Simeon, feeling that, if any one had displeased God more than others, it was certainly he, spent the day in prayer and fasting.

" He replied: "Ever-honoured, great Calypso, let it not displease thee, that I a mortal man desire to see and converse again with a wife that is mortal: human objects are best fitted to human infirmities.

And this that David had committed on Uriah displeased greatly our Lord.

Talk of this kind before all the court at such a critical moment much displeased the prudent king, and he answered in his biting way, "If the patriarch, or any other men come to me, they seek rather their own than my gain."

The articles can seldom be put one for the other, without gross impropriety; and of course either is to be preferred to the other, as it better suits the sense: as, "The violation of this rule never fails to hurt and displease a reader.

But if he offend his good patron, or displease his lady mistress in the mean time, [2008] "Ducetur Planta velut ictus ab Hercule Cacus, Poneturque foras, si quid tentaverit unquam Hiscere" as Hercules did by Cacus, he shall be dragged forth of doors by the heels, away with him.

Why, when one informer was torn in pieces, were there not new securities proposed to protect those who should by the same offence displease the people afterwards?

This displeased his father, and he refused supplies, except enough for his simple personal wants.

This is a common expression of the slaves to the person whipping them: "Do, Massa!" or, "Do, Missus!" After she had gone, I asked Ben what she was whipped for: he told me she had done something to displease her young missus; and in boxing her ears, and otherwise beating her, she had scratched her finger by a pin in the girl's dress, for which she sent her to be flogged.

This refusal of the two parties to take a stand on the question of the hour so displeased many Whigs and Wilmot-Proviso Democrats that they held a convention at Buffalo, where the old Liberty party joined them, and together they formed the "Free-soil party."

Never mind, ma belleyou shall have your valse, and Corydon may be as cross as he pleases!" "Don't flatter yourself that she will displease Corydon to dance with your lordship!"

I was ready to run out to meet them, but I did not dare to displease my mother.

I am main sorry to displease your worship, and I know that you can do me a great deal of mischief.

The truth is that the semiofficial St. Petersburg press, like the Novoe Vremya, had begun to bluster about the affair, egged on by the Russian Foreign Office, and Sir Edward Grey was compelled to invent some pretext for his manifest dread of displeasing Britain's "good friend Russia" about anything.

"Now," said Balin, as the two rode out of the town, "much I regret to have displeased King Arthur.

Yet she was generally very careful not to displease her husband, even when he was capricious, and Veronica was sometimes surprised by the apparent weakness with which she yielded to him in matters about which she had as good a right as he to an opinion and a decision.

Repeating again the demand for concord, the concluding words justly protested against all foreign interference: "Finally (be it known) we respect the houses of others; but we insist upon being masters in our own whether it please or displease the rulers of the earth.

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But Jesus was willing to die for the truth of what He said; should we forsake the truth in order not to displease men?

Well knowing that, except at the usual hours, or in obedience to Sir Wynston's bell, nothing more displeased his master than his presuming to enter his sleeping-apartment while he was there, the servant quietly retreated, and, perfectly satisfied that all was right, composed himself to slumber, and was soon beginning to dose again.

This so displeased the Great Spirit that he caused a great rain-storm to come, and the water kept rising higher and higher so that it drove those proud and conceited giants from the low grounds to the hills, and thence to the mountains, but at last even the mountain tops were submerged, and then those mammoth men were all drowned.

The smoothest verse and the exactest sense displease us, if ill English give offence: a barbarous phrase no reader can approve; nor bombast, noise, or affectation love.

I would Evadne, I shall displease my ends else.

Because of its enameled look and its artificial air, the landscape did not displease Des Esseintes.

"Of course it will displease Mrs. Eubanks, but there is still a better reason for it.