Deem that thou art foully wronged, whose graces have such power to bless, If any of thy subject slaves to thee, their queen, should offer less, And accept this pledged assurance, that oblivion cannot roll O'er the image of thy beauty stamped on this enamored soul.

THE TOURNAMENT OF ZAIDE By Zaide has a feast been pledged to all Granada's dames, For in his absence there had been dire lack of festive games, And, to fulfil the promise the noble man had made, He called his friends to join him in dance and serenade.

I pledged my life to that attempt, and vowed that thou shouldest fall, Yet now I stand in impotence before thy castle tall.

He stops at Zara's palace gatewhy sit ye stilloh, why?" "At Zara's gate stops Zara's mate; in him shall I discover The dark-eyed youth pledged me his truth with tears, and was my lover? I will not rise, with dreary eyes, nor lay my cushion down, To gaze on false Andalla with all the gazing town!" ZARA'S EAR-RINGS "My ear-rings!

We pledged our host, the ladies sipping from our cupsneed I say who from mine?with little startled cries of agitation when the liquor stung them.

Now the things, so long and dearly Prized before, are pledged away; Clock and Bible, marriage-presents, Both must gohow sad to say!

The Prince pledged himself that Lamoricière's promise and stipulation should be strictly observed.

Our correspondence has been of a most private and mysterious nature; but my troth is pledged, and my resolution fixed.

Panama pledged the United States her aid in defending the Panama Canal.

Without preliminary discussion the congress elected officers pledged to make "a democratic peace."

The new Provisional Government pledged itself to conduct the war against Germany vigorously, and promised the people complete religious liberty and freedom of speech, political amnesty, universal suffrage, and a constitutional assembly to determine the form of the permanent new government.

President Wilson convened the Senate and the House of Representatives in the capitol at Washington, and there read out the terms of the armistice which Germany had accepted, and to the observance of which Germany was pledged with guaranties so strict that evasion was made impossible.

" Then, giving them one pound between them, he slipped the rest of the money into his own pouch, saying, "Ye pledged me your holy word that ye had no money.

Being holy men, I trust that ye would not belie your word so pledged, therefore I know the good Saint Dunstan hath sent this in answer to my prayers.

The Founder left us no moral code, imposed on us none of his own most cherished ethical convictions, as he pledged us to none of the conclusions which his own occult studies had led him to anticipate, nearly all of which have been verified by later investigation.

It is the custom for great kings to keep Religiously their pledged, affianced word; But thou hast broken thine, despite of honour.

Yet, mother dear, my faithful word is pledged; My word Jamásp has taken to the king, And I must follow where my fortune leads.

There lies the alternative for England to choose between two mandatesa mandate over some Turkish territories which is sure to lead to chaos all over the world and a mandate over the hearts of the Muhomedans which will redeem the pledged honour of Britain.

British ministers have broken their pledged word and wantonly wounded the feelings of the seventy million Mussulmans of India.

And yet how great a sin it was, how shameful a one, that she should love a man who was pledged to another woman, who was going to marry her!

You have pledged your word, you have made your bargainthe price was paid, I suppose; you say so.

She had spoken the truth: he was still pledged to Maude.

However we may differ in other particulars, we are all alike in that we are tacitly pledged to the "cause" of children; it is the desire of all of us that the world be made a more fit place for them.

And, talking of Adam reminds me that he has solemnly pledged himself to initiate me into the mysteries of swinging a scythe to-morrow morning atfive o'clock!

The Count of St. Gilles, to whom it had been pledged by a former Duke of Aquitaine, and who had eighteen years before refused to surrender it on Eleanor's first marriage, now resisted the claims of her second husband also, and he was joined by Louis, who under the altered circumstances took a different view of the legal rights of Eleanor's husband to suzerainty.