We of the Free Companions see him pretty often, and bring him the news and little comforts, like good tobacco and eau de vie, that he cannot get among savages.

In every case, unless a man is rich enough to have two houses in one, it comes to choice between domestic comfort and these occasional facilities.

A warm-toned, well-tufted room, hotel chromos well in evidence, but a turkey-red air of solid comfort.

So much for the foolish and absurd stories about the place, which tell us that it is the only city of the Empire in which Christians can live with safety and comparative comfort.

With the cool shock of the water one moment of bodily comfort returned to me, and with it a faint revival of my spirit.

It is to me an unspeakable comfort to be able to understand the language of the country where we travel.

One would suppose that a reasonably frugal royal family, with no house-rent to pay, could subsist in tolerable comfort on some £2,250 a week; but as a matter of fact, Dom Carlos made large additional drafts on the treasury, which servile ministries honored without protest.

Furious she tore, and flung upon the ground; Starting, in agony of grief, she gazed Her swimming eyes to Heaven imploring raised; And groaning cried: "Sole comfort of my life!

He has bidden us thereby, if His likeness and spirit be indeed in us, to alleviate where we can; and believe that by every additional comfort, however petty, which we provide, we are copying the Ideal Man, who, because He was very God of very God, could condescend, at the marriage feast, to turn the water into wine.

I humbly trust this day was spent to mutual comfort.

The words of Jesus, "Lo, I am with you alway," came as sweet comfort to her heart.

Her mind, shut off from all earthly comfort, was now driven in upon itself.

The mere physical comfort of riding, instead of serving as packhorse, great as it was, not even that could so instantly spirit away the weariness, and light up the curious, solemn radiance that shone on the Colonel's face.

He could, if necessary, endure any privation, but his tastes were for luxurious comfort.

What that wife did for him in spiritual as well as temporal comfort, the sequel will show.

The wretched ignorance with which Jupe clung to this consolation, rejecting the superior comfort of knowing on a sound arithmetical basis that her father was an unnatural vagabond, filled Mr. Gradgrind with pity.

Sight is essential not only to the simplest matters of daily comfort and necessity, but is also of prime importance in the culture of the mind and in the higher forms of pleasure.

The unglazed windows were closed at nightfall by wooden shutters, and rude comfort cheered the inmates.

The man that is governed by self, and not by a principle, changes his front when his selfish comforts are threatened.

The peace and serenity which we were favored to feel by him was an inexpressible comfort to our sorrowful hearts.

" "I find more substantial comfort now," wrote Coleridge to his friend Collins in 1818, "in pious George Herbert's 'Temple,' which I used to read to amuse myself with his quaintness, in short, only to laugh at, than in all the poetry since Milton.

If there is a room in every farmer's house where the work of the family is done, there should be a room in every farmer's house where the family should live,where beauty should appeal to the eye, where genuine comfort of appointments should invite to repose, where books should be gathered, where neatness and propriety of dress should be observed, and where labor may be forgotten.

What that wife did for him in spiritual as well as temporal comfort, the sequel will show.

The cottages, too, though in a few instances sadly deficient in sanitary improvements and internal comfort, are not only picturesque, but strong and lasting.

So far we have endeavoured to measure poverty by the application of a standard of actual material comfort.