" "I marvel," cried our young gentleman, still in the same virtuous strain"I marvel that you can pass over so wicked a thing thus easily.

You're trying to hang him, you wicked man.

Come straight up-stairs, you wicked boy!

Who was chosen to deliver the whole Jewish nation from that murderous decree of Persia's King, which wicked Haman had obtained by calumny and fraud?

I believe that, according to my capacity, no man abhors that wicked practice more than I do, and would gladly make use of all lawful means towards the abolishing of slavery in all parts of the land.

But when that consent was given in one Chamber, in another Chamber that wicked woman, Sophia, the mother of the present Emperor, who calls himself King of Hungaryno, he does not call himself King of Hungary, for he thinks the national existence of Hungary is blotted outplotted how to ruin my people and destroy that sanction which was nothing but a necessary means to secure a just cause.

Now was the middle of the night, when over half the world nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse men's minds asleep, and none but the wolf and the murderer is abroad.

Blockheads with reason wicked wits abhor, But fool with fool is barb'rous civil war.

But now when Mr. Napier is dead, and the brother o' that wicked Jezebel, Isbel Napier, may try to take the property frae Henney, wha I aye kenned as a Napier, with the very nose and een o' the father, I have spoken out; and may the Lord gie the right to whom the right is due!"

And have I not seen him sitting in church and reading the twenty-third chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, and thinking to himself what shockingly wicked people these men must have been of whom Christ spoke such terrible words, and never once supposing that there is anything in the chapter that concerns him?

Indeed she could not resist her inclination, but laughingly let Gregoire raise her in order to seat her for a moment on the saddle, when all at once her mother's terrible voice burst forth: "You wicked hussy!

I am not ignorant that some may distinguish between a lawful authority and actual power, and affirm that God's image consists only in the former, which wicked princes, such, as Saul and Nimrod, have not, tho they possess the latter.

As I believe him to have been guilty of as wicked a crime as any man can well commit, I cannot concern myself in asking for a pardon for him.

"To be sure they arewhen wicked cowboys cuff and kick them," replied Lenore, laughingly.

With all this, however, I am sorry to say that I never met with so avaricious and so wicked an old curmudgeon; he allowed me almost daily to die of hunger, without troubling himself about my necessities; and, to say the truth, if I had not helped myself by means of a ready wit I should have closed my account from sheer starvation.

70 VIII "To wicked deeds I was inclined, And wicked fancies crossed my mind;

Never had the wood before shown so sweet a sense of security from the turmoil and tempest of the world beyond; never before had an intrusion from the outer lifeeven in the shape of a letterseemed so wicked a desecration.

She easily perceiv'd his Intention, and, bathed in Tears, began to deprecate so wicked a Design.

The instruments of a churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

By Jove, when that wicked devil of a horse came at my box and I caught a glimpse of the red demon in his eyeswhy, man, I simply had to get down and try my luck.

Not he!he is as wretched and wicked a dog as any unhung.

He was a frightfully coarse, huge old beast, with great paws, large, glistening tusks, and wicked little eyes!

The Indians pitched their wigwams on the broad meadows below the bend; the half-breeds sauntered about, flashing bright teeth and wicked dark eyes at whom it might concern; the traders gazed stolidily over their little black pipes, and uttered brief sentences through their thick black beards.

That wicked fame which their first love proclaim'd, Foretells the end: the queen with rage inflamed, 20 Thus greets him: 'Thou dissembler!

that wicked flagon!"