Do we say sole or soul

sole 3488 occurrences

This pleasing and successful drama is Robin's sole patent to that title of Earl of Huntington, in confirmation of which Dr. Stukeley fabricated a pedigree that transcends even the absurdities of heraldry, and some unknown forger an epitaph beneath the skill of a Chatterton.

But the pretty mountaineers ask, in addition to their modest wages, a shelter for the night, a little straw or hay for their beds, and a small daily portion of oil and salt to season the bean-flour and chestnuts, which constitute their sole food.

By the fireside tragedies are acted In whose scenes appear two actors only, Wife and husband, And above them God, the sole spectator.

If this were their sole concern, there would be few wars; certainly this war, which is desolating and impoverishing Europe, would be impossible.

His evidence, if he were called by law To swear to some enormity he saw, For want of prominence and just relief, Would hang an honest man, and save a thief. Through constant dread of giving truth offence, He ties up all his hearers in suspense; Knows what he knows, as if he knew it not; What he remembers seems to have forgot; His sole opinion, whatsoe'er befall, Centering at last in having none at all.

Frank declared he would stick to the camp; with such vicious characters around, he secretly thought it hardly safe for all of them to go away, leaving old Toby as the sole guardian.

Still I read onand, till the time came to pay my money, kept as unmoved, as Saint Antony at his Holy Offices, with the satyrs, apes, and hobgoblins, mopping, and making mouths at him, in the picture, while the good man sits undisturbed at the sight, as if he were sole tenant of the desart.

Then, furious and swearing, he had broken with a blow of his fist the little table of five inches by twelve, which, with the stool, formed the sole furniture of the dungeon.

The Martyr'd Souldier, then, being his sole extant production, it must be confessed that Henry Shirley's claim to attention is not a very pressing one.

I had no longer any weary waiting, for there was no weariness in it, and I confess at this time my sole idea, and I may add my only ambition, was to relieve myself of all obligations to my father.

It is true, these agents were of that low caste that never fail to attach themselves to all great political enterprises, with a sole view to their own benefit; still, as they were active, cunning and bold, and had the sagacity to make themselves useful, they passed in the throng of patriots created by the times, and were enabled to impart to men of similar spirits much available information.

His demeanor was dogged in the extreme, and "dat dd bug" were the sole words which escaped his lips during the journey.

But the interest of my son is my sole guide; and, whatever happiness I might find in being out of this place, I can not consent to separate myself from him.

" And to Toulan she said that "her sole desire was to be reunited to her husband whenever Heaven should decide that her life was no longer necessary to her children."

In the summer of the next year it was found in his possession, its history was ascertained, and he was sent to the scaffold for the sole offense of having and valuing a relic of his murdered sovereign.

She was freely exhibited to any one who desired to behold her, on the sole conditiona condition worthy of the monsters who exacted it, and of them alonethat he should show no sign of sympathy or sorrow.

I don't wonder that two and a half hours elapsed while I thus wandered on in the dark and deserted streets; my sole astonishment is that I ever found the station at all that night, or rather close to it a policeman, who showed me the way.'

But during these transactions the government of England was greatly disturbed; and that too by those very foreigners who owed every thing to the king’s bounty, and who were the sole object of his friendship and regard.

In all other points, the detail of the laws and manners of this united people presents a picture similar to that of the Saxons of England, with the sole exception that the people of the Netherlands were milder than the Saxon race properly so calledtheir long habit of laborious industry exercising its happy influence on the martial spirit original to both.

By the bill of settlement, the crown was conveyed jointly to the Prince and Princess of Orange, the sole administration of government to remain in the prince; and the new sovereigns were proclaimed on the 23d of February, 1689.

He left his cousin, Prince Frison of Nassau, the stadtholder of Friesland, his sole and universal heir, and appointed the states-general his executors.

Conferences were opened on this sole question at Antwerp in the year 1714; and, after protracted and difficult discussions, the treaty of the Barrier was concluded on the 15th of November, 1715.

The sole ultimate use of an army is to win the nation's battles, and if one system promises to fulfil that purpose while the other system does not, we cannot hesitate.

