Dame Archer brought the cherub down to master, in the house, and his face just began to light up, when the old croaker steps forward, and says he—'Earnshaw, it's a blessing your wife has been spared to leave you this son.
" Blessing him for the suggestion, the exhausted hunter shut up his victim in the new cell, and found it a safe one, for Bun could not burrow through a sheet of zinc, or climb up the smooth walls.
"Then, dear one, in spite of all, you have been the blessing of my life.
He sat patiently enough while she read him a chapter, or said something timidly when they were alone together about trouble being turned into a blessing.
' And when the floods came, many were saved by reason of that blessing on the boat.
And you've got your fortune out of that profitable business which had such a blessing on it.
I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest—I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it.
Casaubon did not preach that morning, and there was no change in Will's situation until the blessing had been pronounced and every one rose.
Powderell himself had no certain reliance on it, only hoping that it might be attended with a blessing.
"And it will be a blessing to your children to have had a father who did such work: a father whose good work remains though his name may be forgotten.
Indeed, I am encouraged to consider your advent to this town as a gracious indication that a more manifest blessing is now to be awarded to my efforts, which have hitherto been much withstood.
A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there's no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
Casaubon, kissing her candid brow, and feeling that heaven had vouchsafed him a blessing in every way suited to his peculiar wants.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.
May scorched and withered; March was restless, and could be hard and cold in its brightness; but April came along softly like a blessing, and if it were a fine April it was so beautiful that it was impossible not to feel different, not to feel stirred and touched.
On such a little head only blessing could rest, on such a little head the nimbus of the holiest saints could fitly be placed.
The familiar words of the General Thanksgiving came quite naturally into her mind, and she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for His inestimable Love; out loud; in a burst of acknowledgment.
Mellersh, profoundly indignant, besides having his intended treat coming back on him like a blessing to roost, cross-examined her with the utmost severity.
He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head.
It's a great blessing not to be fat, Marilla.
