father thought him dead, renounced the world, and became a monk of St.
Nicholas, assuming the name of Austin. By chance Theodore was sent home
in a Spanish bark, and found his way into some secret passage of the
count’s castle, where he was seized and taken before the count. Here he
met the monk, Austin, and was made known to him. He informed his father
of his love for Adelaide, the count’s daughter, and was then told that
if he married her, he must renounce his estates and title. The case
stood thus: If he claimed his estates, he must challenge the count to
mortal combat, and renounce the daughter; but if he married Adelaide, he
must forego his rights, for he could not marry the daughter and slay his
father-in-law. The perplexity is solved by the death of Adelaide, killed
by her father by mistake, and the death of the count by his own
hand.--Robert Jephson, _Count of Narbonne_ (1782).
_Theod´orick_, king of the Goths, called by the German minnesingers,
Diderick of Bern (Verōna).
_Theodorick_, or “Alberick of Mortemar,” an exiled nobleman, hermit of
Engaddi, and an enthusiast.--Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard
I.).
=Theodorus= (_Master_), a learned physician, employed by Ponocratês to
cure Gargantua of his vicious habits. The doctor accordingly “purged him
canonically with Anticyrian hellebore, cleansed from his brain all
perverse habits, and made him forget everything he had learned of his
other preceptors.”--Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 23.
Hellebore was made use of to purge the brain, in order to fit it the
better for serious study.--Pliny, _Natural History_, xxv. 25; Aulus
Gellius, _Attic Nights_, xvii. 15.
=Theodo´sius=, the hermit of Cappadocia. He wrote the four gospels in
letters of gold (423-529).
Theodosius, who of old.
Wrote the gospels in letters of gold.
Longfellow, _The Golden Legend_ (1851).
=Theophilus= (_St._), of Adana, in Cilicia (sixth century). He was
driven by slander to sell his soul to the devil, on condition that his
character was cleared. The slander was removed, and no tongue wagged
against the thin-skinned saint. Theophilus now repented of his bargain,
and after a fast of forty days and forty nights, was visited by the
Virgin, who bade him confess to the bishop. This he did, received
absolution, and died within three days of brain fever.--Jacques de
Voragine, _The Golden Legends_ (thirteenth century).
This is a very stale trick, told of many a saint. Southey has poetized
one of them in his ballad of _St. Basil_, or _The Sinner Saved_ (1829).
Elĕēmon sold his soul to the devil on condition of his procuring him
Cyra for wife. The devil performed his part of the bargain, but Eleemon
called off, and St. Basil gave him absolution. (See SINNER SAVED.)
=Theophras´tus of France= (_The_), Jean de la Bruyère, author of
_Caractères_ (1646-1696).
=Theresa=, the miller’s wife, who adopted and brought up Amīna, the
orphan, called “the somnambulist.”--Bellini, _La Sonnambula_ (libretto
by Scribe, 1831).
_Therēsa_, wife of the count palatine of Padōlia, beloved by Mazeppa.
Her father, indignant that a mere page should presume to his daughter’s
hand, had Mazeppa bound to a wild horse, and set adrift. The future
history of Theresa is not related.--Byron, _Mazeppa_ (1819).
Medora [_wife of the Corsair_], Neuha [in _The Island_], Leila [in
_The Giaour_], Francesca [in _The Siege of Corinth_], and Theresa, it
has been alleged, are but children of one family, with differences
resulting only from climate and circumstances.--Finden, _Byron
Beauties_.
_Theresa_ (_Sister_), with Flora M’Ivor at Carlisle.--Sir W. Scott,
_Waverley_ (time, George II.).
=Theringe= (_Mde. de_), the mother of Louise de Lascours, and
grandmother of Diana de Lascours and Martha, _alias_ Orgari´ta, “the
orphan of the Frozen Sea.”--E. Stirling, _The Orphan of the Frozen
Sea_ (1856).
=Thermopylæ.= When Xerxes invaded Greece, Leonĭdas was sent with 300
Spartans, as a forlorn hope, to defend the pass leading from Thessaly
into Locris, by which it was thought the Persian host would penetrate
into Southern Greece. The Persians, however, having discovered a path
over the mountains, fell on Leonidas in the rear, and the “brave
defenders of the hot-gates” were cut to pieces.
