He was miserably conscious, all the while, that his own folly had been solely responsible for the present plight of these noble messmates.

"The morning will disclose our plight to the enemy, and it will then be no longer a question of terms, but of surrender.

May Allah on your cruel plots Send down the wrath divine, That ye my sufferings may feel, In the same plight as mine.

The Frenchman was held to have gravely derogated from good manners by alluding to this circumstance, which had reached his ears while he was under the table: and the Englishman swore so outrageously at the plight in which he found himself that the Italians then and there silently registered a vow that none of his nation should ever be Pope, a maxim which, with one exception, has been observed to this day.

I was in poor plight for answering questions; however, I explained the spiritual view we took of those subjects, and asked permission to send her books, in the reception of which she seemed to promise herself much gratification.

General Herkimer was in no better plight than those who were the most exposed.

And thou, great Iuno! which with awful might 390 The lawes of wedlock still dost patronize, And the religion of the faith first plight With sacred rites hast taught to solemnize, And eke for comfort often called art Of women in their smart, 395 Eternally bind thou this lovely band, And all thy blessings unto us impart.

To have suffered, myself,to have fallen under the ban of suspicion and the disgrace of arresthad certainly been hard; but it was nothing to beholding another in the same plight through my own rash and ill-advised attempt to better my position and Carmel's by what I had considered a totally harmless subterfuge.

I was welcomed warmly, as I was always by the men of the party, who seeing my muddy plight at once offered me a glass of the sportsman's drink in Scotland, and while I was adding soda to it Leithcourt himself joined his guests, ready dressed in his dinner jacket, having just descended from his room.

His father was to blame for the whole ugly businessfor his plight within and without.

So there was no troth plighted between Allen and Susie, though the youth loved the maiden with all the energy of his fresh, unused nature, and she knew it very well.

It behoveth thee to relieve me from this plight by surrendering thyself to me and favouring me with thy embraces.

It was accordingly hoisted out, deposited on the quay, and prized open; and from its capacious interior, in a deplorable plight from hunger, cramp, and sea-sickness, was extractedBishop Addo.

But"and a sudden glimmer of reason seemed to come over him"if you have one grain of human decency left in you, you won't drag me and my terrible plight into that scurrilous New York paper of yours.

As a result they were continually suffering disastrously and could do no damage in return; for, in case they made a rush upon any group, they would put the foe to flight, but not being able to pursue farther they found themselves in a worse plight on their return, since by their sortie they had been isolated.

He had utterly forgotten about his plight until then,how he was homeless, workless and bound to starve and freeze sooner or later.

It is well that hard words break no bones, else two or three gentlemen of literary notoriety would be in a sorry plight after reading the following passage in a recent Magazine.