The tables then are turned: and 'tis confest, The strongest and the mightiest is the best:

" Well, then, the promised hour is come at last, The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms, and dint of wit: Theirs was the giant race, before the flood; And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire stood.

o' mine, boy o' mine, this is my prayer for you, This is my dream and my thought and my care for you: Strong be the spirit which dwells in the breast of you, Never may folly or shame get the best of you; You shall be tempted in fancied security, But make no choice that is stained with impurity.

Strongest of all the institutions bequeathed by the ancient empire to her conquerors was this Church.

Amongst the men who have reigned and governed ably, Louis XI. is one of those who could be most justly taxed with cruel indifference when cruelty might be useful to him; but the more ground there is for severe judgment upon the chieftains of nations, the stronger is the interdict against overstepping the limit justified and authorized by facts.

Strong is my foehe advances!

The strongest of all obstacles to the advance of evil is a clean and generous man, doing his duty from day to day, and winning others, by his cheerful fidelity, to serve the same Master.

The better you know what you desire, wish or aspire to, the stronger will be your thought vibrations of that thing, of course.

Strong indeed must have been the attraction which had brought the old man away from the tavern-fire in his sober senses with such a sum of money in his pocket.

Strong is the horse upon his speed; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, Which makes at once his game: Strong the tall ostrich on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots xiphias to his aim.

Strong is the lionlike a coal His eyeballlike a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong the gier-eagle on his sail; Strong against tide the enormous whale Emerges as he goes.

The strongest was the weakest in thine arms.

In fact, I was not sure that I wished to say anything which should be considered absolutely serious and definite, but if I were ever to do anything definiteand the more I talked with this bright-eyed and merry-hearted young lady the stronger became the longing to say something definitenow was the time to prepare the way for what I might do or say hereafter.

The greater and more important the duties a man has to discharge in the State, and the higher and more influential the office which he fills, the stronger must be the opinion which people have of the moral and intellectual qualities which render him fit for his post.

Strong were his hopes a rival to remove, With blandishments to gain the public love: To head the faction while their zeal was hot, And popularly prosecute the Plot.

The more deeply we penetrate into the arcana of nature, the stronger becomes the proofs of design; and a deity thus obviously, tangibly admitted, the more profound will become the reverence for his character and power.

13.In some languages, the more negatives one crowds into a sentence, the stronger is the negation; and this appears to have been formerly the case in English, or in what was anciently the language of Britain: as, "He never yet no vilanie ne sayde in alle his lif unto no manere wight.

"Strong and weak are merely relative terms.

Strong are the ties that seem to attach me to the earth; but O!

Courage then, my comrades; and remember that the strong are always conquerors!"

He conceived Strong to be a former lover whom she welcomed back with affectionate ardour.

Mr. ONSLOW then rose up and said:Though I might allege many reasons against this choice, of which the strongest is my inability to discharge the trust conferred upon me in a manner suitable to its importance, yet I have too high an idea of the wisdom of this assembly, to imagine that they form any resolution without just motives; and therefore shall think it my duty to comply with their determination, however opposite to my own opinion.

By an irony of the Osmanli position, the worse the empire was administered, the stronger became its international guarantee.

We have high hopes that Governor Strong will be our governor next year.

The nearer you can actually see the thing as you wish it to happen, even to the general details, the stronger will be the attractive force thereof.