"There is something antique and patriarchal," observes Captain Bonneville, "in this union of the offices of leader and priest; as there is in many of their customs and manners, which are all strongly imbued with religion."
The worthy captain, indeed, appears to have been strongly interested by this gleam of unlooked for light amidst the darkness of the wilderness.
Short, then, or Trotters, as the reader pleases, returned unto the remonstrance of his friend Mr Thomas Codlin a jocose answer calculated to turn aside his discontent; and applying himself with great relish to the cold boiled beef, the tea, and bread and butter, strongly impressed upon his companions that they should do the like.
And here Mr Codlin's false position in society and the effect it wrought upon his wounded spirit, were strongly illustrated; for whereas he had been last night accosted by Mr Punch as 'master,' and had by inference left the audience to understand that he maintained that individual for his own luxurious entertainment and delight, here he was, now, painfully walking beneath the burden of that same Punch's temple, and bearing it bodily upon his shoulders on a sultry day and along a dusty road.
Here is a boy received into the house and put to bed in a state that I strongly object to.
I did not thank him in words for what he had done--my appreciation of it had risen above all words then--but I hoped he might not be without some understanding of what I felt so strongly.
Lastly, I have endeavoured
strongly to inculcate, that virtue and innocence can scarce ever be injured but by indiscretion; and that it is this alone which often betrays them into the snares that deceit and villainy spread for them.
And what is true of it everywhere is truest in those secluded valleys, where one generation after another maintains the same abiding-place; and [101] it was on this side that Wordsworth apprehended religion most
strongly. Having so much to do with the recognition of local sanctities, the habit of connecting the very trees and stones of a particular spot of earth with the great events of life, till the low walls, the green mounds, the half-obliterated epitaphs, seemed full of oracular voices, even the religion of those people of the dales appeared but as another link between them and the solemn imageries of the natural world.
All these may be unmerited suspicions; but it certainly is a circumstance
strongly corroborative of them, that Mr.
"And the King caught him manly by the neck, both under him that all a long month after men might see how
strongly the King had holden them by the throats."*
MY DEAREST LITTLE BARBARA,--I am sending you a few grapes, which are good for a convalescent person, and
strongly recommended by doctors for the allayment of fever.
It
strongly advised that the Butcher should be Conveyed in a separate ship: But the Bellman declared that would never agree With the plans he had made for the trip:
If the caligraphy be Poe's, it is different in all essential respects from all the many specimens known to us, and
strongly resembles that of the writer of the heading and dating of the manuscript, both of which the contributor of the poem acknowledges to have been recently added.
If her manners have so great an influence on my resentful heart, you may judge how much more
strongly they operate on Mr.
Among those overweight or obese adults who walked the recommended [greater than or equal to] 150 minutes per week for any purpose, significantly more participants
strongly agreed/agreed that there are crosswalks and pedestrian signals to help walkers cross busy streets in the neighborhood than those who
strongly disagreed/disagreed (26.4% versus 18.2%, P = 0.01).
