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  • Perhaps because he was determined to make up for having walked out on them, perhaps because Harry's descent into listlessness galvanized his dormant leadership qualities, Ron was the one now encouraging and exhorting the other two into action.†   (source)
  • In the Sin-On Bible, John 5:14 exhorted the believers not to "sin no more," but to "sin on more!"†   (source)
  • The sound track on the disk, previously consisting of the usual banal pants, gasps, exhortations, and instructions one would expect from such activity, suddenly filled the holopit with screams-first the young man's, then Sira's.†   (source)
  • Right after we finished the PT class and staggered to our feet, Instructor Reno, god of all the mercies, would send us on a four-mile run through the soft sand, running alongside us at half speed (for him), exhorting us to greater effort, barking instructions, harassing, cajoling.†   (source)
  • And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the same level as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110 percent.†   (source)
  • Newton's private papers included a handwritten letter to Robert Boyle in which he exhorted Boyle to keep "high silence" regarding the mystical knowledge they had learned.†   (source)
  • A colonel came down the beach with his entourage, exhorting the noncoms and junior officers to re-form and improvise squads.†   (source)
  • In a flickering kaleidoscope of images she saw the blood running thickly down her naked thighs, heard the constant beating of the shower on the tiles, felt the soft patter of tampons and napkins against her skin as voices exhorted her to plug it UP, tasted the plump, fulsome bitterness of horror.†   (source)
  • We were exhorted to obey God, respect the political authorities, and be grateful for the educational opportunities afforded to us by the church and the government.†   (source)
  • We're off to the movies or to Capri's for an ice cream and just hanging out, the boys much exhorted to take care of the ladies.†   (source)
  • In the sun-dappled quad, bagpipes whined and Texas governor Ann Richards exhorted my classmates and me to get out there and show the world what kind of women we were.†   (source)
  • THE SECOND DAY SATURDAY, 4 DECEMBER The Red October It was the custom in the Soviet Navy for the commanding officer to announce his ship's operational orders and to exhort the crew to carry them out in true Soviet fashion.†   (source)
  • The speech passed in a blur; his main impressions were of heat and sweat, the groans of the warriors when they learned of Nasuada's fate, the ragged cheers when he exhorted them to victory, and the general roar from the crowd when he finished.†   (source)
  • In her speech in the Bronx, Jordana exuded maturity and empathy as she exhorted the students to support the Girls Learn chapter, noting that girls the same age as those in the audience are being trafficked or killed for "honor," and she ended with a ringing crescendo: "Girls' rights are human rights!"†   (source)
  • In his "Declaration of Open Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," meaning Saudi Arabia, where five thousand U.S. troops were then based, he exhorted his followers to attack Americans wherever they found them, and to "cause them as much harm as can be possibly achieved.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be everywhere at once, exhorting his teammates, zipping up ropes and racing under low-slung barbed wire.†   (source)
  • They were Marines, he exhorted them, and "this will be no Bataan."†   (source)
  • In seven canonical words, she exhorts, cajoles, commands someone—herself? me?†   (source)
  • "C'mon," I exhorted, "you put it in play.†   (source)
  • 'Now, men,' he exhorted.†   (source)
  • "Can you quiet down, just a little bit!" exhorts a svelte, smartly dressed female school board member from the lectern.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, he exhorted the nurse anesthetist to keep pushing air into her lungs, not to stop.†   (source)
  • And talked to him about it, exhorting him to think of the kids.†   (source)
  • Stories would be told of him riding among the troops exhorting them to "quit yourselves like men, like soldiers," or saying, "I will fight so long as I have a leg or an arm."†   (source)
  • The young trainer was shouting into the microphone, exhorting the crowd to follow his instructions, whatever they were.†   (source)
  • It is forbidden to incite or exhort someone to commit a crime.†   (source)
  • Together, Randoll and the Millers went about the village exhorting others to join them in their bloody self-chastisement.†   (source)
