When he offered sacrifices to his ancestors, he used to act as if they were present before him.

"It will be making a great sacrifice on my part," the Doctor replied, "but out of friendship for you, I'll make you a proposition.

Soon after, they prepared to perform the sacrifice which they had vowed.

Instinctively, Catholic tradition has regarded it as a vocation apartas, like the life of continence, a call to something more than human, and demanding a sacrifice or atrophy of functions proper to another grade of spirituality.

There was no man at that time in the kingdom so much the topic of conversation as the duke; and, from the corruptness of his character, he was very likely to fall a sacrifice to the corruptness of the times.

And how, when the settling time draws near, and, in spite of weariness, a new effort is needed to realise conditions of peace with guarantees for the futurehow could the Allied Nations accept the sacrifices still demanded of them, if they remained in ignorance?

He termed medicine "the metropolis of the kingdom of knowledge," and in one of his addresses to students, said: "You have chosen one of the noblest, the most important, and the most interesting of professions, but also the most arduous and the most self-denying, involving the largest sacrifices and the fewest rewards.

And afterward, during almost a century, Finland never occasioned any worries, political or economic, to the Russian Government, and did not require special sacrifices or special solicitude on its part.

This lasted five nights and five days; and, adds Bishop Landa, they said, and held it for certain, that on the last day of the festival Kukulcan himself descended from Heaven and personally received the sacrifices and offerings which were made in his honor.

And she admonished him of his duty to the Gods, which meant sacrifice, which meant merry-making.

And like unto Yayati, the son of Nahusha, that intelligent monarch celebrated the horse sacrifice and many other sacrifices with abundant gifts to Brahmanas.

There are few at the North who appreciate the sacrifice which attends this diversion, or the extent of the pressure which led to this disastrous change.

"You are asking too great a sacrifice of me.

To complete the sacrifice, she raised her veil, and smiled up at him, as it were, asking: "What next?"

But the moral effects of this memorable conclave were too remote to prevent the sacrifice which almost immediately followed the celebration of its rites.

Most nobly did they postpone every personal consideration to the interests of the cause, and the reader will, we think, agree with us, that they have achieved a result which undiminished energies could not have been expected to exceeda result sufficient, if any thing could be, to justify the sacrifice it cost them.

Teacher's manual to accompany The redeeming sacrifice.

For that cause to which they brought their ungrudged sacrifice has now laid its resistless claim on you.

The new doors were to be of the same shape and size as those by Andrea Pisano, which were already getting on for seventy years old, and candidates were invited to make a specimen relief to scale, representing the interrupted sacrifice of Isaac, although the subject-matter of the doors was to be the Life of S. John the Baptist.

We ought to spare no sacrifices to secure this country as an ally for the eventuality of a war with England or Russia.

He ordered the Albans to unite their camp with that of the Romans, which he prayed heaven might prove beneficial to both; and prepared a purificatory sacrifice for the next day.

Nextthe sacrifice of righteousness, of which it is written, "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service."

He abolished many sacrifices, many horse-races, and some other spectacles, in an attempt to reduce expenses as far as possible.

Many of the dismounted guns could no longer be replaced, not because there were not plenty in the arsenals, but because to mount them by night, under the deadly fire of the mortars, entailed such frightful sacrifices of men.

You would not surrender such an integral part of your system, and therefore it is not reasonable to expect a similar sacrifice on our part, even though the meritorious purposes of the League be freely recognized.