The zealot was accustomed to himself.

Isabella could not blame the zeal of priests and monks; for she, too, was a zealot.

XLIII Zealot, censure not the toper, guileless though thou keep thy soul: Certain 'tis that sins of others none shall write upon thy scroll. Be my deeds or good or evil, look thou to thyself alone; All men, when their work is ended, reap the harvest they have sown.

Go! say to the secluded zealot: "Withhold thy blame; for know, I find the arch of the Mihráb but in an eyebrow's bow." Between the Ka'bah and the wine-house, no difference I see: Whate'er the spot my glance surveys, there equally is He. 'Tis not for beard, hair, eyebrow only, Kalandarism should care: The Kalandar computes the Path by adding hair to hair.

But the zealot should recollect, that he is labouring by this frequency of excommunication, against his own cause, and voluntarily adding strength to the enemies of truth.

I regarded Mrs. Potts as a zealot whom no advantage of worldly resource could blind to our shortcomings, nor deter from ministering unto them.

But the king, a zealot in paganism, bitterly and scornfully detested the Jewish religion, and resolved to root it out.

The real state of which, this zealot rashly and injudiciously exposes!

Alexander had indeed but limited sympathy with the fiery zealot, but he had practically no choice of action in face of the resistance with which the clergy would have met any sacrifice of ecclesiastical to secular authority.

He was moral in his domestic relations, fond of his family, religious in his turn of mind, bordering on superstition, a zealot in his defence of the Greek Church, scrupulous in the performance of his duties, and a man of his word.

The Czar Nicholas, himself a zealot in religion, was indignant and furious; but the situation gave him a pretext for insults and threats that would necessarily lead to war, which he desired as eagerly as Louis Napoleon.

A Droll The Obstinate Man A Zealot The Overdoer The Rash Man The Affected or Formal A Flatterer A Prodigal The Inconstant A Glutton A Ribald A Modern Politician A Modern Statesman A Duke of Bucks

It was the first oath he had enjoined upon the Believers since the days of the Pledge of Acaba long ago when he was but a persecuted zealot fleeing before the menace of his foes.

Thomas Thorl, the weaver, a pious zealot, got up at the time of the induction and protested, and said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door of the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

It is who shall prejudice a fellow-priest in order to supplant him, or play the zealot in Monseigneur's presence.

His attachment had become the attachment of a zealot.

To the quick circulation of such productions all the motives of interest and vanity concur; the disputant enlarges his knowledge, the zealot animates his passion, and every man is desirous to inform himself concerning affairs so vehemently agitated and variously represented.

They were keen eyes, alert, fiery with a zealot's fire: evidently the eyes of a steadfast, headstrong, purposeful man.

It may be Carlotta, or Zealot, or Ballot, or Lotus-blossom (a very pretty name), or even Charlotte.

What wonder the atheist L'Estrange should turn papist, When a zealot turns a ranter.

There was many a stern frontier zealot who deemed all the red men, good and bad, corn ripe for the reaping.

The brief interval was passed by Ghita in telling her beads, while Carlo joined in the prayers with the devotion of a zealot.

He is something of a zealot, and conceives it his mission to weed out the small superstitions of the countryside and plant exact information in their stead.

Wondering why they had chosen me if they thought me a blundering and, perhaps, mischievous zealot, I picked up a parcel, undirected, and broke the string.

COLE, HENRY an English ecclesiastical zealot, who held handsome preferments under Henry VIII.