There was a momentary silence, to which, probably, I owe my life; for, during it, I heard a quick patter of many feet, and, turning sharply, saw a troop of the creatures coming toward me, at a run.

" Speaking of these antiphons of the Blessed Virgin, Battifol, in his History of the Roman Breviary (English ed.), writes: "We owe a just debt of gratitude to those who gave us the antiphons of the Blessed Virgin ... four exquisite compositions, though in style enfeebled by sentimentality.

Dawson complained always that he thought the mills owed him money.

But as Antiquity exhibits no character of such unclouded lustre, we have great reason to conclude, that such a character could owe its existence only to the pure and sublime spirit of our Christian Faith.

The whole group of the Thousand Islands, and indeed the greater part of all those whose surfaces are flat, in the neighbourhood of the equator, owe their origin to the labours of that order of marine worms which Linnaeus has arranged under the name of Zoophyta.

Therefore, all previous federated governments had been based upon the plan that a league could only effect its will through the constituent States and that the citizens in these States owed no direct allegiance to the league, but only to the States of which they were members.

We owe a duty to society.

In fact, I rather think God owes us an apology, Rudolph.

This artist, whose name Madame de Genlis does not mention, is called Koch; he has not any knowledge of music, but owes his success entirely to a natural taste.

He has made my mother quite a respectable woman, and I am sure it is owing a great deal to him that she loves me as well as she does.

It was carefully divested of all marks of origin and labelled hadîth, so that henceforth it was regarded as emanations from the wisdom of the Arabian Prophet, for which his followers owed no thanks to foreigners.

"I owe you a grudge for not telling me what I wanted to know about my young brother's love-letter.

He owed her six thousand dollars.

As for me, you have taught me much for which I owe you gratitude.

"I owe the sum of four hundred and sixty-eight thousand francs.

See to what mean shifts and disguises poor loyalty is forced to submit sometimes; yet it counts nothing base or unworthy so as it can but do service where it owes an obligation!

The hero submitted with resignation to the orders of his father, "to whom," he said, "he owed obedience as to his master, since he was his slave"; and he swore to him, in the presence of witnesses, not to mount horse, nor engage in battle, without his permission.

Ay, thou false Varlet, there's another debt I owe thee, for bringing me so damnable a Lye: my Brother's wellI met his Valet but a League from Town, and found thy Roguery out.

No vessel ever yet tried that pass without being lost, but the Argo, which owed her safety to the sacred freight she bore, the fleece of the golden-backed ram, which could not perish.

It is from this attraction of soul to soul that the Pilgrim's Progress, together with many kindred works, derives its spell; and indeed it is to this that all that is best and greatest in art owes its power and immortal interest.

The jackal said to the fox: "Swear to me that the wagtail owes me a pound of butter.

This he opened, and I saw at once that it was of enormous thickness and solidity, to which and to favouring circumstances it owed its preservation in the general ruin he described.

But I owe all the happiness of my life to that cruel deedand can I regret it?

My pretension would have left the peerage in abeyance, and I probably owe some little of the opposition I found, to that circumstance.

"I owe every thing to you, Eve, name, happiness, and even a home.