Your personal interest in the lady might have warped your usually excellent judgment, else, be assured, we should have summoned you to the conference.

It must have been an order, for, a moment later, I distinguished the clank of capstan bars, as though men of the crew were engaged in warping the vessel off shore for greater safety.

They watched the enemy, who at daylight began to warp the ship in a little nearer, that her guns might be more effective.

But I could not help it that their life was warping my very soul.

I speculated upon the chain of injustice and oppression that had warped his destiny from what it ought to have been to what it was. '

Above the rapids there are a few short stretches of less troubled water where the oars can be used; but these are few and far between, and one must count upon warping the boat from tide water to within two miles of the lakean estimated distance of between thirty-five and forty miles.

He should have remembered too how little any young man can have experienced of the terrible sorrows which branded into the hearts of these old devotees the truths to which they clung more than to life, while they too often warped their hearts into morbidity, and caused alike their folly and their wisdom.

The old prejudices, the old foregone conclusion of earth that this was a world of punishment, had warped my vision and my thoughts.

From the first, he had taken a lively interest in Miriam, and he considered that her life of responsibility and independence in that lonely household was as likely to warp her mind in some directions as it was to expand it in others.

The selfishness and mental obliquity which imperil the future of a race for the sake of the lazy pleasure of two or three generations prevailed; and in consequence the white people of the middle west, and therefore eventually of the southwest, clutched the one burden under which they ever staggered, the one evil which has ever warped their development, the one danger which has ever seriously threatened their very existence.

The ignorant injustice of some of his Downing Street masters might well have warped his disposition even more than it did.

Soon after this the ice suddenly loosened, and the crew succeeded, after a few hours' hard labour, in warping the Dolphin once more out of the pack; but scarcely had this been accomplished when another storm, which had been gradually gathering, burst upon them, and compelled them once more to seek the shelter of the land.

The seamen are towing the vessel into the outer harbour, where they will warp her fast to the anchors, and thus secure her, until they shall be ready to unmake their sails, in order to put to sea in the morning.

Yet it never for one instant warped her firmness or judiciousness of control.

The dampness of a seaside town had cracked and warped the furniture, and had turned the mirrors into sad mockeries.

Crump jammed an oar in the sand; and warping the headline to this, the three trudged on to the white dry ridge.

The government added its exactions to other pecuniary annoyances; but it had no power to warp the inflexibility of his principles.

On the 17th the ships were warped inshore so as to command the watering place, the launches were sent in for water, with the other boats fully armed, in support.

In this exigence, determined that poverty should neither depress his spirits nor warp his integrity, he became under-master of a grammar school at Market Bosworth, in Leicestershire.

I warped the lady and the children upwardHeaven knows how; for the sea was breaking over us very sharptill we were at the mainmast stump, and holding on by the wreck of it.

Cares have warped my life.

As it waswell, the unrelieved discomforts were beginning to warp her out-look on everything.

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Genius, ambition, firmness, courage, all these she had, but insincerity and suspicion warped a noble nature.

Though technical externals and the address of manipulation naturally take possession of our senses and warp our opinions, there are depths of immortal Truth within us, rarely sounded, indeed, but which can afford a standard and a criterion far nobler than the schools can give us.