Kenton's spirits revived at the address of the benevolent chief, and he once more looked upon himself as providentially rescued from the stake.

From this deplorable dilemma, or, rather, certain ruin, we were happily rescued by the adoption of the Constitution.

Fortunately for him he was rescued from drowning.

They were promptly rescued by a nearby launch, all unhurt, but the moaning, gurgling sound of the water had stamped itself indelibly on Oh-Pshaw's tiny brain and she would never again be able to hear that gurgling noise without a sensation of horror.

This growth, it is said, proceeds more from the graveyards than from conversions from other churches, for most of those who embrace the faith claim to have been rescued from death miraculously under the injunction to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the leper, and cast out demons."

" The morrow came, and Chandra sallied forth And, as directed by her Brahmin sage, Went with a hundred of her armèd men, All veiled, surprised the foe, who, flushed with hope, Unguarded waited but to welcome her: Then safely rescued her lost Timmaraj; The fatal jav'lin wrung from Bukka's hands, And himself too a prisoner brought in chains.

saw we enough of these poor unfortunates passing, And could from some of them learn how bitter the sorrowful flight was, Yet how joyful the feeling of life thus hastily rescued.

A glance at the wall of cliff behind Mary proved this hope to be futile, for the mark of the water showed above her head, and if she were not rescued speedily, he could only stand by and see her drown.

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Esmeralda's friends, all the gypsies, vagrants, cutthroats, and pick-pockets of Paris, to the number of six thousand, also resolved that they would forcibly rescue her from Notre Dame, lest some evil should overtake her.

We shall present our readers, as a specimen, with the character of that accomplished writer, John Bunyan, whom the poet has generously rescued from that contempt which fashionable manners, and fashionable licentiousness had cast upon him.

Fred had always possessed an inquiring mind, and an inclination to inspect the contents of everything, in consequence of which my possessions often sufferedand this employment now afforded him the most intense satisfaction; while I, with a certain feeling of curiosity, and yet scarcely able to repress an effort for the rescue of poor dolly, stood watching the proceeding.

Rather would you not pitifully rescue them, that they might enjoy to their natural end the wild intoxication of being?" "Ah, but they are happy while they live!"

In a moment O'Brien had the witness practically rescued by the explanation that he had seen the whole thing in the glass in front of him.

But Dickens was narrower than Cobbett, not by any fault of his own, but because in the intervening epoch of the triumph of Scrooge and Gradgrind the link with our Christian past had been lost, save in the single matter of Christmas, which Dickens rescued romantically and by a hair's-breadth escape.

You recall the princesses who were always being captured by ogres and evil princes and afterward satisfactorily rescued by those dear knights admirable?

Luckily for Conrad, for passion had fairly blinded Maso to the consequences of his fury, the halberdiers soon forced their way into the centre of the living mass, and they succeeded in seasonably rescuing him from the deadly gripe of his assailant.

What will Nera Boccarini say to her truant knight, who rescues maidens accidentally on distant mountains?

Then they were subject to a terrible vacillation on the subject of their hats: they would almost consign them to the care of a monitor appointed to hang them on the pegs made and provided, when a sense of their preciousness would suddenly present itself to their minds, and they would rescue them wildly, and throw themselves on the defensive while they sat upon or otherwise protected the contested article of dress.

With much difficulty they lifted the senseless form of Henrich on the shore, and proceeded to adopt every means in their power to restore suspended animation; while Rodolphthe faithful devoted Rodolphlay down panting and exhausted, but still keeping a watchful eye on him whom he had so daringly rescued.

I thought it would be nice if it rained truly hard and flooded the house, so that we should all have to starve for three weeks, and then be rescued excitingly in boats; but I had not really any hope.

But though that House derived its existence from so precarious and even so invidious an origin as Leicester's usurpation, it soon proved, when summoned by the legal princes, one of the most useful, and, in process of time, one of the most powerful members of the national constitution; and gradually rescued the kingdom from aristocratical as well as from regal tyranny.

Now these things to behold, piled up on all manner of wagons, One on the top of another, as hurriedly they had been rescued.

The Professor continually forgot which presents were his, and collected every one else's into his pile, from which the owner laughingly rescued them.

Pourquoi caught at Ann's dress and she had to be manfully rescued by Worth.