  • Petra flung open the door, and soon mother and daughter were exhorting them, pleading for Max to run faster.†   (source)
  • On the radio, Chubby Checker is exhorting young Americans to do the Twist, while Elvis Presley is asking women every where if they're lonesome tonight.†   (source)
  • Beneath the PRAISE-SINGER'S exhortations the women dirge Ale le le, awo mi lo.†   (source)
  • A barker exhorted the crowd to enter a tent fifty feet away to glimpse the ugliest woman in the world.†   (source)
  • They say their vows, and Reverend Waite exhorts us to stand.†   (source)
  • "Just because we have never seen them, does not mean they did not exist," Ellsworth exhorted.†   (source)
  • If you don't discover it yourself, it will be nothing more than an exhortation from me.†   (source)
  • And here in the depths of the camp, huddled dangerously in the dark around the precious little box, men and women would listen to the far faint sound of a Chopin polonaise, and to voices of exhortation and good tidings and support, and would feel the closest thing to a restoration of life.†   (source)
  • In the primary department of Sunday school, we little girls rose up in taffeta dresses and hot white gloves, with a nickel for collection embedded inside our palms, and while elastic bands from our Madge Evans hats sawed us under the chin, we sang songs led and exhorted by Miss Hattie.†   (source)
  • You were serving papers and well do I remember how I exhorted you to put forth your best efforts to capitalize on the big news.†   (source)
  • Exhorting each other: You can do it.†   (source)
  • Her husband was travelling up and down the highway making speeches to the new recruits, exhorting them to mighty feats of arms.†   (source)
  • She lingered only for this, and he knew it, even though she no longer exhorted him as she had in days but shortly gone by.†   (source)
  • She stood over him while he laid the table; and all the afternoon she kept him at it, explaining, exhorting and spurring him on.†   (source)
  • [description of a second-century church service] And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.   (source)
  • Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.   (source)
  • Some religions require or strongly exhort believers to travel to their sacred places.
  • The organization exhorts people to be environmentally conscious.
  • They continued to walk onward, while the elder traveller exhorted his companion to make good speed and...   (source)
    exhorted = urged strongly
  • From somewhere, Sylvia Pittston exhorted them, her voice rising and falling on blind inflections.†   (source)
  • I was glad to be out of the dark and away from that exhorting voice.†   (source)
  • To Adams it appeared his exhortation had "animated" and "pleased" his audience.†   (source)
  • He stands in the pulpit now, a minister exhorting his flock.†   (source)
  • She did a sort of little rocking dance in her exhortation, broad in her bathrobe.†   (source)
  • Will was already out, gruffly exhorting himself, digging in his old hole to China.†   (source)
  • And when in chapel day after day we were exhorted to new levels of self-deprivation and hard work, with the war as their justification, it was impossible not to see that the faculty were using this excuse to drive us as they had always wanted to drive us, regardless of any war or peace.†   (source)
  • Then Pastor Merrill exhorted us through that familiar psalm: " The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore.'†   (source)
  • Exhorting his men to conduct themselves like soldiers, he told them everything worth living for was at stake.†   (source)
  • She exhorted him to pray, told him that she prayed every hour and that God listened and prayer never failed.†   (source)
  • There was no ringing call for valor in the cause of country or the blessings of liberty, as Washington had exhorted his troops at Brooklyn, only a final reminder of the effectiveness of bayonets.†   (source)
  • And speakers' platforms would display a lineup of politicians, celebrities, and local heroes, many of them missing an arm or a leg, everyone exhorting the crowds to be a part of things, support their country, buy a bond.†   (source)
  • She admonished them gently when they were behaving badly, and exhorted them to educate themselves, get with God, and love themselves.†   (source)
  • She's happy to still be visible in the mind's eye as queen mother of America's once fearsome radical counterculture, through which she stomped in her leather miniskirt, shouting about racism and classism and exhorting her fellow travelers to bomb, pillage, and "freak out the honky establishment."†   (source)
