For instance, since Sukey married Dick Ellison, he seems to have vowed that none of us shall have a lover; and, so, dear mother, you might have found us just now, like six daughters of Jephthah, bewailing our fates upon a hill." "He has no fault to find with my John Lambert," put in Nancy.
Hetty did not heed.

"I have no patience with these swearers.

A man, or a woman for that matter, should have the courage to outbrave an oath when it hurts the innocent.

Did God require the blood of Jephthah's daughter?
or of the sons of Rizpah?
Think, mother, if this fire were lit in the fields here, and you sitting by it to scare the beasts from your three sons! I cannot like that David.
Saul, now, was a man and a king, every inch of him, even in his dark hours.

David had no breeding--a pretty, florid man, with his curls and pink cheeks; one moment dancing and singing, and the next weeping on his bed.