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...propose to waste much time on this fellah this evening," said Butler. "I was reading Pilgrim's Progress recently. In it, Christian meets up with a Mr. Talkative from Prating-row. I was very struck by something that Christian said of him. He said, 'All he hath lieth in his tongue.' " The crowd burst into applause...
Taking refuge in Dublin in 1571, Campion wrote a distinguished little history of Ireland. Waugh the stylist quotes with delight several sweet and thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided to accept the military discipline of the new and militant Society of Jesus. In 1580, he received what amounted to a martyr's orders: to return to England as a missionary. After Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, her government had made it high treason, punishable with death...
There is, in Pittsburgh, a devout Catholic layman of prosperous business. He desires to do something for and about his religion. He would create sympathetic understanding for a religion which he supposes is grossly misunderstood. He would, so far as in him lieth, win souls...
...Huge finny forms of phosphorescence (that) ... .........caracole With the sea-horses on some eye-less shoal, Quickening the leafage of a wave-tombed tree." and "weeping stars," mourners with golden pelf";, and to dig the meaning from "Oh, wash her white as flowers are Before she lieth down and die, Oh wash her white...
...sooth, &c. itself, &c." Quod Walmsley, J., concessit; and so it is frequently said in the books. And it was agreed by Hann, "one of the new Sergeants," for the defendant, to abide by the judgement of their Honours sin' appell.' sive referend.' sive recall.' &c. (Hann: The action lieth. Logan: The action lieth not. So concluding by the way of the Per and the Post to the country.) Sed qu., Were it a tie? As I have heard it said on the other side of Westminster Hall, Damfinao...