Saved by Cyrus from an ignominious and painful death, such as the barbarous customs of war then made common, the unhappy Lydian monarch became, it is said, the friend and admirer of the Conqueror, and was present in his future expeditions, and even proved a wise and faithful counsellor.

"Incuriously he smites the armored king And tricks his counsellors" "True, O God!" murmured the tiny woman, who sat beside the window yonder.

He was the confidant of his young and beautiful sisters, who were always sure to find in him a discreet counsellor, and never a betrayer.

he cried: "up, friend; your life hangs trembling in the scales; up, and act!" Markheim steadily regarded his counsellor.

And beholding with his followers that son of Pandu in his court, looking like the moon hid in clouds and possessed of a face beautiful as the full moon, king Virata addressed his counsellors and the twice-born ones and the charioteers and the Vaisyas and others, saying, 'Enquire ye who it is, so like a king that looketh on my court for the first time.

She could not have chosen a safer counsellor, for although Sully does not, in any instance, attempt to disguise his dislike to the Tuscan princess, he was incapable of betraying so sacred a trust; and if, as generally occurs in such cases, his advice was frequently neglected, she never once had cause to question its propriety.

This, in the eyes of Abbas, constituted an excellent counsellor.

But how?" He accordingly convoked his counsellors; the viziers, the warriors, the magi, the philosophers; and addressed them thus: "The king deigns to consult ye touching a difficult matter.

They added besides, (for it is a very common thing for those who are desirous of bringing good news to invent something to make the news which they bring seem more joyful,) that parties were coming to an agreement; that the senate was to meet on the first of August; that Antonius having discarded all evil counsellors, and having given up the provinces of Gaul, was about to return to submission to the authority of the senate.

Paying homage in season unto the king, one should silently and respectfully sit beside the king, for kings take umbrage at babblers, and disgrace lying counsellors.

' "After dismissing the old counsellor, the king went into the women's apartments, and began to talk to them of the exhortation which he had just received.

He drew together his wisest counsellors, and the most crafty captains of his host.

It will always esteem the most candid counsellor the best.

I am unable to invoke the ministrations of thy old friends the Brahmins to this end, they being, as thou knowest, in disgrace, but I have summoned these trusty and experienced counsellors in their room.

Louis, however, who felt his own utter inability to dispense with so able and fearless a counsellor, paid no regard to the discontent of the Prince; and increased his indignation by issuing letters patent, in which, after eulogizing the Cardinal, and expressing his sense of the services which he had rendered alike to himself and to his kingdom, he officially appointed him Prime Minister.

"He wants me to send him money to fee a counsellor," she said, while her eyes wandered over the pictures on the wall, and back again to the looking-glass; and certainly she did not look as if his jeopardy troubled her very much.

But to amend the show, there followed a little distance of Perkin an inward counsellor of his, one that had been sergeant farrier to the King.

[Footnote 3: "Khas-i-zi," counsellors.]

William gathered together his most important and most trusted counsellors; and they were unanimous in urging him to resent the perjury and injury.

She was alone, and unsupported by friends, having not a single friendly counsellor.

Katharine is a good girl, a fine upstanding girl, but I suppose" He paused, as if to regard and hear some invisible counsellor, and then briskly resumed: "Yes, I suppose policy demands that she should marry you.

Satan is their guide, the flesh is their instructor, hypocrisy their counsellor, vanity their fellow-soldier, their will their law, ambition their captain, custom their rule; temerity, boldness, impudence their art, toys their trading, damnation their end.

The Frenchman keeps two counsellors Worth any drove of priests.

"What a shame that our new inspector will not let you marry Adeliza!" lamented his counsellor.

In action, learned counsellors their age, Profession, or disease, forbids t'engage.