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... MARY BLAIR LEAVES TOO SOON • 252 ALAS ! · . 265 XXVII . LEARNING THE NEWS XXVIII . IVIE MCCALL BEFORE THE JUDGES 278 286 XXIX . OLD ELSPETH'S PRISONER . 294 XXX . NOT A ROMAN MATRON , BUT A CHRISTIAN XXXI . KING CHARLES'S MOOD • 307 ...
... MARY BLAIR LEAVES TOO SOON • 252 ALAS ! · . 265 XXVII . LEARNING THE NEWS XXVIII . IVIE MCCALL BEFORE THE JUDGES 278 286 XXIX . OLD ELSPETH'S PRISONER . 294 XXX . NOT A ROMAN MATRON , BUT A CHRISTIAN XXXI . KING CHARLES'S MOOD • 307 ...
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... Mary is like to her mither , the bit pawky , dainty , pink- cheeked thing my daft father saw fit to bring to fill the empty place o ' my ain braw , big mither . The twa o ' they puir slips of things wad na mak ' ain o ' her . " " No ...
... Mary is like to her mither , the bit pawky , dainty , pink- cheeked thing my daft father saw fit to bring to fill the empty place o ' my ain braw , big mither . The twa o ' they puir slips of things wad na mak ' ain o ' her . " " No ...
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... Mary Blair . Her husband's compressed lips , and hands clenched till the veins stood out upon their backs like ropes , told as well as speech could have done that it would not be his will that should be wanting in A Mysterious Visitor . 93.
... Mary Blair . Her husband's compressed lips , and hands clenched till the veins stood out upon their backs like ropes , told as well as speech could have done that it would not be his will that should be wanting in A Mysterious Visitor . 93.
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... Mary Blair entered the dungeon a gleam of hope flushed her face , and the heavy door was scarcely closed when she darted to the prisoner's side , tearing off the plaid wrapped about her face and shoulders as she did so . " Change with ...
... Mary Blair entered the dungeon a gleam of hope flushed her face , and the heavy door was scarcely closed when she darted to the prisoner's side , tearing off the plaid wrapped about her face and shoulders as she did so . " Change with ...
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... Mary Blair . Even this human life was a sweet gift of God to be duly treasured , in her estimation , and there was an accent of something akin to reproach mingling with her deference as she resumed her plaid , and murmured : " Ah , sir ...
... Mary Blair . Even this human life was a sweet gift of God to be duly treasured , in her estimation , and there was an accent of something akin to reproach mingling with her deference as she resumed her plaid , and murmured : " Ah , sir ...
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Page 231 - As smoke is driven away, so drive them away : As wax melteth before the fire, So let the wicked perish at the presence of GOD.
Page 25 - And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate ; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
Page 343 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 336 - I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 16 - One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one ; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee ; till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Page 43 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 16 - And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you : for the Lord is a God of judgement; blessed are all they that wait for Him.
Page 124 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending ou that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness...
Page 86 - But he that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 126 - ... and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues, and that the Lord may be one, and His name one in the three kingdoms.