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To the Church they were stanch; they held on with a kind Of a power like horseleeches' of suction, Intolerant, bigoted, narrow, and blind, They but lived to persist in obstruction.

Morales had, however, made his horseleech nature tolerably plain already, and Appleby decided to stand firm.

The people, like Oliver, "asked for more;" ungrateful people! not content with Father Glynn at the viceroy's table, and the Bishop of "Mesopotamia" in the council, they cried, like the horseleech's daughters, "Give! give!"

This faith thou not only keepest silent with this uproar of thine, but even oppressest, only so thy insatiable horseleech have those to whom it may say, "Bring, bring!"

They are always hanging upon us like an incubus; and yet like Solomon's daughters of the horseleech, are never satisfied.