How could any duty bind her to hardness?
"What he said of you was, that he could not be happy in doing anything which made you unhappy—that his marriage was of course a bond which must affect his choice about everything; and for that reason he refused my proposal that he should keep his position at the Hospital, because that would bind him to stay in Middlemarch, and he would not undertake to do anything which would be painful to you.
There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration: they bind us over to rectitude and purity by their pure belief about us; and our sins become that worst kind of sacrilege which tears down the invisible altar of trust.
"He was afraid of some betrayal in my hearing: all he wanted was to bind me to him by a strong obligation: that was why he passed on a sudden from hardness to liberality.
"No, I do not yet refuse," said Dorothea, in a clear voice, the need of freedom asserting itself within her; "but it is too solemn—I think it is not right—to make a promise when I am ignorant what it will bind me to.
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite.
When Blanche saw that, notwithstanding his moments of passion, Strickland remained aloof, she must have been filled with dismay, and even in those moments I surmise that she realised that to him she was not an individual, but an instrument of pleasure; he was a stranger still, and she tried to bind him to herself with pathetic arts.
With infinite patience she prepared to snare me and bind me.
With infinite patience she prepared to snare me and bind me.
Bind him, chain him, drag him to the nearest police-station!
"Helper and healer, I cheer—Small waifs in the woodland wet—Strays I find in it, wounds I bind in it—Bidding them all forget!
Where else but in those circles can one see life in its primitive, crude state unhampered by the conventions that bind the dwellers in a lower sphere?
She used to be so good and obedient, and now she's neither to hold nor bind.
In his youth he had been a famous lover, finding all women too charming to bind himself to one.
14 Bind the sack before it be full.
14 Bind the sack before it befull.
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Two years later, Paul Beiersdorf, a Hamburg pharmacist(16), developed the first cream to bind oil and water.
The significance of the investment is best appreciated within the context of the larger ties –political, cultural and yes, economic– that bind our two countries.
This, I propose to offer, we are going to larger purposes, bind upon us, bind upon us all, ,,, as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty, hitherto evoked only in times of armed strife.
