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  • Of all the throng there was scarce one who was not labor-stained and weary, for Abbot Berghersh was a hard man to himself and to others.   (source)
  • The abbot laughed and said, "Don't worry.†   (source)
  • After the film we have tea and buns and we sing and dance like Cagney all the way to The Abbot's.†   (source)
  • We sit on the floor and sing and Mam and The Abbot sit on chairs.†   (source)
  • The abbot shook his head and said, "No, emptiness is not nothingness.†   (source)
  • I bring The Abbot his tea and bread and make some for myself.†   (source)
  • I left the abbot's room and walked through the temple toward my room.†   (source)
  • The abbot said, "This place isn't really peaceful.†   (source)
  • Everyone calls him The Abbot or Ab Sheehan and no one knows why.†   (source)
  • The abbot also told me he wasn't going to discuss Buddhism with me.†   (source)
  • I take my chips home and get into bed like The Abbot.†   (source)
  • I rushed over to the abbot's room and knocked on his door.†   (source)
  • She must be coming to see if The Abbot is dead or needing a doctor.†   (source)
  • I'm thinking of the abbot's counsel to me that night.†   (source)
  • I call him Ab or The Abbot like everybody else.†   (source)
  • The abbot there was my father's old friend—very intellectual, but became a monk in his old age.†   (source)
  • The Abbot has his own bed, and my mother has the small room.†   (source)
  • The Abbot says you're not supposed to be sitting on kitchen floors, what are tables and chairs for?†   (source)
  • I have no other clothes and if I touch anything of The Abbot's he'll surely run to Aunt Aggie.†   (source)
  • I always offer The Abbot an apple but he won't eat it because of the scarcity of teeth in his head.†   (source)
  • When the abbot rushed from the monastery to confront the captain— demanding in the name of the Lord that they cease this desecration at once—the captain leaned against a post and lit a cigarette.†   (source)
  • Maureen Early's bosom was judged to be PERKY; Hannah Abbot's breasts were SMALL BUT SHAPELY; Irene Babson, who had given Owen the shivers as long ago as when my mother's bosom was under review, was now so out of control as to be SIMPLY SCARY.†   (source)
  • I waited outside the door for about the time it took to smoke a cigarette, and the abbot called for me.†   (source)
  • In order to make myself sleep, I tried to follow the abbot's advice and fill myself with "emptiness."†   (source)
  • It got to the point where one of the monks asked the abbot whether I was having mental health issues.†   (source)
  • The abbot slowly waved his hand at me.†   (source)
  • · · · School starts in September and some days Michael stops at The Abbot's before the walk home to Laman Griffin's.†   (source)
  • The abbot silently looked at the book in his hand, but he was thinking about what I said, not reading.†   (source)
  • The Abbot comes home at five and makes tea downstairs and even though I'm hungry I know he'll grumble if I ask him for anything.†   (source)
  • The monks in charge of accounts were angry with me, but because the abbot wished it, they found me more paper and pen.†   (source)
  • The Abbot pays the rent every week.†   (source)
  • The abbot was very learned.†   (source)
  • She sings "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" and the Abbot sings "The Road to Rasheen" and we still don't know what his song is about.†   (source)
  • The Abbot says, What's up with you?†   (source)
  • I can read the English and Irish papers The Abbot brings home or I can use the library cards of Laman Griffin and my mother till I'm found out.†   (source)
  • The Abbot knows where I got the apples.†   (source)
  • The Abbot sees me in my new clothes.†   (source)
  • In the morning The Abbot gives me the money to go to Kathleen O'Connell's for bread, margarine, tea, milk.†   (source)
  • I bring home the bread and even if The Abbot is surprised he doesn't say, Where did you get it? because he was dropped on his head and that knocks the curiosity out of you.†   (source)
  • The Abbot wakes at dawn moaning.†   (source)
  • He's hungry and wonders if there's any chance he could go to The Abbot's for a bit of bread and stay there for the night instead of going all the way to Laman Griffin's.†   (source)
  • I lick the girls in their bathing suits and when there's nothing left to lick I look at the girls till The Abbot blows out the light and I'm committing a mortal sin under the blanket.†   (source)
  • By the time the kettle boils The Abbot is asleep from the drink and Aunt Aggie says she and Uncle Pa will have a drop of tea themselves and she doesn't mind if I have a drop myself.†   (source)
  • The Abbot brings six bottles of stout and says, That's all right, Frankie, ye can all drink it as long as I have a bottle or two for meself to help me sing me song.†   (source)
