pure truth," remarked Orsini, blushing at the justice which dictated these reproaches against the aristocracy whereof he was a member.
In Witness whereof the Master or Purser of the said sloop hath affirmed to Two Bills of Lading, all of this Tenor and date; the one of which Two Bills being accomplished, the other one to stand void.
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