And shoot a feathered arrow of sweet song Pythoward, for thy words shall not fall to the ground when thou tunest the throbbing lyre to the praise of the wrestlings of a man from famous Opous, and celebratest her and her son.
For in wrestlings thou art following the footsteps of thy uncles, and shamest neither Theognetos at Olympia, nor the victory that at Isthmos was won by Kleitomachos' stalwart limbs.
I believe the Lord's tide of afflictions will ebb again; but at present I am exercised with the wrestlings of God, being afraid of nothing more than this, that God has let loose the tempter upon my house.
I marvel not, my dear sister, that ye complain that ye come short of your old wrestlings which ye had for a blessing; and that now you find it not so.
Under the guise of Herr Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, Carlyle tells the story of his early religious doubts, his painful struggles that recall Bunyan's wrestlings with despair, and his final entry upon a new spiritual life.
Terrible, indeed, must have been the wrestlings and questionings of this strong-fibered intellect, alone and diffident, within the toils of ecstasy.
The jawbone is hard and heavy; the cheekbone emergent: between the two the flesh is hollowed, not so much with the emaciation of monastic vigils as with the athletic exercise of wrestlings in the throes of prophecy.
Belle had a kind heart, and would weep at the accounts I gave her of my early wrestlingswith the dark Monarch.
Belle had a kind heart, and would weep at the accounts I gave her of my early wrestlings with the dark monarch.
It takes every one of us in turn many a shrewd fall in our wrestlingswith the world, to convince us that we are not to have everything our own way.
How can my poor words follow the strong loving man in the wrestlings of his spirit, till far on in the quiet night he laid the whole before the Lord and slept!
I listen at their breasts: is there no jar Of wrestlings and of stranglings, dead they are, And such a picture as the piercing mind Ranks beneath vegetation.
The road was mountainous and lonely, and I was wholly alone, and suffered no interruption in mywrestlings with God.
They mutually confided their last compositions, and sometimes chose the same subject in the amicable wrestlings of their genius.
Naphtali, or the Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland, p.
See also Naphtali, or the Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland, 1667, pp.
Compare Naphtali, or the Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland, 1667, p.
Naphtali, or theWrestlings of the Church of Scotland, pp.
Respecting the outrages in 1667, there are some horrible details in a book published in that very year, under the title of Naphtali, or the Wrestlings of the Church of Scotland.
This was Matthias Nicholson, who, through a lengthened period, stood unrivalled at all the wrestlings and other athletic exercises and manly sports, which took place in the neighbourhood.
Some years after, the "Dyer" rambled away from home as far as Low Wood, to attend the annual wrestlings at Windermere.
Among the distinguished athletes of a byegone period, not one in the long list has conferred a more enduring celebrity on the wrestlings of the north, than the Threlkeld champion, Tom Nicholson.
This tribe profess to trace back theirwrestlings long before the Greeks held their Olympic games on the banks of the Alpheus.
Wrestliana: a Chronicle of the Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestlings in London, since the year 1824.
And, in relation to my much later development as a drinker, this whisper, this promise of the things at the back of life, must be noted, for it was destined to play a dire part in my more recent wrestlings with John Barleycorn.
Old fights and wrestlings have injured them irreparably.
I could weep now as I recollect my wrestlings with it.
Ye see what labour and pains we have in our business,—how we toil and sweat about it,—what wrestlings and strivings in all things we do; but behold what a great work is done without pain and travail?
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