  • The Abbot is sitting up telling me he has a terrible pain in his head from a dream where I was wearing his poor mother's black dress and she flying around screaming, Sin, sin, 'tis a sin.†   (source)
  • The Abbot ends his song, opens his eyes, wipes his cheeks and tells us that was a sad song about an Irish boy that went to America and got shot by gangsters and died before a priest could reach his side and he tells me don't be gettin' shot if you're not near a priest.†   (source)
  • The worst thing in the world is to be sleeping in your dead grandmother's bed wearing her black dress when your uncle The Abbot falls on his arse outside South's pub after a night of drinking pints and people who can't mind their own business rush to Aunt Aggie's house to tell her so that she gets Uncle Pa Keating to help her carry The Abbot home and upstairs to where you're sleeping and she barks at you, What are you doin' in this house, in that bed?†   (source)
  • …have to stand there in the dress with the kettle in your hand and explain how you washed your clothes which are hanging there on the line for all to see and you were so cold in the bed you put on your grandmothers dress and your uncle Pat, The Abbot, fell down and was brought home by Aunt Aggie and her husband, Pa Keating, and she drove you into the backyard to fill this kettle and you'll take off this dress as soon as ever your clothes are dry because you never had any desire to go…†   (source)
  • …getting ready for the big job in your life, that you washed your clothes, they're drying abroad on the line, and it was so cold you had to wear the only thing you could find in the house, and it's even harder to talk to Aunt Aggie when The Abbot is groaning in the bed, Me feet is like a fire, put water on me feet, and Uncle Pa Keating is covering his mouth with his hand and collapsing against the wall laughing and telling you that you look gorgeous and black suits you and would you…†   (source)
  • Cal went to the alley behind the Abbot House and found the shadow behind a post where he had sat the night he first saw his mother.†   (source)
  • He had supper alone in the Abbot House.†   (source)
  • Rabbit, drinking from a pint flask in the alley behind the Abbot House, told Cal all the news he could think of.†   (source)
  • Adam was walking back from the ice plant one rainy afternoon, thinking about Sam Hamilton, when he saw Will Hamilton go into the Abbot House Bar.†   (source)
  • At last in April 1897 the marriage took place—conventionally, ceremoniously, with bells ringing, and company collected, and silver engraved wedding invitations, at St Mary Abbots.†   (source)
  • There were monks and friars and abbots of every description, standing about in sandals among the knights, whose armour flashed by candlelight There was even a Franciscan bishop, wearing grey, with a red hat.†   (source)
  • From the three long windows one looked out over the roofs of Kensington, to the presiding Church of St Mary Abbots, the church where our conventional marriages were celebrated—and one day standing there father saw an eagle.†   (source)
  • There were urbane abbots, titupping along on ambling palfreys, in furred hoods which were against the rules of their orders, and yeomen in smart tackle with hawks on their fists, and sturdy peasants quarrelling with their wives about new cloaks, and jolly parties going out to hunt without armour of any sort.†   (source)
  • Wolsey died in Leicester Abbey Where the abbots buried him.†   (source)
  • That is my hope, for he was a Fountain of Wisdom—wiser than many abbots ….†   (source)
  • "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very long.†   (source)
  • The spot was the burial-place of a king and a queen, of abbots and abbesses, saints and bishops, knights and squires.†   (source)
  • All these old abbots and bishops used to write most beautifully, with such taste and so much care and diligence.†   (source)
  • And yet they refuse to renew the floor for me because, if you please, those are the tombstones of the Abbots of Combray and the Lords of Guermantes, the old Counts, you know, of Brabant, direct ancestors of the present Duc de Guermantes, and of his Duchesse also, since she was a lady of the Guermantes family, and married her cousin.†   (source)
  • The abbots buried him themselves.†   (source)
  • Over these were strewn the remains, half-buried in the long grass, of the castle of the old Counts of Combray, who, during the Middle Ages, had had on this side the course of the Vivonne as a barrier and defence against attack from the Lords of Guermantes and Abbots of Martinville.†   (source)
