The arms of the men of those times were nerved by the hope of the future, and the spirit that sustained them was that of faith in the fact that the promise of reward for their labor was sure.

Mindful of his promise to Edith Morriston, Hugh Gifford kept about the town with the object of coming across Henshaw and getting to know, if possible, something of his intentions.

Evidently Grady had felt it incumbent upon himself to make good his promise in the most liberal manner, and to display the wonders of the Great White Way from end to endthe ceremony no doubt involving the introduction of the stranger to a number of typical American drinksand the result of all this was that Grady's legs wobbled perceptibly.

I had long previously had a profound conviction that the land of promise for the naturalist, the only remaining region where there were endless novelties of extraordinary interest ready to the hand which had the means of gathering them, was the bottom of the deep sea.

"In saying this, she wept bitterly; but at the same time exacted a promise from Fatima, that she would never mention the subject to her again.

" "If you will promise on your word of honor not to laugh at me," said Violet after another short silence, "I'll tell you that I have another idea.

All I can promise (and I do promise with the sincerity of Saint Peter, and the contrition of sinner Peter if I fail)

" "Thou forgettest," said Rufinianus, "that Euphronia's hand was not promised as the reward of any austerities, but as the meed of the most intelligent, that is, the most acceptable, account of the Indian philosophy, which in the opinion of the late eminent Euphronius, has been delivered by me.

This was promised at Fairfax Station, or Centreville, where the army's supplies were to be sent.

"And the reason is," I continued, "that these men and women believe or know that they are answerable to an eternal Sovereign mightier than yourself, and that they will reap, not perhaps here, but after death as they shall have sown; that if they do not forfeit the promise by their own deed, they shall rejoin hereafter those dearest to them here.

But being kept from falling, kept from sins, is quite another thing, and the Bible seems to teem with commands and promises about it.

A winter such as rounds his days is fuller of life and promise than a century of vulgar summers.

I promise before God I'll take you.

" "I never yet," answered Orlando, "made a promise which I did not keep; and, nevertheless, I own to you, that were I to make a promise like that, and even swear to keep it, I should not.

And her own Prize that God promised Out of the golden clouds, her virgin crown?... TALTHYBIUS.

The Pope, burning with passion, consented and fulfilled his promise during the revolt of the Romans.

On the contrary, our two first Parents are comforted by Dreams and Visions, cheared with Promises of Salvation, and, in a manner, raised to a greater Happiness than that which they had forfeited: In short, Satan is represented miserable in the height of his Triumphs, and Adam triumphant in the height of Misery.

He had foretold his own future elevation when only a youth of seventeen, though only in the form of a dream, the full purport of which he did not comprehend; as an old man, about to die, he predicts the greatest blessing which could happen to his kindred,their restoration to the land promised unto Abraham.

Had the Allies at this juncture translated their promises into acts, from what untold suffering Russia and Europe might have been saved!

Humbly confess your fault before God: he will forgive you according to his promise through Christ Jesus, and encourage you in your renewed efforts.

Quoth St. Francis: "Brother wolf, I wish that as thou hast pledged me thy faith to this promise without the gate, even so shouldest thou pledge me thy faith to thy promise before all the people, and that thou play me not false for my promise, and the surety that I have given for thee."

Break her promise after that!

May it please you, then, all of ye who are here assembled to deliberate, to bind yourselves in conjunction with me by oath to this illustrious duke, and to promise between his hands not to engage yourselves in any way in the election of a Head, and not to do anything to this end until we be re-assembled here to deliberate upon that choice.'

Some money has, we believe, been promised towards a new organ, and if somebody else would promise some more, a seemly-looking instrument might be obtained.

Although the "Lives of the Poets" had been promised within a year from January 1809, four years passed, and the work was still far from completion.