Of all who hail thy presence as the morning -- Of all to whom thine absence is the night -- The blotting utterly from out high heaven The sacred sun -- of all who, weeping, bless thee
Hourly for hope- for life -- ah!
And yet, somehow, did Ahab --in his own proper self, as daily,
hourly, and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates, --Ahab seemed an independent lord; the Parsee but his slave.
Daily He announces more distinctly,--'Surely I come quickly!' and
hourly I more eagerly respond,--'Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!'"
Astor that circumstances would permit; the frigate being
hourly expected, in which case the whole property of that gentleman would be liable to capture.
To Michael and Kwaque, the daily, even
hourly, recognition and consideration of Dag Daughtry was tantamount to resting continuously in the bosom of Abraham.
That he could not, however, help complaining a little against the peculiar severity of his fate, which brought the news of so great a calamity to him by surprize, and that at a time when he
hourly expected the severest blow he was capable of feeling from the malice of fortune.
Hourly do they become smaller, poorer, unfruitfuller,--poor herbs!
The desolate feeling with which I went abroad, deepened and widened
hourly. At first it was a heavy sense of loss and sorrow, wherein I could distinguish little else.
Yes, Mary, my Fanny will feel a difference indeed: a daily,
hourly difference, in the behaviour of every being who approaches her; and it will be the completion of my happiness to know that I am the doer of it, that I am the person to give the consequence so justly her due.
The ship's cow, distressed by the heat and the smell of the ape-beast in the cage, lowed unhappily from time to time in exactly the same key as the lookout man at the bows answered the
hourly call from the bridge.
And valuing no one's standard but his own, he is never tempted to practice that miserable pretense that less self-reliant people offer up as an
hourly sacrifice to the god of their neighbor's opinion.
Tyler, Sr., was expected almost
hourly. The last steamer in from Honolulu had brought information of the date of the expected sailing of his yacht Toreador, which was now twenty-four hours overdue.