Sowerberry to Oliver, had consisted of a profuse bestowal upon him of all the dirty odds and ends which nobody else would eat; so there was a great deal of meekness and
self-devotion in her voluntarily remaining under Mr.
He was soon separated from his men, and fell covered with wounds, but his
self-devotion was not in vain.
The womanly power of
self-devotion was strong in the child, and she remained faithfully at her post when all the rest dropped away.
And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental
self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.
The sobriety,
self-devotion, and piety of our predecessors, made us powerful friends our presumption, our wealth, our luxury, have raised up against us mighty enemies.
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and
self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life!
He works in his parish with the most noble
self-devotion, and never loses courage, although his efforts have been several times rewarded by disgusting libels pasted up on the street-corners, thrown under doors, and even fastened to his own garden wall.
But when it comes to four o'clock, and still the same blank, Volumnia's constancy begins to fail her, or rather it begins to strengthen, for she now considers that it is her duty to be ready for the morrow, when much may be expected of her, that, in fact, howsoever anxious to remain upon the spot, it may be required of her, as an act of
self-devotion, to desert the spot.
His speech was followed by an uproar of applause, as its patriotism and
self-devotion unquestionably deserved; and the shouts and clapping of hands would have been greatly prolonged, had they not been rendered quite inaudible by a deep respiration, vulgarly called a snore, from the sleeping Hercules.
Nothing so fair, so ideal, so every way worthy to reward the courage and
self-devotion of a warrior, had ever before been encountered on the prairies, and the young brave appeared to be deeply and intuitively sensible to the influence of so rare a model of the loveliness of the sex.
"There is now no longer any right course of action nor any
self-devotion left among the Iranis." Objections and criticism we have had our fill of.
Thereof, the important role of teachers and educators become evident, because they are the ones who can broaden the range of one's knowledge and reasoning by teaching worthy knowledge and providing useful information, and are able to assist their audience in choosing the right option, controlling their selfish desires, achieving moral virtues such as
self-devotion and sacrifice, and in sum, to give them a hand to worship God.