  • When on a Sunday in January 1776 a prominent pastor, the Reverend John Rodgers, preached an impassioned sermon from the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church on Wall Street, exhorting young men to be brave and fight for the cause of their country, he was himself being notably brave in speaking out.†   (source)
  • "Our people and the foreigners will see this, and it will have a calming effect," he exhorts his comrades in the Soviet leadership.†   (source)
  • Leading his soldiers through the sweltering afternoon, rugged "Old Put" was at his best, riding up and down the long line exhorting them to stay together and keep moving, to get past the British before they had the island sealed off from the East River to the Hudson.†   (source)
  • She exhorted the kids to study hard and keep quiet or face the possibility of incurring the disfavor of the teacher who ruled them.†   (source)
  • And he carried her in his heart; he prayed for her and exhorted her, while there was yet time to bring her soul to God.†   (source)
  • Everybody tell me at once," I exhorted.†   (source)
  • The verse "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day" was changed into the exhortation: "Do not be afraid of the arrows of flying war."†   (source)
  • I returned to the serpent mythology on numerous occasions during the year, exhorting the students to look truth in the eye and to understand that the things we learn in our youth are not always literally correct.†   (source)
  • "And you, mahn," the Exhorter said, "a reg'lar little black devil!†   (source)
  • Then he dashed back to the front to exhort his men.†   (source)
  • We'll have trouble with the Extortor-I mean the Exhorter," a big woman said.†   (source)
  • Bust me with the pipe but, by God, you listen to the Exhorter!†   (source)
  • Ras the Exhorter raised up his knife and tried to do it, but he could not do it.†   (source)
  • No mahn strike the Exhorter, godahmit, no mahn!†   (source)
  • It is time Ras the Exhorter become Ras the DESTROYER!†   (source)
  • Ahead I could hear the Exhorter barking harshly to the crowd.†   (source)
  • He was an exhorter, all right, and I was caught in the crude, insane eloquence of his plea.†   (source)
  • With Ras the Exhorter's boys," Brother Clifton said.†   (source)
  • The Exhorter leaned down, pointing at me, beneath the green traffic light.†   (source)
  • So that was Ras the Exhorter, I thought.†   (source)
  • Well, Ras the Exhorter has had a monopoly in Harlem.†   (source)
  • Did it have any connection with Ras the Exhorter?†   (source)
  • The Exhorter gestured violently, blasting the Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • I left Mance and the referees and joined my teammates, who had encircled Coach Byrum, listening to him exhort us to win in an endless string of cliches that made up the impoverished language of sport.†   (source)
  • However, I will take your request for documents, specifically^ the noted treaties, under advisement, and strongly exhort Mr. Holabird to use his contacts within the government to procure copies for you.†   (source)
  • Across Rawalpindi, muezzins' cries from half a dozen other mosques flavored the darkening air with exhortations.†   (source)
  • As she herself acknowledged, she found it impossible to write a short letter, and to John Quincy and Charles came pages dispensing vigorous, motherly exhortations.†   (source)
  • Had he followed the advice and exhortations he was subjected to, and suspended operations to request instructions, he would have been forbidden to proceed as he had and most likely Holland would have signed a separate peace with England.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Ras the Exhorter and his gang of racist gangsters are taking advantage of this and are increasing their agitation.†   (source)
  • But you know and I know that they ain't none of 'em got no true flag-except maybe Ras the Exhorter, and he claims he's Ethiopian or African.†   (source)
  • The Exhorter waved his arms and pointed, shouting, "That mahn is a paid stooge of the white enslaver!†   (source)
  • Nor had there been any clashes with Ras the Exhorter-although in the past week he had been increasingly active.†   (source)
  • But who had sent it-Ras the Exhorter?†   (source)
  • THEY moved in a tight-knit order, carrying sticks and clubs, shotguns and rifles, led by Ras the Exhorter become Ras the Destroyer upon a great black horse.†   (source)
  • It's Ras the Exhorter," he yelled.†   (source)
  • Little groups were all along the street, and I moved with increasing speed until suddenly I had reached Seventh Avenue, and there beneath a street lamp with the largest crowd around him was Ras the Exhorter-the last man in the world I wanted to see.†   (source)
  • Clifton's arms were moving in short, accurate jabs against the head and stomach of Ras the Exhorter, punching swiftly and scientifically, careful not to knock him into the window or strike the glass with his fists, working Ras between rights and lefts jabbed so fast that he rocked like a drunken bull, from side to side.†   (source)
  • I looked at the Exhorter.†   (source)
  • He fought with himself for two months, until at last one day he found himself preparing to take the car into town, exactly as if he had decided it long ago, and as if all his exhortations and self-discipline had been nothing but a shield to hide from himself his real intention.†   (source)
  • Male and female, the two voices comprised a cheering section, calling out such exhortations as I had never heard.†   (source)
  • For at some point yesterday in that pandemonium of frenzied advice and deafening demand, amid the shouts and muffled murmurs and randy exhortations, had I really heard from Nathan the words I now so chillingly recalled?†   (source)
  • Their minister sometimes came to Yamacraw on Sundays to preach to the blacks on the island, to exhort them to quit their evil likker-drinking ways.†   (source)
  • Such monkish exhortations allowed me sometime during the next week to rise from bed, feeling fresh and cleansed and relatively unhorny, and to boldly continue my grapple with the assorted faeries, demons, clods, clowns, sweethearts and tormented mothers and fathers who were beginning to throng the pages of my novel.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, she was snubbed, slapped, lectured and exhorted.†   (source)
  • She was too much obscured in the eddies of the ceremonial, being led in this and that direction, being converged upon by small coveys of officials or of confessors, being introduced to the executioner, being persuaded to kneel down and pray, being exhorted to stand up and make a speech, being aspersed, being given candles to hold, being forgiven and being asked to forgive, being carried patiently onward, being ushered out of life with circumstance and dignity.†   (source)
  • The band of natives, seeing now that they had no more to fear, and wild with rage at the losses they had suffered, began to advance slowly toward the foot of the cliff, led by Taomi, who, dancing with fury, and hideous with warpaint, urged them on, exhorting them in a shrill voice.†   (source)
  • In a radio broadcast last night Mayor Ditz warned of possible mob violence and exhorted the public to maintain order.†   (source)
  • Polly exhorted him.†   (source)
  • The exhortation stopped, and only the feral howling came from the tent, and with it a thudding sound on the earth.†   (source)
  • He moved about above the crowd in the bed of a wagon, exhorting them to bid, with his hand at the side of his mouth, in a harangue compounded of frenzy, passionate solicitation, and bawdry.†   (source)
  • Now a response filled in the pause, and the exhortation went up with a tone of triumph, and a growl of power came into the voice.†   (source)
  • They were exhorted from the platform by the superintendent, a Scotch dentist with a black-gray beard, fringed by a small area of embalmed skin, whose cells, tissues, and chemical juices seemed to have been fixed in a state of ageless suspension, and who looked no older from one decade to another.†   (source)
  • From some little distance there came the sound of the beginning meeting, a sing-song chant of exhortation.†   (source)
  • Miss Bart accepted this exhortation in a spirit of the purest impartiality.†   (source)
  • "But you will be careful, won't you?" she exhorted.†   (source)
  • He minimised its strength and exhorted him to oppose its passage.†   (source)
  • We exhorted him to be resolute in this, and left my aunt to observe him.†   (source)
  • He remained there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, exhorting.†   (source)
  • And he would willingly have had that service of exhortation in prospect now.†   (source)
  • He was then exhorted not to hide his sin, but to confess and repent.†   (source)
  • The elder absolved, reconciled, exhorted, imposed penance, blessed, and dismissed them.†   (source)
  • Paul had however caught the clue and completed the exhortation, in his peculiar manner.†   (source)
