The circumstance may seem a trifling one, but the thought of it now pains my heart; and I relate it, that those children who have parents to love them may learn to value them as they ought.

"If I have pained thee by my indiscretion, attribute the offer to our dread of the disgrace of being seen in this place.

Ab-out what?" "You, dear, and whoever is suffering the same" Flora softly winced and Constance blamed herself so to have pained another sister's love.

It would only pain her cousins and make them think she was disloyal to their interests; but she lost no opportunity when with her Aunt Jane of praising Kenneth and proving his ability, and finally she seemed to win her point.

You say that you cannot leave your parish because you fear to give scandal; you fear to pain the poor people, who have been good to you and who have given you money, and your scruple is a noble one; I appreciate and respect it.

Cruelty in a new form, however slight, will often pain a mind that is totally unmoved by the most horrible cruelties in a form to which it is accustomed.

I will send this most acceptable gift to my dear mother, not paining her feelings with the thought that I would seek to repay her love for her child with gold, but as an expression of her daughter's filial affection; and not only will I reward this honest man with the half of this sum, but he shall have the pleasure of presenting with his own hand this offering to my mother.

For wrath and pain our gratitude obscure; And if the truest truth of love I know, One pang outweighs a thousand pleasures far. VIII.

Of course in each of these cases everybody who does not happen to share the given peculiarity of belief, will agree that however severely a husband's dissent might pain the wife, whatever distress and discomfort it might inflict upon her, yet he would be bound to let her suffer, rather than sacrifice his veracity and self-respect.

Let the shorn and blinded giant grind in the prison-house of the Philistines, till taught by weariness and pain the folly of entrusting to Delilahs the secret and the custody of his strength.

It seems to me so right and natural to prune away what can do nobody goodwhat it pains eyes to look upon and ears to hearand to leave all the glories and beauties untouched....

The conversation in most societies partakes of this indecency, and the manners of an English female are in danger of becoming contaminated, while she is only endeavouring to suffer without pain the customs of those she has been taught to consider as models of politeness.

Mighty sire, banish these fanciful notions from your mind, or else all your subjects will be thrown into confusion, and this empire,with what trouble and pains your royal forefathers and yourself have erected it!will be lost in a moment, and, from want of care, the whole country will be ruined; God forbid that you should incur evil fame!

" It was not without some trace of his former embarrassment that the Spaniard greeted the beautiful lady, who amiably regretted that she, by expressing herself so plainly, had pained a friend of her husband.

Not one of them wanted to pain Lalotte's girl, but, as they danced, a joyful fellow would here and there spring high above the floor and shout, "Good voyage to Michel Pensonneau and his new family!"

When autumn winds are round us sighing, When pale flowers are 'round us dying, It pain and pleasure to us gives, To gather up the wither'd leaves.

Domestic cares afflict the husband's bed, Or pains his head.

A Chartist, indeed, or a Leveller, would do it; but it would pain himhe would be a martyr to his principles.

They did not allow etiquette to interfere with their methods of taking refreshment, and, though it pains the historian at all times to speak unkindly of his ancestors who have now passed on to their reward, he is compelled to admit that as a people the Saxons may be truly characterized as a great National Appetite.

10 What care, what industry, what pains!

" These words, full of tenderness, pained Don Juan, who could not forgive his father for such goodness.

It pained Katherine to see the place so lightly esteemed, and she gave a little cry of "Oh!"

These shameful breaches of discipline, on the maintenance of which he had hitherto justly prided himself, severely pained the king; and the vehemence with which he reproached the German officers for their negligence, bespoke the liveliness of his emotion.

If but a touch of grief appear To veil that bright, pure face; If sickness cast its shadows there, Or pain its dark lines trace; How anxious every means we take, The ill to drive away!

It pained me a little, but not much, still I knew from experience that, however slight and comparatively painless at the time, I should be laid up the next day and possibly for several days.