We are daily visited by appeals which are ministering to our growth and progress, or which are tending to our spiritual downfall.

The custom with the express riders, when within half a mile of a station, was either to begin shouting or blowing a horn in order to notify the stock tender of his approach, and to have a fresh horse already saddled for him on his arrival, so that he could go right on without a moment's delay.

This I took out of the earth and tendered to my master, having previously engaged a free negro man to take take his security for it, as I was the property of my master, and therefore could not safely take his obligation myself.

He had seen her face grave and tender in the twilight, and he knew.

Such evidence as we possess all tends in the contrary direction, and is in favour of the same slow and gradual changes occurring then as now.

Spiritual attention is that advertence of soul which tends towards God, the Term of all prayer, when the soul meditates on the power, wisdom, goodness of God, on the Passion, on the Mother of God, on God's saints.

he asked in tones as tender as a woman's.

Stuff each with chopped oysters and bits of butter and let stew until tender with 1 onion, 2 sprigs of parsley and 1 bay-leaf.

Even so, high and clear above the voices of the world, deeper and tenderer than any other word or tone, comes the voice of Jesus to the soul of man.

"Why, no! Poor little Anne!" Mr. Charteris's eyes grew tender for a moment, because his wife, in a fashion, was dear to him.

Lord Stanley and the Duke of Buccleuch, however, declared that they could not be parties to any legislation which tended toward the repeal of the corn-laws.

The hair, though rather coarse, is comfortably soft and spongy, and lies smooth, as if carefully tended with comb and brush.

Some who tend on him that reaps Fastest, pile it into heaps; And the little gleaners follow Them again, with whoop and halloo When they find a hand of ears More than falls to their compeers.

He certainly looked as if he believed it when Lady Mealhead told himand his expressive Gallic eyes waxed tender at the mention of her mother, the relict of the late clergyman, whose name had somehow been overlooked by Crockford.

" We may easily conceive that a person so scrupulous and tender on this subject, (as indeed John Woolman was on all others,) was in the way of becoming in time more eminently serviceable to his oppressed fellow-creatures.

She was very tender towards Grey's condition, and the sight gave me no jealousy, for in that tense hour all things were forgotten but life and death.

"How sad when lack of faith doth part The tender from the toughened heart!"

In the meantime let me tell you one important thingif you have not made the heart of Lou tender toward you, you have at least frightened her.

The spirit of indignant hatred and contempt with which he regarded the mass of humanity; his quiet and powerful perception of their failings, errors, and crimes; his zeal for liberty and freedom of thought, tended at once to generalize, while it embittered, his satire, and to change traits of personal severity for that deep shade of censure which Gulliver's Travels throw upon mankind universally."

In coming this morning from Mühlheim to Elberfeld, my heart was tendered under a sense of the Lord's mercies.

Deeply corporealised, and enchained hopelessly in the grovelling fetters of externality, must be the mind, to which, in its better moments, the image of the high-souled, high-intelligenced Quixotethe errant Star of Knighthood, made more tender by eclipsehas never presented itself, divested from the unhallowed accompaniment of a Sancho, or a rabblement at the heels of Rosinante.

She had watched it anxiously for weeks, and tended it as it had not been tended for many years.

He reads to us from it some of his favorite lines, and the tones of his voice are very tender over his dead friend's poem.

But yet it doth be verity that I was truly angered, and fit to shake Mine Own, and in the same moment to be utter tender unto her.

The enthusiasm of victory and exaltation in the worship of Dionysus tended of course to connect with him whatsoever was joyous and jubilant in life.