  • After a short pause, Mr. Grant proceeded with the solemn and winning exhortation of his service.†   (source)
  • She does not excommunicate him but simply persists in motherly exhortation of him.†   (source)
  • They exhorted her to be of cheerful mind, and to fear nothing for her future welfare.†   (source)
  • That once conceded, I return to my exhortation.†   (source)
  • On this William exhorted his friend to confess, and not to hide his sin any longer.†   (source)
  • He exhorted me to content myself, and be obedient.†   (source)
  • Father Paissy, too, uttered some words of exhortation which moved and surprised him greatly.†   (source)
  • It was as if, by flapping his hands about like short wings, he hoped to deflect any introductions and greetings, as if he wanted on no account to disturb the others by his presence and seemed to be exhorting them to leave him back in the dark and forget about his being there.†   (source)
  • In a few moments it became clear that Madame Haupt was engaged in descending the ladder, scolding and exhorting again, while the ladder creaked in protest.†   (source)
  • Then Don Carlos could be heard addressing Sheriff Hawe in an exhortation of mingled English and Spanish.†   (source)
  • No doubt, ran the report, the situation was of the strangest and gravest description, but the public was exhorted to avoid and discourage panic.†   (source)
  • And he exhorted the children to try.†   (source)
  • His soul was not there to hear and greet it and he knew now that the exhortation he had listened to had already fallen into an idle formal tale.†   (source)
  • When we add the number of wholly ignorant men who preached or "exhorted" to that of those who possessed something of an education, it can be seen at a glance that the supply of ministers was large.†   (source)
  • The game with Groton was played from three of a snappy, exhilarating afternoon far into the crisp autumnal twilight, and Amory at quarter-back, exhorting in wild despair, making impossible tackles, calling signals in a voice that had diminished to a hoarse, furious whisper, yet found time to revel in the blood-stained bandage around his head, and the straining, glorious heroism of plunging, crashing bodies and aching limbs.†   (source)
  • Just now in this meeting Tull had ignored the fact that he had sued, exhorted, demanded that she marry him.†   (source)
  • The "Appeal" had what it called its "Army," about thirty thousand of the faithful, who did things for it; and it was always exhorting the "Army" to keep its dander up, and occasionally encouraging it with a prize competition, for anything from a gold watch to a private yacht or an eighty-acre farm.†   (source)
  • Public-houses, besides their usual exhortation against temperance reform, invited men to "Join our Christmas goose club"—one bottle of gin, etc., or two, according to subscription.†   (source)
  • They helped themselves along with Peeperkorn, who presided over their enjoyment and with fragments of phrases and compelling, cultured gestures exhorted them to appreciate, indeed fervently to savor, these gifts of God.†   (source)
  • Had not the Morning Star been a regular military academy, whose pupils, divided into "divisions," were honorably exhorted to spiritual-military bienseance—a combination "stiff collar" and "Spanish ruff," if one could put it that way?†   (source)
  • The occasion rested heavily upon Marija's broad shoulders—it was her task to see that all things went in due form, and after the best home traditions; and, flying wildly hither and thither, bowling every one out of the way, and scolding and exhorting all day with her tremendous voice, Marija was too eager to see that others conformed to the proprieties to consider them herself.†   (source)
  • One of them stood forward in the shade of a tree, and, leaning on the long barrel of a rifle, exhorted the people to prayer and repentance, advising them to kill all the strangers in their midst, some of whom, he said, were infidels and others even worse—children of Satan in the guise of Moslems.†   (source)
  • Settembrini had countered him in jaunty fashion for the most part, but had also added considerable warmth to his remarks, whenever he exhorted his opponent to agreement on certain fundamental points, for instance.†   (source)
  • He stood there, smiling and observing the cousins, particularly Hans Castorp, and the delicate line at one corner of his mouth, the mocking curl of the lip just below where his full moustache swept handsomely upward, had a peculiar effect— somehow it exhorted one to be alert and clearheaded, and in a flash so sobered the inebriated Hans Castorp that he felt ashamed of himself.†   (source)
