 Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do' — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his...  The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine - Page 5341817Full view - About this book
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 pages
...handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. 9. The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the...was some time before the tumult had subsided so far as to permit him to proceed. 10. Indeed, judging by the usual but fallacious standard of my own weakness,... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 784 pages
...they do!"— the voice of the preacher, which all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of...raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a leud and irrepressible flow of ijrief. The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with... | |
 | James Waddel Alexander - 1880 - 56 pages
...do,' the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of...loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the ^mingled groans and sobs and shrieks of the congregation.... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - Augusta County (Va.) - 1882 - 420 pages
...do'— the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of...was some time before the tumult had subsided, so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual, but fallacious standard of my own weakness,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...do ! " — the voice of the preacher, which all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of...his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flow of grief. The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans and... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being FIFTH READER. entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings,...his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flow of grief. The effect is inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans and sobs... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being FIFTH READER. entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings,...his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flow of grief. The effect is inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans and sobs... | |
 | Recitations - 1884 - 780 pages
...they do!"— the voice of the preacher, which all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of...his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flow of grief. The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans and... | |
 | Elocution - 1885 - 332 pages
...do," — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of...loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect was inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the mingled groans, sobs, and shrieks of the congregation.... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...do"—the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of...was some time before the tumult had subsided, so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual but fallacious standard of my own weakness,... | |
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