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Once I had committed that sin, and was defiled, how could I dare come near you who are so holy?
Along the little defile the trail led, over another ridge, through another valley, and up a third hill.
The Scots, posted on high ground, kept their ranks and allowed the English to defile over the bridge.
They passed safely through two dangerous defiles, and, about two in the afternoon, began to enter a third.
After a while I could mount again, and we moved on, descending the rocky defile on its western side.
How important, then, must it be for us to submit to this ordinance, who are all defiled with sin!
Still calling upon the fugitive, he made his way to the garden paling through the defile of the peas.
They had made no attempt to climb the summits of this great barrier, or to penetrate its gloomy defiles.
They will try to frighten you, and to remove the sacrifice wholly or partially, or to defile it in some way.
They are generally to be found in the higher mountains and defiles, a few miles from some farming settlement.
He could not enter any house, or come in contact with any person or thing, without utterly defiling them.
Soon the eagles took their designated places, and the army defiled in divisions before the throne of their Majesties.
The breeze sweeping through the defile and along its wooded flanks brought with it the odor of the dead.
As these slowly defiled into the great square they were followed by the rear guard under command of Alvarado.
This defile is certainly one of the worst that troops could ever hope to pass in the face of an enemy.
The sort of narrow passage by which we enter into these high valleys is called a pass or defile.
Added to the right attack it passed a day or two in camp and then defiled into the trenches.
Not a trace of this appeared on her schooled countenance; and once more she completely restrained any defiling speech.
He was, indeed, already prepared to dispute the possession of the defiles which cover that capital with Napoleon.
This rocky wall dropped abruptly down into the defile where the cowboys and soldiers were making the attack.
I heard him murmuring something to the other towers, saw their light flash downward, searching the mountain defiles.
Miss Todd had been touching pitch for many years past, and was undoubtedly defiled to a certain extent.
The procession is seen defiling along a terrace backed by trees through which the clear southern sky gleams.
The temple must not be defiled; so we must try hard to keep all naughty tempers out of our hearts.
After we left the governor we rode on about three miles to a defile, where we halted for the troops.
They spoke of a very difficult defile, but two hours, they said, would take the troops through it.
The ridge was broken by a notch, and the road crawled through the opening and into the defile.
It took some days before his columns were ready to enter the defiles, and then the real mountain warfare began.
Again, having built a store house for the new rice, he defiled it so that it could not be used.
It might be a defile so narrow that for half a mile men could only pass through in single file.
Suddenly, in the distance, behind the tents and from the entrance of the defile, a shot was heard.
He calls them all up to make them defile before the king and bear testimony against the doctrines of Rome.
Thudding through the sand, clattering over the rocks, echoing through short defiles, ever urging his pony, rode Davy.
The narrow defile in the gap, through which the river rushed like a torrent, was closed with a gate.
Within that defile, barely broad enough for a single gun, were piled the wrecks of no fewer than four.
Watchmen scattered over the neighboring summits kept an outlook over the distant plain and the defiles of the mountains.
Enemies could have set on the Algonquins in some narrow defile and slaughtered the entire company like sheep in a pen.
From the brow of the mountain, like the rush of a river, the column defiling melts into the plain.
That country is a difficult one, even to the Cayuse horses, which are used to its forest-choked valleys and perilous defiles.
Observe, now, how history becomes defiled, through lapse of time and the help of the bad memories of men.
It often happens in the mountains that the only passages favorable to our plans are interrupted by narrow defiles.
Those who put into it milk, cream, what not, especially rum, defile one of the finest among Christmas delights.
Above all, it is defiling to eat what a heathen has cooked, or to sit at the same table with heathens.
There is a mountainous region here, with a defile traversing it, through which it would be necessary for Darius to pass.
Leaving the river we entered a narrow defile in the mountain, where horses and men were crowded close together.
I observed a young man at the extremity of one of the columns just as the troops were about to defile.
He drew a deep breath of relief, for a warm wind from the Pacific was roaring through the defile.
For there are many things which are lawful and permitted, and yet we are somewhat defiled in doing them.
We should remember that these epidemics are due to our habit of defiling the air, and of inhaling this poisonous air.
Was it simply that Elizabeth was one of that rare few who can touch pitch and not be defiled?
