It was easy to see, in the look of the applicant, signs of pious resignation, and a lively hope of another and a better state of existence.

After due consideration of the subject for more than two months, in a state of humble resignation to be directed aright in this important matter, we did not feel it press with sufficient weight on our minds to warrant our moving in the face of so much difficulty as is at present in the way.

Anthonio with a calm resignation replied, that he had but little to say, for that he had prepared his mind for death.

Lister smiled with humorous resignation.

" The good old man here closed his eyes, with an expression of patient resignation, and rather as if he courted sleep than felt inclined to it:

If we but enjoy the good things of earth and endure the evil things with a cheerful resignation, bad spiritsblue devils and allwill fly from our bosoms to their appropriate abode.

In spite of many annoyances, she had spent two happy years at Thonon in work for her Divine Master; and she would have been more than human if she had not felt, though in a spirit of sweet resignation, the wrench which these frequent changes of habitation inflicted.

In a minute she rose, and approaching her aunt with an air of profound resignation, but great steadiness, she handed her the letters, her own unsealed: "Read them, madam, and if you approve of mine, I will thank you to deliver it.

Byron, superior to vulgar prejudice, saw in the manners of the pallikares an ingenuous simplicity, a manly frankness and rustic procedure, but full of honour; he observed in the people a docility and constancy capable of the greatest efforts, when it shall be conducted by skilful and virtuous men; he observed amongst the Greek women natural gaiety, unstudied gentleness, and religious resignation to misfortunes.

Every face I saw bore the unmistakable stamp of the feeling so characteristic of the last hour before a battle,that curious mixture of solemn dignity, grave responsibility, and suppressed emotion, with an undercurrent of sad resignation.

Mr. Tutt sighed sympathetically in mock resignation.

While, in those bright, shining, smokeless cities, whenever the sun shines upon them, one's eyes are put out by the glare of their white walls; and when it does not shine!why, in the winter, there's no resource left for a man but hopeless and shivering resignation, with their wide, windy chimneys, and their damp, crackling, hissing, sputtering, tantalizing fagots.

In fact, that the advice Lord Melbourne gave was indefensible was tacitly confessed by himself, when, on the recurrence of the same emergency two years later, he was compelled to recommend a different course; and the ladies whom Sir Robert had considered it necessary to remove anticipated their dismissal by voluntary resignation.

The Spaniards have stipulated, that the grant of possession shall not preclude the question of prior right, a question which we shall probably make no haste to discuss, and a right, of which no formal resignation was ever required.

A man sickens, he wraps himself in stolid apathy, he makes no effort to shake of his malady, he accepts it with sullen, despairing, pathetic resignation as his fate.

Yet in all these afflictions she showed a spirit of holy resignation.

" "God bless thee, lady!" said the officer, little used to deal with such spirits, and touched by the mild resignation and piety of the speaker, whose simple but winning manner moved him nearly to tears; "all of my family, old as well as young, shall bethink them of thee and thine.

This new danger, working below in the solid earth, had thrown Rudolph into a state of sullen resignation.

" A month after this serene resignation he goes to Dresden, and finds his heart full of longing for this very "Nanni."

One thing prevented rest day and night,the knowledge that Laval's intended resignation must be followed by a new application and appointment.

In the room adjoining, Charlie and Linda were jubilantly wading through the latest "rag" song in a passable soprano and baritone, with Mrs. Abbey listening in outward resignation.

" We migrated to the cheerfully shabby little apartment, and, when Mrs. Gummer had served coffee, with gloomy resignation (as who should say: "If you will drink this sort of stuff I suppose you must, but don't blame me for the consequences"), I settled Mr. Bellingham in Barnard's favourite lop-sided easy chairthe depressed seat of which suggested its customary use by an elephant of sedentary habitsand opened the diminutive piano.

The people bend their backs, and accept with a passive, ironic resignation....

Here he remained for some time, during which his exemplary piety and touching resignation attracted the attention and respect of the principal physician, who often made him the subject of general conversation.

A man sickens, he wraps himself in stolid apathy, he makes no effort to shake of his malady, he accepts it with sullen, despairing, pathetic resignation as his fate.