I speak of this, because I would not have you think me slow to answer, or that I had small joy in your rejoicing at the
worldly good that has befallen your brother Adam.
I've got all my
worldly goods in it, but it isn't heavy.
I suppose she thinks I am a prodigal,' pursued he, observing that I was unwilling to reply, 'and concludes that I shall have but little
worldly goods wherewith to endow my better half?
He regarded her as safe within the Temple of Podsnappery, hiding the fulness of time when she, Georgiana, should take him, Fitz-Podsnap, who with all his
worldly goods should her endow.
"The Lord only gives us our
worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.
She came back the next day with her
worldly goods, and Newman, going into his drawing-room, found her upon her aged knees before a divan, sewing up some detached fringe.
And so we set out from Manataj for Manatos accompanied by a great caravan bearing all her
worldly goods and jewels and precious metals, and on the way she caused the rumor to be spread that she and I had died.
All their
worldly goods are a bag, a large chest and an old chair: one, old, high- backed, rush-bottomed chair: a solitary settler in itself.
Isaac, recalled to think of his
worldly goods, the love of which, by dint of inveterate habit, contended even with his parental affection, grew pale, stammered, and could not deny there might be some small surplus.
They had quarreled in the night; Pierre had administered the Indian discipline of the cudgel, whereupon she had taken to the woods, with their children and all their
worldly goods. Pierre evidently was deeply grieved and disconcerted at the loss of his wife and his knapsack, whereupon Mr.
You may also tell him, from me, that after abandoning his
worldly goods and position to this butcherly mob, I wonder he is not at the head of them.
Neither were they rich in
worldly goods, holding the land by sufferance while they lived; and there often the sheriff came in vain to collect the taxes, and "attached a chip," for form's sake, as I have read in his accounts, there being nothing else that he could lay his hands on.