When they heard this [the discourse of Peter] they were pricked in their hearts

Suet on i us writes that Claudius found heer no resistance, and that all was done without stroke; but this seems not probable. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. I know no evil which touches all mankind so much as this of the misbehaviour of servants. Steele, Spectator, No. 88. (c) Emphatically, something that is to be immediately said or done: as, Let me tell you this : I shall lend you no more money. But know this , that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Mat. xxiv. 43. (d) Elliptically, this person, place, state, time, position, circumstance, or the like: as, I shall leave this [place or town] to-morrow; this [state of affairs] is very sad; I shall abstain from wine from this [time] on; by this [time] we had arrived at the house. This [that is, this one] is so gentil and so tendre of herte That with his deth he wol his sorwes wreke.