But I have forgot that,as, I fear, he has nigh forgot the awful scenes which were before his eyes when he served the office of a comforter to me.

The Governor Carverhe who had presided over their councils, and directed all their movements since the memorable day of their landing, and had been the friend, the physician, the comforter of his little flock, through all their trials and all their sufferingshad fallen a victim to disease and over-exertion, just as spring, with all its brighter hopes for the future, had set in.

At the torn trousers of one, at the hat which another had brought back from the barricade instead of his own, at the comforter of a third.

O, go not yet, my griev'd heart's comforter!

Bob's hat was off before he opened the door; his comforter too.

" Rosa listened with a serious, pleased expression in her face; for the words of her simple comforter inspired a vague consciousness of some supernatural presence surrounding her with invisible protection.

Then their mother summoned all her resolution, and became a comforter.

I'll tell you all presently" "Mary, my coat and comforter!"

If the good Lord wished us to have a comforter in our old age, doubtless He would send us one.

The darkness of despair gathered around her brow; an agony, like that which finds no comforter, was stamped on her face; and with these a hate, a horror, a contempt, mingled triumphantly.

I felt a kind of qualm of faintness and downsinking about my heart and stomach, to the dispelling of which I took a thimbleful of spirits, and, tying my red comforter about my neck, I marched briskly to the session-house.

Surely, I had fainted away, for, when I came to myself, I found my red comforter loosed, my face all wet, Isaac rubbing down his waistcoat with his sleevethe laddie swigging ale out of a bickerand the brisk brown stout, which, by casting its cork, had caused all the alarm, whizz-whizz, whizzing in the chimney lug.

Dr. Reynolds, who lived and practised very much with the higher orders, had a predilection for that noble and expensive comforter, Hoc! which short word, from his lips, has often made the doctor's physic as costly as the doctor's fee.

All names of the Deity, and sometimes their emphatic substitutes, should begin with capitals; as, "God, Jehovah, the Almighty, the Supreme Being, Divine Providence, the Messiah, the Comforter, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Lord of Sabaoth.

And now" "Now it's but a dream!" said her comforter.

Anna and Miranda had joined them and Flora had risen from her seat on the balustrade, aware at once that the rôle she had counted on was not to be hers, the rôle of comforter to an undone rival.

Count on no other comforter.

" You see an elderly lady, unused to a soldier's point of view, may be very sympathetic, and yet blunder as a comforter.

One of them read to him a favorite hymn, beginning with "Cling to the Comforter!"

When she ceased, he signed to her to repeat it; and, while the words were still on her lips, the Comforter came at his call, and bore his waiting spirit away to the heavenly companionship for which it longed.

"Go ye out into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, and, lo, I am with you unto the end,"not as an invisible companion, not merely with the still, small voice of the Comforter to cheer you in trial, weakness and privation; but with you as a co-worker, with the irresistible energies of the Spirit of Power.

Bertram was no longer her brother; he was her beloved, her friend, her counsellor, and comforter, above all.

"M'sieu'," he began; but just then Joseph made an apologetic gesture and went forward to wait upon an inquirer after "Godfrey's Cordial;" for that comforter was known to be obtainable at "Frowenfeld's."

Our headgear consisted in a few cases of the regulation Balmoral bonnet, usually minus "toorie" and badge; in a few more, of the battered remains of a gas helmet; and in the great majority, of a woollen cap-comforter.

But still it did not come, and at the appointed hour Ercole's wife helped him to put on his thick winter coat, and wrapped his comforter about his neck, and pulled his big hat over his eyesfor the weather was threatening, and sent him trudging off to the Palazzo Carmandola.