If, now and then, a shadow crossed him of the meek Nazarene leaving this word to His followers, that, let the world do as it would, they should resist not evil, he thrust it back.

His limbs like wind-swept reeds Trembled and bent beneath him; so he rose And came to meet his friends who were his foes Then unto Finn he spake with accents meek, "One last request I of the Fians seek, Whom I have loved in peace and served in strife" "'Tis thine," said Finn, "but ask not for thy life, For thou art 'mong the Fians."

The lion's courage with the attributes That to the gentle and the meek belong; O'er fallen foes to check the eye of fire O'er fallen foes to soften heart of oak.

Let this rough fragment lend its mossy seat; Let Contemplation hail this lone retreat: Come, meek-eyed goddess, through the midnight gloom, Born of the silent awe which robes the tomb!

But thy free bounty, undebased by pride, Prompt to anticipate the meek request, Unask'd the wants of modest Worth supplied, And spared the pang that shook the suppliant's breast.

" "Ah," Mrs. Alden chuckled, "I have a vision of you growing meek and mild.

At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff remained to pray.

It may be taken as the best possible description of his lady herself: Hers is a spirit deep, and crystal-clear; Calm beneath her earnest face it lies, Free without boldness, meek without a fear, Quicker to look than speak its sympathies; Far down into her large and patient eyes I gaze, deep-drinking of the infinite, As, in the mid-watch of a clear, still night, I look into the fathomless blue skies.

The Forest bowed his solemn crest, And open flung his sylvan doors; Meek Rivers led the appointed Guest To clasp the wide-embracing shores; Till, fold by fold, the broidered land To swell her virgin vestments grew, While Sages, strong in heart and hand, Her virtue's fiery girdle drew.

Truly, he must have found in mehot, eager, passionate in my determination to know, resolute not to profess belief while belief was absentbut very little of that meek, chastened, submissive spirit to which he was accustomed in the penitents wont to seek his counsel as their spiritual guide.

I picked up their little tracts, while he tried to apologize for them; and it was so sad, Winnie, to think that those dear children had not profited by their lessons: one was called 'Love One Another,' and the other, 'Be Meek and Lowly.'

It is true, I was but twenty, and she was fifty; I was but a pocket edition of a woman, and she was a Webster Unabridged; I had little meek blue eyes, that dropped to the ground in the most shamefaced manner if a body did but look at me, and she had hard, cold gray eyes, that not only looked straight at you, but right through you.

But report said that when once within the domestic circle and before his squaw, the diplomatist and warrior was exceedingly meek.

The habit of appearing meek had, however, united with a frugal regard for the precious and irreclaimable minutes, in producing this extraordinary diligence in a pursuit of a character that was so humble, when compared with his recent mental efforts.

Markham, English Husbandman, 4. BIAN'CA, the younger daughter of Baptista of Pad'ua, as gentle and meek as her sister Katherine was violent and irritable.

But still she's patient, mild and meek, She daily grows in ev'ry grace.

The life of this ever-memorable man was a pattern of apostolic Christianitypure, patient, self-denying, meek.

But another Alabamian, A.B. Meek, found reason to eulogize both emigration and slavery.

The mother of our meek saint was a fair Saracen, whom his father had married in the Holy Land.

Our informant related the circumstance with tears of indignation; we threatened to investigate the matter, yet her meek and mild spirit implored us to withhold: she too passed from us a short time after, and is, we hope, gone where her good deeds will not be forgotten.

"Yet he was humble, kind, forgiving, meek, Easy to be entreated, gracious, mild; And, with all patience and affection, taught, Rebuked, persuaded, solaced, counselled, warned.

She is the very type of one of those meek shrews, alternately a martyr and a fury, that drive a man to madness when they speak and to despair when they are silent.

Thou, thou alone mark'st not within thy heart The inspiring God whose Minister thou art, Know'st not the magic of the mighty ring Which bows the realm of Spirits to their King: But meek, nor conscious of diviner birth, Glide thy still footsteps thro' the conquered Earth!

And the notary with meek voice would enlarge his response: "Good day, Señor Marquis!"

A parents' handbook with an introd. by Lois Hayden Meek.