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  • The man's ordained, therefore the light of God is in him.†   (source)
  • "The Catholic Church ordained me," he said.†   (source)
  • "Zeus ordained the explosion to destroy the children," she said, "because you defied his will.†   (source)
  • I still had a great deal of little-sister worship for this big brother, five years older than I, an ordained minister and the only ten Boom who had ever been to college.†   (source)
  • God has ordained that you honor thy father and submit thyself to the rules of his house.†   (source)
  • And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given as-surance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.†   (source)
  • 'But why must she die?' he begged me, as if I were God who ordained it.†   (source)
  • I've never been able to understand whether he was an ordained minister or not.†   (source)
  • But he made no distinctions: he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate, and despite his many years of reading, he still could not judge what was good and what was not in all that he had read.†   (source)
  • Jamis has been called by Him, by Shai-hulud, who has ordained the phases for the moons that daily wane and—in the end—appear as bent and withered twigs.†   (source)
  • Lopsang Jangbu's father, Ngawang Sya Kya-an ordained lama-burned juniper incense and chanted Buddhist scripture beneath a metallic gray sky.†   (source)
  • But that's not what the ordained people do.†   (source)
  • But on the Sundays when Reverend Thomas preached, it was ordained that we occupy the first row, called the mourners' bench.†   (source)
  • 'They've got to swallow it,' Milo ordained with dictatorial grandeur, and almost broke his neck when he let go with one arm to wave a righteous finger in the air.†   (source)
  • Finally, you get ordained.†   (source)
  • To celebrate his victory, Robert ordained that a tourney should be held outside Lannisport.†   (source)
  • Duc is an ordained member of the Buddhist clergy, a monastic who lives a meditative life of poverty.†   (source)
  • It does not belong to either of us,' said Aragorn; 'but it has been ordained that you should hold it for a while.†   (source)
  • The people of America now had "the best opportunity and the great-est trust in their hands" that Providence ever ordained to so small a number since Adam and Eve.†   (source)
  • I've never been a drinker, after all, and the woman I married stood in line to cast a ballot for Roosevelt as soon as she reached the appropriate age, so it would be easy to imagine that the year of my birth somehow ordained it all.†   (source)
  • The lobby was the meeting place for various groups still caught up in the illusions that had just been boomeranged out of my head: college boys working to return to school down South; older advocates of racial progress with Utopian schemes for building black business empires; preachers ordained by no authority except their own, without church or congregation, without bread or wine, body or blood; the community "leaders" without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil-War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed nothing beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs o†   (source)
  • He did not need to be ordained, for the traditional religion of the Xhosas is characterized by a cosmic wholeness, so that there is little distinction between the sacred and the secular, between the natural and the supernatural.†   (source)
  • Inside, the figure in shadows addressed his aged, personally ordained priest.†   (source)
  • But Greg was Mum's "boy husband," opted when she was very young, first wedding after her own—very sentimental about him, would deny fiercely if accused of loving him more than other husbands, yet took his faith when he was ordained and never missed a Tuesday.†   (source)
  • It was one of those things that seem ordained, in such proper accord with the law of nature and our own desires, that we felt we had always known it.†   (source)
  • He took his Franciscan vows in 1961 and was ordained as a priest in 1970.†   (source)
  • And that was ordained, I guess is the word for it, on the night Sorcha sacrificed herself.†   (source)
  • The second son was ordained at the age of seventeen, and by the time he was twenty had achieved an awesome reputation as a Talmudist.†   (source)
  • Alan, Jase, and Willie are ordained ministers and attended seminary at White's Ferry Road Church.†   (source)
  • It related the fortuitous and the ordained into a reassuring union which we recognized as nature.†   (source)
  • He had always opposed my militant flippancy about the plebe system, and I knew it would offend him deeply to see it directed at newly ordained aspirants to the invigorating rituals of that system.†   (source)
  • On the theory (my own, and not my employers) that my time should be spent observing living wolves, I had deliberately neglected the innumerable peripheral studies which had been ordained for me by Ottawa.†   (source)