  • I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental relation;" and their request was granted.†   (source)
  • A young deacon, whose long back showed in two distinct halves through his thin undercassock, met him, and at once going to a little table at the wall read the exhortation.†   (source)
  • In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.†   (source)
  • In fact, the exhortation seemed rather a superfluous one to a man with a great pair of iron fetters on his feet.†   (source)
  • In a long conversation with my sons I solemnly charged them with the future responsibilities of their life, in all its varied aspects, of duty towards God, their fellow men, and themselves, pointing out the temptations to which their different characters were likely to expose them, and exhorting them affectionately to hold fast to the faith in which they had been brought up.†   (source)
  • Having announced these precautions, the heralds concluded with an exhortation to each good knight to do his duty, and to merit favour from the Queen of Beauty and of Love.†   (source)
  • In that document he assured them, in a Royal manner, that he received the profession of their attachment with a full conviction of its sincerity; and again generally exhorted them to follow his example—which, at least in so far as coming into a great property was concerned, there is no doubt they would have gladly imitated.†   (source)
  • He remembered Mr. Babcock and his desire to form conclusions, and he remembered also that he had profited very little by his friend's exhortation to cultivate the same respectable habit.†   (source)
  • This was what Dinah had been trying to bring about, through all her still sympathy and absence from exhortation.†   (source)
  • Hereupon Startop took him in hand, though with a much better grace than I had shown, and exhorted him to be a little more agreeable.†   (source)
  • "I will certainly call," said Lady Southdown then, in reply to the exhortation of her daughter's pretendu, Mr. Pitt Crawley—"Who is Miss Crawley's medical man?"†   (source)
  • PART II A Propos of the Wet Snow When from dark error's subjugation My words of passionate exhortation Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted,…†   (source)
  • They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.†   (source)
  • He inquired after her health, gave her news, exhorted her to religion, in a coaxing little prattle that was not without its charm.†   (source)
  • Judith did not commence her exertions until the near approach of the other canoe rendered the object of the movement certain, and then she exhorted Hetty to aid her with her utmost skill and strength.†   (source)
  • Arina Vlasyevna was crying quietly; she was utterly crushed, and could not have controlled herself at all if her husband had not spent two whole hours early in the morning exhorting her.†   (source)
  • He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them.†   (source)
  • Once past this difficulty, however, he exhorts his dear friend in the tenderest manner not to be rash, but to do what so eminent a gentleman requires, and to do it with a good grace, confident that it must be unobjectionable as well as profitable.†   (source)
  • That was enough for Dinah; she had opened on that memorable parting at Ephesus, when Paul had felt bound to open his heart in a last exhortation and warning.†   (source)
  • I exhorted her to be a good child, to try to please the people where she was going, and that God would raise her up friends.†   (source)
  • He paced the apartment to and fro, now vainly exhorting the terrified maiden to compose herself, now hesitating concerning his own line of conduct.†   (source)
  • Now, if the truth must be told, the honest pastor had arranged a little programme, according to which this affair was to develop itself; and, on the way up, all had very cautiously and prudently exhorted each other not to let things out, except according to previous arrangement.†   (source)
  • When Miss Mills undertook the office and returned with Dora, exhorting us, from the pulpit of her own bitter youth, to mutual concession, and the avoidance of the Desert of Sahara!†   (source)
  • "Why, this is the way of it," said the minister, with the gravest air in the world: "Napoleon lately had a review, and as two or three of his old veterans expressed a desire to return to France, he gave them their dismissal, and exhorted them to 'serve the good king.'†   (source)
