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Here, there was a continuous bubbling; and, occasionally, a curious sort of sobbing gurgle would find its way up from the depth.

I came to Jesus as I was, Weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting-place, And He has made me glad.

i, 17] Claudius was delighted to find literary men up there, and began to hope there might be some corner for his own historical works.

It's republican, pleasant, and safe, to find fault; If a man can't do that, why he's not worth his salt.

For it is evident that to find the whole time, we must add to the 380 years the time that the vanished portion of the trunk lay in the ditch before being burned out of the way, plus the time that passed before the seed from which the monumental fir sprang fell into the prepared soil and took root.

Nor had I told it now, But that your Ladyship may find some speedy means to draw him from this desperate Condition.

The favourable accounts I received of his character, as well as his odd course of life, made me very desirous of becoming acquainted with him; and, as he was often visited by the villagers, I found no difficulty in getting a conductor to his cell.

That was allfor the time,Mrs. Everidge believed in homeopathybut it set her hearer thinking, and thought found expression in questioning, until she was led to the feet of the great Teacher and learned to roll her burden of trouble upon him who came to bear the burdens of the world.

" Leon Say was a delightful speaker, so easy, always finding exactly the word he wanted.

I'm always trying to find out things.

Since that time I have often seen him, and I shall always retain not only a high opinion of his great gifts, but also an affectionate remembrance of his great-heartedness." Literary people and brain-workers particularly interested him, and they found in the kind doctor a friend who understood them.

I remembered how unable I had been to find any traces to show that my shooting had been really fatal.

The thirsty mountaineer knows well that in every Sequoia grove he will find running water, but it is a mistake to suppose that the water is the cause of the grove being there; on the contrary, the grove is the cause of the water being there.

The workman who lives in a clean, sunny, well-aired place, where he can found a home, and bring up healthy children, will do more work, and better work, than the workman who lives in a damp, dark, ill-ventilated tenement, and who goes to his day's work with a heart sullen and broken because of avoidable illness and sorrow in his poor little home.

I don't know if they expected to find the rooms filled with gentlemen in the traditional red Garibaldian shirtand ladies in corresponding simplicity of attire.

Down from the curb, and at the beck and call of this or that policeman up again, only to find opportunity for still another dive out from the invisible roping off of the sidewalk crowds.

"I cannot imagine, Evadne," said Isabelle one evening at dinner, "what pleasure you can find in sitting in a stable in company with a negro!

Thinkers are finding in the large life of religion a motive power for their thought, their growtha reason for their existencea forecast of their destiny.

It gave her a kind of pleasure to write to Mrs. Bowyer that she had found employment, and had thought it better to accept it at once.

How shall he find a work which he is competent to do, and likes to do, and may be supported by doingand at the same time have a chance to grow; to enter into the large, free culture-life of the world?

When he went back, he found this letter.

I went sometimes to the "Reservoirs" for a cup of tea, and very often found other women who had also driven out to get their husbands.

"Ah, the young officer whose body I found on the beach, perhaps?" "No; but we have to thank you for that burial," said the captain.

They simply make it impossible for the unhappy wretches to obtain a wink of sleep, until at length the torture grows unbearable and they find refuge in the long sleep which no mortal has power to prevent.

In this comprehensive glance we may also notice the shallow wind-worn caves in stratified sandstones along the margins of the plains; and the cave-like recesses in the Sierra slates and granites, where bears and other mountaineers find shelter during the fall of sudden storms.

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