Maggie was not her pet child, and, in general, would have been much better if she had been quite different; yet the womanly heart, so bruised in its small personal desires, found a future to rest on in the life of this young thing, and the mother pleased herself with wearing out her own hands to save the hands that had so much more life in them.
"Ay, ay, Bob Jakin, if Jakin it must be, 'cause there's so many Bobs as you went arter the squerrils with, that day as I plumped right down from the bough, and bruised my shins a good un—but I got the squerril tight for all that, an' a scratter it was.
The pride and obstinacy of millers and other insignificant people, whom you pass unnoticingly on the road every day, have their tragedy too; but it is of that unwept, hidden sort that goes on from generation to generation, and leaves no record,—such tragedy, perhaps, as lies in the conflicts of young souls, hungry for joy, under a lot made suddenly hard to them, under the dreariness of a home where the morning brings no promise with it, and where the unexpectant discontent of worn and disappoint
Will had bruised her pride too sorely for her to feel any compunction towards him and Dorothea: her own injury seemed much the greater.
Her melancholy had become so marked that Lydgate felt a strange timidity before it, as a perpetual silent reproach, and the strong man, mastered by his keen sensibilities towards this fair fragile creature whose life he seemed somehow to have bruised, shrank from her look, and sometimes started at her approach, fear of her and fear for her rushing in only the more forcibly after it had been momentarily expelled by exasperation.
He felt bruised and shattered, and there was a dark line under his eyes which Rosamond had not seen before.
if you die, I will put no finger to your work"—it seemed as if she would be crushing that bruised heart.
Casaubon had bruised his attachment and relaxed its hold.
Now, though he flung her on to the edge of the hold, so that her knee and her elbow were grazed and bruised, she only cried:— "No—not you—ME," and struggled up again.
" He was sore and bruised, and his thoughts went back to the tenderness of his mother's love.
They were aching with fatigue and bruised with tumbles; they had fallen into several holes and got wet through; the snow was getting so deep that they could hardly drag their little legs through it, and the trees were thicker and more like each other than ever.
Her feet dangled among the leaves and flowers of the lilies just as if it did not matter that they should be bent or bruised.
With what delicacy he bruised the mint; with what exquisite nicety he estimated the ingredients; with what solicitous care he capped the compound with the scarlet fruit glowing against the dark green fringe!
A fruit can show freshness through its color--the skin usually appears bright and blemish-free when fresh, and turns darker and bruised when old.
On the way Lin had a very hard time, bruised and flogged amost every day.
It is where we shed our superficial selve repair our battered bodie boost our wilting10 spirit fix our tarnished11 psyche mend our bruised emotions and change our evil ways.
God doesn't stop the rake from hitting us, but if we ask for help in healing our bruised face, God is there to heal us.
It is from luridus, the Latin word for such a color, and in the 17th century, it was used to describe the pale yellowish color of diseased or bruised skin.
I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.
You've had your heart bruised a time or two, but it's all worth it for the fairy tale ending.
