...in the very van of horrors : — " From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from SUDDEN DEATH — Good Lord, deliver us." Sudden death is here made to crown the climax in a grand ascent of calamities; it is ranked among the...

...their life ebb away drop by drop. Now he understood the meaning of that ritual prayer of the Church: 'From battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.' By dying thus unprepared and unawares he might be incurring some future unpleasantness. In the providential...

...looked up from his desk and said : "A sudden one." He had his wish. How different from our Litany : " From battle and murder, and from sudden death, good Lord, deliver us." In Greece, sudden or otherwise inexplicable deaths, whether as a reward or as a punishment, were given...

...My room on the third floor is nearing completion. Newspapers? 'From plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord deliver us.' Commercialism? At present suffering an acute attack, whose cloak is Flood Control by Reservoirs, which...

...getting more of them yearly.—WM] From lightning and tempest, from plague, pestilence and famine, from battle and murder, and from sudden death Good Lord, deliver us. "From peripatetic uplifters and from professional surveyors Good Lord, deliver us." From '/'Ac Schoolmaster's...

...calamities, agrees with Caesar — "From the lightning and tempest; from plagues, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death — Good Lord, deliver us." And naturally De Quincey adds the opinion of Marcus Aurelius who ranked sudden death as the first of...

...behold the lurking places, the despots, the infernal designs — lust of dominion and conspiracies— from battle and murder and from sudden death — good Lord deliver us. Figure to yourselves, my good fellows, a man with a cow and a horse — oh the battlements, the battlements,...

...54: From lightnmg and tempest; from earthquake, fire, and flood; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us. For an explanation of the phrase "sudden death," see Marion J. Hatchett. Commentary on the American...

...sorts of horror left their mark. 'From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.' The prayer in the Prayer Book litany has ancient roots. Sudden death in the fifteenth century was a fate...

...— О * т — M 4J — 1 ТО ' ' From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion; from the tyrrany of the Bishop of Rome and all...