They had been in a defile in the high mountains where a cross is said to be standing among the rocks.
The word was given, and our column defiled at a steady pace round the left of the hostile line.
And remaining so, would it not be a veritable torture within this narrow defile, hardly able to change position?
He pointed out that any reverse would be fatal, since behind the present position was a very difficult defile.
This was not a pleasant time for action, as the troops were thickly crowded in the defiles and lanes.
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
They would have marched all night and made but a single stage of the whole journey to the defile.
Immediately the entire five mounted their horses and began climbing to the top of the wall of the defile.
Attention is specially called to the danger to which troops are exposed when surprised in defiles by hostile fire.
The 1st Battalion managed to cross the stream east of the defile and seize the high ground just beyond.
All lunar relief was defiling under the eyes of the travelers, and they would not lose a single detail.
The men were at once set to work to destroy a bridge across a torrent at the mouth of a defile.
He returns there some time after, drives all the members out one after the other, making them defile before him.
On the other side of the defile we caught a glimpse now and then of the Royalist cavalry forming up.
They are like highways piercing a mountainous district by defiles, where a handful of desperate men can arrest an army.
They had started, under the supervision of armed keepers, to defile by a door which opened on the town square.
Two men were posted at each defile, and as nothing was heard for an hour, most of us fell asleep.
Are contracts at the bottom of the puff, or is it only one of Weed's tricks to defile and to ruin Stanton?
As they approached the defiles of these mountains, parties of the enemy were seen here and there in increasing numbers.
To the right a narrow defile opened into a wild and romantic country, showing mountains of the most picturesque forms.
As she climbed up the narrow defile, the ground seemed to reel around her, and fall away from her feet.
He knew that his father at the end of the defile, more than a mile away, would be anxiously watching.
Now that you find yourself in front of a defile in which you are afraid of being attacked, you turn upon me.
Never, never, did an unworthy thought defile that candid soul, or a bad action cast a cloud upon that brow!
Pen and ink would degrade and defile the thoughts she uttered, and which my mind received that day.
If the unclean for seven days touched a clean person, the latter was thereby defiled until the even.
Next morning we strolled up the defile and looked at the mouths of several caves that are now choked up.
Mules were attached to these strange loads, and succeeded in bringing a few pieces to the top of the defile.
These highways of the winds and storms, with their glittering crowns and shadowy defiles, sweep into dim perspective.
See, a column is moving towards the right, and the cavalry are defiling on the other side of the road!
This is the entrance, or, in the direction we were going, the extremity, of the romantic defile of the Notch.
Towards evening we reached a defile, or rather a hole in the mountains, entirely shut in by dark pine-covered rocks.
At the end of this plain was a long wood and a lane or narrow defile through the middle of it.
Then, having ascended the steps, my shoes were removed for me so that my hands should not be defiled.
"Let not the ranks of the good be defiled by the presence of him who has betrayed his trust."
Satan diminishing them after his own power until one-third of all the hosts of heaven were defiled with sin.
These were defended, but the guard fled at the approach of the Macedonians, and this important defile was secured.
The valley sometimes made sudden turns, sometimes narrowed into defiles as the boulders and cliffs drew closer or apart.
Cheered on by this prospect, we hesitated no longer; but hastening forward, entered between the jaws of the defile.
The line ran between high banks, but in the mysterious twilight they looked like rocky defiles closing them in.
The bed of the defile was perfectly dry, the stones being scarcely wetted by the fine mist from above.
Now each morning early the old innkeeper saw defile before his windows the Optimist, intent on developing his dream.
If that turns out correct, depend upon it this precious ambush will be laid somewhere about the end of the defile.
At about a mile, however, it entered a narrow defile in the range, and the hills closed rapidly in upon it.
Up this they went, and finally came out upon a sort of broad plateau terminating at this end of the defile.
And that is the land from which the Allied Pharisees draw in their skirts lest their garments be defiled!'
This decided the chief, and half an hour later he led the twenty warriors out from the rocky defile.
They were silent, listening to the voice of their ancestral river as it growled, heavy with snow, through the defile.
He was pitch to her, and she declared to herself that were she to touch him she would be defiled.
Many of them perished, and when they issued from the defiles they were too weak to attack the two allies.