  • Its memorial stones, beneath which the noble dust of the Abbots of Combray, who were buried there, furnished the choir with a sort of spiritual pavement, were themselves no longer hard and lifeless matter, for time had softened and sweetened them, and had made them melt like honey and flow beyond their proper margins, either surging out in a milky, frothing wave, washing from its place a florid gothic capital, drowning the white violets of the marble floor; or else reabsorbed into…†   (source)
  • —The two Abbots and I ran into the front room and peeped through the blind when we heard he was going by, and Miss Nash came and scolded us away, and staid to look through herself; however, she called me back presently, and let me look too, which was very good-natured.†   (source)
  • It appears that they had formerly been Saracens, which was why they believed in Jupiter, and claimed ten livres of Tournay from all archbishops, bishops, and mitred abbots with croziers.†   (source)
  • …that hideous Montfaucon, the barrier des Sergents, the Place aux Chats, the Porte Saint-Denis, Champeaux, the Porte Baudets, the Porte Saint Jacques, without reckoning the innumerable ladders of the provosts, the bishop of the chapters, of the abbots, of the priors, who had the decree of life and death,—without reckoning the judicial drownings in the river Seine; it is consoling to-day, after having lost successively all the pieces of its armor, its luxury of torment, its penalty of…†   (source)
  • "Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.†   (source)
  • —Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the mightiest ale, the richest morat, the most sparkling cider, the most odoriferous pigments, upon the board; fill the largest horns [13] —Templars and Abbots love good wines and good measure.†   (source)
  • I say, we fought under the poplars, both Abbots and all the monks, and one laid open my forehead to the bone.†   (source)
  • There's a midnight train-sleeping-car to Newton Abbot-gets there 6:08 A.M., and to Churston at 7:15.†   (source)
  • "Every letter written," said a medieval abbot, "is a wound inflicted on the devil."†   (source)
  • "Neither have I. I haven't seen a first-class match for years— not since Father Graves took me when we were passing through Leeds, after we'd been to the induction of the Abbot at Ampleforth.†   (source)
  • He found a good day three months hence and it was the first good day the geomancer could find, so Wang Lung paid the man and went to the temple in the town and he bargained with the abbot there and rented a space for a coffin for three months, and there was O-lan's coffin brought to rest until the day of burial, for it seemed to Wang Lung he could not bear to have it under his eyes in the house.†   (source)
  • The Plymouth Express I Alec Simpson, RN, stepped from the platform at Newton Abbot into a first-class compartment of the Plymouth Express.†   (source)
  • O chivalry, O Abbot Suger!†   (source)
  • The twelve-fourteen does a non-stop run to Bristol, afterwards stopping at Weston, Taunton, Exeter and Newton Abbot.†   (source)
  • There, far away in the environs of a monastery, you might have seen a procession of angry monks making a barefoot march round their foundation—but they might have been walking against the sun, in malediction, because they had fallen out with the abbot.†   (source)
  • Who is this abbot?" cried Mrs. Epanchin to her retreating husband in a tone of excited annoyance.†   (source)
  • —What abbot—Who's Pafnute?" she added, brusquely.†   (source)
  • "Abbot Pafnute," said our friend, seriously and with deference.†   (source)
  • "Wasn't it this same Pavlicheff about whom there was a strange story in connection with some abbot?†   (source)
  • "Yes—Abbot Gurot, a Jesuit," said Ivan Petrovitch.†   (source)
  • He has just written out 'Abbot Pafnute signed this' for me.†   (source)
  • Of old time there lived there an abbot and his monks.†   (source)
  • The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the gallows; this was done.†   (source)
  • So I said to the abbot: "The time is come, Father.†   (source)
  • It is not my house, sir; and Abbot says I have less right to be here than a servant.†   (source)
  • Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly.†   (source)
  • The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.†   (source)
  • Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.†   (source)
  • She knew the Abbot of Lung-Cho, but she did not know of my River—nor the tale of the Arrow.'†   (source)
  • Of course this threw the abbot into a good deal of a consternation.†   (source)
  • The staple to which my chains were fixed, was more rusted than I or the villain Abbot had supposed.†   (source)
  • "Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat."†   (source)
  • "To the Knights Hospitallers," said the Abbot; "I have a brother of their order."†   (source)
  • 'I say, if they comfort thee, I who was Abbot of Such-zen, will make as many as thou mayest desire.†   (source)