=Theron=, the favorite dog of Roderick, the last Gothic king of Spain.
When the discrowned king, dressed as a monk, assumed the name of
“Father Maccabee,” although his tutor, mother, and even Florinda
failed to recognize him, Theron knew him at once, fawned on him with
fondest love, and would never again leave him till the faithful
creature died. When Roderick saw his favorite,
He threw his arms around the dog, and cried,
While tears streamed down, “Thou, Theron, thou hast known
Thy poor lost master; Theron, none but thou!”
Southey, _Roderick, etc._, xv. (1814).
=Thersi´tes= (3 _syl._), a scurrilous Grecian chief, “loquacious,
loud, and coarse.” His chief delight was to inveigh against the kings
of Greece. He squinted, halted, was gibbous behind and pinched before,
and on his tapering head grew a few white patches of starveling down
(_Iliad_, ii.).
His brag, as Thersītês, with elbows abroad.
T. Tusser, _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_, liv. (1557).
=The´seus= (2 _syl._), the Attic hero. He induced the several towns of
Attica to give up their separate governments and submit to a common
jurisdiction, whereby the several petty chiefdoms were consolidated
into one state, of which Athens was the capital.
⁂ Similarly, the several kingdoms of the Saxon heptarchy were
consolidated into one kingdom by Egbert; but in this latter case, the
might of arms, and not the power of conviction, was the instrument
employed.
_Theseus_ (_Duke_) of Athens. On his return home, after marrying
Hypolĭta, a crowd of female suppliants complained to him of Creon,
king of Thebes. The duke therefore set out for Thebes, slew Creon, and
took the city by assault. Among the captives taken in this siege were
two knights, named Palămon and Arcite, who saw the duke’s sister from
their dungeon window, and fell in love with her. When set at liberty,
they told their loves to the duke, and Theseus (2 _syl._) promised to
give the lady to the best man in a single combat. Arcite overthrew
Palamon, but as he was about to claim the lady his horse threw him,
and he died; so Palamon lost the contest, but won the bride.--Chaucer,
_Canterbury Tales_ (“The Knight’s Tale,” 1388).
⁂ In classic story, Theseus is called “king;” but Chaucer styles him
“duke,” that is, dux, “leader or emperor” (_imperātor_).
=Thespian Maids= (_The_), the nine Muses. So called from Thespia, in
Bœotia, near Mount Helĭcon, often called _Thespia Rupes_.
Those modest Thespian maids thus to their Isis sung.
Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xv. (1613).
=Thespi´o=, a Muse. The Muses were called Thespi´adês, from Thespīa,
in Bœo´tia, at the foot of mount Helĭcon.
Tell me, oh, tell me then, thou holy Muse,
Sacred Thespīo.
Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, vii. (1633).
=Thespis=, the father of the Greek drama.
Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes sang ballads from a cart.
Dryden, Prologue to _Sophonisba_ (1729).
=Thes´tylis=, a female slave; any rustic maiden.--Theocritos,
_Idylls_.
With Thestylis to bind the sheaves.
Milton, _L’Allegro_ (1638).
=Thet´is=, mother of Achillês. She was a sea-nymph, daughter of
Nereus, the sea-god.--_Grecian Story._
=Theuerdank=, a sobriquet of Kaiser Maximilian I. of Germany (1459,
1493-1519).
=Thiebalt=, a Provençal, one of Arthur’s escorts to Aix.--Sir W.
Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).
=Thieves= (_The Two_). The penitent thief crucified with Jesus, has
been called by sundry names, as Demas, Dismas, Titus, Matha, and
Vicimus.
The impenitent thief, has been called Gestas, Dumachas, Joca, and
Justīnus.
In the Aprocryphal _Gospel of Nicodemus_, the former is called Dysmas
and the latter Gestas. In the _Story of Joseph of Arimathea_, the
former is called Demas and the latter Gestas. Longfellow’s _Golden
Legend_, calls them Titus and Dumachus. A legend says that they
attacked Joseph in his flight into Egypt. Titus said, “Let the good
people go;” but Dumachus refused to do so till he “paid a ransom for
himself and family.” Upon this, Titus gave his fellow forty groats;
and the infant Jesus said, “In thirty years I shall die, and you two
with Me. We shall be crucified together; but in that day, Titus, this
deed shall be remembered.”