  • The letter was short: "I think it is time you knew of Tagoona, the Eskimo, Last year one of our white men said to him, 'We are glad you have been ordained as the first priest of your people.†   (source)
  • Dhammapada (93) It is said that fifty-three years after his liberation he returned from the Golden Cloud, to take up once again the gauntlet of Heaven, to oppose the Order of Life and the gods who ordained it so.†   (source)
  • ....I cannot call it ordained of God: I can't get that far.†   (source)
  • Marriages can be performed by any ordained minister.†   (source)
  • They were all there already, big, comfortable, ordained men; they smiled and nodded as he mounted the pulpit steps; and one of them said, nodding toward the congregation, which was as spirited as any evangelist could wish: "Just getting these folks warmed up for you, boy.†   (source)
  • "Of the two, reverend sir," said the voice like the deacon's, "I had rather miss an ordination dinner than to-night's meeting."   (source)
    ordination = ceremony in which one is officially declared a priest or other religious leader
  • The Fates ordained a prophecy eons ago, when this creature was born.†   (source)
  • The star ....to represent the heavens which have ordained my destiny.†   (source)
  • Without turning, Kynes said; "When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place.†   (source)
  • Though you be ordained in God's own tears, you are a coward now!†   (source)
  • He was older than most of us and had been ordained in some obscure little sect I had never heard of.†   (source)
  • Somehow, it was ordained that you should have the chance to live a normal life.†   (source)
  • The winter ordained a cessation of motors, shrimp nets, and fishing lines.†   (source)
  • Or what appeared ordained by the gods in the autumn seemed commonplace and senseless by spring.†   (source)
  • "Preacher," he said, "you're an ordained minister, aren't you?"†   (source)
  • I am not only ordained but in my church I can ordain people.†   (source)
  • I said I was always ready to be friends, with any who were sincere; and as for forgiveness, was it not ordained in the Bible?†   (source)
  • Oh, what deeds He had ordained!†   (source)
  • Furthermore, the law states that Election by Adoration supercedes the cardinal eligibility requirement and permits any clergyman-ordained priest, bishop, or cardinal-to be elected.†   (source)
  • Thirdly, it was ordained for the mutual society, help and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other ....†   (source)
  • Lenar Hoyt had been a young priest, born, raised, and only recently ordained on the Catholic world of Pacem, when he was given his first offworld assignment: he was ordered to escort the respected Jesuit Father Paul Dur into quiet exile on the colony world of Hyperion.†   (source)
  • I'll be ordained.†   (source)
  • True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.†   (source)
  • Poor city kids who showed promise; some frail-bodied types with photographic memories and a certain unclean-ness about them; those who were bright but unstable; those who could not adjust; the ones whose adjustment was ordained by the state; a cluster of Latins from some Jesuit center in Venezuela, smart young men with a cosmopolitan style, freezing their weenies off; and a few farmboys from not so far away, shyer than borrowed suits.†   (source)
  • But now it is clear that poverty has been ordained for you.†   (source)
  • They were given to him by a beloved aunt when he was ordained.†   (source)
  • In fact, the patient's death had been ordained irrevocably.†   (source)
  • It seems that ever since he was ordained he has desired to visit the shrine.†   (source)
  • But your aunt ordained that at home I must have soup and three courses; some nights it is fish, meat, and savory, on others it is meat, sweet, savory—there are a number of possible permutations.†   (source)
  • I would think of sin as I would think of the clothes we both wore in the world's face, of the circumspection necessary because he was he and I was I; the sin the more utter and terrible since he was the instrument ordained by God who created the sin, to sanctify that sin He had created.†   (source)
  • Heaven has ordained that this year we shall starve, and why should we waste ourselves in struggle against it, seeing that in the end we must starve?†   (source)
  • An act, ordained, foreseen, inevitable as this very moment, a channel of expertness, imbued for ages, reiterated for ages, familiar as breath.†   (source)
  • Just as in the passing age of international bankers every building had to have an ostentatious cornice, so now the coming age ordains that every building have a flat roof.†   (source)
  • And thus, my brothers, at last it is revealed to you, the divine compassion which has ordained good and evil in everything; wrath and pity; the plague and your salvation.†   (source)
