This fine old robber-knight was a devoutly and sincerely religious man, hospitable,charitable to the poor, fearless in fight, active, enterprising, and possessed of a large and generous nature.

They were not exactly popular favorites, but they did receive certain undesirable morsels from the morecharitable housewives.

Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times morecharitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.

And as his stomach kept grumbling more than ever and he had nothing to quiet it with, he thought of going out for a walk to the near-by village, in the hope of finding somecharitable person who might give him a bit of bread.

Though now the middle of December, there had yet been no weather to prevent the young ladies from tolerably regular exercise; and on the morrow, Emma had acharitable visit to pay to a poor sick family, who lived a little way out of Highbury.

And like a sister of charity did thischaritable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.

"Charitable person," he said, "whoever you may be grant me yet another prayer.

The Abyssins are extremelycharitable, and the women, on such occasions, will give even their necklaces and pendants, so that, with what I gave myself, I collected in the camp enough to pay the fine, and all parties were content.

"That's your affair," returned Samson, "but to suppose that I am going home until I have given Don Quixote a thrashing is absurd; and it is not any wish that he may recover his senses that will make me hunt him out now, but a wish for the sore pain I am in with my ribs won't let me entertain morecharitable thoughts."

"Well, Miss Clack, what's the last news in thecharitable circles?

She required a few pieces herself, the Foundation which, after many importunities, had gathered her to itscharitable breast, giving nothing but bare planks and cheaply papered bricks to the objects of its solicitude.

"The forlorn wanderers of the streets have (as I found it) one way always open to them of presenting their sufferings to the notice of their rich andcharitable fellow-creatures.