The mountaineer with whom I then happened to be camping was one of those remarkable men one so frequently meets in California, the hard angles and bosses of whose characters have been brought into relief by the grinding excitements of the gold period, until they resemble glacial landscapes.

"Have you forgotten your evening prayer after the excitements of the day?" "Yes, I had so much to think about that I forgot it," Kurt admitted.

"I regret to say, Mr. Effingham," Aristabulus commenced, "that your advertisement has created one of the greatest excitements it has ever been my ill-fortune to witness in Templeton.

All thinkers saw that the course of human civilization was being changed deeply, radically; but the changes were being accomplished so successfully that men hoped that the old brutal ages of military destruction were at an end, and that we were to progress henceforth by the peaceful methods of evolution rather than the hysterical excitements and volcanic upheavals of revolution.

Then we had other excitements, in the shape of wretched bands of pilgrims, who, having a spare day, came up from Lourdes to see the mountains.

There was a feeling of departure everywhere, a sense that the year's excitements were over.

And how thoughtless, how misguided, how ungrateful is that woman who would exchange the priceless blessings which Christianity has brought to her for those ornaments, those excitements, and those pleasures which ancient Paganism gave as the only solace fox the loss and degradation of her immortal soul!

" So, filled with such desires, and possessing such simplicity of tastes,an enigma, I grant, to an age like ours, as indeed it may have been to his,Jerome bade adieu to the honors and luxuries and excitements of the great city (without which even a Cicero languished), and embarked at Ostia, A.D. 385, for those regions consecrated by the sufferings of Christ.

But she was now nearly worn out by the excitements and the sorrows of her life.

To those accustomed to the outward excitements of city life it would have seemed barren and uneventful.

I look back now on my twenty years of savage life and see nothing to vary its dreary sameness; the dangers were always alike, the excitements always the same, and the rest was a dead blank.

San Josef has had, nevertheless, its troubles and excitements more than once since it defeated the Dutch.

One would imagine, said he, that so long a fall from love as we have had, should render our appetites more keen:what, tho' Mattakesa be neither handsome nor very young, she is a woman, and amorous, and methinks there should need no other excitements to a young man like you.

Mr Brandon rode until nearly dark, for it took a good while to free his mind from the effects of the excitements and torments of that day.

It was not so with her; in the days most crowded with successes and excitements her thoughts kept flying home.

They are of all classes, from the decayed gentleman and artist, to shopkeepers, cobblers, cooks, and tailors, who find in the large commissions gained a temptation to forsake their petty legitimate callings for the lottery-like excitements and finesse of picture-dealing.

In the meantime corresponding suspicions were entertained, or pretended to be entertained, on their part of like hostile excitements by our agents to disturb their peace with the same nations.

He had not forgotten me in the excitements of the stage and the dressing-rooms.

Treasure hunts along the beach for garnets and beryls are among the excitements of a fortnight in Seaton.

Some of the ponies are very troublesome, but all except two have been running to-day, and until this evening there were no excitements.

As he recovered himself from abandonment to some part of his case or argument to guide and mould the whole, so, going into his library, he could, as completely, for minutes or for hours, banish and forget his anxieties and dramatic excitements, and pass into the cooling air and loftier and purer stimulations of the great minds of other times and countries and of the great questions that overhang us all.

Thus, not only to those who live in retirement, but to those who are exposed to the agitations of the world and the excitements of business, it is peculiarly necessary, by contemplation and fervent prayer, to restore their souls to that serenity which the dissipations of life and commerce with men have disturbed.

The attack was perhaps produced, and was certainly aggravated by, the great mental excitements through which he had passed during his exile, and in the entire change of fortune which had attended his return.

Then she colored up, as they all turned round upon her; but she was excited, and Ruth's excitements made her forget that she was Ruth, sometimes, for a moment.

A taste for flowers is, at all events, infinitely preferable to a taste for the excitements of the pot-house or the tavern or the turf or the gaming table, or even the festal board, especially for people of feeble healthand above all, for the poorwho should endeavor to satisfy themselves with inexpensive pleasures.[001]