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Letter "S" » scourging
«Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks. all lovely and loose and jingly.»
Author: Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
cook, department, department store, Department Stores, exaltation, gaggle, geese, jingly, larks, librarian, librarians, packs, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, stores, swarm, swarming, swarms, teenagers, The Cook, The Larks, The Librarian
«War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.»
Author: Cardinal Richelieu
(Cardinal, Minister)
| About:
War
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afflict, afflicting, god of war, pleased, scourged, scourges, Scourge of God, scourging, war god
«Military men are the scourges of the world»
«Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan»
«So live that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan that movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.»
«And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
agreement, covenant, covenanted, covenants, overflowing, pass through, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, tread down, trodden
«Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: / Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
agreement, covenant, covenanted, covenants, foundation stone, haste, hid, lay in, overflowing, pass through, precious stone, scourge, scourged, scourges, Scourge of God, scourging, Zion
«And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air, / The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.»
«War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
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«When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatre»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
accomplices, impieties, impiety, indignation, ingratitude, pope, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, swells, The Accomplice, the pope, vermin, Zwingli
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