Do we say good or evil

good 127187 occurrences

Don't you know what a scelping is, my boy?a good whipping.

"He's all right," I heard the teller say as I went out, and understood that the bank-clerk had assured Trego that my character was good enough for him to be friendly with me on the passage to Hong-Kong.

We'll manage all right with the chinks on deck, if we can get some good helmsmen.

"Come right along with it, my good men, but leave it below.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"I trust we will all do our best to stay up to the weather in that respectquick passage and good company keeps everybody on good terms and in good spirits," he added significantly.

"Your red-headed chap is a good man at the helm," said Riggs to me.

"Tell all you know, my good man," said Meeker despite the caution Riggs had given him about interfering.

" "You looked it over in good shape with a light," said Captain Riggs, evidently in doubt as to what he should do.

"Pry it open a bit more, Harris, and let me have a good, square look at it.

"That settles Mr. Matey, well and good.

We'll take the bridge and keep the old tub going until day and then pick out a good place to drop her when we've got what we want.

"Good God!" cried Riggs, and he backed toward the companion, holding up his hands in terror as he thought that I had captured Rajah.

I took a measure of pride in writing the story, too, for I knew there was a good chance that it might be my last, and I had visions of it being printed in the newspapers some day.

"That's the Zambales coast of Luzon, and they have been making a good easting all night; but we are running north nowsee that point ahead?

"They went in behind that point, and it's a good chance they'll be back if they see she's still afloat.

Now we had a good opportunity to stalk them and give them a surprise.

A little delay does 'em good; gives 'em a chance to think.

He was a great gunman and he was pretty good in scheming up ways of dodging the law and picking the best booty.

That was easy money for Piotto, but that was the beginnin' of the end for him; because while they was waitin', them two kids seen Joan and seen her good.

Their progress at first was good, but as they neared the central portion of the water they were swept many yards downstream for one that they made in a transverse direction.

" "Yes, I suppose a good many people have killed time over this book.

Now as they relaxed, Anthony perceived first of all that most of the grimness passed away from the narrowed eyes and they lighted instead with good-humoured banter, though of a weary nature.

Chances may be good that he'll put up at some place near the old ranchhouse, but not right on the spot.

evil 12035 occurrences

The evil they speak of love, the resistance they oppose to it, the little taste they pretend for its pleasures, the measures they take against it, the fear they have of it, all that springs from love itself.

Besides, do you not know, Marquis, that the being on earth who thinks the most evil of women, is a woman? I wish, however, very seriously, to justify the ideas, to my manner of expressing which you have taken an exception.

But at every turn Hungary has been Austria's evil genius: the influence of the Magyar oligarchy has given a reactionary flavour alike to internal and to foreign policy, has hampered every reform, and poisoned the relations of the State with its southern neighbours.

The present war is being fought under conditions which were non-existent during the struggle with Napoleonconditions which on the one hand add to the waste and loss and misery of war, but on the other give rise to the hope that many of its evil consequences may be averted.

The rise which took place in the price of certain food-stuffs especially during the first part of August intensified the evil by reducing "real" wages.

Provided the united wisdom of the nation is thrown into the task, the evil after-effects of the war may be, if not altogether avoided, restricted within narrow limits.

Pecuniary extravagance is bad enough; but there is a greater evil still.

There was a pause in the work, during which no one dared venture near the temple, then Al-Welid, being a bold and god-fearing spirit, took an axe, and crying: "I will make a beginning, let no evil ensue, O Lord!"

Wandering on the mountain, he saw in a vision the angel Gabriel seated on a throne between heaven and earth, and afraid before so much glory, ran to Khadijah, beseeching her to cover him with his mantle that the evil spirits whom he felt so near him might be avoided.

"Often has the serpent lain hid beneath the coloured grass, under a beauliful aspect, and often has the evil inclination affected a sale without the husband's privity.

"Conscience, for I am conscious of evil.

"And Nemesis pursues and notices the steps of men, lest you commit any evil.

Nothing short of a radical change in the action of the Government upon the subject can, in my opinion, remedy the evil.

While they are sensible that every evil attendant upon its operation is not necessarily indicative of a bad organization, but may proceed from temporary causes, yet the habitual presence, or even a single instance, of evils which can be clearly traced to an organic defect will not, I trust, be overlooked through a too scrupulous veneration for the work of their ancestors.

A provision which does not secure to the people a direct choice of their Chief Magistrate, but has a tendency to defeat their will, presented to my mind such an inconsistency with the general spirit of our institutions that I was induced to suggest for your consideration the substitute which appeared to me at the same time the most likely to correct the evil and to meet the views of our constituents.

Eleanora, in her convent, heard of his punishment, and actually rendered him good for evil, as a tender-hearted and suffering woman would quite naturally do.

In some way or other Messer Antonio had lit on evil days, at all events he appears to have lost the banking business, which had been mainly operative in the raising of his house, and had reverted to the less lucrative but still honourable occupation of his familythe craft of sword-making.

She knew, of course, that there was no love lost between herself and them; and she was quite ready to entertain the evil insinuations which the late Duchess Giovanna had ventilated with reference to Bianca.

We followed her through a network of lanes more evil-smelling than anything I ever imaginedLondon can't compete with Calcutta in the way of odoursuntil we reached a little hovel with nothing in it but a string-bed, a few cooking-pots, and two women.

The inmates were in wonderment and consternation, and, conduplicated evil!

Yet in this she was not displeased, for her best friend, Bianca Campodonico, had been married two years already to Corleone, of evil fame, and was desperately unhappy.

An enemy misrepresents some speech, some evil report gets to the ears of the Czar, and the next day papa might be on his way to Siberia," she dropped her voice as she uttered the dreadful word, "and all his estates confiscated.

"FOR RULERS ARE NOT A TERROR TO GOOD WORKS, BUT TO THE EVIL.

Doubtless "because their deeds are evil."

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel; and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool; are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?"

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