_Thieves_ (_His ancestors proved_). It is Sir Walter Scott who wrote
and proved his “ancestors were thieves,” in the _Lay of the Last
Minstrel_, iv. 9.
A modern author spends a hundred leaves
To prove his ancestors notorious thieves.
_The Town Ecolgue._
=Thieves Screened.= It is said of Edward the Confessor, that one day,
while lying on his bed for his afternoon’s nap, a courtier stole into
his chamber and seeing the king’s casket, helped himself freely from
it. He returned a second time, and on his third entrance, Edward said,
“Be quick, or Hugoline (the chamberlain) will see you.” The courtier
was scarcely gone, when the chamberlain entered and instantly detected
the theft. The king said, “Never mind, Hugoline; the fellow who has
taken it no doubt has greater need of it than either you or I.”
(Reigned 1042-1066).
Several similar anecdotes are told of Robert the Pious, of France. One
time he saw a man steal a silver candle-stick off the altar, and said,
“Friend Ogger, run for your life, or you will be found out.” At
another time, one of the twelve poor men in his train cut off a rich
gold pendant from the royal robe, and Robert, turning to the man, said
to him, “Hide it quickly, friend, before any one sees it.” (Reigned
996-1031.)
The following is told of two or three kings, amongst others of Ludwig
the Pious, who had a very overbearing wife. A beggar under the table,
picking up the crumbs which the king let down, cut off the gold fringe
of the royal robe, and the king whispered to him, “Take care the queen
doesn’t see you.”
=Thieves of Historic Note.=
AUTOL´YCOS, son of Hermês; a very prince of thieves. He had the power
of changing the color and shape of stolen goods so as to prevent their
being recognized.--_Greek Fable._
BARLOW (_Jimmy_), immortalized by the ballad-song:
My name it is Jimmy Barlow;
I was born in the town of Carlow;
And here I lie in Maryboro’ jail,
All for the robbing of the Dublin mail.
CARTOUCHE, the Dick Turpin of France (eighteenth century).
COTTINGTON (_John_), in the time of the Commonwealth, who emptied the
pockets of Oliver Cromwell, when lord protector, stripped Charles II.
of £1500, and stole a watch and chain from Lady Fairfax.
DUVAL (_Claude_), a French highwayman, noted for his gallantry and
daring (*-1670). (See “James Whitney,” who was a very similar
character.)
⁂ Alexander Dumas has a novel entitled _Claude Duval_, and Miss
Robinson introduces him in _White Friars_.
FRITH (_Mary_), usually called “Moll Cutpurse.” She had the honor of
robbing General Fairfax, on Hounslow Heath. Mary Frith lived in the
reign of Charles I., and died at the age of 75 years.
⁂ Nathaniel Field has introduced Mary Frith, and made merry with some
of her pranks, in his comedy, _Amends for Ladies_ (1618).
GALLOPING DICK, executed in Aylesbury, in 1800.
GRANT (_Captain_), the Irish highwayman, executed at Maryborough in
1816.
GREENWOOD (_Samuel_), executed at Old Bailey in 1822.
HASSAN, the “Old Man of the Mountain,” once the terror of Europe. He
was chief of the Assassins (1056-1124).
HOOD (_Robin_) and his “merry men all,” of Sherwood Forest. Famed in
song, drama and romance. Probably he lived in the reign of Richard
Cœur de Lion.
⁂ Sir W. Scott has introduced him both in _The Talisman_ and in
_Ivanhoe_. Stow has recorded the chief incidents of his life (see
under the year 1213). Ritson has compiled a volume of ballads
respecting him. Drayton has given a sketch of him in the _Polyolbion_,
xxvi. The following are dramas on the same outlaw, viz.:--_The Playe
of Robyn Hode, very proper to be played in Maye games_ (fifteenth
century); Skelton, at the command of Henry VIII., wrote a drama called
_The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington_ (about 1520); _The
Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington_, by Munday (1597); _The Death
of Robert, Earle of Huntington, otherwise called Robin Hood of Merrie
Sherwodde_, by H. Chettle (1598). Chettle’s drama is in reality a
continuation of Munday’s, like the two parts of Shakespeare’s plays,
_Henry IV._ and _Henry V._ _Robin Hood’s Penn´orths_, a play by
William Haughton (1600); _Robin Hood and His Pastoral May Games_
(1624), _Robin Hood and His Crew of Soldiers_ (1627), both anonymous;
_The Sad Shepherd, or a Tale of Robin Hood_ (unfinished), B. Jonson
(1637); _Robin Hood_, an opera (1730); _Robin Hood_, an opera by Dr.
