It is the office of the spiritual teacher to pluck out sin; to pierce the heart with a recognition of the enormity of sin, and of its far-reaching consequences; to stir the seared conscience, rouse the apathetic life, thrill the spiritual imagination, and to quicken the heart to better love and to nobler dreams.

"Let me pluck out one of your eyes," answered the bad one.

"Let me pluck out your other eye," answered his companion.

"Let me pluck out one of your eyes," said the sister.

Each spectator must pluck out, unaided, the heart of their mystery.

In Caesar's case at the very time after the covenant had been made an eagle settled upon his tent and killed two crows that attacked it and tried to pluck out its feathers,a sign which granted him victory over his two rivals.

It is our duty to pluck out the drowning wretches, receive their vows of penitence and gratitude, and pray for courage and resignation when they celebrate their rescue by falling in again.

Then said Saul to his squire: Pluck out thy sword and slay me, that these men uncircumcised come not and, scorning, slay me; and his squire would not for he was greatly afeard.

But did you not, said he, when you were at a stand, pluck out and read your note?

"That would be all very well for once," answered her mother with a tired smile, "but if you pluck out a supposed offending member every time you do something wrong, I fear you will not have many left when you are an old lady!" "Mother!" said Kathleen, almost under her breath and not daring to look up, "couldn't I stay at home from Charlestown and show you and Julia, here, how sorry I am?"

They have no beard, for we saw some of them going about with certain iron instruments in their hands, with which they pluck out any hairs they find on their faces.

Why looke you now, how vnworthy a thing you make of me: you would play vpon mee; you would seeme to know my stops: you would pluck out the heart of my Mysterie; you would sound mee from my lowest Note, to the top of my [Sidenote: note to my compasse] Compasse: and there is much Musicke, excellent Voice, in this little Organe, yet cannot you make

Hamlet, Act III, Sc. 2, "you would pluck out the heart of my mystery."

I was told that they pluck out their beards, and dye their teeth black with antimony, and some file them.

"Why pluck out the very eye of that perfect picture?" "Strange," said Lucia, "that such, a beautiful thing should be born there all alone upon these rocks, with no one to look at it.

It is strange to me, Jock Calder of West Inch, to feel that though now, in the very centre of the nineteenth century, I am but five-and-fifty years of age, and though it is only once in a week perhaps that my wife can pluck out a little grey bristle from over my ear, yet I have lived in a time when the thoughts and the ways of men were as different as though it were another planet from this.

Bartley Fallon: Where is that dog presently, till some person might go pluck out a few ribs of its hair?

"If the king wishes to enter France without delay," said he to Henry VIII.'s ambassador, "I give his Grace leave to pluck out my two-eyes if I am not master of Paris before All Saints.

Ordinary-pickers grasp the boll with one hand and pluck out the cotton with the other.

No matter how gnarled, warped or obscure were the paths to its lurking-places, he would find them all out, and pluck out all its meanings, and make its soul his own.

Would you seduce the wretched servant girl if by so doing you could pluck out the mystery of her being and set it down on paper?

" From Gail Hamilton, author of "Gala Days," etc. "'The Household of Bouverie' is one of those nuisances of books that pluck out all your teeth, and then dare you to bite them.

10, and to pluck out our right eye, and to cut off our right arm, Matth.

When were they ever known to wait even till the corpse stiffened to pluck out the hearts of the victims?

Then, when the individual has reached his full mental stature, and come in direct contact with the object, then, only then, does he "pluck out the heart of its mystery" in one of those lightning-like acts of thought which we call combination, invention, discovery.