  • The old abbot kept his word, and was the first to try it.†   (source)
  • "What a dreadful noise! it went quite through me!" exclaimed Abbot.†   (source)
  • I say there shall be no killing—I who was Abbot of Such-zen.†   (source)
  • "Tush," said the Abbot, "thou canst tell us if thou wilt.†   (source)
  • The old abbot's joy to see me was pathetic.†   (source)
  • It set the abbot and the monks in a whirl of excitement, and it rocked the enchanter to his base.†   (source)
  • "She has screamed out on purpose," declared Abbot, in some disgust.†   (source)
  • He who is now Abbot of Lung-Cho told me, but I did not believe.†   (source)
  • "St Mary," said the Abbot, crossing himself, "an unbelieving Jew, and admitted into this presence!"†   (source)
  • Steps came running along the outer passage; the key turned, Bessie and Abbot entered.†   (source)
  • "Well, friend," said the Abbot, peevishly, "thou art ill to please with thy woodcraft.†   (source)
  • 'When I was Abbot in my own place—before I came to better knowledge I made that offering daily.†   (source)
  • So I went to the abbot and asked for a permit for this Brother.†   (source)
  • I am more intent on punishing that villain Abbot.†   (source)
  • 'As a novice is beaten when he misplaces the cups, so am I beaten, who was Abbot of Such-zen.†   (source)
  • The abbot inquired anxiously for results.†   (source)
  • Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.†   (source)
  • 'I am certain the Keeper of the Images in the Wonder House was in past life a very wise Abbot.†   (source)
  • And so upon a time, after year and day, the good abbot made humble surrender and destroyed the bath.†   (source)
  • "Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot.†   (source)
  • Against the north wall was the empty stone coffin of an abbot, in which every tourist with a turn for grim humour was accustomed to stretch himself.†   (source)
  • Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq.†   (source)
  • "I have to preach at Abbot's-Cernel at six this evening, and my way lies across to the right from here.†   (source)
  • He turned to a hunting-gate in the hedge and, without letting his eyes again rest upon her, leapt over and struck out across the down in the direction of Abbot's-Cernel.†   (source)
  • But there was another hour's work before the layer of live rats at the base of the stack would be reached; and as the evening light in the direction of the Giant's Hill by Abbot's-Cernel dissolved away, the white-faced moon of the season arose from the horizon that lay towards Middleton Abbey and Shottsford on the other side.†   (source)
  • "Yes, my dear, it was an old abbot of that name-I must be off to see the count, he's waiting for me, I'm late—Good-bye!†   (source)
  • I don't remember who the abbot was, but I remember at one time everybody was talking about it," remarked the old dignitary.†   (source)
  • On a sheet of thick writing-paper the prince had written in medieval characters the legend: "The gentle Abbot Pafnute signed this."†   (source)
  • "There," explained the prince, with great delight and animation, "there, that's the abbot's real signature—from a manuscript of the fourteenth century.†   (source)
  • So, now then, who is this abbot?†   (source)
  • "The Abbot Pafnute lived in the fourteenth century," began the prince; "he was in charge of one of the monasteries on the Volga, about where our present Kostroma government lies.†   (source)
  • When the general asked me, in his study, to write something for him, to show my handwriting, I wrote 'The Abbot Pafnute signed this,' in the exact handwriting of the abbot.†   (source)
  • However, of course you value the memory of the deceased so very highly; and he certainly was the kindest of men; to which fact, by the way, I ascribe, more than to anything else, the success of the abbot in influencing his religious convictions.†   (source)
  • Aid was near him: Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs. Reed, who was gone upstairs: she now came upon the scene, followed by Bessie and her maid Abbot.†   (source)
  • While Mrs. Pullet could do nothing but shake her head and cry, and wish that cousin Abbot had died, or any number of funerals had happened rather than this, which had never happened before, so that there was no knowing how to act, and Mrs. Pullet could never enter St. Ogg's again, because "acquaintances" knew of it all, Mrs. Glegg only hoped that Mrs. Wooll, or any one else, would come to her with their false tales about her own niece, and she would know what to say to that ill-advised…†   (source)
  • And at last, by the roadside there was a barn—ever such a way off any house—like the barn in Abbot's Close, and I thought I could go in there and hide myself among the hay and straw, and nobody 'ud be likely to come.†   (source)
