Word: astraye
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...slave at His Majesty's feet," he muttered. "I beg forgiveness for all the harm I have done. I was led astray. May heaven's curse fall upon those who deceived me." Replied the Sultan: "The past is forgotten. You will be judged by what you do in the future...
...drag them down into the depths." This was enough to make any Irishman squirm, but there was worse to come. A pool of Irish missionaries would be sent to England, said the bishops, not to convert the English but to win back the Irish who have gone astray...
Among the lesser ambitions of Communist Dictator Stalin was to possess the world's largest building. Plans of a Palace of the Soviets, taller than New York's Empire State building, went astray somewhere in World War II, but in the last five years of his life Stalin ordered eight skyscrapers built in Moscow. Rising 20 to 38 stories out of Moscow's sprawling slums, and occupied exclusively by Communists and Communist undertakings, they stand today, huge omnipresent memorials to Communist contempt for the comfort and well-being of the common people...
remind us of what we have committed But of what Thou didst forgive; Not how we went astray, but how Thou...
...Britain's course, comparing Eden to Chamberlain: "The fault of Chamberlain was not in sacrificing Czechoslovakia, but in believing that Nazi aggression and Hitler's long record of perfidy would thenceforth come to an end. It was Chamberlain's sincerity, not his villainy, which led him astray. His crime was to make a fool of himself, and therefore...