Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on his intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.

Nor was it advisable for her to go alone to San Francisco; her mother was not there, and Gratton might be looked on to follow her....So with himself communed Mark King, never a man overly given to caution, but seeking now to measure chances, to set them in the scales over against the desire of his heart.

I have communed a good deal with myself, and I have made up my mind to a conduct and demeanour in Church matters almost neutral.

After communing a few minutes together, one of them stood up and delivered the verdict: it was Guilty!

Edward III. hastened to restore between England and the Flemish communes the commercial relations which had been for a while disturbed by the arrest of the traders in both countries.

In silence stood they, while the Demon gazed On all, and communed with departed Time, From whence his vengeance such a harvest reap'd. BEAUTIFUL INFLUENCES.

And with a solemn joy they took their place Along the tables of communing love; The while from the great vaulted dome above Came ever-growing sound of chiming bells.