The reflection that the representation of the Union has been recently renewed, and that the constitutional term of its service will expire with my own, heightens the solicitude with which I shall attempt to lay before it the state of our national concerns and the devout hope which I cherish that its labors to improve them may be crowned with success.

It was not as though the night had been beguiled for me by such considerations as are only proper to the devout pilgrim in his lady's service.

Cook was one of the best of the navigators of the South Seas, a devout churchman, and a believer in the decalogue of Moses.

There's a holy staircase there which the devout climb on their knees and many of these lads have mounted it.

Overcome by the happy recollection of the spring-time which had flowered during the first years of his episcopate, far away in an Andalusian diocese, he repeated once again to Tomasa the tale of his relations with a certain devout lady, who from her childhood had felt a horror of the world.

Almost transfigured to divinity is the woman with the child at her breast that shines upon us in so many galleries; quite divine in the devout painter's thought it was as he wrought.

he discovered that both his knees were buried at least six inches in the solid stone; for notwithstanding all these changes, he had never altered his devout position.

Followed by this devout prayer, Ida went up to her room.

It was a small tribute of our esteem, but one that pleased the devout recipient.

But it is not very easy to draw the line of distinction between them and their devout associates, whose tone and manner they sometimes found it convenient to affect, and sometimes, it is probable, imperceptibly adopted.

No, but by his devout submission.

" Here is an amazing scene, which strikes even the devout believer, coming across it in the sacred page suddenly or by chance, amid the routine of life, with a fresh surprise.