  • It also explained that Ant the Father had ordained in his wisdom that Othernest pismires should always be the slaves of Thisnest ones.†   (source)
  • The eye of the ordained victor immediately perceives the chink in every fortress of circumstance, and his blow can cleave it wide.†   (source)
  • No man should seek to force God's hand or to hurry on the appointed hour, and from a practice that aims at speeding up the order of events which God has ordained unalterably from all time, it is but a step to heresy.†   (source)
  • After Trinidad was ordained and went to stay with his uncle, Father Lucero complained that he had formed gross habits living with Martínez, and was eating him out of house and home.†   (source)
  • But when the perspective shifts, to focus on living beings, when the panorama of space and nature is faced from the standpoint of the personages ordained to inhabit it, then a sudden transformation overshadows the cosmic scene.†   (source)
  • My scheme, or dream, is to be a university graduate, and then to be ordained.†   (source)
  • It seemed the ordained order of things that dogs should work.†   (source)
  • He did not advance beyond the subdiaconate—was never ordained deacon or priest.†   (source)
  • 'Apparently he shared Brierly's contemptuous opinion of these proceedings ordained by law.†   (source)
  • To them, and not to us, perhaps, is the future ordained.†   (source)
  • I thought your idea was to be ordained.'†   (source)
  • My uncle wants me to be ordained,' said Philip.†   (source)
  • Mr. Perkins set himself to revive his eagerness to be ordained.†   (source)
  • But it's no good my being ordained if I haven't a real vocation, is it?'†   (source)
  • Ordained then,' replied Philip impatiently.†   (source)
  • But if you're going to be ordained, Philip?'†   (source)
  • The first two were out of the question, and Philip was firm in his refusal to be ordained.†   (source)
  • How unlucky that you are not ordained; Mr. Rushworth and Maria are quite ready.†   (source)
  • The gallows is a Heaven —ordained instrument.†   (source)
  • God, who does the work, ordains the instrument.†   (source)
  • Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.†   (source)
  • But hard fate had ordained that he should be unable to call up this Divine spirit in his need.†   (source)
  • Chance ordained that the heads of their beds should rest against the chimney.†   (source)
  • You know, Ivan, it must have been so ordained by the Almighty Himself.†   (source)
  • I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.†   (source)
  • If Fate had ordained that she should be a Duchess, she would even have done that duty too.†   (source)
  • "Ordained!" said Miss Crawford; "what, are you to be a clergyman?"†   (source)
  • That's a great thing the Lord has ordained for every man of my sort, sir.†   (source)
  • Even though at the end of the ages, for it is ordained to come to pass!†   (source)
  • This was their philosophy complete ...in the era of aeroplanes and syndicalism: The Baptist Church (and, somewhat less, the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian Churches) is the perfect, the divinely ordained standard in music, oratory, philanthropy, and ethics.†   (source)
  • But like the Frenchman of whom the story is told that he studied for holy orders, took all the oaths, was ordained priest, and next morning wrote to his bishop informing him that, as he did not believe in God and considered it wrong to deceive the people and live upon their pockets, he begged to surrender the orders conferred upon him the day before, and to inform his lordship that he was sending this letter to the public press,—like this Frenchman, the prince played a false game.†   (source)
  • Neither of these was ordained.†   (source)
  • Once in a strange town when I was first ordained, I went into a crowded room and was confused as to who was my hostess.†   (source)
  • There is no institution for whose history I have a deeper admiration; but I cannot honestly be ordained her minister, as my brothers are, while she refuses to liberate her mind from an untenable redemptive theolatry.†   (source)
  • It, too, was in holiday attire, for one of those days which are the only true holidays, the holy days of religion, because they are not appointed by any capricious accident, as secular holidays are appointed, upon days which are not specially ordained for such observances, which have nothing about them that is essentially festal—but it was attired even more richly than the rest, for the flowers which clung to its branches, one above another, so thickly as to leave no part of the tree undecorated, like the tassels wreathed about the crook of a rococo shepherdess, were every one of them 'i†   (source)
  • The priests had told their fathers and themselves that this ironical state of things was ordained of God; and so, not reflecting upon how unlike God it would be to amuse himself with sarcasms, and especially such poor transparent ones as this, they had dropped the matter there and become respectfully quiet.†   (source)
