In middle life he found the courage, or rather an impulse within him mightier than his will forced him to do so, and with relentless tread he left civilization.
No life is ever commonplace when that lamp burns beside it, and no wealth, or genius, or greatness can palliate its relentless gleam.
For eleven long years Lorenzino traversed land and sea, pursued, not only by relentless foes, but tormented by an accusing conscience.
The journey was long and tedious, and the captives' feet were torn by the thorns and cut by the hard rocks over which they had to pass; but whenever they lagged behind they were urged on by the long spears of theirrelentless captors.
On the confines of the Yoruba country existed a beautiful village which had hitherto escaped the ravages of the relentless slave-hunting foe.
If this gossip about the sons of Meredydd and about Howel Sele may seem too parenthetical, it serves in some sort to illustrate the severance of families and the relentlessvengeance which Glyndwr himself executed upon all who opposed him.
Glyndwr would hardly have been human if he had not made his first move upon his relentless enemy, Lord Grey of Ruthin.
Glamorgan, it will be remembered, had fallen away from its allegiance to the Welsh cause, so Glyndwr took it on his route towards England and gave the backsliders of that unfortunate county some experience of his relentless methods.
Again the relentless recall: "Oh, pawtah, I think we'll unbutton my boots.
But with the tenacity and indomitable courage of his kind he still faced his cruel and relentless foes--the personification of that ancient proverb of his tribe: "Leave to a Thark his head and one hand and he may yet conquer.
Tell me all you can of the years that I have been robbed by a relentless fate of her dear companionship.
She clung very closely to me, no longer the proud daughter of the Master of Life and Death upon Barsoom, but a young and frightened girl in the power of relentless enemies.
She saw, with the relentless vision of a Hebrew prophet, the inevitable ruin of the love that does not submit to wisdom as its law.
It was as if all the slumbering violence of her nature was aroused to a burning and relentless hatred of her own weakness.
That he was still putting up a hard fight against relentless Time was proved by his clothes, which were those of a country-lover who dressed the part with care.
But she went on, unsuspecting, her hand unconsciously clasped in the stern relentless hand of Fate, who never forgets to punish.
As a matter of fact, the Bolsheviki have continued to rule Russia because, without any change of mind or heart, but under pressure of relentless economic necessity, they have abandoned their theories.
Canute’s command to the tide was not one whit more vain than their verbose decrees hurled against the relentless and irresistible sequence of cause and effect.
An albino is considered to be the child of an evil spirit in so far as one of those relentless demons is supposed to have exercised a malign influence on the mother.
Oh, it makes the blood run cold to think of the relentless malignity of the fanaticism of those days.
Thus he suddenly found himself surrounded not by enthusiastic multitudes but by suspicious, relentless foes.
The grim hills of central Palestine and the dark volcanic gorge of the Jordan and Dead Sea engendered a cruel and relentless type of religion and worship in which human sacrifice was an important feature.
This druggist, Jouanne-Homais, was flattered at the lengthy study of himself, of course missing its relentless ironic strokes.
Wagner to-day is the property of the man in the street, who whistles him, and Ibsen is already painfully yielding up his precious secrets to relentless "expounding" torturers.
No Furies of the Greek drama pursued their victims with such relentlessvengeance as pursues the unhappy wretches of Ibsen.
The gods from every land defile by and are each in turn swept away by the relentless Button-Moulder, Oblivion.
Five rosy faces glistened with the sheen of health and soap lately applied with great force by the proud but relentless Melissa.
To this thought he returned again and again, each time with new adoration for the girl and added fury and hate against his relentless pursuers and himself.
Furthermore, he was a relentlesspolitical foe to Hornaby.
They went out peacefully most of the time, but could be bitter, relentless and brave when they encountered opposition.
Mohun pursued his purpose with the relentless obstinacy of his character.
His terror had gone on increasing during months of relentless pursuit; it had reached its climax now.
In other parts we shall see those pale, glistening pearls which adorn the crowns of princes and are woven in the hair of beauty, extorted by the relentless grasp of man from the hidden stores of ocean.
The reaction produced by this disappointment was evident in the renewed ravages of the relentless scurvy.
Aubrey felt a pang of fascinated amazement at the gross energy and power of that abominable relentless mask.
Walking the windy paths of Prospect Park he condemned himself to relentless self-scrutiny.
His victory was not stained by anyrelentless vengeance.
It fosters a race of men, whose gods are relentless and inscrutable, revealing themselves seldom, and dwelling in a fierce splendour beyond earthly knowledge.
Brantz Mayer speaks in very hyperbolic terms of the "relentless Lewis," and the "great slaughter" of the Indians.
O'er thy devoted head the tempests swell, More loudrelentless ocean claims his spoil: Peace!
He spoke of pity, and they heard, Even as the relentless hurricane Hears the last prayer of the faint mariner, Whom wintry waves had dashed upon the rocks.