Arne and Burney (1741); _Robin Hood_, a musical farce (1751); _Robin
Hood_, a comic opera (1784); Robin Hood, an opera by O’Keefe, music by
Shield (1787); _Robin Hood_, by Macnally (before 1820). Sheridan began
a drama on the same subject, which he called _The Foresters_; _The
Foresters_, Tennyson (1892).
PERIPHE´TES (4 _syl._) of Argŏlis, surnamed “The Club-Bearer,” because
he used to kill his victims with an iron club.--_Grecian Story._
PROCRUSTES (3 _syl._), a famous robber of Attica. His real name was
Polypēmon or Damastês, but he received the sobriquet of _Procrustês_,
or “The Stretcher,” from his practice of placing all victims that fell
into his hands on a certain bedstead. If the victim was too short to
fit it he stretched the limbs to the right length; if too long he
lopped off the redundant part.--_Grecian Story._
REA (_William_), executed at Old Bailey in 1828.
SHEPPARD (_Jack_), an ardent, reckless, generous youth, wholly
unrivalled as a thief and burglar. His father was a carpenter in
Spitalfields. Sentence of death was passed on him in August, 1724; but
when the warders came to take him to execution, they found he had
escaped. He was apprehended in the following October, and again made
his escape. A third time he was caught, and in November suffered
death. Certainly the most popular burglar that ever lived (1701-1724).
⁂ Daniel Defoe made _Jack Sheppard_ the hero of a romance in 1724, and
H. Ainsworth in 1839.
SINIS, a Corinthian highwayman, surnamed “The Pine-Bender,” from his
custom of attaching the limbs of his victims to two opposite pines
forcibly bent down. Immediately the trees were released they bounded
back, tearing the victim limb from limb.--_Grecian Story._
TER´MEROS, a robber of Peloponnesos, who killed his victims by
cracking their skulls against his own.
TURPIN (_Dick_), a noted highwayman (1711-1739). His ride to York is
described by H. Ainsworth in his _Rookwood_ (1834).
WHITNEY (_James_), the last of the “gentlemanly” highwaymen. He prided
himself on being “the glass of fashion and the mould of form.”
Executed at Porter’s Block, near Smithfield (1660-1694).
WILD (_Jonathan_), a cool, calculating, heartless villain, with the
voice of a Stentor. He was born at Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire,
and, like Sheppard, was the son of a carpenter. Unlike Sheppard, this
cold-blooded villain was universally execrated. He was hanged at
Tyburn (1682-1725).
⁂ Defoe made _Jonathan Wild_ the hero of a romance in 1725; Fielding
in 1744.
=Thirlmore= (_Rev. and Col._), ambitious, able man, first a popular,
sensational preacher, then, as the bubble breaks, a farmer and
stock-raiser, lastly an officer in the U. S. Army, during the Civil
War. In the varied experiences of the latter career, the selfishness
which has marred his character sloughs off, and the _man_
appears.--William M. Baker, _His Majesty, Myself_ (1879) and _The
Making of a Man_ (1881).
=Third Founder of Rome= (_The_), Caius Marius. He was so called,
because he overthrew the multitudinous hordes of Cambrians and
Teutons, who came to lick up the Romans as the oxen of the field lick
up grass (B.C. 102).
⁂ The first founder was Romulus, and the second Camillus.
=Thirsil and Thelgon=, two gentle swains who were kinsmen. Thelgon
exhorts Thirsil to wake his “too long sleeping Muse;” and Thirsil,
having collected the nymphs and shepherds around him, sang to them the
song of _The Purple Island_.--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_,
i., ii. (1633).
=Thirsty= (_The_), Colman Itadach, surnamed “The Thirsty,” was a monk
of the rule of St. Patrick. Itadach, in strict observance of the
Patrician rule, refused to quench his thirst even in the
harvest-field, and died in consequence.
