God does not think petty thoughts: He longs for grandeur for us all.

We were not long in understanding each other; and when I urged our early marriage, she ingenuously replied, that I had her consent whenever I had her father's, and that she hoped I could obtain that; but added, (and she trembled while she spoke) she did not know his views respecting her.

But if the one thing that rules his dreams is the longing for spiritual powerthe thought of impressing God upon his generation, and leading men to a clearer view of life and dutyhe is a born minister of the Spirit, and to the spirit of the sons of men.

I pray take none away, But suffer this one life to be longer than mortal day.

Recognizing the unsatisfiable longings of my Scotch Highland instincts, he threw out some hints concerning Bloody Cañon, and advised me to explore it.

The cones are grayish-green when ripe, cylindrical, about from three to four inches long by one and a half to two inches wide, and stand upright on the upper branches.

She had almost rejoiced to find herself back walking so lightly, so strongly, finding everything easy that had been so hard; and yet but a few minutes had passed, and she knew never more to be deceived, that she was no longer of this world.

Will it seem long to you?' 'Why, of course.

I'm afraid old Chloe wouldn't know her now, she's been so long with Seraphim and Cherubim in the Great City with the light of the Celestial Sun shining in her face.

Do the stars in their courses lay limitations on free will? There are in man two forces working: a human longing after God, and, in response, God inly working in the soul.

They were much longer at it than they ever were again, but the mackinaw man seemed not in the least hurry.

Ah, my soul, for such a wonder, Wilt thou not undo the door?" Evadne sang the words softly in the twilight: sang them with a great note of longing in her pleading voice.

Every chapter of the Gesta Romanorum consists of a moral tale; so much so that in many cases the application of the moral is as long as the tale itself.

"Then, you had not been long on the scene of crime when the police arrived?" "I had been in the room but a few minutes.

As pork does not keep long without being salted, cut it into pieces of a suitable size as soon as the pig is cold.

The man's hair was dark and crisp, and worn a little long about the temples and ears; he had pleasant dark eyes and an air of being slightly amused, even when he did not smile.

But Beltane kept ever to the woods and by-ways, lest, being recognised, he should be stayed longer from her of whom he dreamed, bethinking him ever of the deep, shy passion of her eyes, the soft tones of her voice, the clinging warmth of her caress, and all the sweet, warm beauty of her.

But with that fidelity which was an instinct of his nature, Colonel Newcome thought ever of his absent child and longed after him.

A cup from that rhinoceros's horn May help my longing to subdue.

When Father Holt was at Castlewood little Harry Esmond acted as his familiar little servitor, beating his clothes, folding his vestments, fetching his water from the well long before daylight, ready to run anywhere for the service of his beloved priest.

It was true that his teacher was long past his prime, slow upon his feet, and stiff in his joints, but even so he was still a tough antagonist; but Montgomery had found at last that he could more than hold his own with him.

They were being killed in the mills, while she wasted her thoughts and longings on people who would laugh if they knew of her presumptuous devotion.

" Antonio looked amazed, but, yielding to a natural curiosity, he gazed a moment with a longing at the prize.

Now ever since that spring night on the shore he had been thinking of the sea and longing with all his might to cross it and see foreign lands for himself.

As the season advanced, our heroine began to look with longings towards the country.