But has he not been a sufficiently frequent witness of the crime and misery caused by drink to be persuaded that it is the duty of every good citizen to do all that in him lies to lessen the evil effects?
Cool shadow-floods o'er melting memory creep: So sang the song, for Misery was the mover.
The misery grows yet more and more; A gloomy grief afflicts us sore: Keep him no longer, Father, thus; He will come home again with us!
The misery of bread scarcity is replaced by another calamity--the plentifulness of breadstuffs.
In a hungry land there must be no misery while there is a surplus of bread.
The misery that springs out of the corn-laws, and other measures of monopoly and unjust legislation, he denounces and deplores with unceasing zeal.
Stern to faults which are tolerated, nay, are cherished by society, Savage Landor would be lenient where the wide-spreading misery and degradation of women in the present day calls loudly for a change in our social philosophy.
None of us cared to talk, and there was nothing but misery to talk about.
He recognised me at once; to him it was but the other day that I had caught his horse for him; but it had been long years of miseryand disgrace to me.
For the last eight years of the reign of Henry the Eighth, England had been in slavery--"fast bound in misery and iron.
But, though his study made it possible for him to relieve his country from the charge of guilt in this war, his anxiety and his misery remained.
His misery and its chief cause had not escaped the observing eyes of the little maid, Jane Brown, whose clear and incisive voice was distinctly audible as she confided to her friend Nora her disappointment in Miss Hazel.
Then he thought she, too, was suffering, the same misery was filling her heart.
The days preceding the tournament were days ofmisery for Larry.
In the midst of his misery Professor Schaefer passed through the office on his way to consult with Mr. Wakeham and threw him a smile of cheery triumph.
In fact, some seem to suppose that the greater their misery here the more intense will their bliss be there.
All this does not mean that prosperity is wrong; it does not mean that misery or poverty is a virtue.
Their misery at least had the grace of a high motive; ours is born of a short-sighted selfishness that grasps at the shadow of a fleeting satisfaction and loses the substance of lasting joy.
Poor Lucy Bertram now found herself an orphan without house or home; but the kindness of some neighbours named Mac-Morlan, to some extent, assuaged the misery of her position.
Then said the Interpreter to Christian, Let this man's misery be remembered by thee, and be an everlasting caution to thee.
There is a tide in the affairs of men," and it was on this decision between retaining or returning the pocket-book that depended the future misery or welfare of McElvina.
How much would the misery of this world be increased, if we were permitted to dive into futurity.
Besides these, we know that he translated certain religious works, including the famous "Misery of Human Life" of Pope Innocent the Third.
Each thinks that she has touched the lowest step of misery if she lack the regard of lovers; and she measures her glory of nobility and courtliness by the ampler numbers of such suitors.
For me, I do not know What mortal has more misery to bear.
Shine and shade, happiness and misery Battle it out there: which force beats, I ask?
Let it suffice, whenmisery was most, One day, I swooned and got a respite so.
In vain did the magistrates busily Seek succor, fetch grain out of Sicily, Nay, throw mill and bakehouse wide open-- Such misery followed as no pen Of mine shall depict ye.
Diversify your tactics, give submission, Obsequiousness and flattery a turn, While we die in our misery patient deaths?
A year ago iron had been discovered upon their property, and the result had been wealth and misery for father and daughter.
Madame had been elated, and the discovery of Mademoiselle's misery and trepidation had roused her indignation.
My own misery is so great that the compassion for myself which it awakens within me soon overflows and reveals to me the universal misery.
And in reaching this zero he is beyond the reach of the misery that kills.
The despair which finds a voice is a social mood, it is the cry of misery which brother utters to brother when both are stumbling through a valley of shadows which is peopled with--comrades.
When the overplus of our pity leads us to the consciousness of God within us, it fills us with so great anguish for the misery shed abroad in all things, that we have to pour our pity abroad, and this we do in the form of charity.
I wish miserycould be banished from the world, but I fear that it cannot be so banished.
No man can tell how much misery it has prevented, or how much it will prevent.
The man whom daily contact with remediable misery will not render incompetent to always write logically, I would not wish to know.
It came out why our daughter had been driven to misery and our son to death.
God is the one ideal, the Church the one shelter from the misery and meanness of life.
Then seeing Christ amid His white million of youths, beautiful singing saints, gold curls and gold aureoles, lifted throats, and form of harp and dulcimer, he fell prone in great bitterness on the misery of earthly life.
Raising her eyes she caught sight of her prayer-book, but she turned from it moaning, for her misery was too deep for prayer.
Great scarlet poppies flamed from ruined homes as if the blood that had been spilt were resurrected in a glorious color that would seek to hide the misery and sorrow and touch with new loveliness the war-scarred place.
Who could describe the intense discomfiture of that tea-party, or paint in fitting colours the different misery of each one there assembled?
He was in debt to Norman, his best, he would have said his only friend, had it not been that in all his misery he could not help still thinking of Mrs. Woodward as his friend.
They were to sail on the very day after Alaric's liberation, so as to save him from the misery of meeting those who might know him.
She had not quite recovered from the effect of her toss into the water, or the consequent excitement, and a very little misery would upset her.
Women in this respect are more enduring than men; they have softer sympathies, and less acute, less selfish, appreciation of the misery of being joined to that which has been shamed.
How often must his career have caused her misery and pain!
And bitterly did poor Gertrude feel the misery of these evenings which her husband passed at his club; but she never reviled him or complained; she never spoke of her sorrow even to her mother or sister.
In his misery at this state of affairs, he had talked over with Harry all manner of schemes for increasing his income, but he had never told him a word about Mr. M'Ruen.
The truth is, I cannot endure this misery any longer.
In the moments of his misery something about the pastry- cook's girl, something that reminded him of Crinoline, it was probably her nose, had tempted him to confide to her his love.
Charley knew that he was preparing such misery for himself.
Linda, on whom the full certainty of her misery had now all but come.
It was singular that in all his misery the idea hardly once occurred to him of setting himself right in the world by accepting his cousin's offer of Miss Golightly's hand and fortune.
It then appeared that since in every depth of misery there is a lower depth, so the unfortunate man had sunk still lower since I last saw him.
If you had signed what he wished thismisery would have been saved.
There is, in the external aspect of the prison: in the gloom which hangs over the prison: in the mixture of despair and misery and drunkenness and madness and remorse which fills the prison, an air which strikes terror to the very soul.
One has not to look long before the misery of it is too plainly apparent above the show of cheerful carelessness.
If you follow them to the misery of the Common side where they are thrust at night you will see creatures more wretched still.
Well, Sir, when misery and starvation fall upon you and yours, remember what you have thrown away.
In the morning that gleam left me, and the day broke upon the place of gloom and brought with it only misery and despair.
They lay for the most part in cold and starvation; in rags and dirt and misery overwhelming.
Misery and wretchedness generally follow, for there is something unnatural in such a union, with nothing of love on either side.
It was truthfully characterized by our General Sherman as 'hell'; it has been the curse of the ages and brought misery and death to millions, besides turning back the hands on the dial of progress for centuries.
Walking a few miles along the shore, she took the packet-boat, and crossed to the Fife coast, thus placing a broad arm of the sea between herself and the house of misery and oppression she had left for ever.