  • Nature in one of her beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.†   (source)
  • A bourgeois court of arbitration that decides questions of life and death, ascertains God's will, and ordains the course of history.†   (source)
  • He's in very good hands, that I know; and I am not the woman to find fault with what the Lord has ordained.†   (source)
  • But the uncompromising Evangelical did not even now hold that he would have been justified in giving his son, an unbeliever, the same academic advantages that he had given to the two others, when it was possible, if not probable, that those very advantages might have been used to decry the doctrines which he had made it his life's mission and desire to propagate, and the mission of his ordained sons likewise.†   (source)
  • It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.†   (source)
  • A pedagogic method that regards itself as a daughter of the Enlightenment and employs educational methods based on criticism, on the liberation and nursing of the ego, on the breaking down of ordained living patterns—such a pedagogy may still achieve moments of rhetorical success, but for those who know and understand, it is, beyond all doubt, sublimely backward.†   (source)
  • But I do feel I should like to do some good thing; and I bitterly regret the Church, and the loss of my chance of being her ordained minister.†   (source)
  • To be ordained, I think you said?†   (source)
  • All such matters were not only foreign and of no significance to religion as such, but also inimical to it; for they were the constituents of life, or so-called health, which was to say, ultraphilistine, utter bourgeois existence—to which the religious world was ordained to be the absolute opposite, indeed the very genius of opposition.†   (source)
  • It was next to impossible that a man reading on his own system, however widely and thoroughly, even over the prolonged period of ten years, should be able to compete with those who had passed their lives under trained teachers and had worked to ordained lines.†   (source)
  • Among some bills Philip found a miniature which had been painted of William Carey soon after he was ordained.†   (source)
  • He wanted to surrender himself entirely to the service of God, and he made up his mind definitely that he would be ordained.†   (source)
  • The masters, graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, were ordained and unmarried; if by chance they wished to marry they could only do so by accepting one of the smaller livings at the disposal of the Chapter; but for many years none of them had cared to leave the refined society of Tercanbury, which owing to the cavalry depot had a martial as well as an ecclesiastical tone, for the monotony of life in a country rectory; and they were now all men of middle age.†   (source)
  • order it had trained especially men of the church, bishops, deans, canons, and above all country clergymen: there were boys in the school whose fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, had been educated there and had all been rectors of parishes in the diocese of Tercanbury; and they came to it with their minds made up already to be ordained.†   (source)
  • "For my own part," continued Hawkeye, turning his face for a moment in the direction indicated by Heyward, but with a vacant and careless manner, "I believe that paradise is ordained for happiness; and that men will be indulged in it according to their dispositions and gifts.†   (source)
  • This man interested me at once; and since the sea-gods had ordained that he should soon become my shipmate (though but a sleeping-partner one, so far as this narrative is concerned), I will here venture upon a little description of him.†   (source)
  • I had, at the moment of being ordained, a little difficulty with—But that would not interest you, and I am taking up your valuable time.†   (source)
  • He had found the law a most unprofitable study, and was now absolutely resolved on being ordained, if I would present him to the living in question—of which he trusted there could be little doubt, as he was well assured that I had no other person to provide for, and I could not have forgotten my revered father's intentions.†   (source)
  • A uniform system of instruction is organized all over the country, and every town is bound to establish the schools which the law ordains.†   (source)
  • It is ordained!†   (source)
  • The strategic position where the operations would take place was familiar in all its details to the Austrian General Weyrother: a lucky accident had ordained that the Austrian army should maneuver the previous year on the very fields where the French had now to be fought; the adjacent locality was known and shown in every detail on the maps, and Bonaparte, evidently weakened, was undertaking nothing.†   (source)
  • She was self-ordained a Sister of Mercy, or, we may rather say, the world's heavy hand had so ordained her, when neither the world nor she looked forward to this result.†   (source)
