But she became more composed and obeyed the doctor's instructions with unwonted meekness.

Then she said with most unexpected meekness, "I was wrong.

Her voice is music, her countenance meekness, her mind virtuous, and her soul gracious.

And so it is not by your virtuous inclinations that you have hitherto been excluded from this festive scene?" "No, sir," said Crayshaw with farcical meekness of voice and air, "quite the contrary.

Does your heart bound in you like a cannon ball that wants to find its way out, and can't, eh?" Crusoe put his snout against Marston's cheek, and in the excess of his joy the lad threw his arms round the dog's neck and hugged it vigorouslya piece of impulsive affection which that noble animal bore with characteristic meekness, and which Grumps regarded with idiotic satisfaction.

We have sat in awed and chastened silence before the divine meekness of the Sistine Madonna.

Mrs. Ferret, who once witnessed one of the contests between the two, or rather one of these attacks of Albert, for there could be no contest with embodied meekness, gave her verdict for Plausaby.

I suppose that it has arisen out of the verse in the Epistle of St. James about the patience of Job; but, like the passage in the Book of Numbers which attributes an extreme meekness to Moses, it seems to me to be either a very infelicitous description, or else a case where both adjectives have shifted their meaning.

" "One, are we not?" exclaimed the Maiden"One, For innocence and youth, for weal and woe?" 165 Then with the father's name she coupled words Of vehement indignation; but the Youth Checked her with filial meekness; for no thought Uncharitable crossed his mind, no sense Of hasty anger rising in the eclipse

But in magnanimous meekness.

This head, however, does not seem characteristic of Christ; it wants the gravity, the soft melancholy and unassuming meekness of the great Reformer: in short, from the vivid fire of the eyes and the too great self-complacency of the countenance, it gave me rather the idea Del biondo Dio che in Tessalia si adorá.

Various are the persecutions I have endured from her this winter, in all of which I remain neuter, and shall certainly go to heaven from the passive meekness of my temper.

she says, looking back at me with a steady meekness, though her blue eyes brim over; "because God has taken from me one thingone that I never had any right to expectshould I do well, do you think, to quarrel with all that He has left me?" I cannot answer; her godly patience is too high a thing for me.

"Aw, lemme sleep, will you?" begged Swing, with suspicious meekness, reaching surreptitiously for a boot.

And whereas Florrie trod the pavement with a charming little air that wavered between impudence and modesty, between timid meekness and conceit, Hilda blushed with shame and pity.

he asked with unusual meekness after a moment's rather awkward silence.

"But we'll wait," she asked in utter, weary meekness, "until this horrible storm is over?" "One never knows about a storm like this," he told her.

He had no strength even for wrath; he could only write in abject meekness, as if thanking her for delaying the blow so long: "Be not angry, my beloved one, that I repeat my words of love and sorrow again and again.

"But we'll wait," she asked in utter, weary meekness, "until this horrible storm is over?" "One never knows about a storm like this," he told her.

Believe that a life of absolute meekness is possible; believe that a life of stainless purity is possible; believe that a life of perfect holiness is possible; believe that the realization of the highest truth is possible.

A deferential insolence lay behind the affected meekness.

"The trouble this time is you," said I, "and your awful meekness.