Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...over by the specious promises of the white men to care for and feed them. Now they are becoming more civilized and like to see their children enjoying the advantages of that education which is denied themselves on account of their age. The Apaches are more cruel and relentless towards those who fall into their power, more skillful in fashioning and carrying out their plots, and more expert in covering their tracks than the majority of their brothers. But they make excellent scouts...
...certainty that "what we sow, that we shall reap," the most relentless law of nature. A deceitful man will have deceitful sons, and defaulters are the natural result of the tampering of consciences by tricky employers. Jacob and David advanced by the cynical man as "typical" saints. No man suffered for their sins more certainly or heavily than they, "Jacob killed a kid and goes and lies to his father, then Jacob's sons kill a kid and lie to him," forms a fit summary of Jacob's life to those who are acquainted with it. David, a powerful king...
...Grammar of the same language upon a plan of his own. His literary work was marked by the same care and attention to detail which gave a peculiar stamp to his teaching. He was, indeed, in all the relations of life, strictly conscientious and governed by a certain relentless sense of duty...
...twelve swift strokes tell Time's relentless flow...