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I daresay the words were his, for he had been counselling Owen.

From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Yet all his life he had been counselling other people in their anxieties.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir

He had been counselling himself to patience and entire reliance upon God's providence while waiting the opportunity "to create or procure the circumstances" necessary to the expression of his own individuality.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter