He said, that if ten of the best of his captains could not be spared, ten others might; that it especially became the Christians to redress the wrongs of the innocent; that the death of a tyrant, instead of being a deviation from the service of God, was one of the directest means of performing it; and that France would never endure to hear, that a lady had applied to her knights for assistance, and found her suit refused.

What we want in the matter of railway transport for the harvests of Mesopotamia, and generally for our Eastern communications, is not a line that passes through Turkish and German soil, and terminates at Berlin, but one which, after the directest possible land-route, reaches the Mediterranean and terminates in suitable ports.

5 The language of praise, as one word, thou directest it.

12 The ... thou crushest them with thy strength, 13 ... thou discoverest them, 14 ... thou causest to seize, 15 ... thou directest.

24 Thou, in thy course thou directest the human race; 25 cast upon him a ray of peace, and let it cure his suffering.

However important it may be for the lumberman, the miner, the wagon-maker, the railroad man, the house-builder,for every industry,that conservation should obtain, when all is said and done, conservation goes back in its directest application to one body in this country, and that is to the children.

The Liberals ever (as is their wont), most illiberal to those who differ from them, began to use direct academic persecution; until, in self-distrust and very weariness, the great soul began to abandon the warfare it had waged inwardly against its own inclinations and the fascinations of its enemy, and to yield the first defences to the foe.

I stopped and said, "Auntie, could you direct me to Molly Brown's house?" "I'm her," she replied.

We might go direct to the great Forum, up the Velabrum, or valley (once a marsh), right in front of us between the Capitol on the left and the Palatine on the right.

At this happy time, when Rome felt that she could breathe again after the final defeat of her deadly enemy, began the great inpouring of wealth of which the capitalism of Cicero's time is the direct result.

In this way the Kansu states were strengthened both economically and politically, for they were able to direct the commerce either to the northern states or to south China as suited them.

The direct purposes of this measure were to resettle uprooted farm population; to prevent further migrations of farmers; and to raise production and taxes.

As to number, ideas are limited only by the number of kinds, without direct relation to degrees; every object, therefore, having in itself a distinctive essential, has also its distinct idea; while two or more objects of the same kind, however differing in degree, must consequently refer only to one and the same.

Many things are denied in direct contradiction to fact; for the mind can command, and in no measured degree, the power of self-blinding, so that it cannot see what is actually before it.

and yet how small a portion of this stupendous fabric will be found to have any direct, much less exclusive, relation to the actual wants of the body!

Before mail coaches were established, Coleshill was a place of considerably more note then, as a post town, than Birmingham, it being very common for people in the north to direct their letters for Birmingham, to turn at Coleshill.

Walsall, in Staffordshire, distant nine miles, on the direct road to Stafford.

Over it a crust of determination had formedthe determination to make an end by the directest means in his autocratic power of this galling opposition.

It is the directest, tersest, crudest thing we have ever seen.

"The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and an indirect object.

Once, at a cross-roads, I was in doubt as to the turn to take, and we sat there waiting ten minuteswe had already caught some of the native infection of restfulnessfor some human being to come along, who could direct us on our way.

I loath life, I would not live always, Let me alone, for my days are as a breath, What is man, that thou exaltest him, That on him thou directest thy thought, That thou visitest him each morning, And testest him each moment?

SEE Direct credits for humanity.

And the curious thing about Katrin Texel was that though her corporeal part might be a direct inheritance from her Burgomeister father and his substantial brewery, her spirit had been designed for an artful fairy of half her size, in order that it might go pirouetting into airy realms of the imagination.

It did not occur to the officer of the Carignan regiment that he should direct the escape, or in any way oppose the will manifested for the first time in his favor.