How one word of bitter scorn or harsh reproach will sometimes sunder the closest ties between man and woman, and cause an alienation which never can be healed, and which may perchance end in a domestic ruin!

" The political course of Washington while President produced the alienation of the two Virginians whom he most closely associated with himself in the early part of his administration.

The failure of what was called Religion to promote moral culture is now explicable: its scheme of terror and hope appealed to and powerfully stimulated selfishness, and was also fundamentally anti-social, cultivating alienation of all who did not hold certain dogmas.

I could imagine well the fiendish delight with which he had seen me day by day writhing uncomplainingly beneath the unexplained and as I had deemed unsuspected alienation of Wentworth, the cause of which his act had wrapped in mystery!

No one will deny the progressive alienation of life from religion that has developed since the Reformation and has now reached a point of almost complete severance.

Could his inmost soul have been read by those who condemned his harshness, they would have sincerely pitied the keen and agonized sensitiveness with which he felt the alienation of their affections.

"These holdings cannot be sold or mortgaged entire; the law forbids the alienation for debt of a peasant's cottage, his garden or courtyard, his plough, the last few acres of his land, and the cattle necessary for working his farm."

can mark a greater alienation of the soul from its original nature, than the infidelity which chooses for the bed of the grave spots unhallowed by religious associations.

With the first returning consciousness came the oppression of the yoke, the impulse to match the mental alienation with that of the bodystrong need to move away.

It was an instantaneous impulse, a short-lived and passing alienation of mind; but what must Mr. Falkland think of that alienation?

Special care is taken to prevent the alienation of property held collectively, or any similar transactions likely to produce political and economic disturbances.

Spoke plainly with Mr. B. respecting the alienation existing between him and .

As a disciple of Voltaire and Rousseau, she could not but detest the abuses of the Court; she shared, too, the general personal alienation of the aristocracy from the German woman, as they called Marie Antoinette.

Then they made no further concealment, but admitted their alienation outright.

How humiliating to witness also the alienation of his subjects, and their willingness to accept a brainless youth as his successor, after all the glorious victories he had won, and the services he had rendered to the nation!

Why, it is notorious that those who would be best pleased would be the extremists and irreconcilables, just because they know well that for us to do anything to soften estrangement, and appease alienation between the European and native populations, would be the very best way that could be adopted to deprive them of fuel for their sinister and mischievous designs.