  • I ought to have said that the Union, in the form of four labouring men, will meet me when I gets to our churchyard gate, and take her and bury her according to the rites of the Board of Guardians, as by law ordained.†   (source)
  • The impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix or of Auch, and went off in a great hurry.†   (source)
  • An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters, of every household — which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every home of the nation.†   (source)
  • Upon my word and honour I seem to be fated, and destined, and ordained, to live in the midst of things that I am never to hear the last of.†   (source)
  • Being only 'a glorious human boy', of course he frolicked and flirted, grew dandified, aquatic, sentimental, or gymnastic, as college fashions ordained, hazed and was hazed, talked slang, and more than once came perilously near suspension and expulsion.†   (source)
  • Now, chance ordained that the master hosier of Ghent, with whom the people were already in lively sympathy, and upon whom all eyes were riveted—should come and seat himself in the front row of the gallery, directly above the mendicant; and people were not a little amazed to see the Flemish ambassador, on concluding his inspection of the knave thus placed beneath his eyes, bestow a friendly tap on that ragged shoulder.†   (source)
  • More—the privilege which he hath just exercised is his by royal grant; for we have ordained that the chiefs of his line shall have and hold the right to sit in the presence of the Majesty of England henceforth, age after age, so long as the crown shall endure.†   (source)
  • The Church is, in truth, a kingdom and ordained to rule, and in the end must undoubtedly become the kingdom ruling over all the earth.†   (source)
  • In her grief and wounded pride, Hepzibah had spent her life in divesting herself of friends; she had wilfully cast off the support which God has ordained his creatures to need from one another; and it was now her punishment, that Clifford and herself would fall the easier victims to their kindred enemy.†   (source)
  • I believe that it was ordained.†   (source)
  • Priests and deacons were ordained, and missionaries provided, to keep alive the expiring flame of devotion in such members as were deprived of the ordinary administrations by dwelling in new and unorganized districts.†   (source)
  • The whisper that my master was my father, may or may not be true; and, true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable; for by this cunning arrangement, the slaveholder, in cases not a few, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father.†   (source)
  • So much the worse, or rather, so much the better; it has been so ordained that he may have none to weep his fate.†   (source)
  • known to profane its sanctity, by following their pleasures or their affairs; this way of acting being contrary to their own interest as Christians, and calculated to annoy those who do not follow their example; being also of great injury to society at large, by spreading a taste for dissipation and dissolute manners; Be it enacted and ordained by the Governor, Council, and Representatives convened in General Court of Assembly, that all and every person and persons shall on that day carefully apply themselves to the duties of religion and piety, that no tradesman or labourer shall exercise his ordinary calling, and that no game or recreation shall be used on the Lord's Day, upon pain o†   (source)
  • It still offers me more than my enemies suppose," said the Emperor growing more and more animated; "but should it ever be ordained by Divine Providence," he continued, raising to heaven his fine eyes shining with emotion, "that my dynasty should cease to reign on the throne of my ancestors, then after exhausting all the means at my command, I shall let my beard grow to here" (he pointed halfway down his chest) "and go and eat potatoes with the meanest of my peasants, rather than sign the disgrace of my country and of my beloved people whose sacrifices I know how to appreciate."†   (source)
  • In all the confederations which had been formed before the American Constitution of 1789 the allied States agreed to obey the injunctions of a Federal Government; but they reserved to themselves the right of ordaining and enforcing the execution of the laws of the Union.†   (source)
  • I, who preached contentment with a humble lot, and justified the vocation even of hewers of wood and drawers of water in God's service — I, His ordained minister, almost rave in my restlessness.†   (source)
  • To Henriet Cousin, master executor of the high works of justice in Paris, the sum of sixty sols parisis, to him assessed and ordained by monseigneur the provost of Paris, for having bought, by order of the said sieur the provost, a great broad sword, serving to execute and decapitate persons who are by justice condemned for their demerits, and he hath caused the same to be garnished with a sheath and with all things thereto appertaining; and hath likewise caused to be repointed and set in order the old sword, which had become broken and notched in executing justice on Messire Louis de Luxembourg, as will more fully appear .†   (source)
