| 单词 | strait and narrow |
| 例句 | There’s A Balance To Be Struck Here While you want to keep the company on the strait and narrow, you don’t want rules to become a straitjacket. Be A Great Leader: How To Coach A Winning Team 2014-02-12T15:13:00Z The happy few were represented as entering with difficulty, and treading with perseverance, the 'strait and narrow way,' which not even self-deceit could persuade me that I had found. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Hendrick wormed his way into the strait and narrow cavern as far as he thought he safely could; he emerged empty-handed, but with traces of blood on his clothing. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z For its gate of entrance is strait and narrow. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z They are Sunday’s native way of lighting up the strait and narrow path with wriggling electric signs. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The crooked paths of deceit and dishonesty can have but one end, unless by God's grace those paths are forsaken, and the strait and narrow way chosen in their place. Little Miss Joy It is truly the strait and narrow way, and few there be—of London visitants—that find it.... Hastings and Neighbourhood The path that leads to life is strait and narrow, and few there be who find it. The Night Side of London But he had shown scant perseverance in the road which, strait and narrow though it be, has now become easy to trace, being well marked by the tread of countless bleeding feet. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies I have done my best to accept Mr. Wells's definitions, but I am sure he feels that I have constantly slipped from the strait and narrow path. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' A way was provided,—but an extremely strait and narrow way. Patrick Henry The temptation is great, the opportunity is eagerly seized, and wickedness is done; it is so easy to step into the "broad way," so difficult to find footing in the "strait and narrow path." Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea O how spacious and broad is that way in reality, which to our first apprehension and the common construction is strait and narrow! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning You walk in the strait and narrow way which leads to the meeting-house. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder The thought that he was about to execute Justice occupied his mind wholly as the old wether led them into the strait and narrow way. The Wrong Woman I believe that was the only time he ever stepped aside from the strait and narrow way. Comic History of the United States She still believed in the strait and narrow pathway. A Little Girl in Old Salem The one is strait and narrow, and few walk in it; the other broad and easy, and many walk in it, Matt. vii. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning If a good layman might barely shoulder his way through the strait and narrow gate, the highest graces and heavenly rewards were vouchsafed to the faithful monk. The Age of the Reformation For its Gate of Entrance is strait and narrow. Life of Father Hecker My Christian students, impressed with the true sense of the great work before them, enter this strait and narrow path, and work conscientiously. Retrospection and Introspection The secular arm was ever ready to support the religious, and to compel every resident of the colony to walk in the strait and narrow way of Puritanism. American Men of Action To his eternal honour he rejected the prospect, and chose the strait and narrow way which led, through poverty and disgrace, to immortality. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Moreover, the constant reminders of the danger of straying from the strait and narrow way, and of the tortures of the afterworld led to self-consciousness, introspection, and morbidness. Woman's Life in Colonial Days My third must strait and narrow prove Or 'twill not lead to heaven above. Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country How many try to widen that strait and narrow way! Hints for Lovers His indulgence in literary work was probably but another expression of his longing to escape from the strait and narrow way prescribed for a Protestant clergyman. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Seeing that the gate is very strait and narrow that leads to the kingdom of heaven, then what shall become of many of you, that never came the length that hypocrites have come? The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony Friendship loves a free air, and will not be penned up in strait and narrow enclosures. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy What though it be strait and narrow; you are not to walk in it forever. Sermons to the Natural Man The consequence is, that he is not read except in a peculiar circle very strait and narrow. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Set like a saint within a niche— A strait and narrow niche—you hide, And weave a veil about you, which Can turn our steel, Saint Bride, Saint Bride. Twenty The way of pure spirituality was probably, in the convent as well as out, that strait and narrow one which there be few to find. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator For few, saith the Lord, are the travellers along the strait and narrow way, but along the wide and broad way many. Barlaam and Ioasaph The early Christians were anxious to hold the believers to the strait and narrow way. Understanding the Scriptures In his eyes, the strait and narrow path would hold but few besides his own flock. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish In the meantime, Sir James being come, the English that were in the chancel kept off the Scots, and having the advantage of the strait and narrow entrie, defended themselves manfully. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 A winding stair, strait and narrow, as if to remind the nuns of their duties of fast and maceration, led down to a lower suite of apartments, which occupied the ground story of the house. The Abbot They are so particular, you know, that I fairly ache from trying to walk in the strait and narrow path which is so easy for them. Without a Home As for this extraordinary savage, he had entered into the strait and narrow way, though he was not far advanced on its difficult path. Oak Openings Now, the passage being very strait and narrow, I made many offers to get in, but all in vain, even until I was wellnigh quite beat out, by striving to get in. Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] |
| 随便看 |
|
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。