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Thus laden he cautiously made is way up the rough defile till he reached a spot about two hundred yards from the defenders' position.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have "transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances, broken the everlasting covenant."
Cries of agony and wild despair echoed the next instant through the defile, mingled with hoarse shouts and the tramp of cavalry.
"Sir," he said, "the man who would tamper with an ancient monument, with whatever intentions, is capable of defiling his father's tomb."
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Furniture and crockery were smashed, and what was not broken up was defiled in a manner so disgusting as to be unfit for use.
One could not help succumbing to the impression that each instant the defile would close overhead and settle the faithful vessel's fate forever.
As this was a strongly fortified place, commanding the southern exit of the defile from the mountain, he was asked for his papers.
We purposed passing the defile that opened eastward, as our retreat by the other route was now cut off by the advancing horsemen.
We remained in this pass for some days, sending out small expeditions among the adjacent hills, and erecting fortifications to cover the defile.
Then they turned into another defile as gloomy and overhung as the first, and entering this, we came upon one of those we were pursuing.
And without listening to the remonstrances of their lieutenant, who tried in vain to hold them back, they dashed irregularly into the defile.
Every lustful thought that defiles our imagination is an image of that which has begotten loathsome vices and crawling shames throughout the world.
While in the midst of this defile a shot was suddenly fired, and great boulders were rolled down from the precipitous mountain walls.
You have held the enemy's armies, sustained three sieges, executed several sorties, and successfully carried out a long retreat through a narrow defile.
What consummation of Oriental felicity to sit on cushions in this glittering apartment and watch the caravans which fill your coffers defiling below!
We find her a few years later urging Constantine to scatter the pagans who are defiling some sacred spot with their impure ceremonies.
They have no more right to be at large than lepers or yellow fever patients, as they defile all with whom they come in contact.
The crouching warriors were quivering with excitement, as their gleaming eyes sought the mouth of the defile, out of which came a confused murmur.
A pitiable Samson with his arms round the pillars of society to drag it down upon his head because society had defiled his sister!
The oars dipped again in the blue water, and they rowed back to the rugged defile they had left to explore on their return.
Jagged rocks and mountains, wild dells and lonely defiles, with here and there robbers, hermits, or soldiers, make his most effective pictures.
There was no time for boulders; the men reached the brink of the defile just in time to welcome the assailants with a broadside.
They had freed Fritz from his yak-skin envelope, and had started down the glacier, impatient to get out of that gloomy defile.
Aware of this our men put their horses to their utmost speed, in order to intercept them before they got entangled in the defiles.
She was defiant yet humiliated, and she shrank from the proffered hand of her husband as though his touch would defile her.
Sometimes the army defiled along the margin of the Ohio, by its broad eddying current and the bright landscape of its shores.
And men whose language is decayed, who make profanity a trade, are like the jackal of the wild, that hunts around for things defiled.
Climbing, struggling, pressing ever onward, we pass the grim defile, and, in the wild and beautiful solitude of primeval nature, we find our goal.
Nonpareil was disengaged, then again retreating, led the way through a sort of defile of unsold literature to the sanctum of the enterprising publisher.
This was a defile so narrow, that the enemy could take no cannon with them, nor baggage, and could only proceed two abreast.
Yet steeper grew the defile, and more overhanging the crags till at last, the keystone of the arch seemed dropped into its place.
The soil, defiled in every way, presented only a scanty growth of bruised herbage, upon which the horseman disdained to pasture his steed.
He declared that the legislature had endangered the honor of the State and that the Governor had put the people in a defile.
Besides, that is all impure, and defiles us, for there is no man so devoted that worldly prosperity will not soil his purity.
Its importance lay in its strategic position near the head of the defile which presents the last serious obstacle to an invader in central Greece.
As soon as he defiled our table and ran off, we made after him, and followed him till nightfall, when he went into a glen.
It is enough to say, that I do not think more dissolute circumstances accompanied the worship of Venus in the most defiled of heathen temples.
The defiling across the bridge over the moat was an effective scheme of color, and the procession entered by the great gate (?t?).
An army of young men, fired by dreams of great futures, enter and are defiled, and slain by the poisons that are disseminated.
For this purpose, at first they rushed on with great impetuosity, and then made a feint to retreat, to entice our people into the defile.
Suddenly from behind this barrier there came the flash of rifle muzzles, and a volley of bullets came rattling down through the defile.
Our soldiers, heavy laden with arms, may reasonably fear a body of cavalry, or arrows; defiles of difficult passage, and places impassable to convoys.
From this correspondence it results that man as regards his love is purified if he loves wisdom, and is defiled if he does not love it.
The efforts to belittle his merits and defile his good name became systematic, and degenerated into the most unpardonable personal abuse and political defamation.
Convents, half hid among the hills, peeping from plantations of branching limes; and long processions of chanting nuns wound through the defiles.
The people are to conceive such an abhorrence of idolatry, that they shall be afraid of being defiled even by pronouncing the name of the idols.
He had led the combined army into a defile, in which he would have had to receive the attack of the Moor at an insuperable disadvantage.
Nothing was heard from the defile and the brushwood but the call of the falcon, lower every little while and less frequent.
We saw the confluent waters of this stream, so light of foot, speeding through the gloomy defiles, as if fear had given them wings.
Crossing a bridge, the straight road follows the other bank of the river now on the left, and through a defile of surpassing beauty.