=Thirteen Precious Things of Britain.=
1. DYRNWYN (the sword of Rhydderch Hael). If any man except Hael drew
this blade, it burst into a flame from point to hilt.
2. THE BASKET OF GWYDDNO GARANHIR. If food for one man were put
therein, it multiplied till it sufficed for a hundred.
3. THE HORN OF BRAN GALED, in which was always found the very beverage
that each drinker most desired.
4. THE PLATTER OF RHEGYNYDD YSGOLHAIG, which always contained the very
food that the eater most liked.
5. THE CHARIOT OF MORGAN MWYNVAWR. Whoever sat therein was transported
instantaneously to the place he wished to go to.
9. THE HALTER OF CLYDNO EIDDYN. Whatever horse he wished for was
always found therein. It hung on a staple at the foot of his bed.
7. THE KNIFE OF LLAWFRODDED FARCHAWG, which would serve twenty-four
men simultaneously at any meal.
8. THE CALDRON OF TYRNOG. If meat were put in for a brave man, it was
cooked instantaneously, but meat for a coward would never get boiled
therein.
9. THE WHETSTONE OF TUDWAL TUDCLUD. If the sword of a brave man were
sharpened thereon, its cut was certain death; but if of a coward, the
cut was harmless.
10. THE ROBE OF PADARN BEISRUDD, which fitted every one of gentle
birth, but no churl could wear it.
11. THE MANTLE OF TEGAU EURVRON, which only fitted ladies whose
conduct was irreproachable.
12. THE MANTLE OF KING ARTHUR, which could be worn or used as a
carpet, and whoever wore it or stood on it was invisible. This mantle
or carpet was called Gwenn.
⁂ The ring of Luned rendered the wearer invisible so long as the stone
of it was concealed.
13. THE CHESSBOARD OF GWENDDOLEN. When the men were placed upon it,
they played of themselves. The board was of gold, and the men
silver.--_Welsh Romance._
=Thirteen Unlucky.= It is said that it is unlucky for thirteen persons
to sit down to dinner at the same table, because one of the number
will die before the year is out. This silly superstition is based on
the “Last Supper,” when Christ and His twelve disciples sat at meat
together. Jesus was crucified; and Judas Iscariot hanged himself.
=Thirty= (_The_). So the Spartan senate established by Lycurgos was
called.
Similarly, the Venetian senate was called “The Forty.”
=Thirty Tyrants= (_The_). So the governors, appointed by Lysander, the
Spartan, over Athens, were called (B.C. 404). They continued in power
only eight months, when Thrasybūlos deposed them and restored the
republic.
“The Thirty” put more people to death in eight months of peace, than
the enemy had done in a war of thirty years.--Xenophon.
=Thirty Tyrants of Rome= (_The_), a fanciful name, applied by
Trebellius Pollio, to a set of adventurers who tried to make
themselves masters of Rome at sundry times between A.D. 260 and 267.
The number was not thirty, and the analogy between them and “The
Thirty Tyrants of Athens” is scarcely perceptible.
=Thirty Years’ War= (_The_), a series of wars between the Protestants
and Catholics of Germany, terminated by the “Peace of Westphalia.” The
war arose thus: The emperor of Austria interfered in the struggle
between the Protestants and Catholics, by depriving the Protestants of
Bohemia of their religious privileges; in consequence of which the
Protestants flew to arms. After the contest had been going on for some
years, Richelieu joined the Protestants (1635), not from any love of
their cause, but solely to humiliate Austria and Spain (1618-1648).
The Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta is called “The Thirty
Years’ War”.
=Thisbe= (2 _syl._), a beautiful Babylonian maid, beloved by Pyrămus,
her next-door neighbor. As their parents forbade their marriage, they
contrived to hold intercourse with each other through a chink in the
garden wall. Once they agreed to meet at the tomb of Ninus. Thisbê was
first at the trysting-place, but, being scared by a lion, took to
flight, and accidentally dropped her robe, which the lion tore and
stained with blood. Pyramus, seeing the blood-stained robe, thought
that the lion had eaten Thisbê, and so killed himself. When Thisbê
returned and saw her lover dead, she killed herself also. Shakespeare
has burlesqued this pretty tale in his _Midsummer Night’s Dream_
(1592).
