So God rewarded Jacob by giving him more light: by not leaving him to himself, and his own darkness and meanness, but opening his eyes to understand the wondrous things of God's law, and showing him how God's law is everlasting, righteous, not to be escaped by any man; how every action brings forth its appointed fruit; how those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind.

And to cut a gallant figure in such circumstances does not necessarily prove the performer to be a rara avis, even though he rides the whirlwind quite as splendidly as any bird existent.

And then followed such a whirlwind of sweeping and dusting and throwing about of furniture that poor Chet was dismayed and was forced to take refuge on the porch.

"Anemones never know which way the wind blows, until it comes down close to the ground," she said; "but souls which are on bleak mountain-summits must watch whirlwinds, poised in space, and note their airy march.

When people reflected how calmly Marlborough had directed the whirlwind of war, they thought that no comparison could be more felicitous.

The Baron has seen the new, lively, and eccentric newspaper, entitled The Whirlwind.

an impossibility to those who have never experienced her whirlwinds of exuberance,and to those who have, a reproduction of the drollest days of their existence.

It appeared to me that I saw feelings of hatred and fury burst forth in different parts of the city, under the form of flames, which flames traversed the streets, united with others which they met, and proceeded in the direction of Sion, increasing every moment, and at last came to a stop beneath the tribunal of Caiphas, where they remained, forming together a perfect whirlwind of fire.

On went the Whirlwind, showing many capers One would hardly deem it meet to tell; Dusting Judge and Parsonflirting gown and papers, Discomposing matron, beau and belle.

When the unfortunate Cedric (who had imbued his hands in the blood of another,) was endeavouring by flight to a distant land to evade the arm of justice, there existed a belief in a supernatural being, whose exclusive office was, To guide the whirlwind and direct the storm.

The screw held it in a firm grip, adding a thong to a battering-ram, making a terrible whirlwind around the cannon, an iron lash in a brazen hand.

His ears felt pounding into them a whirlwind of street talk larded with slang.

For now burst forth that old whirlwind of anarchy and bigotry and selfishness and terror which Henry had curbed during twenty years.

" Of Henry B. Stanton, a newspaper reporter once said in excuse for not reporting one of his great anti-slavery speeches, that he could not attempt to report a whirlwind or a thunderstorm.

Did roaring whirlwinds sweep us from the ramparts?

At the same instant the windlass creaked; the ropes which hung from the summit of the column tightened; the gaping hole in the masonry below, gradually closed; the statue bent forward in the rays of the setting sun, and then suddenly describing in the air a gigantic sweep, fell among the flags with a dull, heavy thud, scattering a whirlwind of blinding dust in the air.

You have seen a small whirlwind in the street.

A little pencil-point on their map for identification, and they would send a whirlwind of shells at that gun.

When he found what a whirlwind he had started, he tried to shift his position and explain away much that he had said.

Yet there were times when the country of make-believe was swept down by a whirlwind, a whirlwind of realization which crashed through Katie's consciousness and knocked over the fancyings.

Who can tell the whirlwind of thought that rushed through his brain in the brief moment that he hung above that yawning gulf?

" After that she refused to be grave for a moment, danced about the room, singing, and finally vanished, a whirlwind of blue silk.

[To her.] BEGGAR Forgive me, gracious Sir! OSWALD (to her companions) Begone, ye Slaves, or I will raise a whirlwind And send ye dancing to the clouds, like leaves.

They cause whirlwinds on a sudden, and tempestuous storms; which though our meteorologists generally refer to natural causes, yet I am of Bodine's mind, Theat.

I own I like not Johnson's turgid style, That gives an inch the importance of a mile; Casts of manure a wagon-load around To raise a simple daisy from the ground; Uplifts the club of Herculesfor what? To crush a butterfly or brain a gnat; Creates a whirlwind from the earth to draw A goose's feather or exalt a straw; Sets wheels on wheels in motionsuch a clatter!