People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God's power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.

Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated his memory.