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affright
1. I wrote out your petition, and in my vision it appeared so, that your petition will not be granted to you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement has been finally passed on you: yes your petition will not be granted to you; And from now on you shall not ascend into Heaven to all eternity, and in bonds of the Earth the decree has gone out to bind you for all the days of the world; And that previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and you shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword; And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own; even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have written; And the vision was shown to me as such; note, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore me into Heaven; And I went in till I drew near to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire, and it began to affright me; And I went into the tongues of fire and drew near to a large house which was built of crystals; and the walls of the house were like a tessellated floor made of crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal
2. I wrote out your petition and in my vision it appeared so that your petition will not be granted to you throughout all the days of eternity and that judgement has been finally passed on you: yes your petition will not be granted to you; And from now on you shall not ascend into Heaven to all eternity and in bonds of the Earth the decree has gone out to bind you for all the days of the world; And that previously you shall have seen the destruction of your beloved sons and you shall have no pleasure in them but they shall fall before you by the sword; And your petition on their behalf shall not be granted nor yet on your own; even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the writing which I have written; And the vision was shown to me as such; note in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me and the course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward and bore me into Heaven; And I went in till I drew near to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire and it began to affright me; And I went into the tongues of fire and drew near to a large house which was built of crystals; and the walls of the house were like a tessellated floor made of crystals and its groundwork was of crystal
3. What was, was; and may the good that is to come be for all, and the evil for him who goes to look for it--your worship must know that the beginning the old folk used to put to their tales was not just as each one pleased; it was a maxim of Cato Zonzorino the Roman, that says 'the evil for him that goes to look for it,' and it comes as pat to the purpose now as ring to finger, to show that your worship should keep quiet and not go looking for evil in any quarter, and that we should go back by some other road, since nobody forces us to follow this in which so many terrors affright us
4. I looked for my babe with affright; feared that it had fallen out of my lap, while I had so strangely forgotten her; and, such was the vague intoxication, I can give it no other name, in which I was plunged, I could not recollect when or where I last
5. and affright, which he, characteristically, attributed to nothing more than
6. ," with such silly infantine moods of repulse and complaint as I judged best adapted to express the character of innocence, and affright
7. This Stallion was endow’d with a Cock to make any Pretty Fellow green with Envy; and as the Dean spoke softly in his Ear, in the whinnying Language of the Horses, and rubb’d his Belly and his Balls, the Stallion’s Cock grew until ’twas of a Size to affright the most lascivious old Whore
8. ’Twas simple to look fearsome, for, i’faith, these Pyrates scarce had bath’d in sev’ral Years, and sure they ne’er once shav’d off any Hair that might affright the Prey! Their Teeth were rotten from their Lives at Sea, their Faces oft’ were scarr’d, their Noses broke, and many had but half an Ear remaining! I lookt quite ill myself with my shorn Locks standing up as straight as Stubble in a Cornfield; and when I dress’d en Homme, I could pass—to unknowing Eyes—as any Pyrate, despite the Largeness of my Breasts, which I took care to bind ’neath my Coat
9. Horatio would follow me across the Bowsprit, and as we boarded the Prize we’d shout in Latin to affright our Prey
10. Whereupon she struck British Colours, too; whereupon we hoisted up our Pyrate Flag, and tackt about, Guns and small Arms at the ready, to affright her with a great Show of Strength
11. "Ah," she exclaimed in affright, "I am betrayed; I am carried off and taken away in the power of a strange merchant
12. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and at every word uttered by M
13. Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright
14. The soldiers fly from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the swords of the Uhlans and
15. were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as the clouds of dawn,—it is not fitting that all this should be narrated, and it is too much to have even called attention to it
16. Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood
17. The half-emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea; the wooden poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it; the heads of the swimming crew are scattered about the whale in contrasting expressions of affright; while in the black stormy distance the ship is bearing down upon the scene
18. For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright
19. Kirwin alone understood me; but my gestures and bitter cries were sufficient to affright the other witnesses
20. I heard these words with affright
