"Deed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Macao, and asked to see Bourbaki's rifle, which he carelessly handed to them. When, towards morning, Macao left them for a few moments, they profited by the opportunity to shoot Bourbaki from behind, and to run away. Macao, rushing back, found his friend dead, and fled to the shore. By this deed the wrong to the chief was supposed to be made good—a very peculiar practice in native justice. It may be a remnant of old head-hunting traditions, inasmuch as Belni's brother would have given the dead man's head ...
— Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific • Felix Speiser
... mechanically and followed her guide through a door in the wall, which led to a square piece of ground, bare and ugly,—a cabbage- patch in name and in deed. There against the unromantic background the two girls stood looking at each other, face to face with the great question of ...
— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... 'Deed, Jeanie, I could not help it; if he would ask me about our ballants and buiks, that ye would never lay your ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge
... said he, "for our white neighbors who are not guilty of this deed. We must not violate our faith or the laws of hospitality by imbruing our hands in the blood of those who are now in our power. They came to us in the confidence of a pledged friendship; let us conduct them safely back within their own confines before we take ...
— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman
... on him the iniquities of us all." So it is stated in this prophecy: "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given," for the promise of God is the same to him as the fulfillment. His word is equivalent to his deed. It cost him as much to purpose and pledge as to fulfill his pledge. Hence, the prophecy speaks of the thing as done, since God has promised to do it. Seven centuries before he came, the prophet said, "unto us a Child is born, unto us a ...
— The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism • S. E. Wishard
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