  • When the deacon had finished the prayer for the Imperial family, the priest turned to the bridal pair with a book: "Eternal God, that joinest together in love them that were separate," he read in a gentle, piping voice: "who hast ordained the union of holy wedlock that cannot be set asunder, Thou who didst bless Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Ekaterina, leading them in the path of all good works.†   (source)
  • In the original plan it was ordained that the village should stretch along the little stream that rushed down the valley; and the street which led from the lake to the academy was intended to be its western boundary.†   (source)
  • The young divine, whose scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labour for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds, for the now feeble New England Church, as the early Fathers had achieved for the infancy of the Christian faith.†   (source)
  • It so chanced, that after the Parsee's disappearance, I was he whom the Fates ordained to take the place of Ahab's bowsman, when that bowsman assumed the vacant post; the same, who, when on the last day the three men were tossed from out of the rocking boat, was dropped astern.†   (source)
  • Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates, and all that could give majesty to the forms in which a new government manifested itself to the people, were, as a matter of policy, marked by a stately and well-conducted ceremonial, and a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.†   (source)
  • Twenty-four hours after, his trick at the silent helm—nigh to the man who was apt to doze over the grave always ready dug to the seaman's hand—that fatal hour was then to come; and in the fore-ordaining soul of Steelkilt, the mate was already stark and stretched as a corpse, with his forehead crushed in.†   (source)
  • "Maximilian," said the count, "the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.†   (source)
  • Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the right.†   (source)
  • There is now a spirit of improvement abroad; but among those who were ordained twenty, thirty, forty years ago, the larger number, to judge by their performance, must have thought reading was reading, and preaching was preaching.†   (source)
  • Indeed Becky would have left him at home, but that virtue ordained that her husband should be by her side to protect the timid and fluttering little creature on her first appearance in polite society.†   (source)
  • I feel as if it were ordained that this man should be associated with all the good which the future may have in store for me, and sometimes it really seems as if his eye was able to see what was to come, and his hand endowed with the power of directing events according to his own will.†   (source)
  • Night and noon and morning she brought the abominable drinks ordained by the Doctor, and made her patient swallow them with so affecting an obedience that Firkin said "my poor Missus du take her physic like a lamb."†   (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, darte†   (source)
  • Chance having ordained that he should encounter, in a case which he had argued, a former employee of the Laffitte establishment, he had acquired mysterious information, without seeking it, which he had not been able, it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous position.†   (source)
  • It was ordained by the holy Fathers to confess in secret: then only your confession will be a mystery, and so it was of old.†   (source)
  • And Job, praising the Lord, serves not only Him but all His creation for generations and generations, and for ever and ever, since for that he was ordained.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, chance ordained that on the morrow of that tragic day, there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,— fetes in Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical performances in the Champs-Elysees, fireworks at the Arc de l'Etoile, illuminations everywhere.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, the State is transformed into the Church, will ascend and become a Church over the whole world—which is the complete opposite of Ultramontanism and Rome, and your interpretation, and is only the glorious destiny ordained for the Orthodox Church.†   (source)
  • The Christian Church entering into the State could, of course, surrender no part of its fundamental principles—the rock on which it stands—and could pursue no other aims than those which have been ordained and revealed by God Himself, and among them that of drawing the whole world, and therefore the ancient pagan State itself, into the Church.†   (source)
