But both books give good, sound knowledge of Breviary hymns and thus help to make their recitation a pious and a rational exercise, not a mechanical, soulless labour.

The philandering knights were sensual boobies, the simpering dames soulless wantons.

I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of stone, With my smile, as to stir you heart from its icy rest, Or win a tender glance from your royal eyes, Ione; But your sad smile lures me on, as toward some fatal rock Is the fond wave drawn, but to break with passionate moan.

" "That were to hope the winged lion would become a lamb, or the dark and soulless senate a community of self-mortifying and godly Carthusians!

A soulless, skyless, catarrhal day, as if that bustling dowager, old mother Earthwhat with match-making in spring, and fetes champetres in summer, and dinner-giving in autumnwas fairly worn out, and put to bed with the influenza, under wet blankets and the cold-water cure.

No wonder such an inane creature is wretched when it rains, and her soulless business is interrupted.

"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?

I dread and shrink from the sight of death, and wish to keep the recollection of the life I have known and loved undisturbed by its soulless image.

I have bartered away life, faith, and happiness for Dead Sea fruit; I, who once was young, and not altogether as I now am, a soulless creature of clay!

Animals are mere machines; they are bodies animated, but soulless; they lack conscious perception and appetition, though not the appearance of them.

Everything in nature is organized; there are no soulless bodies, no dead matter.

If there are no soulless bodies, there are also no bodiless souls; the soul is always joined with an aggregate of subordinate monads, though not always with the same ones.

Godwin's system of "Justice," with its soulless logic, he abhorred.

" "One can almost fancy," said Charlotte, "that in these simple forms one sees people that one is acquainted with; one has met with just such things in the societies amongst which one has lived; and the strangest likenesses of all with these soulless creatures are in the masses in which men stand divided one against the other, in their classes and professions; the nobility and the third estate, for instance, or soldiers and civilians.

" The cripple, bent revoltingly over his oar, suddenly broke out into laughter, soulless, without meaning.

As he advances in life, as his powers ought to be coming to fuller maturity and his intellectual productiveness to its prime, just in the same degree the increasing seriousness of life multiplies such moments and deepens their remorse, and so the light of intellectual promise slowly goes out in impotent endeavour, or else in taking comfort that much goods are laid up, or, what is deadliest of all, in a soulless cynicism.

And we may depend upon it there would be less soulless labour in the world, and fewer men and women in danger of degenerating into mere "hands," if we would learn to think of them in Christ's higher and worthier way.

Woman, so long regarded as a soulless animal, born only to drag men down, was being transfigured into an immaculate goddess, an angel in human shape, whose business was man's reformation, whose right was man's worship.

The soulless had a soul to me!

When o'er the chords thy fingers steal, A soulless statue now I feel, And now a soul set free!

Lives there the soulless youth, whose eye That ruby tinted lip could see, Nor long for thee to live or die? How unlike me!

"These comments are of palpitating current interest at this moment, when reports are made almost daily to the press and the proper authorities of misbehaviour and excesses befitting soulless people who live without the law committed by persons who should be examples of prudence, honesty and good manners, for it is in this concept that the people are compelled to furnish them their daily bread.

Railroad corporations are inclined to be a bit soulless.

" "Better be an elf at oncea soulless creature of the elementsthan the sport of an evil spirit doomed to perdition," he bitterly exclaimed.

how happy is the leaf, A sweet and soulless thing, Dying to live but in the green Of yet another Spring These heights, these depths, these flaming worlds, This stairway of the sky I'd give, had no Voice said "Live on!" When Death said, "You may die.