Thus, I made the door stronger than ever; for now it was solid with the backing of boards, and would, I felt convinced, stand a heavier pressure than hitherto, without giving way.

Now is the time to be strong in resistance; for whoso makes a stout fight in the beginning roots out an unhallowed affection, and bears securely the palm of victory; but whoso, with long and wishful fancies, fosters it, will try too late to resist a yoke that has been submitted to almost unresistingly.

She herself was as fresh as the sea breeze, and Aylmer seemed to her as strong as the sea.

But he was too strong for me, and soon had me on the ground and was beating me severely.

The birds were hiding in the dells out of the wind, some of the strongest of them pecking at acorns and manzanita berries, but most were perched on low twigs, their breast feathers puffed out and keeping one another company through the hard time as best they could.

Here the glad creek, grown strong with tribute gathered from many a snowy fountain on the heights, sings richer strains, and becomes more human and lovable at every step.

We are, as it were, cousins, with the mark of our common family strong on both of us.

They were strongest at the moment that the New York team was playing its poorest game, and their temporary success assisted in pushing the Chicagos somewhat rapidly toward the top of the league.

Guide him over hills and rivers to an enlarged country, and make his arm strong against his enemies, so be they are not of his own kin.

The generation that sins shall be cut off, while the stock of the righteous grows strong from age to age.

One does not make an ill-fed child strong by stuffing five pounds of oatmeal down its throat!

"There is so much in it of interest that the temptation not to put it down until it is completed is strong within the mind of every person who begins to read it.

LOCAL ATTACHMENT OF THE LOBSTER.It is said that the attachment of this animal is strong to some particular parts of the sea, a circumstance celebrated in the following lines: "Nought like their home the constant lobsters prize, And foreign shores and seas unknown despise.

I am the strongest among them, for all that I am no Hercules; and the outcome of this matter must rest with me.

It combines the force of the greatest orators with the graces of the first of poets; and in short; is a river to which those justly celebrated lines of Denham may be most pertinently applied: Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erfowing full.

Strong is the horse upon his speed; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede, Which makes at once his game: Strong the tall ostrich on the ground; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots xiphias to his aim.

Her sister heard of it, and came and took down one of the window shuttersMontgomery was neat about everything, and had shutters on the outside of every windowand beat him with it, being big and strong like her sister.

The smell of Kazan was strong about her.

The claim is the stronger under the circumstance which existed when those advances were made, it being at a period of great difficulty, when the United States were compelled to borrow very large sums for the prosecution of the war.

What of Glastonbury and Amesbury, older far, and of those many hundred others which stood up strong before God for our soulswithout avail?

The heart-beat is unusually strong during active bodily exertion, and under mental excitement.

Arrogance of the strong towards the weak, of the better placed towards the less well placed, is part of the government teaching in Germany.

And then there are the churches, whose towers stand up so strong out of the waters and the mist so that their heads are among the stars, and whose bells are the best music because they tell not only of God and his Saints but of man, of the steading and of home.

* * * "As to the empire, it will be all the stronger after this storm.

The power of the strong over the weak makes man the master.