  • Right so in all haste there were ordained to go two knights on the message unto the two kings.†   (source)
  • And there Sir Launcelot and thirty-two knights of his blood had ordained shields of Cornwall.†   (source)
  • And then they ordained him clothes to his body, and straw underneath him, and a little house.†   (source)
  • Then had La Beale Isoud ordained and well arrayed Sir Tristram in white horse and harness.†   (source)
  • How the stepmother of Sir Tristram had ordained poison for to have poisoned Sir Tristram.†   (source)
  • Although lately some spark may have been shown by one, which made us think he was ordained by God for our redemption, nevertheless it was afterwards seen, in the height of his career, that fortune rejected him; so that Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds and put an end to the ravaging and plundering of Lombardy, to the swindling and taxing of the kingdom and of Tuscany, and cleanse those sores that for long have festered.†   (source)
  • Ay, to be sure, he must be ordained in readiness; and I am very glad to find things are so forward between you.†   (source)
  • They can fight on tomorrow until they find the end ordained for Ilion— as that is all you goddesses have at heart, the plundering of this town.†   (source)
  • Gilgamesh the king is about to celebrate marriage with the Queen of Love, and he still demands to be first with the bride, the king to be first and the husband to follow, for that was ordained by the gods from his birth, from the time the umbilical cord was cut.†   (source)
  • So it was ordained, and then there was made a cry, that every man should assay that would, for to win the sword.†   (source)
  • Edward have got some business at Oxford, he says; so he must go there for a time; and after THAT, as soon as he can light upon a Bishop, he will be ordained.†   (source)
  • I sent them on board, for the time that Shamash had ordained was already fulfilled when he said, "In the evening, when the rider of the storm sends down the destroying rain, enter the boat and batten her down."†   (source)
  • This is the way the gods ordained the destiny of men, to bear such burdens in our lives, while they feel no affliction.†   (source)
  • I, as I thought my duty required, urge him to it for prudence sake, and would have parted for ever on the spot, would he consent to it; but he said it should never be, he did not regard his mother's anger, while he could have my affections; our prospects are not very bright, to be sure, but we must wait, and hope for the best; he will be ordained shortly; and should it ever be in your power to recommend him to any body that has a living to bestow, am very sure you will not forget us, and dear Mrs. Jennings too, trust she will speak a good word for us to Sir John, or Mr. Palmer, or any friend that may be able to assist us.†   (source)
  • But Sir Tristram knew not that that shield was ordained against Sir Launcelot, but afterward he knew it.†   (source)
  • And if I be ordained to die a shameful death, welcome be it; but an I had wist of this death that I am deemed unto, I should never have been yolden.†   (source)
  • How King Arthur held a parliament at York, and how he ordained the realm should be governed in his absence.†   (source)
  • But as soon as I wist that this adventure was ordained me I clipped off my hair, and made this girdle in the name of God.†   (source)
  • Then they ordained their battle in four parties, wonderly well apparelled and garnished with men of arms.†   (source)
  • He let depart his host in six parties, and ordained Sir Dinas the Seneschal to have the foreward, and other knights to rule the remnant.†   (source)
  • How the Knights of the Round Table were ordained and their sieges blessed by the Bishop of Canterbury.†   (source)
  • Of great jousts done all a Christmas, and of a great jousts and tourney ordained by King Arthur, and of Sir Launcelot.†   (source)
  • When Merlin had ordained the Round Table he said, by them which should be fellows of the Round Table the truth of the Sangreal should be well known.†   (source)
  • Sir King, wit ye well this shield was ordained for you, to warn you of your shame and dishonour, and that longeth to you and your queen.†   (source)
  • And right so was it ordained for Queen Guenever, because Sir Mordred was escaped sore wounded, and the death of thirteen knights of the Round Table.†   (source)
  • Well, sir, said she, an thou hadst kissed me thy life days had been done, but now, alas, she said, I have lost all my labour, for I ordained this chapel for thy sake, and for Sir Gawaine.†   (source)
  • And on the morn they of the castle ordained twelve knights to ride with Sir Palomides unto the father of the same knight that Sir Palomides slew; and so they bound his legs under an old steed's belly.†   (source)
  • And that penance God hath ordained you for that deed, that he that ye shall most trust to of any man alive, he shall leave you there ye shall be slain.†   (source)
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