=Thom´alin=, a shepherd who laughed to scorn the notion of love, but
was ultimately entangled in its wiles. He tells Willy that one day,
hearing a rustling in a bush, he discharged an arrow, when up flew
Cupid into a tree. A battle ensued between them, and when the
shepherd, having spent all his arrows, ran away, Cupid shot him in the
heel. Thomalin did not much heed the wound at first, but soon it
festered inwardly and rankled daily more and more.--Spenser,
_Shepheardes Calendar_, iii. (1579).
Thomalin is again introduced in Ecl. vii., when he inveighs against
the Catholic priests in general, and the shepherd Palinode (3 _syl._)
in particular. This eclogue could not have been written before 1578,
as it refers to the sequestration of Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury
in that year.
=Thomas= (_Monsieur_), the fellow-traveller of Val´entine. Valentine’s
niece, Mary, is in love with him.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _Mons.
Thomas_ (1619).
_Thomas_ (_Sir_), a dogmatical, prating, self-sufficient squire, whose
judgments are but “justices’ justice.”--Crabbe, _Borough_, x. (1810).
=Thomas à Kempis=, the pseudonym of Jean Charlier de Gerson
(1363-1429). Some say, of Thomas Hämmerlein Maleŏlus (1380-1471).
=Thomas the Rhymer= or “Thomas of Erceldoun,” an ancient Scottish
bard. His name was Thomas Learmont, and he lived in the days of
Wallace (thirteenth century).
⁂ Thomas the Rhymer, and Thomas Rymer were totally different persons.
The latter was an historiographer, who compiled _The Fœdera_
(1638-1713).
=Thomas= (_Winifred_), beautiful coquette, who wins Henry Vane’s heart
only to trifle with it, in Frederic Jesup Stimson’s novel, _The Crime
of Henry Vane_ (1884).
=Thopas= (_Sir_), a native of Poperyng, in Flanders; a capital
sportsman, archer, wrestler, and runner. Sir Thopas resolved to marry
no one but an “elf queen,” and accordingly started for Faëryland. On
his way he met the three-headed giant, Olifaunt, who challenged him to
single combat. Sir Thopas asked permission to go for his armor, and
promised to meet the giant next day. Here mine host broke in with the
exclamation, “Intolerable stuff!” and the story was left
unfinished.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (“The Rime of Sir Thopas,”
1388).
=Thor=, eldest son of Odin and Frigga; strongest and bravest of the
gods. He launched the thunder, presided over the air and the seasons,
and protected man from lightning and evil spirits.
His wife was Sif (“love”).
His chariot was drawn by two he-goats.
His mace or hammer was called Mjolner.
His belt was Megingjard. Whenever he put it on his strength was
doubled.
His palace was Thrudvangr. It contained 540 halls.
Thursday is Thor’s day.--_Scandinavian Mythology._
The word means “Refuge from terror.”
=Thoresby= (_Broad_), one of the troopers under Fitzurse.--Sir W.
Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).
=Thorn´berry= (_Job_), a brazier in Penzance. He was a blunt but kind
man, strictly honest, most charitable, and doting on his daughter,
Mary. Job Thornberry is called “John Bull,” and is meant to be a type
of a genuine English tradesman, unsophisticated by cant and foreign
manners. He failed in business “through the treachery of a friend;”
but Peregrine, to whom he had lent ten guineas, returning from
Calcutta after the absence of thirty years, gave him £10,000, which he
said his loan had grown to by honest trade.
_Mary Thornberry_, his daughter, in love with Frank Rochdale, son and
heir of Sir Simon Rochdale, whom ultimately she married.--G. Colman,
Jr., _John Bull_ (1805).
=Thorne= (_Esmerald_), physician who is killed instantly by a runaway
horse, and, without suspecting that his spirit has left his body,
seeks first one friend, then another, remaining viewless to all.
Condemned to work his way from a lower to a higher plane, he rebels
against the natural law of sowing and reaping, until led by the spirit
of his own little child to repentance and sanctification.
_Thorne_ (_Helen_), patient wife and sorrowing widow of
Esmerald.--Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, _The Gates Between_ (1887).