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... TASTING SORROW FOR THE CAUSE • 136 • 142 · 159 · · 170 • 184 188 • XIX . HOW MCCALL DID THE DRAGOONS ' BIDDING XX . HENRY SAVILE TO THE RESCUE . • 198 208 XXI . IN THE BLAIRS ' KITCHEN 216 CHAP . PAGE XXII . ROUSED AT LAST · 231.
... TASTING SORROW FOR THE CAUSE • 136 • 142 · 159 · · 170 • 184 188 • XIX . HOW MCCALL DID THE DRAGOONS ' BIDDING XX . HENRY SAVILE TO THE RESCUE . • 198 208 XXI . IN THE BLAIRS ' KITCHEN 216 CHAP . PAGE XXII . ROUSED AT LAST · 231.
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... Savile ? " came the low breathing of his own name by way of answer to the scrutiny . " Mais oui donc , " was the reply in a quick tone of relief . And then , with as quick correction of himself : " Your pardon . I have been so long over ...
... Savile ? " came the low breathing of his own name by way of answer to the scrutiny . " Mais oui donc , " was the reply in a quick tone of relief . And then , with as quick correction of himself : " Your pardon . I have been so long over ...
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... Savile into hopes for his recovery . But it did not deceive himself . " Hope for this world is over for me , " he said tranquilly , " and I am content to die . My present rally I believe is due as much to that wonderful aroma as to what ...
... Savile into hopes for his recovery . But it did not deceive himself . " Hope for this world is over for me , " he said tranquilly , " and I am content to die . My present rally I believe is due as much to that wonderful aroma as to what ...
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... Savile continued : " And then for your General Assembly . See what happened to that but last July . It had but just met when Colonel Cot- terel beset the church , wherein the members were gathered , with some rattes of musketeers and a ...
... Savile continued : " And then for your General Assembly . See what happened to that but last July . It had but just met when Colonel Cot- terel beset the church , wherein the members were gathered , with some rattes of musketeers and a ...
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... Savile flung back his head with something of indig- nation as well as impatience . " Wait , indeed , " he retorted ; " you , for one , have had enough of waiting , it should appear . You have been faithful to your vow , faithful to your ...
... Savile flung back his head with something of indig- nation as well as impatience . " Wait , indeed , " he retorted ; " you , for one , have had enough of waiting , it should appear . You have been faithful to your vow , faithful to your ...
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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.