"Endue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a man! And our great father, waking from his sleep, Has sent him to oar aid. Master of Life, Endue my warriors with double strength! May the wedged helve be faithful to the axe, The arrow fail not, and the flint be firm! That our great vengeance, like the whirlwind fell, May cleave through thickets of our enemies A broad path ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair
... is, give him a consciousness, of the truth of a principle in politics, in trade, or in religion, and you actuate him politically, commercially, or religiously. Convince a criminal of his crime, that is, endue him with a conscious feeling of his criminality, and you make him burn with electric fire. A convicted man is a man thoroughly conscious; and a thoroughly conscious man is a deeply moved one. And this ...
— Sermons to the Natural Man • William G.T. Shedd
... chamber door, and went into my study; and taking the New Testament in my hands, kneeled down on my knees, and with many a deep sigh and salt tear, I did, with much deliberation, read over the tenth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel,[512] praying that God would endue his tender and lately-born little flock in Oxford with heavenly strength by his Holy Spirit; that quietly to their own salvation, with all godly patience, they might bear Christ's heavy cross, which I now saw was presently to be laid on their young and weak backs, unable to ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... purpose than to procure people for their ovens. They have been known even to bake men alive. Often a town was attacked, and all the inhabitants, sometimes four or five hundred in number, were slaughtered. When the son of a great chief arrived at manhood, it was the custom to endue him with his toga virilis on the summit of a large heap of slaughtered enemies; and the whole population of a town was ruthlessly murdered for no other purpose than ...
— The Cruise of the Mary Rose - Here and There in the Pacific • William H. G. Kingston
... the waist, which is at other times omitted. The costume of the women is a combination of that of the Hindoos and Mussulmans, consisting of the short body and sarree of the former, with the full trousers of the latter. Both sexes endue themselves, at seven years of age, with the sacred shirt, which is worn over the trousers; the sadra, as it is called, is made of a thin, transparent muslin, and is meant to represent the coat-of-mail the men wore when they arrived in India, ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... their God and for their Pope; They suffered for their faith, to them as true And pure as ours to us, and in the hope That God would bless their labours, and endue The savage Indians with a softer heart, And give them with ...
— The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic • Wilfred S. Skeats
... son of Houadir, "to me, and I will endue them with stronger virtues, and thou shalt by them have power also over others, as well as to ...
— Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers • Various
... wheron the Church is based Pillar that cannot bend With strength endue us; and the Faith ...
— The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book • Various
... and remarks that, as even more hideous gods have been adored, it is not surprising that the Indians took him at his word. When stripped of the somewhat strange phraseology of the simple Jesuit, there is nothing really shocking in the incident. People in general, in making gods, endue them with their own least admirable attributes, and logically these poor Indians but ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham |
