My intimate knowledge of all kinds of criminals in all kinds of plights justifies me in saying that when they see the game is up they do not attempt resistance.

And as he went he sang, saying: Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord, with whom thou shall be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under their hellish plights; Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive, For though they killed thee, thou art yet alive.

But speake no word to her of these sad plights, Which her too constant stiffnesse doth constrayn.

First the tall CANNA lifts his curled brow 40 Erect to heaven, and plights his nuptial vow; [Canna.

We would see how the blackboards, still scrawled over perhaps with the chalked sums of lessons which never were finished, now bore pasted-on charts dealing in nurses' and surgeons' cipher-manual, with the bodily plights of the men in the cots and on the mattresses beneath.

He did not know whether he was more disgusted and enraged at the actual pain the Crows had given their captives or at the ridiculous plights they had put them in, but he did know that he regarded the whole proceeding as a terrible outrage, a disgrace to the Academy; and ever after he used all his influence against the barbarous idea of hazing.

"No, no, Marten," replied Mr. Mortimer laughing"No, no, my boyyou have got more on your hands now than will suffice you: so off with you home, and take care that when we return we do not find the doves flown, Nero lost, or Reuben with black eye or bruised leg, and yourself in some unlucky plight, my boy.

And for a lord to see me in such a plight!

He became indignant, and in pantomime vividly described the suffering of guests at the Tiare with the ice exhausted, and Lovaina's plight if she could sell no more drinks.

The mill-owners, seeing what desperate plight these women were in, agreed to deduct from the weekly rent a sum equivalent to twelve cents per boarder, and they also authorized the housekeepers to charge each girl twelve cents more.

Lucy Ashton plights her troth to Edgar master of Ravenswood, and they exchange love-tokens at the Mermaid's Fountain; but her father, sir William Ashton, from pecuniary views, promises her in marriage to the laird of Bucklaw, and as she signs the articles Edgar suddenly appears at the castle.

DISTAFFI'NA, the troth-plight wife of General Bombastês; but Artaxaminous, king of Utopia, promised her "half a crown" if she would forsake the general for himselfa temptation too great to be resisted.

Lucy Ashton, being attacked by a wild bull, is saved by Edgar, who shoots it; and the two falling in love with each other, plight their mutual troth, and exchange love-tokens at the "Mermaid's Fountain."

To excel in truth we loyally may strive, Set privilege against prerogative: 30 He plights his faith, and we believe him just; His honour is to promise, ours to trust.

But for the generosity of our relatives we would have been in a pretty plight.

The Wilbur twin, forgetting his own plight, glanced warm encouragement to her.

To-day our plight is pitiable enoughthe duke, the jockey-boy, and the artist are exactly alike; they are dressed by the same tailor, they dine at the same clubs, they swear the same oaths, they speak equally bad English, they love the same women.

Thus it will be seen that I was not in a bad plight; but although I appreciated this, I grew more and more troubled and uneasy.

The real plight of these folk came when a horse died and they had to buy another.

They were in a worse plight than shipwrecked people, for no ship of good hope could take them home again.

Upon this long train were a thousand other men and women in the same plight and with the same grief.

The plight of a president.

After passing through various plights, into which they are led by their love of the careless nymphs, they all have recourse to an oracle, whose predictions are fulfilled through a series of violent metamorphoses.

If a spotless mind be a treasure in the wife, if simplicity and truth, virtue and steadfast love, are to be prized in her who plights her troth to man, what had I more to askwhat had kind nature more to grant? Had all my previous sufferings been multiplied a hundred times, I should have been indemnified for all in the month that followed my restoration to the parsonage.

I have often been in far worse plights than this, when I have ridden up in the face of eight big Turkish guns.