The trumpets sounded a retreat, and the army retired in tumult and confusion, harassed by the enemy until extricated from the defile.
At one time the river is confined within its narrowest limits, and proceeds through a defile of considerable altitude, with overhanging rocks menacing destruction.
Fighting with his back to the mountains, he was liable, if he suffered defeat, to be entangled in their defiles and lose his entire force.
Had ye joined yourselves in league with us, ye would never have become the slaves of the infidels, and their touch had never defiled you.
The rocks rose very high, the road looped and swerved from one side of the wide defile to the other, the vehicle pulsed and persisted.
They had climbed the stony mountains enclosing the defile, and were opening a bombardment, necessarily at random, but nevertheless terrible in its nature.
They paid no heed to him, but fell upon the woman, who cried out to him for succor, saying, "Suffer them not to defile me!"
Before they had time to defile across the narrow passage, a gathering sound was heard, like that of a mighty forest agitated by the winds.
For two days the party followed this winding defile, where the precipices frequently towered from three to four thousand feet over their heads.
He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.
The change is so abrupt, the aspect so dark and threatening of frowning defiles, deeply scored precipices, and pointed summits heavy with mist.
His route led through a chain of mountains, whose bleak and dreary defiles were clogged with drifted snow, and swept by freezing gales.
"Ye say well," said King Arthur: "now assay ye, all my barons; but beware ye be not defiled with shame, treachery, nor guile."
Think not that the rocky defiles which enclose us shut out from our minds all the ideas that new circumstance strikes from Time.
Lying on the floor of the defile, lay the Indian, with a deep gash across his forehead, where it had struck a sharp rock.
The following colloquy was held as soon as the last roll of defiled bandage had dropped to the floor, and Frank's foot was disclosed.
Milton conceives the most romantic and wild scenery on hill and dale and savage defile, suddenly brought into order for the use of man.
The steel-clad Spaniards, with their superior arms, prevailed, and the natives repulsed, rushed into the narrow defile upon the other side of the lake.
You shall cleanse these rooms that you have defiled, until they are as pure as they appeared when you looked on them through the alabaster wall.
Nothing would be easier than, guided by peasants, to march trusty troops by night through the mountain defiles and take the castle by surprise.
Skirted on each side by crags from one hundred and fifty to two hundred cubits high, the dark defile produced the most sinister impression.
The two red companies defiled slowly through the breach which they had effected with such promptitude; their countenances were grave and silent.
When temples are shattered and altars crumble, we save our idol and flee into the wilderness, exulting in the assurance that no clay feet defile it.
At that season frequent avalanches descend from the upper slopes to the bottom of the defiles, choking them for hundreds of yards on end.
On approaching near the contested defile, Thaddeus shuddered, for at every step the heels of his charger struck upon the wounded or the dead.
Now he opened his bag, took from it a cloth, carefully folded, and rubbed the rock until those defiling chalk marks were partially effaced.
Carnal walking will not suit spiritual temples: for they will greatly pollute and defile them, and stain and obscure their beauty and glory.
Sin pollutes the imagination, defiles the memory, and is a filth-creating leaven, which, unless purged away, ultimately corrupts and rots the whole being.
Snatching up the defiled thing, she swung it to its usual place beside the wall, banging it down with spiteful energy enough to break it.
To die within the radius of ten miles from its center is sure and eternal bliss, even to the outcast and the defiling white man!
You have no right to defile your body, or render your breath impure or offensive in any way, and especially by the use of tobacco and liquor.
In the dry months, from November to April, this defile is navigable by launches, and with reasonable care the passage can be made without risk.
Game abounded in the woods; from where she stood Diane could see a great herd of elk defile quietly between the water and the forest.
They had reached a narrow defile, the bed of a frozen stream, guarded on either side by high banks clothed with a labyrinth of bushes.
Like the vulture bent upon tearing the poor bird that falls into his claws, that cruel priest seemed determined to defile and ruin my heart.
After that he had torn everything open, eaten every piece of food he could get his teeth in and destroyed or defiled all the clothing.
Onward he went, steadily, skirting craters, leaping narrow crevasses, squeezing through rocky defiles whose overhanging ledges often met to form a dark passageway.
Besides, in these defiles a large force of undisciplined men could not act efficiently, and in case of a reverse would fall rapidly into confusion.
He approved of athletic exercises, which strengthened and beautified the body; but he would not defile the body or weaken it, either by lusts or austerities.
The old proverb, that one cannot touch pitch without being defiled, happily does not stand true here, or the place would be intolerably loathsome.
The old proverb that one cannot touch pitch without being defiled happily does not stand true here, or the place would be intolerably loathsome.
Between them the prisoners were forced to defile, still cringing and weeping, as the small door opened, and they passed into the chamber beyond.
There the turnpike descended sharply with a defile between two ridges, ridges which now housed Morton's battery, ready to blast road and hollow below.
I tell you, gentlemen, if once I pledge my hand to the diggers, I will neither defile it with treachery, nor render it contemptible by cowardice.
I tell you that if once I pledge my hand to the diggers, I will neither defile it by treachery nor render it contemptible by cowardice.
The drunken hordes broke into the synagogue, and, getting hold of the Torah scrolls, tore them to shreds, defiled them, and trampled upon them.
The south-western slope of the range is rather steeper and more broken up into terraces and lateral ridges and defiles than the north-eastern slope.
They are not permitted to purchase female slaves, as an infidel would defile a believer; nor do any of them bring their families beyond the Oxus.