Mr. Walters made no attempt to conceal or extenuate the black page in Hill's past, but he asked the jury to believe that Hill had bitterly repented of his former crime, and would have continued to lead an honest life as Sir Horace Fewbanks's butler, if ill fate had not forged a cruel chain of circumstances to link him to his past life and drag him down by bringing him in contact with the accused man Birchill, whom he had met in prison.

When man can bind the waters, That they no longer roll, Then let him forge the fetters To clog the human soul.

"Who in God's name, then," she asked hoarsely, "could have known about the money and forged his signature!

" Mirsky was caught, and, after two remands at the police-court, was extradited on the charge of forging Russian notes.

And then the Steel Works had opened again and he had forged his way up through the different departments to the responsible position he now held.

The wife of the king's treasurer had borrowed money in her name, and had forged her handwriting to letters of acknowledgment of the loans.

He forged the thunderbolts for Zeus, and was the armorer of heaven.

During his absence Sir Feeble Fainwou'd, a doting old alderman and his rival, having procured his pardon from the King to prevent it being granted if applied for a second time, and keeping this stratagem secret, next forges a letter as if from the Hague which describes in detail Bellmour's execution for killing a toper during a tavern brawl.

It must need be that he pass through a period of preparation, learn patience, mature his knowledge, and gain moral force, which preparation could be best made in severe contemplation; for it is in retirement and study that great men forge the weapons which demolish principalities and powers, and master those principia which are the foundation of thrones and empires.

Whatever wise man thinks, Sin forges strongest links, You can break them never, although for a time you may hide Buried in flowers and wine; This chain of thine and mine, At the last dread day of doom will draw us side by side.

Not only that, but they were often bold enough to leave the old brand and burn a new one and forge a bill of sale.

Now Merrifieldyou see what a clean breast he's madeadmitted to me that he was an expert forgerso he calmly forged a cheque of Delkin's, drew sixty thousand in notesand they had them on themat least Merrifield hadwhen we took all three a few hours ago.

Marcolini extracted this relation from the original letters of the two Zenos, who were of one of the most considerable families in Venice; a family which could not be supposed to have boldly forged a story of this kind.

By my woman's unworthy hand, at the command of Marmion, was forged the papers which sealed de Wilton's fate.

" "But is it possible to forge a thumb-print or a finger-print?

Well, if we must have forged for us the sword of a three-Act parable, we should like it with one edge, not two.

He will try to forge receipts, he will get up false evidence that he has already paid, and the wretched putwarrie needs all his native and acquired sharpness, to hold his own.

For Peter saw other nations spinning and weaving, and he determined that Russia should at once spin and weave; he saw other nations forging iron, and he determined that Russia should at once forge iron.

Yet, since nobody is better aware than M. Michelet, that this very point of Kempis having manufactured Kempis is furiously and hopelessly litigated, three or four nations claiming to have forged his work for him, the shocking old doubt will raise its snaky head once morewhether this forger, who rests in so much darkness, might not, after all, be of English blood.

All night I was disturbed in my sleep, as if by workmen forging armor.

Instead of making laws in the public interest it forges arms for civil war; it attacks the power which I hold directly from the People, it encourages all bad passions, it compromises the tranquillity of France; I have dissolved it, and I constitute the whole People a judge between it and me.

Occasionally one would forge ahead a few inches, but the other would speedily overtake it.

He forged a dozen nails, so even and smooth and sharp that they couldn't be improved upon.

"He had a forge set up for himself," says Brantome, "and I have seen him forging cannon, and horseshoes, and other things as stoutly as the most robust farriers and forgemen."

You forge these things prettily; but I have heard you are as poor as a decimated cavalier, and had not one foot of land in all the world.