Both died almost without warning in dreary hopelessness, without the ministrations of either love or religion.

" The sight of Clem, however, inevitably suggests the person to whom I am indebted for his sustaining ministrations.

She had dispatched this errand and was returning when Mrs. Bett crossed the lawn from Grandma Gates's, where the old lady had taken comfort in Mrs. Bett's ministrations for an hour.

Verily, the reverend father confessors in Venice have much to answer for; I would thou couldst find means to keep Fra Francesco from his ministrations in her palace.

He had missed her little timidly offered ministrations, the touch of her fingers upon his shoulder, the whole nameless delicacy which her presence had brought into the cold, magnificent surroundings, which seemed to him now as though they could never be quite the same again.

I apprehended the situation at once, and submitted to his ministrations.

She interposed to protect the captive or the woundedshe mourned over the excesses of her countrymenshe threw herself off her horse to kneel by the dying English soldier, and to comfort him with such ministrations, physical or spiritual, as his situation allowed.

And the Muhajerim had need of all the kindliness and help they could obtain, for the first six months in Medina were trying both to their health and endurance, so that many repented their venture and would have returned if the Ansar had not come forward with ministrations and gifts, and also if their chances of reaching Mecca alive had not been so precarious.

At one point, in the hammock, a rude camp was occupied by a group of rough-looking men and several small children, who seemed to be getting on as best they couldnone too well, to judge from appearanceswithout feminine ministrations.

And it brought some ease to his fiercely tortured heart to notice that it was his ministrations that the dying child seemed to welcome most.

But when the hungerings of her soul found their appropriate aliment in the ministrations of the venerable Hosea Ballou, then the sole pastor of the church to which she turned for peace, the change was in the highest degree salutary.

Not only did she seek for this spiritual nutriment in the regular ministrations of the sanctuary and in the conference meeting, but she turned also to the Sabbath school with the same fond devotion to Christian truth.

So it came to pass that "The Rev. Theophilus Londonderry, Pastor," presently lit up with a sudden vehemence of new gold-leaf the faded dusty name board of the chapel, and that, his own home being at too great a distance for his ministrations, he came to lodge with some nice old-fashioned people called Talbot at No. 3, Zion Lane.

His next book, written just before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, opposed the lawfulness of the ministrations of the Protestant clergy; and after the Edict, Fenelon was, on the recommendation of Bossuet, placed at the head of the Catholic mission to Poitou.

And he and Larry needed her good fairy ministrations.

But they were quick to see she was really tired and troubled and soon left her alone to Tony's ministrations.

A man, he declared, must be unworthy the name, who did not rise to lofty sentiments and heroic deeds, when even his animal wants were provided for by the ministrations of the most delicate and exalted portion of the creation.

Finally, to abolish slavery is to proclaim and enact that innocence and helplessnessnow free plunderare entitled to legal protection; and that power, avarice, and lust, shall no longer gorge upon their spoils under the license, and by the ministrations of law!

Ministrations of mercy.

Mrs. Gibbs, still gazing in blank astonishment, caught a seraphic smile on the face of her brother as Miss Harris continued her ministrations, and in a pardonable fit of temper the overwrought woman gave him a box on the ear, which brought him round at once.

The surgeon was a man of few words and fewer attainments, but under his ministrations the innkeeper, after a long interval, rallied.

The parasol was agitated; but the little girl controlled herself and continued her self-appointed ministrations.

" I reascended to the drawing-room; and finding Ediththanks to the ministrations, medicinal and oral, of my bustling and indignant ladymuch calmer, and thoroughly satisfied that nobody could or should wrest her from us, begged her to relate unreservedly the cause or causes which had led to her present position.

She thought of Dorothy's ministrations as we so often do of God'sas of things that come of themselves, for which there is no occasion to be thankful.

Within the charmed circle of this their well-being, their unceasing ministrations to her wants, their thoughtfulness about her likings and dislikings, their sweetness of address, and wistful watching to discover the desire they might satisfy or the solace they could bring, seemed every moment enticing her.