If firing were heard later, Barney would understand that his friends were in peril, and, if the Union outposts were in sufficient strength, they could come to the rescue, and, perhaps, add to the captures of the night.

I had long ago got and lost my second wind and whatever other winds there be, and was moving less by bodily strength than by sheer doggedness of spirit.

Now, as I moved my limbs, I found aches everywhere, and but little strength in my bones.

The divine energy of Genius and of Virtue enabled HOWARD to foresee, that the sanctity of his pursuit would supply him with strength and powers far superior to all human authority:His piercing mind comprehended that there are enormities of such a nature, that to survey and to reveal them is to effect their correction.

The Kurds themselves are more scattered than any other stock in Turkey, and divided tribe against tribe, but taken together they rank third in numerical strength, after the Arabs and Turks.

unbreakability, tensile strength.

A boy of six or seven may suddenly, in the course of a few weeks or months, become a little man, robust, rather short and stocky, but moustached, with the muscular strength and sexual powers of a man and thinking as a man.

The city stands upon a hill which falls steeply on the northeast side to the bed of the river Arga, a green-coloured stream deep enough to give additional strength to the walls which tower above like a cliff.

The problem now is, not for Catholic and Protestant to waste energy and spiritual strength in contending for mastery over each other, but for them to unite in changing and bettering the condition of our island peoples.

He had studied the relative strengths of foreign navies, and by keeping his eyes always open he had, on many occasions, been able to give valuable information to our naval attachés at the Embassies.

She indeed came to the conclusion that he must not suffer from his father's indignity, and so it was for him that, with extraordinary strength of will, she ever preserved a proud demeanor, feigning that she was ignorant of everything, never addressing a reproach to her husband, but remaining, in the presence of others, the same respectful wife as formerly.

The truths they teach are such as that courage and intelligence can conquer brute strength, that love can brave and can overcome all dangers and always finds the lost, that kindness begets kindness and always wins in the end.

Three times in three tremendous wars did she and Rome put forth their utmost strength against each other.

Oh, swear a-new, Give me again thy Faith, thy Vows, thy Soul; For mine's so sick with this Day's fatal Business, It needs a Cordial of that mighty strength; Swearswear, so as if thou break'st Thou mayst beany thingbut damn'd, Leticia.

Gaza had, as I have said, been turned into a fortress with a mass of field works, in places of considerable natural strength.

cries an eager one: "Let her drink all the lager in her shops, She'll find the little job is not yet done, For all there's such enormous strength in hops!"

"Evadne's mental strength cannot fail to be developed by intercourse with such a clever man.

There is no part of our naval strength in which we have not got a greater supply, and in some departments an incomparably greater supply than we had on August 4th, 1914....

We fought as demons, until his giant strength forced me over the rail.

David was not likely to have been a man of brute gigantic strength.

I have often thought that if the Germans had been true to their principles and their programmeif, after proclaiming that they meant to win by sheer strength and that they recognized no other right, they had continued as they began, and had battered and hacked, burned and killed, without fear or pity, a certain reluctant admiration for them might have been felt in this country.

But the man was like a tiger, possessed of immense strength encased in a wiry frame.

Bacon was apparently one of those double natures that only God is competent to judge, because of the strange mixture of intellectual strength and moral weakness that is in them.

(4) The plays of his fourth period, 1608-1613, are remarkable for calm strength and sweetness.

Mrs Hardman's native strength of mind, however, kept her up amidst her double loss.