In majesty and solemnity the ascetic preacher was a Jewish prophet delivering to kings the unwelcome messages of divine Omnipotence.

Five minutes afterwards, Verty might have been seen taking his way back sadly, on his little animal, toward the hills, while Redbud was undergoing that most disagreeable of all ceremonies, a "lecture," which lecture was delivered by Miss Lavinia, in her own private apartment, with a solemnity, which caused Redbud to class herself with the greatest criminals which the world had ever produced.

[d], which became a regular part of jurisprudence, and was conducted with all the order, method, devotion, and solemnity imaginable [e].

There was so much solemnity in the act that an awkward pause might have followed it had not Miss O'Kelly been Irish.

She soon found it; and then going with him into his house, passed the rest of the day and the whole night in preparing the mixture with busy solemnity,Rodomont always remaining with her.

Will you not then, as long as you have been permitted, after seeing the spectacle and the solemnity, when he leads you out, go with adoration of him and thanks for what you have heard and seen?

But the solemnity is ended; go away like a grateful and modest man; make room for others; others also must be born, as you were, and, being born, they must have a place, and houses, and necessary things.

He wants those who join in the festival, those who take part in the chorus, that they may rather applaud, admire, and celebrate with hymns the solemnity.

The same solemnity of yesterday reigned supreme, with the difference, that people came thronging into town, making a mournful scene of bustle.

Then followed the impressive funeral services of the Episcopal Church for the dead, amid a silence and solemnity that were imposing and sublimely grand.

But a great cathedral elm, with shadowy aisles of boughs, its choir of whispering winds and chanting birds, its hush and solemnity and majestic grandeur, actually conquers the dull human race and asserts its leave to be in a manner to which all hearts respond; and so the great elms of New England have got to be regarded with a sort of pride as among her very few crown jewels, and the Pitkin elm was one of these.

Now, however, that the undertaking had proved so completely victorious that it threatened to make of Mecca the weaker side, Abbas, with the solemnity which falls upon such people when self-interest points the same way as previous inclination, threw in his lot with Islam.

She was tired of her mother's illnesses, tired of Moppet's mischief, tired of Methuselah's solemnity.

His body, with due solemnity, was buried near that of Dr. Robert Weston, in the north aisle which joins next to the choir of the cathedral of Christ Church, on the 27th of January 1639-40.

'Tis fit there should be some solemnity.

"] The shops had closed by the time he got into the street again, and he walked down and watched with much solemnity the reflection of the quay lamps in the dark water of the harbour.

Yes, I did, and I said I would give up being a sailor, and be just a soldier, like you are.' Nancy made this statement with great solemnity, and Teddy beamed with delight.

I should have been happy to have thrown a veil over these transactions if it had been possible to conceal them; but they have passed on the great theater of the world, in the face of all Europe and America, and with such circumstances of publicity and solemnity that they can not be disguised and will not soon be forgotten.

I say to you almost in the words I spoke last year to Lesbia,' and here his tone grew grave almost to solemnity, 'trust me, and I will make your life free from the shadow of caretrust me, for I have a brave s

THE WONDER-CHILD 'Our little babe,' each said, 'shall be Like unto thee''Like unto thee!' 'Her mother's''Nay, his father's''eyes,' 'Dear curls like thine'but each replies, 'As thine, all thine, and nought of me.' What sweet solemnity to see The little life upon thy knee, And whisper as so soft it lies, 'Our little babe!'

They were disclosed under the solemnity of an oath, at Columbia, in a court of justice.

The lifted hand, the bared head, the earnest accents, with which these words were spoken, gave to this simple utterance of good-will all the solemnity of a benediction or prayer.

Too much solemnity and sorrow both were discernible in his worn and rugged features, hewn grandly as if from granite, to admit of a hope like this.

His florid cheek paled with anger, his yellow-speckled eyes glowed with lurid fire, he compressed his lips bitterly as he said: "Marriage is usually considered a solemnity, Miss Monfort; and, let me assure you, it is only as a married woman I can conscientiously release you from confinement.

After witnessing some tilting and other martial games, the king and queen proceeded to Vienna, where a triumphal reception awaited them, and where their marriage was celebrated with all becoming solemnity and great pomp.