an eternal friendship of
several weeks' duration

Waiting the pleasure of a capricious
and despotic woman

Walk up and down the earth and destroy
his fellow-creatures

War was the normal and natural
condition of mankind

War was the normal condition of
Christians

War to compel the weakest to follow the
religion of the strongest

Was it astonishing that murder was more
common than fidelity?

Wasting time fruitlessly is sharpening
the knife for himself

We were sold by their negligence who
are now angry with us

We believe our mothers to have been
honest women

We are beginning to be vexed

We must all die once

We have been talking a little bit of
truth to each other

We have the reputation of being a good
housewife

We mustn't tickle ourselves to make
ourselves laugh

Wealth was an unpardonable sin

Wealthy Papists could obtain immunity
by an enormous fine

Weapons

Weary of place without power

Weep oftener for her children than is
the usual lot of mothers

Weight of a thousand years of error

What exchequer can accept chronic
warfare and escape bankruptcy

What could save the House of Austria,
the cause of Papacy

What was to be done in this world and
believed as to the next

When persons of merit suffer without
cause

When all was gone, they began to eat
each other

When the abbot has dice in his pocket,
the convent will play

Whether dead infants were hopelessly
damned

Whether murders or stratagems, as if
they were acts of virtue

Whether repentance could effect
salvation

While one's friends urge moderation

Who the "people" exactly were

Who loved their possessions better than
their creed

Whole revenue was pledged to pay the
interest, on his debts

Whose mutual hatred was now artfully
inflamed by partisans

William of Nassau, Prince of Orange

William Brewster

Wise and honest a man, although he be
somewhat longsome

Wiser simply to satisfy himself

Wish to sell us the bear-skin before
they have killed the bear

Wish to appear learned in matters of
which they are ignorant

With something of feline and feminine
duplicity

Wonder equally at human capacity to
inflict and to endure misery

Wonders whether it has found its harbor
or only lost its anchor

Word peace in Spanish mouths simply
meant the Holy Inquisition

Word-mongers who, could clothe one
shivering thought

Words are always interpreted to the
disadvantage of the