Lovelily enfolds the husk its kernel; but what the human eye turns from as squalid and unclean may enfold the seed that clasps, couched in infinite withdrawment, the vital germ of all that is lovely and graceful, harmonious and strong, all without which no poet would sing, no martyr burn, no king rule in righteousness, no geometrician pore over the marvellous must. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
This drives them back upon themselves, into a deeper and sadder seclusion than that naturally imposed by their housekeeping and their historic withdrawment from the bustling businesses of the world. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)
They have never seriously considered what must be the effect upon their views and feelings, of an entire withdrawment from the scenes and objects of earth, and an entrance into those of the future state. ❋ Unknown (1857)
So convinced was Mr. Southey that this long-cherished design had influenced poor Gilbert in his sudden withdrawment, that he wrote to Mr. Roscoe, at Liverpool, begging him to interfere, to prevent any African captain from taking such a person as Mr.S. described. ❋ Cottle, Joseph (1847)
Rev. Joseph Clay Stiles in McIntosh county, embracing the neighborhood of Harris 'neck, which continued in operation for some time, until by the withdrawment of ❋ Unknown (1842)
James L. Yeo against Sackett's Harbour; Sir George Prevost orders the withdrawment of the troops, at the very crisis of victory, to the great disappointment and dissatisfaction of his officers and men 399 ❋ Egerton Ryerson (1842)
General Proctor resolved to make another effort to defeat General Harrison's purpose to recover Michigan, and immediately besieged the American fort at Lower Sandusky; but in consequence of the withdrawment of the Indians out of the reach of the enemy's guns, and disinclined to the delay of a siege, and General ❋ Egerton Ryerson (1842)
One appealed to the supreme court, but the judges held that the withdrawment of a license was within the province of the bishop; another obtained his salary from the treasury, the governor having refused to recognise the revocation. ❋ John West (1840)
Mr. Robinson described his plan, _as the employment of persuasion only_, and requiring the withdrawment of intimidation. ❋ John West (1840)
Withdrawal appeared in the 1800s after people had spent the previous two centuries saying "withdrawment." ❋ WARREN CLEMENTS (2011)
But the queen's parsimony, or, more truly, the narrowness of her income, caused her perpetually to repine at the great expenses to which she was put for this service, and frequently to run the risk of losing all that had been slowly gained, by a sudden withdrawment, or long delay, of the necessary supplies. ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)
Gilbert in his sudden withdrawment, that he wrote to Mr. Roscoe, at ❋ Joseph Cottle (1811)
Imagine, if you can, the withdrawment of this doctrine from the faith of those who have a solemn persuasion of it as a part of revealed truth. ❋ John Foster (1806)
The withdrawment, we said, of the grand truth in question, from a man's faith, (together with everything of taste and _habit_ which that faith might have created,) would necessarily break up the government over his conscience. ❋ John Foster (1806)
"As the sun is the same in its nature and influences, though the earth and clouds, oft interposing, make it seem to us as varying, by its rising and setting, and by its different appearances, or entire withdrawment, when the change is not in it; so God is unchangeable, and our changes and shadows are not from any mutability or shadowy alterations in him, but from ourselves." ❋ Unknown (1721)
This he resolved to do in the face of many obstacles, and notwithstanding the withdrawment of the royal protection and bounty. ❋ Samuel De Champlain (1601)
After his withdrawment from Kiddingtm be was always cheaiful, and complained of nothing but the pro - phanencfs and iniquity of the times, and divifions of the church of God, and loved all who had any thing of goodnefs in them. ❋ Unknown (1775)
The promises also of felicity to the righteous, in the future world, though the precise nature of that felicity may not be defined, are illustrated by every image that can swell the imagination: while the misery of the 'lost', in its unutterable intensity, though the language that describes it is all necessarily figurative, is there exhibited as resulting chiefly, if not wholly, from the withdrawment of the 'light of God's countenance', and a banishment from his ❋ James Gillman (N/A)
The promises also of felicity to the righteous in the future world, though the precise nature of that felicity may not be defined, are illustrated by every image that can swell the imagination; while the misery of the lost, in its unutterable intensity, though the language that describes it is all necessarily figurative, is there exhibited as resulting chiefly, if not wholly, from the withdrawment of the light of God's countenance, and a banishment from his presence! best comprehended in this world by reflecting on the desolations, which would instantly follow the loss of the sun's vivifying and universally diffused warmth. ❋ Cottle, Joseph (1847)
_spirit_, a withdrawment of the affections from its criminal pursuits and guilty indulgences. ❋ Francis Augustus Cox (1818)
