An abbey in its lone recess, A temple of the wilderness, Wrecks though they be, announce with feeling 15 The majesty of honest dealing.
The waters were still as death; the wrecksdid not appear above the surface.
His lieutenant Cassius collects the wrecks of the army, and prevents the Parthians from conquering Syria.
The ground was strewn for miles with the wrecks of their host.
We rested in the little copse till noon, and sate there watching the wrecks of our army defile along the road before us.
He is again obliged to lead an army into Spain, where the sons of Pompeius had collected the wrecks of their father's party.
With difficulty getting clear of the wrecks of his own army, he reached Philippeville, where he remained a few hours, and sent orders to the French generals in the various extremities of France to converge with their troops upon Paris.
Such was the state of the wrecks of the old army; but the bulk of the forces with which France began the war, consisted of raw insurrectionary levies, which were even less to be depended on.
The wreck chart, which is published annually with the Society's Report, shows at a glance wherewrecks are most numerous, and there the boats of rescue are most required.
The old dormer-windowed cottage where Bunyan first saw light still survives thewrecks of time.
As we pass castle after castle and behold the wrecks and ruins, we feel that we are “passing back down the stream of time.
It was pleasant and cheerful indoors, where peat fuel and fragments of wood from the wrecks blazed and crackled upon the hearth.
III AFTER THE WAR "When the old world is sterile And the ages are effete, He will from wrecks and sediment The fairer world complete.
Lacking it, he has been forced to build either on the shifting sands of his own fancy, or on the wrecks and sediment of the past.
Prophecy, to all but the anointed, is dangerous and uncertain, but even so, the author cannot forbear attempting to prevision the architecture likely to arise from the wrecks and sediment left by the war.
In 1706 there had been considerable wrecks of wines on the Manor of Brighthelmston-Lewes; and the then Lord High Admiral claimed them as his right.
Formerly, hardly a winter passed without three or four wrecks occurring, which proved a great assistance to the poor villagers of East Dean.
On many houses were the names of wrecks that had the seeming of grave-stones overlooking the sands that had entombed the ships that wore them.
Pitiful wrecks of men, and victims of this ruthless war in which the non-combatants have suffered even more sometimes than the fighting men.
The worst was in other rooms, where poor wrecks of men lay face downwards in hot-air boxes, where they stayed immovable and silent as though in their coffins, or with half their bodies submerged in electrolysed baths.
They laid foundations of piers and breakwaters in places where old Ocean had strewnwrecks since the foundation of the world.
In or about the year 1683 a man named Phipps, the son of an American blacksmith, was smitten with a mania, then prevalent, for recovering treasure from sunken wrecksby means of diving.
Melina, in the mean time, had been making strict inquiry about the wrecks of the late theatrical establishment.
The wrecksof a transient, light, and false decoration lay, like the glittering coat of a skinned fish, dispersed in wild disorder.
Sidenote: Therapeutic value of working for the public good] Thousands of people become nervous wrecks by pursuing work for which they have no natural taste or ability, and many become nervous from the monotony of environment.
It fell upon a mortal part-- A poison'd arrow smote his heart; The winds impelling, when they bore Wrecksof the vessel to our shore!
Whilst Abner was doing his utmost to save the wrecks of Saul’s dominion for the king’s son, and to drive the Philistines out of the country, David had been looking after his own interests.
The shores were strewn with wrecks of boats and swollen bodies that lay rotting in the sun, and infected the air, till the conquerors themselves shrank from the effects of their own barbarities.
He found it therefore a matter of great ease to entrap an old bishop, an old officer, in short some of the wrecks of a government, under which it was scarcely known what factions were.
They had neither white bread nor meat, but an exquisite Hungarian wine, and every where the wrecks of magnificence stood by the side of the greatest misery.
As I look up and down this coast, and see so many wrecks whose history I know, a gloom settles over me that makes life seem, as I look back on it, more like a time of clouds and storms than of pleasant, sunny weather.
This man had also done some memorable deeds on shore, which fully made up for his being short by "two" wrecks of the other.
And in spite of steam and all modern facilities, wrecks are not unknown to-day.
Before the establishment of a floating light off Happisburg, wrecks were very numerous on the Cromer coast.
Twenty were lost at Yarmouth, and there were wrecks strewed all over the east coast.
One morning their attention was arrested by an account of some fearful wrecks of fishing boats, with loss of life, on the north coast of Devon.
In a few minutes she was flying before the gale, rolling heavily, and occasionally striking upon the wrecks of the masts, which she towed with her by the lee-rigging.
The next service was to clear the ship of the wrecks of the masts; but, although all now assisted, but little could be effected until the day had dawned, and even then it was a service of danger, as the ship rolled gunwale under.
There was such a jumble of wrecks of party in the church that I forgot the sermon and fell to moralising on the vanity of political life.
And with heavy step, and heavy heart, Leonard mournfully followed, to behold the wrecks of him whose wit had glorified orgy, and "set the table in a roar.
From the wrecks of his fortune he can look down and see stately monuments built from the stones of that dismantled edifice.
No matter whether they be poets or dandies, wealthy parvenus or aristocratic cadets, all equally prove the adage that the wrong paths to reputation are strewed with the wrecks of peace, fortune, happiness, and too often honour!
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
They are all that stand between us and the guns, these wrecks upon the beds.
It just means that the ambulances are busy, for these old troops, these old wrecks upon the beds, are holding up the Germans.
Our hospital, ourselves, would be swept out of existence, were it not for these old wrecks upon the beds.
It had even become proverbial with some of the inhabitants to observe that 'if wrecks were to happen, they might as well be sent to the poor isle of Sanday as anywhere else.
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