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... could not find a doubt with which to fend the absoluteness of the convictions which were raging in his head, or still the tumult that was in his heart and blood. He made no pretense to deny the fact that John Graham must have written this letter to Mary Standish; inadvertently she had kept it, had finally attempted to ...

— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood

... certainty, that God inserts no desire or craving in our nature, for which there is no appropriate gratification. The birds do not seek for food which is not ready for them. The young lions do not ask for prey that is not awaiting them somewhere in the forest glade. Hence the absoluteness of that shall—"Thou shalt follow Me afterward." It is as if Jesus said, "I have taught you to love Me, and long after Me; and I will certainly gratify the ...

— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer

... terrible days George Ware was braver than any one else. His faith in the absoluteness of his hold on Annie was too great to be disturbed. He was by nature as patient as he was resolute. He had not wooed his wife for eighteen years to lose her now in any way except by death, he thought. He comforted ...

— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

... not say that this seeming unnaturalness is not in the nature of an abused wilfulness, when united with a strong intellect. In such characters there is sometimes a gloomy self-gratification in making the absoluteness of the will ('sit pro ratione voluntas!') evident to themselves by setting the reason and the conscience in full array ...

— Literary Remains, Vol. 2 • Coleridge

... said to break the ice—"for the season of the year," I added by way of a saving clause, to tone down the absoluteness of ...

— A Stable for Nightmares - or Weird Tales • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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