The aborigines held them in great respect, took them for large dogs (bull-dogs of course), and had a wholesome fear of their bite.
There is reason to apprehend that in disturbing our human faith in shadows, we have lost some of those wholesome moral restraints which might have kept many of us virtuous where the laws could not.
A wholesome moral restraint in starting at every bush, and hating every old woman for a witch!
Hence Master Dapperwit bringing home the Wounds made by fair Eyes in his Bosom, cries out, on his Return, The Waters are not so wholesome as they are reported; I have received more Harm than Good at the Place.
Footnote 28: Baiae, a Place not far from Naples, famous for wholesome as well as pleasant Baths.
And all real and wholesome enjoyments possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace.
The king giuing good eare vnto the bishops wholesome admonition, promised at that present to become a Christian, if he might reuenge his injuries receiued at the hands of the Westsaxons.
We haue therefore no hurtfull waters amongst vs, but all wholesomeand profitable for the benefit of the people.
As for swine, there is no place that hath greater store, nor more wholesome in eating, than are these here in England, which neuerthelesse doo neuer anie good till they come to the table.
England, more or lesse: but I sée no successe of that good and wholesome law, sith it is rather contemptuouslie reiected than otherwise dutifullie kept in anie place of England.
And beside this, our common germander or thistle benet is found & knowne to bée so wholesome and of so great power in medicine, as anie other hearbe, if they be vsed accordinglie.
It is thought of some that it is verie wholesome for a weake stomach to beare such a dog in the bosome, as it is for him that hath the palsie to féele the dailie smell and sauour of a fox.
The humidity of the climate, and the scarcity of clear, wholesome water, obliges the inhabitants to drink much of other liquids.
If, under a feudal system, there is a wholesome exercise of reverence in the worship of ancestry, there is, under the opposite system, a no less salutary and perpetual impulse to generosity in the care for posterity.
She almost felt as though she must hasten home to make sure it was still as clean and wholesome as before.
It showed no consideration for delicate nerves, but was for all that a clean and wholesome book.
I refuse the proffered paternity; but so far as administering a little wholesome castigation now and then, I have no objection to join in the discharge of a father's duty.
The patient man hath a great and wholesome purgatory.
It is, therefore, a holy and wholesomethought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
It is, therefore, a holy andwholesome thought to pray for the dead.
It is therefore really and indeed a holy and a wholesome thought for us of the one to pray for those of the other.
It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.
And the low murmur of the leaves All softly seemed to say, "It is a good and wholesome thought For the dead in Christ to pray.
It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead.
From those that we have received we can affirm that no devotion would be much more popular with the people than that which was pronounced in the days of the Maccabees "a holy and wholesome thought.
So the Congressman too commonly acquires a habit of subservience which is assuredly not wholesome either for the individual or for the country; and sometimes the effort to trim sails to catch every favouring breeze has curious oblique results.
His first feeling was one of speechless indignation at the insolence of these audacious strangers; his second, a wholesome fear of the consequences of disobedience.
Now is our time to create a wholesome impression of our invincibility upon these fellows," remarked the baronet, and hurrying to the pilot- house he caused the ship to sink well within range of the projected salute.
Content is he with wholesome food Which gives him life and strength renewed, But who would dare the guilty deed That brings no fame or glorious meed, Where merit there is none to win And vengeance soon o’ertakes the sin?
Truth and wholesome justice set ye up in your gates.
If wholesome beverage may rightly be offered to anybody, can, with the same right, poison be given?
In his mind thewholesome pulp of practical wisdom and salutary advice was immediately converted into the dry chaff and husks of a miserable logic.
They are the wholesomedew and rain, or the mildew and pestilence that silently destroy.
Thereto the herber was so fresh and cold, The wholesome savours eke so comforting That, as I demede, sith the beginning Of thilke world was never seene or than So pleasaunt a ground of none earthly man.
If he stays he might insinuate some wholesome truths.
Everyday Thoughts" is not a mere book of advice, neither does it attempt to preach, but it contains more good counsel andwholesome moral lessons than are to be found in the average sermon.
Her hopeful, practical, masterful views of life give the reader new courage in the very reading and are a wholesome spur to flagging effort.
All his pride of possession and joyousness of childhood were gone, and instead of wholesome laughter the terrors of a crushed spirit looked out of his dull eyes.
But Merlin warned the king privily that Guinever was not wholesome for him to take to wife, for he warned him that Launcelot should love her, and she him again.
The work of the group bordered often upon archaic preciosity, yet its influence was wholesome in holding up the ideal of a formalism which is after all one of the basic conditions of art.
He believes you," she continued, "to be harmless enough at a wholesome period of our country's history.
I would like to see the working man everywhere established in quarters where life is wholesome and pleasant.
All the troops have a sufficiency of wholesome food.
A splendid exercise for the hips and has a wholesome effect upon the spine.
We believe that every child should receive all possible knowledge, imparted in a pure and wholesome manner at proper periods, concerning the purposes, problems and perils of sex.
Every father competent for the task should see that his boys understand the natural and wholesome process of reproduction, and the great physical dangers which accompany violations of the moral law in this respect.
He had a deep sense of the purpose and need of punishment, and he despised those who fled from wholesome discipline.
There's nothing morewholesome than good honest pain.
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