  • —The Abbot, ch. xxii.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, An abbot on an ambling pad, Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad, Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad, Goes by to tower'd Camelot; And sometimes thro' the mirror blue The knights come riding two and two: She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.†   (source)
  • 'One of us who had made pilgrimage to the Holy Places—he is now Abbot of the Lung-Cho Monastery—gave it me,' stammered the lama.†   (source)
  • "I forgive thy wit," replied the Abbot, "on condition thou wilt show me the way to Cedric's mansion."†   (source)
  • The Abbot of Citeaux, the general of the order, was councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy.†   (source)
  • The first abbot of Clairvaux.†   (source)
  • Then arrived, two by two, with a gravity which made a contrast in the midst of the frisky ecclesiastical escort of Charles de Bourbon, the eight and forty ambassadors of Maximilian of Austria, having at their head the reverend Father in God, Jehan, Abbot of Saint-Bertin, Chancellor of the Golden Fleece, and Jacques de Goy, Sieur Dauby, Grand Bailiff of Ghent.†   (source)
  • Close beside it one descried the quadrilateral enclosure of the fair of SaintGermain, where the market is situated to-day; then the abbot's pillory, a pretty little round tower, well capped with a leaden cone; the brickyard was further on, and the Rue du Four, which led to the common bakehouse, and the mill on its hillock, and the lazar house, a tiny house, isolated and half seen.†   (source)
  • He began at Citeaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained abbot by the bishop of Chalon-sur-Saone, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the council of Reims…†   (source)
  • "Pledge me in a cup of wine, Sir Templar," said Cedric, "and fill another to the Abbot, while I look back some thirty years to tell you another tale.†   (source)
  • "Vows," said the Abbot, "must be unloosed, worthy Franklin, or permit me rather to say, worthy Thane, though the title is antiquated.†   (source)
  • "God's benison upon him!" said the abbot, and crossed himself; "may that sleep be to the refreshment of his body and his soul."†   (source)
  • Bessie, when she heard this narrative, sighed and said, "Poor Miss Jane is to be pitied, too, Abbot."†   (source)
  • "which Abbot shall bear rule in the valley and take the profit of the prayers they print at Sangor Gutok."†   (source)
  • The abbot inquired after the queen and the court, and got this information: "They be all on sleep, being overcome by fatigue, like as to the king."†   (source)
  • "Besides," said Miss Abbot, "God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where would she go?†   (source)
  • "Come on, Jack Priest," said Locksley, "and be silent; thou art as noisy as a whole convent on a holy eve, when the Father Abbot has gone to bed.†   (source)
  • I chose an auspicious hour, and—perhaps thy Holy One has heard of the Abbot of the Lung-Cho lamassery.†   (source)
  • All Tibet is full of cheap reproductions of the Wheel; but the lama was an artist, as well as a wealthy Abbot in his own place.†   (source)
  • —Coriolanus The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.†   (source)
  • Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself.†   (source)
  • The old abbot could not speak a word, for tears and the chokings in his throat; without utterance of any sort, he folded me in his arms and mashed me.†   (source)
  • When I was a young man, a very long time ago, I was plagued with these vapours—and some others—and I went to an Abbot—a very holy man and a seeker after truth, though then I knew it not.†   (source)
  • Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.†   (source)
  • They would have persuaded me I was in purgatory, but I knew too well the pursy short-breathed voice of the Father Abbot.†   (source)
  • This was the place where the abbot put his arms about me and mashed me, what time he was moved to testify his gratitude to me with an embrace.†   (source)
  • One half of those vain follies were puffed into mine ear by that perfidious Abbot Wolfram, and you may now judge if he is a counsellor to be trusted.†   (source)
  • Whereas, upon a time, the holy abbot prayed, and for answer a great stream of clear water burst forth by miracle in a desert place.†   (source)
  • Miss Abbot joined in — "And you ought not to think yourself on an equality with the Misses Reed and Master Reed, because Missis kindly allows you to be brought up with them.†   (source)
  • "Yes," responded Abbot; "if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that."†   (source)
  • "Not so, Sir Knight," replied the Abbot; "but I must move several miles forward this evening upon my homeward journey."†   (source)
