The utter unreality and hollowness of such rhetoric could show itself no better than in contrast with the practical oratory of the law courts.

So as if we should intreate our maker to play also the Orator, and whether it be to pleade, or to praise, or to advise, that in all three cases he may utter and also perswade both copiously and vehemently.

The Poetes were wisemen, and wished in hart the redresse of things, the which when for feare, they durst not openly rebuke, they did in colours painte them out, and tolde men by shadowes what they should doe in good sooth, or els because the wicked were unworthy to heare the trueth, they spake so that none might understand but those unto whom they please to utter their meaning.

The senate was indignant at the utter devotion of the masses to him and took up his bones, on the plea that it was impious for them to lie in that consecrated spot; they were persuaded by the pontifices to make this declaration although they buried many other men there both before and after.

When neither of the consuls themselves nor any one else ventured to utter a word, he bade them come together again on a specified day, giving them to understand that he would prove by certain documents that Antony was in the wrong.

Leaving the original seed of melody, the primordial song in the soul which all his life was an effort to utter, let us regard for a moment the circumstances that favoured its development.

Rushing at length into freedom's battle, he stood in its storm with his hand on the wheel of the nation's rudder, shouting many a bold word for God and the Truth, until, fulfilled of experience as of knowledge, God set up before him a canvas of utter darkness: he had to fill it with creatures of radiance.

We must not forget that the deepest man can utter, will be but the type or symbol of a something deeper yet, of which he can perceive only a doubtful glimmer.

In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine: "The hand that made us is divine.

It is part of the world's system of hypocrisy to assume an incapacity for loving a man until he has asked you; to pretend an utter indifference until he has said the magic words, 'I love you.'

But before he could utter another word Sir Stephen stopped before him, and with hands thrown out appealingly, and with a look of terror and agony in his face, cried in broken accents: "If you going to raise any obstacle, Stafford, prompted by your pride, for God's sake, don't say the word!

God says to physical pain and mental anguish, "Thus far and no farther;" and this limitation saved Ida from utter collapse.

Jessie had wept loudly through the house ever since the death, and could weep as loudly now; but if Ida shed any tears she wept in the silence and darkness of her own room, and no one heard her utter a moan.

And yet he was helpless, staring down the mouth of the nine-pounder, unable to move an inch or to utter so much as a groan.

He only knelt there at her feet in utter silence, his black head pillowed on her hands.

He did not utter another word, merely walked on beside her till they reached the Vicarage gate.

And there he stopped, for her arms were suddenly about his neck, her lips raised in utter surrender to his.

For he also was bound by a promise, the keeping of which meant utter destruction to all he held good in life.

Everything around was dark and silentthe faint splash of my oars alone breaking the utter stillness.

All these seas are subject to prodigious storms, which make them boil up like water over a fire; at which times the waves dash the ships against the islands with unspeakable violence, to their utter destruction; and even fish; of all sizes are thrown dead on shore, against the rocks, by the extreme agitation of the sea.

It is a ravishment of the soul in the delight of the spirit, which, being carried above itself into inexplicable comfort, feels that heavenly sickness that is better than the world's health, when the wisest of men in the swounding delight of his sacred inspiration could thus utter the sweetness of his passion, "My soul is sick of love."

he said; "in thee I worship purity and holiness and" "Naynay, Raoul, do notrefrainif thou really lov'st me, utter not this frightful blasphemy; tell me, rather, if thou didst not find the holy father as I describe him?" "I found him a peaceful, venerable, and, I firmly believe, a good old man, Ghita; but only a man.

The red gleam from the uniform of Grosvenor could no longer be seen, but Robert had marked well the place where he sat, and he knew that the young Englishman was there, sleeping the sleep of utter exhaustion.

Robert, glancing back, saw the sentinel on the south stiffen to attention and then utter a cry of alarm, a shout sufficient to awaken any one of the sleeping Indians.

Nor will he utter a groan or even wince.