The chanting of the
service ceased, and the voice of the priest was heard respectfully congratulating the dying man on having received the sacrament.
War and Peace
'Because they will take me away,' says I, 'and put me to
service, and I can't work housework.' 'Well, child,' says she, 'but though you can't work housework, as you call it, you will learn it in time, and they won't put you to hard things at first.' 'Yes, they will,' says I, 'and if I can't do it they will beat me, and the maids will beat me to make me do great work, and I am but a little girl and I can't do it'; and then I cried again, till I could not speak any more to her.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
It was giving some people too little
service and others too much.
History of the Telephone
My squire, God's curse upon him, is better at unloosing his tongue in talking impertinence than in tightening the girths of a saddle to keep it steady; but however I may be, allen or raised up, on foot or on horseback, I shall always be at your
service and that of my lady the duchess, your worthy consort, worthy queen of beauty and paramount princess of courtesy."
Don Quixote
What reasonable cause of apprehension can be inferred from a power in the Union to prescribe regulations for the militia, and to command its
services when necessary, while the particular States are to have the SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE APPOINTMENT OF THE OFFICERS?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
The distance which many of the representatives will be obliged to travel, and the arrangements rendered necessary by that circumstance, might be much more serious objections with fit men to this
service, if limited to a single year, than if extended to two years.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison
She remarked that, reckoning from the year when I started as page-boy in the time of the old lord, I had been more than fifty years in her
service, and she put into my hands a beautiful waistcoat of wool that she had worked herself, to keep me warm in the bitter winter weather.
The Moonstone
No person held to
Service or Labor in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such
Service or Labor, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such
Service or Labor may be due.
Constitution of The United States
During this time he has borne the school upon his heart night and day, and is never so happy as when he is performing some
service, no matter how humble, for it.
Up From Slavery
I serve the queen and that draws me naturally into the
service of the cardinal; but I serve the one with joy and the other against my will.
Twenty Years After
When the company were all collected and quiet, a religious
service was begun with prayer.
Grandfathers Chair
Holy Father Nicholas, teacher of temperance!' he thought, recalling the
service of the day before and the holy icon with its black face and gilt frame, and the tapers which he sold to be set before that icon and which were almost immediately brought back to him scarcely burnt at all, and which he put away in the store-chest.
Master and Man
This secret
service for the enemy must hamper him a lot, but it's better than lying in a refuge."
The Iron Heel
He felt a slight disappointment, however, when he saw that this place was already taken by a compeer named Mousqueton, and when Porthos signified to him that the state of his household, though great, would not support two servants, and that he must enter into the
service of D'Artagnan.
Three Musketeers
We must try in the first place to realize clearly the conditions under which the church
service, the mass, was conducted during all the medieval centuries.
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