The nobility were no longer the sole leaders in England's rapid progress.

For in those purely human questions which interest all men alike, where truth, insight, beauty, should be of sole account, what can be more impertinent than to let preference for the nation to which a man's precious self happens to belong, affect the balance of judgment, and thus supply a reason for doing violence to truth and being unjust to the great minds of a foreign country in order to make much of the smaller minds of one's own!

soul 24094 occurrences

"Seems little too much like bein' a spy," thought the good man, "but I never felt a clearer call in a thing in my life than I do in this little girl's letter," and he fell to singing "Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings," till the crows in the wood were frightened by the strange sound, and came flying out and flapping their great wings above his head.

"He's got somethin' on his mind, thet's plain enough," thought the loving old soul.

In Draxy's soul the past never confused the present; her life went on from moment to moment, from step to step as naturally, as clearly, as irrevocably as plants grow and flower, without hinderance, without delay.

In Draxy's large nature,her pure, steadfast, loving soul, quickened and exalted by the swift currents of an exquisitely attuned and absolutely healthful body,this new life of love and passion wrought a change which was vivid and palpable to the commonest eyes.

I own it smites me to the soul sometimes to think how humble he is, and so glad to see me when I haven't been near him for six months, maybe.

It will not seem so at first, but I know I am right," she said, and it was a rare wisdom in her sweet soul which led to the decision.

that was the secret of her influence from first to last: the magnetic sympathy of a pure and upright soul, to whose rare strength had been added still rarer simplicity and lovingness.

Before her marriage, they had all felt a little reserve with her, partly because she was of finer grain than they, partly because she had, deep down in her soul, a genuine shyness which showed itself only in quiet reticence.

But her nature was too healthy, too full of energy, and her soul too full of love to remain in this frame long.

This was the one moment which tried Draxy's soul; there was almost vexation in her look, as hastily laying aside her bonnet she walked up to the table in front of the pulpit, and, turning towards the people, said in her clear, melodious voice, "Dear friends, I am sorry Deacon Swift did not explain to you that I was to read the sermon.

For I with living melody Of birds in choral symphony, First wak'd thy soul to poesy, To piety and love.

if I, with ray divine, Thus tempering, did thy soul refine, Then let thy gentle heart be mine, And bless the Sylph of Spring.

Thy spirit true I prov'd: Around thee, as the darkness stole, Before thy wild, creative soul I bade each faery vision roll, Thine infancy had lov'd.

For I with vision high and holy, And spell of quick'ning melancholy, Thy soul from sublunary folly First rais'd to worlds above.

so repeatsand is itself repeated inevery other, that there is insured the possibility both of a world-revelation in the soul, and of a self-incarnation in the world; so that every man's life, like Agrippa's mirror, reflects the universe, and the universe is made the embodiment of his life,is made to beat with a human pulse.

We shall now ask our readers to follow us out into these movements themselves,that, as before we saw how the world is centred in each human soul, we may now see how each soul develops itself in the world; for thither it is that the ever-widening cycles of the Eleusinian epos will inevitably lead us.

So she went along the road to Meaux, and was not talking, neither thinking, all the way, of the wrongs of John Leclerc, and the sorrows of his mother,neither meditating constantly, and with deep-seated purpose, "I will not let thee go, except thou bless me!"neither on this problem, agitated then in so many earnest minds, "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"

" "He never harmed a soul.

and living soul of improvement, without which he has no control of either intellect or morals.

The soul afire; revelations of the mystics.

The soul's sincere desire.

It is now 3 P.M., and the bear is supposed to be asleep, and I am possessing my soul in patience until it shall be Bruin's pleasure to awake and sally forth for his afternoon tea.

He is never intoxicatedit is simply a habit, a sort of fuel to feed the low cunning in which his soul delights.

Suddenly, the girl recollected that she had left the street door of the house unlocked, and was afraid that the house, having not a soul in it, would be robbed during her absence.

"Thank Heaven," said she, "it is all plain now!" Pet had not whispered it to Mrs. Crull, or Bog, or her uncle, or to any other living soul, but the mystery of that awful night had hung over her young mind like a pall, which in vain she had tried to lift.

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