And stabb'st the good."
--_Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance_.

The Best till the Last. 78 L.J.

"Perhaps like him of Cana in Holy Writ
Our Arthur kept his best until the last."
--_Tennyson, The Holy Grail_.

Betrayed with a Kiss. 267 L.J.

"So Judas kiss'd his master,
And cried, 'all hail!' whenas he meant, all harm."
--_Shakespeare, III Henry VI 5:7_.

Bitter Waters 191 H.T.

"The Gospel has the only branch that
sweetens waters of a bitter popular discontent."
--_Anonymous_.

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Blood on the Lintel. 177 H. T.

"I do not suppose that your troops are to be
beaten in actual conflict with the foe, or that
they will be driven into the sea; but I am certain
that many homes in England in which there now
exists a fond hope that the distant one may
return, many such homes may be rendered desolate
when the next mail shall arrive. There is no one
to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side
posts of our doors, that the Angel of Death may
spare and pass on."
--_John Bright_.

Book of Life. 463 S.A.

"The Power . . . .
May hear well pleased the language of the soul,
And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll."
--_Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night_.

The Breastplate of Righteousness. 448 S.A.

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!"
--_Shakespeare, II Henry VI 3:2_.

Bricks without Straw. 150 H.T.

"For long years," writes Teufelsdrockh, "had the
poor Hebrew, in this Egypt of an
Auscultatorship, painfully toiled, baking bricks
without stubble, before ever the question once
struck him with entire force: For What?"
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 5_.

The Broken Reed. 272 S.A.

"He (the genius) becomes obstinate in his
errors, no less than in his virtues, and the
arrows of his aims are blunted, as the reeds of
his trust are broken."
--_Ruskin, A Joy For Ever_.

The Burning Bush 142 H.T.

"In wonder-workings, or some bush aflame,
Men look for God, and fancy him concealed,
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