Once she struck him with a stick and left a great weal on his arm. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Noun : the public weal; weal and woe. From Dictionary.com.
In every free State where conjunctures like the present are not foreseen, you must be sensible that the public weal is endangered by every storm. From Wordnik.com. [News Report] Reference
The youthful and brave and handsome Vikarna, O bull among men, brought up in luxury and deserving of every kind of weal, now sleepeth amid the dust, O Madhava!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
349 I.e., she referred him to the true source of the 'weal' he imputed to her. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
Forgive them, Lord! they know not their true weal. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference
Justice their sword, and England's weal their cause?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers] Reference
Then first was I wielding the weal of the Dane-folk. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Come weal, come woe, I must follow it out to the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
What tender aspirations we breathed for other's weal!. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Bearers of ill ride faster than the messengers of weal. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference
It is the decision of the heart's earthly weal or woe. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
It invites us to take counsel concerning her wants and her weal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Come weal, come woe, this should and will remain a united country. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
His handdës dyd he weal and wryng, he sayd, 'Alas, and woe ys me!. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series] Reference
Upon its precarious, oft-jeopardized tenure hang potent issues and kindred weal. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Here they are, four millions of them, and, for weal or for woe, here they must remain. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Remember there is no element of human character so potential for weal or woe as firmness. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
I shall push ahead and do my level best to carry this State, come weal or woe to me personally. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
The example of a good Monarchie, is of greate force, to confounde the state of al other common weal. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
Father can await his boy's final clearance from guilty suspicions in patient abeyance to public weal. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
I ask the patience of the House, which has my future weal or woe in their hands, to hear me yet further. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
He likes not this connection of the common-weal and divinity, and fears it may be an arch-practice of state. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Paris alone -- such books as might be approved by the proper authorities and be found necessary to the public weal. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
She denied him the commoner human qualities that make a man a constructive citizen whether his country is in weal or woe. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Yet throughout all he bore himself with patience, and never swerved from the course which he deemed best for the public weal. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
His was a very thin body, the ribs standing out beneath the skin almost as harshly as did the weal of the scar on his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
But come weal, come woe, where'er we be on that day, I can guarantee you our sentiments will be easily summed up by the following. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
The animosities of elections should have no place in our Government, for government must concern itself alone with the common weal. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Some who had privately and wisely retained a small sum for a "rainy day" had gone off, abandoning their interest in the common weal. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
But when it's jobs and housing and a vision for the long haul, only Catholic leaders with a grasp of the wider common weal need apply. From Wordnik.com. [The New Holy War] Reference
"'My guest,' made answer the fair Nausicaa, 'for I call thee so since thou seemest not base nor foolish, it is Zeus himself that giveth weal to men --'". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The social conscience has always demanded of the individual self - sacrifice, even to the extent of laying down his life, on occasion, for the public weal. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
That's it in a legal nutshell, but an added civilian perspective might be this: the lack of the privilege is illogical, and defies both common sense and the public weal. From Wordnik.com. [No Privilege For Parents] Reference
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