Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
Which all this mighty volume of events The world, the universal map of deeds, Strongly controls, and proves from all descents, That the directest course still best succeeds.
" Caleb was very fond of music, and when he could afford it went to hear an oratorio that came within his reach, returning from it with a profound reverence for this mighty structure of tones, which made him sit meditatively, looking on the floor and throwing much unutterable language into his outstretched hands.
Well, now, Flavell in his shabby black gaiters, pleading that he thought the Lord had sent him and his wife a good dinner, and he had a right to knock it down, though not a mighty hunter before the Lord, as Nimrod was—I assure you it was rather comic: Fielding would have made something of it—or Scott, now—Scott might have worked it up.
"But then I am not a mighty man—I shall never be a man of renown.
The mighty Badger, his whiskers bristling, his great cudgel whistling through the air; Mole, black and grim, brandishing his stick and shouting his awful war-cry, "A Mole!
One mighty bound, a violent shock, and the wheels of the car were churning up the thick mud of a horse-pond.
"Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing?
There at last they paused, where an ancient gaoler sat fingering a bunch of mighty keys.
He never came back—the Blythes were all mighty independent.
"Well, Marilla, I'll just tell you plain that I think you're doing a mighty foolish thing—a risky thing, that's what.
In a little while Luke comes out and gives some orders to some of his Mexican hands, and they go and hitch up sundry and divers vehicles; and mighty soon out comes one of the sisters or so and some of the two or three men.
' "'Never you mind,' says I, 'some lucky man will throw his rope over a mighty elegant little housekeeper some day, not far from here.
"Brother," he said, after a while, "you are in a mighty bad way.
Well, there wasn't anything we could get there, and, being mighty hard up, we decided to transact a little business with the railroads.
You see, a pony gets to know his rider mighty well, and it is not unlikely that cow ponies in pastures and at hitching racks had often guyed Sam's pony for being ridden by a guitar player instead of by a rollicking, cussing, all-wool cowboy.
But I was mighty lonely.
And Edward Beck, from the Port road, a widower with a large family who was beginning to take notice, took notice of Valancy and thought she might make a mighty fine second wife.
The reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St.
This one makes it sing mighty small, I'm willing to allow.
