When I was informed of this latter fact, I made a solemn vow to myself.

Could a person who had taken religious vows imposing seclusion from the world, be released by means of this writ?

" "First, then, Antonio; I have sworn to escort the Lady of the Giustiniani in safety to Rome, from which naught shall keep mesave if the Ten have other plans, the Madonna doth forgive the broken vow!"

but I call High Heaven to witness what I now declare Whoever may oppose my sacred vows, I still am thine, affianced thine, for ever.

Then arriving at Ekachakra, the Pandavas of rigid vows there also slew a mighty cannibal, Vaka by name, terrible as Hidimva himself.

'I was not thinking of myself,' she says again, 'I was thinking of nothing but our Lord and my holy vows.

" In fact, she broke her plighted vow to Colin Clout, transferred her heart to Menalcas, and let her hand accompany it.

Fired with indignation at this insult, the Caesar determined to ruin both the Patriarch and his patroness, the Empress-mother, and with this view persuaded the Emperor to free himself from the trammels of his mother's influence by forcing her to take monastic vows.

The fact that Andrea has as yet taken no irrevocable vow is not the essence of the matter.

Perhaps, when that was done, when an irrevocable barrier should separate her from all possibility of earthly love, when the awful marriage-vow should have been spoken which should seal her heart for heaven alone, he might recover some of the blessed calm which her influence once brought over him, and these wild desires might cease, and these feverish pulses be still.

Heartbroken at the fate of her true-love, and to escape this hateful marriage, she was about to take the vestal vow, and in the gloom of St. Hilda hide her blasted hopes, her youth and beauty.

I know if there are faithful vows, then faithful will be thine! 'Tis hard, indeed, for lovers to crush the doubting thought Which to the brooding bosom some lonely hour has brought.

Alas, that she listened not only to the amorous vows of Ferdinando, but also gave credence to his views concerning the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess in Florence.

"In my middle manhood, when scarcely forty summers had glowed within my veins, I left my native Italy, and journeyed to the Holy Land, upon the strict vow of a self-imposed penance.

Or if on Virtue's holy brow, A wreath of scorn I sought to twine And bade her minions mocking bow, With sweeter vows at pleasure's shrine

All the fond memories of their youth, all the dear remembrances of their childhood, the love and the laughter, the tender romantic vows which they had pledged to each other as lads, were recalled by Harry with pangs inexpressibly keen.

"Guhala, Guhala, My longing heart must cry; This mournful vow I utter now To see thee or to die.

The aged Fairy in their presence stands, Confirms their mutual vows, and joins their hands.

On himself he passes sentence of death: it is the tradition of the family, the secret vow of self-destruction handed down through ages from father to son.

And I wedded her by vows stronger and more lasting than earthly vows.

Portal PEMBROKE LODGE, March 13, 1889 How could you, could you, could you think that my mental vow not to write on the all-absorbing political catastrophe was because I sing "God save, Ireland" in one sense, and you in another!

We soon became intimate; our books lay fast locked up at the bottom of our trunk: we walked together, saw the sun set together in the calm ocean, and then walked happily and contentedly home in the twilight; and long before the week was at an end, we had vowed eternal vows, and sworn everlasting constancy.

The spirit of meekness and humility; greater devotion to the Eucharist; greater love of the Blessed Virgin; the priestly vows.

"SHAK., Henry V. "Thy dreadful vow, loaden with death.

"And after Vrihadaswa had gone away, Yudhishthira of firm vows heard from Brahmanas and ascetics that came to him from various directions and from places of pilgrimage and mountains and forests that Arjuna of high intelligence and capable of drawing the bow with his left hand, was still engaged in the austerest of ascetic penances, living upon air alone.