Nine years later the angularities of the new "Artful and Crafty" furniture are held up to well-merited ridicule.
In Mother Incarnation, who merited the glorious title of the Theresa of New France, were found all the Christian virtues, but more particularly piety, patience and confidence in Providence.
Long and laborious was your task, and you have well merited your repose beneath the flagstones of your seminary.
The whole affair of the "Southern Ports" Bill occupies more space in the British Parliamentary Papers, and excited more attention from the British Government than it would seem to have merited from the Washington attitude toward it.
They were as proud of their uniforms, shoulder straps and accoutrements, as were the old guard of Napoleon, and their ambition was stimulated by merited promotions from the ranks.
One of my patrons became my implacable enemy because I gave his chip-of-the-old-block son some much merited discipline.
An awful sense of coming doom and merited damnation hangs in the thunderous canopy of the Sistine vault, tempered by a solemn and sober expectation of the Saviour.
To the triple crown of sculptor, painter, architect, he now added the laurels of the bard; and this public recognition of his genius as a writer gave him well-merited pleasure in his declining years.
I was glad to see the well-merited tributes paid by yourself and others to the memory of Mrs. Josephine S.
After paying a well-merited tribute to her noble coadjutor, she said that many of their noblest friends had passed away.
While we were talking, the door was opened by a plump little black-eyed Andalusian damsel, whom Mateo addressed as Dolores, but who from her bright looks and cheerful disposition evidently merited a merrier name.
I feel quite moved at the thought of my dear son's receiving this well-merited honor from his alma mater.
I trembled, as I so often did, lest I was about to receive some well-merited rebuke.
You appear to have placed a most unlimited confidence in this young gentleman,--a very well merited trust, I have no doubt.
The outrage for which he died well merited the penalty; but if there be guilt, it is mine, and mine only!
He conveyed a well-merited rebuke in fitting terms.
For this I did not have to forgive her, of course, little as I had merited such treatment.
This is well-merited punishment, and interfere thou shalt not.
It seemeth I must teach him another well-merited lesson.
She has received a temple; she has merited an altar; suitable rites of worship are paid to her.
By what virtues the ancient Romans meritedthat the true God, although they did not worship Him, should enlarge their empire.
Why have prudence and wisdom merited no place among the gods?
And in his own heart Jim was aware of a sneaking guilt, of a train of thought that merited all that was threatened.
He supported a degree of dignity far above his rank, and merited and received the confidence and friendship of all the tribes with whom he was acquainted.
They considered Thomas to have been the first transgressor, and that for the abuses which he had offered, he had merited from John the treatment that he had received.
When the rebels raised their hatchets to fight their good master, you sharpened your knife, you brightened your rifle and led on our foes to the fields of our fathers'--You have merited death and shall die by our hands!
But though you have merited death and shall die on this spot, my hands shall not be stained in the blood of a brother!
It is painful, after bestowing this well-merited praise, to be under the necessity of adverting to two circumstances unfavourable to Park's memory, connected with the history of this publication.
In all the relations of private life, he appears to have been highly exemplary; and his conduct as a son, a husband, and a father merited every praise.
Don Zeno looked at him for some seconds with attention, and then said-- "Do you admit you have merited the punishment I have inflicted?
Senor," answered the captain, putting his sabre in the scabbard, "I havemerited the lesson that you have given me.
Don Diogo enjoyed amongst his companions a merited reputation for kindness and humanity, but the circumstances in which he was placed at that moment were exceptional.
He revived the study of the Roman civil law with such success as to havemerited the title of the English Justinian.
He threw himself, unhappily, upon the mercy of one who little deserved the confidence which was reposed in his honour, or merited the privilege of succouring the unfortunate.
Then I asked her in reply, for what reason this act of having attended to her dress, especially if it were not done in excess, merited eternal punishment?
She thought she merited better treatment at their hands, having exposed her State to the inroads of the Venetians by her faithful adherence to them.
The custodian professed an added respect for them from the fact, and if he did not feel it, no doubt he merited the drink money which they lavished on him at parting.
The sounding Latin inscription celebrates the royal governor-general who erected it almost as much as the heroes to whom it was raised; but these spectators did not begrudge the space given to his praise, for so fine a thought merited praise.
She merited the distinction by the art which still lingered, deeply embedded in her massive balk, but never wholly obscured.
It was at once attractive and refined, and he credited Beaton with quite all he merited in working it over to the actual shape.
In a criminal, the consciousness that he merited his punishment would leave less room for hatred than for shame; it would excite vexation at his ill luck, rather than enduring anger against his judge.
Undeserved punishment is far more difficult to endure than merited castigation; and an act of revenge should rather plead in favour of the innocence of him who commits it.
When you had humiliated yourself and elevated me and all my kin, you little merited that punishment either from God or from those traitors.
Truly I thought that I merited much from you, when I had done all for your sake and still continue in obedience.
And the Classics merited such regard; for where they did not instruct in science, they imparted knowledge of life, and norms and instances of conduct, from which men still may draw guidance.
Says Abaelard in his Historia calamitatum: "So I came to this old man, whose repute was a tradition, rather than merited by talent or learning.