  • We covered it with swell tapestries borrowed for the occasion, and topped it off with the abbot's own throne.†   (source)
  • I tell you, I will be king in my own domains, and nowhere else; and my first act of dominion shall be to hang the Abbot.†   (source)
  • The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances of a new magician, a fresh arrival.†   (source)
  • I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.†   (source)
  • "It is indeed full time," said the noble Athelstane; "for, if we ride not the faster, the worthy Abbot Waltheoff's preparations for a rere-supper [25] will be altogether spoiled."†   (source)
  • Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.†   (source)
  • Without doubt some practical person had come along and mended the leak, and then had come up and told the abbot he had discovered by divination that if the sinful bath were destroyed the well would flow again.†   (source)
  • "Mind you don't," said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she loosened her hold of me; then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.†   (source)
  • I was at the platform and all ready to do the honors when the abbot's solemn procession hove in sight—which it did not do till it was nearly to the rope fence, because it was a starless black night and no torches permitted.†   (source)
  • "Pray for them with all my heart," said Wamba; "but in the town, not in the greenwood, like the Abbot of Saint Bees, whom they caused to say mass with an old hollow oak-tree for his stall."†   (source)
  • " 'Despardieux'," answered Front-de-Boeuf, "thou hast spoken the very truth—I forgot that the knaves can strip a fat abbot, as well as if they had been born south of yonder salt channel.†   (source)
  • Now were the fickle monks tempted of the Fiend, and they wrought with their abbot unceasingly by beggings and beseechings that he would construct a bath; and when he was become aweary and might not resist more, he said have ye your will, then, and granted that they asked.†   (source)
  • From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near, — I desired and waited it in silence.†   (source)
  • When I was a little girl, only six years old, I one night heard Bessie Leaven say to Martha Abbot that she had been dreaming about a little child; and that to dream of children was a sure sign of trouble, either to one's self or one's kin.†   (source)
  • [56] "Surely," said the worthy churchman; "you shall have mine own ambling jennet, and I would it ambled as easy for your sake as that of the Abbot of Saint Albans.†   (source)
  • Now arrived the abbot and several hundred monks and nuns, and behind them a multitude of pilgrims and a couple of acres of foundlings, all drawn by the prodigious smoke, and all in a grand state of excitement.†   (source)
  • In the interview which followed between him and Mrs. Reed, I presume, from after-occurrences, that the apothecary ventured to recommend my being sent to school; and the recommendation was no doubt readily enough adopted; for as Abbot said, in discussing the subject with Bessie when both sat sewing in the nursery one night, after I was in bed, and, as they thought, asleep, "Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill— conditioned child, who always looked as…†   (source)
  • "That, it meseemeth, might well be," said the abbot, who saw his opportunity to smooth things and avert disaster, "for it were not likely that so wonderful a gift as this would be conferred for the revelation of the concerns of lesser beings than such as be born near to the summits of greatness.†   (source)
  • —Or could he not be transported as far as Burton, where he was sure to find hospitality with Waltheoff, the Abbot of St Withold's, to whom he was related?"†   (source)
  • " 'Exceptis excipiendis' " replied the hermit, "as our old abbot taught me to say, when impertinent laymen should ask me if I kept every punctilio of mine order."†   (source)
  • My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.†   (source)
  • The abbot was helpless with rage and humiliation when I brought him out on a balcony and showed him the head of the state marching in and never a monk on hand to offer him welcome, and no stir of life or clang of joy-bell to glad his spirit.†   (source)
  • On that same occasion I learned, for the first time, from Miss Abbot's communications to Bessie, that my father had been a poor clergyman; that my mother had married him against the wishes of her friends, who considered the match beneath her; that my grandfather Reed was so irritated at her disobedience, he cut her off without a shilling; that after my mother and father had been married a year, the latter caught the typhus fever while visiting among the poor of a large manufacturing…†   (source)
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