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She saw too clearly the absence of any warm, self-devoting love in

Adam Bede 2004

Him! the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart!

Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Various

Would the last act of the great Bridegroom of the Church be to strike from the heart of his purified Bride those yearnings of self-devoting love which

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

Yet amidst this helpless imbecility there was a touching trait of humble, self-devoting maternity, which made Maggie feel tenderly toward her poor mother amidst all the little wearing griefs caused by her mental feebleness.

II. The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation 1917

A third is self-devoting love akin to that shown on Calvary: "The fruit of the Spirit is love;" "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another."

Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915

Him! the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart!

I. The First Bunker Hill Monument Oration 1906

The sudden bereavement of her youth bewildered and overwhelmed her; her capacity for dependent, self-devoting love sought for an object and lavished itself upon her brother.

Amabel Channice Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

Him! the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart!

Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1903

They are often pitiful, self-devoting, generous; but they are so by fits and starts, just as they are cruel, remorseless, exacting, by fits and starts.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890

But, within certain limits, which are laid down by the law of numbers, the true elements of superiority under the present system of gigantic armies are seen to be spiritual and moral strength, and larger masses will be beaten by a small, well-led and self-devoting army.

Germany and the Next War Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889