  • While he was studying equinus, varus, and valgus, that is to say, katastrephopody, endostrephopody, and exostrephopody (or better, the various turnings of the foot downwards, inwards, and outwards, with the hypostrephopody and anastrephopody), otherwise torsion downwards and upwards, Monsier Homais, with all sorts of arguments, was exhorting the lad at the inn to submit to the operation.†   (source)
  • Fred has sense and knowledge enough to make him respectable, if he likes, in some good worldly business, but I can never imagine him preaching and exhorting, and pronouncing blessings, and praying by the sick, without feeling as if I were looking at a caricature.†   (source)
  • Lady Southdown made her up a packet of medicine and sent a letter by her to the Rev. Lawrence Grills, exhorting that gentleman to save the brand who "honoured" the letter from the burning.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bucket came out again, exhorting the others to be vigilant, darkened his lantern, and once more took his seat.†   (source)
  • Clergymen paused in the streets, to address words of exhortation, that brought a crowd, with its mingled grin and frown, around the poor, sinful woman.†   (source)
  • All the Masons sat down in their places, and one of them read an exhortation on the necessity of humility.†   (source)
  • Furious, and yet strangely excited by the obstinacy of the brutes and the wildness of the sight, and nearly maddened by sympathy and a species of unconscious apprehension, in which the claims of nature were singularly mingled with concern for his mistress, he nearly split his throat in exhorting his aged friend to interfere.†   (source)
  • "Here, if you please," he said, moving on one side with his nimble gait and pointing to his picture, "it's the exhortation to Pilate.†   (source)
  • They needed no exhortation.†   (source)
  • …lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of "Female Scripture Characters," unfolding the private experience of Sara under the Old Dispensation, and Dorcas under the New, and the care of her soul over her embroidery in her own boudoir—with a background of prospective marriage to a man who, if less strict than herself, as being involved in affairs religiously inexplicable, might be prayed for and seasonably exhorted.†   (source)
  • He observed that, to him, this trance looked more like a visitation of Satan than a proof of divine favour, and exhorted his friend to see that he hid no accursed thing within his soul.†   (source)
  • This might have appeared to any one else who had this, unfortunate man in his hands to afford a chance to nourish his soul as well as his body, and to bestow upon him some reproach, seasoned with moralizing and advice, or a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in the future.†   (source)
  • With his own ghostly voice he had exhorted me, on the sacred consideration of my filial duty and reverence towards him—who might reasonably regard himself as my official ancestor—to bring his mouldy and moth-eaten lucubrations before the public.†   (source)
  • Thus exhorted, Cedric sallied forth upon his expedition; and it was not long ere he had occasion to try the force of that spell which his Jester had recommended as omnipotent.†   (source)
  • During this rather heated exhortation to coolness and discretion the pipe had gone out, and Bartle gave the climax to his speech by striking a light furiously, after which he puffed with fierce resolution, fixing his eye still on Adam, who was trying not to laugh.†   (source)
  • Bute's curate, a smart young fellow from Oxford, and Sir Pitt Crawley composed between them an appropriate Latin epitaph for the late lamented Baronet, and the former preached a classical sermon, exhorting the survivors not to give way to grief and informing them in the most respectful terms that they also would be one day called upon to pass that gloomy and mysterious portal which had just closed upon the remains of their lamented brother.†   (source)
  • They exhorted him, worked upon him, drummed at him incessantly, till at last he solemnly confessed his crime.†   (source)
  • Thus exhorted, Hubert resumed his place, and not neglecting the caution which he had received from his adversary, he made the necessary allowance for a very light air of wind, which had just arisen, and shot so successfully that his arrow alighted in the very centre of the target.†   (source)
  • Dolly's exhortation, which was an unusually long effort of speech for her, was uttered in the soothing persuasive tone with which she would have tried to prevail on a sick man to take his medicine, or a basin of gruel for which he had no appetite.†   (source)
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