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    candidate, says to him: "Thou hast chosen, my son, the most ancient profession, the most acceptable to the deity. Thou hast sworn to put to death every...
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  • after many missions. Harris described the character as "someone who can sense when things are up. He's your audience guy, going, 'Don't go in that tunnel...
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  • Fame. French performance-art sensation Le Pétomane releases - in every sense of the word - his first DVD. Potty Pioneers: George Stephenson makes the...
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  • Liberty 1815 Say, what is Honour?--'Tis the finest sense 1809 "Say, what is Honour?--'Tis the finest sense" Sonnets dedicated to Liberty 1815 Tyrolese Sonnets...
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    of the air ..." (1.7.21–25). The listener is challenged to complete the sense. The late romances, with their shifts in time and surprising turns of plot...
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    although the world is infused with this great sense of magic, there is very little onstage magic. So you have a sense of magic, but it's kept under very tight...
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  • This is reflected in the former variant spelling of "twot". The literal sense is first attested in 1656, the epithet in the 1930s. The word's etymology...
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    high and sacred office which I have held. For all of these I feel a deep sense of remorse, and ask forgiveness of any whom I may have offended. My brethren...
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  • Indonesia. in hoc sensu, or in sensu hoc (s.h.) in this sense Recent academic abbreviation for "in this sense". in hoc signo vinces by this sign you will conquer...
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    metaphorically. While each passage of Scripture has a literal sense, this "literal sense" does not always mean the Scriptures are mere history; at times...
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    utterly cast away. Lord, I have heard that thou art a merciful God, and hast ordained that thy Son Jesus Christ should be the Savior of the world; and...
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    under death magic, the term is occasionally also used in a more general sense to refer to black magic or witchcraft as a whole. The word necromancy is...
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    Delacroix wrote of the work: If the great Puget had had as much of common sense as he had of the intensity and science which fill this work, he would have...
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    it as 'pure delusion'. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains  My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains...
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    Humpty Dumpty, in response to Alice's request, explains to her the non-sense words from the first stanza of the poem, but Carroll's personal commentary...
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    Antichrist, in the sense that there would be a general "falling away" in doctrine among the churches, resulting in moral apostasy. In this sense the Antichrist...
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    Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister...
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    should have come to this evil pass? What have I done to thee? But what thou hast done to me is to have laid hands on me although I had nothing wicked to thee...
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  • Love's Labour's Lost, includes a reference to dog Latin: Costard: Go to; thou hast it ad dungill, at the fingers' ends, as they say. Holofernes: O, I smell...
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    modal verb can expresses possibility in a dynamic, deontic, or epistemic sense, that is, in terms of innate ability, permissibility, or probability. For...
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  • Because the punishment is temporary, the problem of Hell in the Christian sense is less applicable to Judaism. Both Non-Jews and Jews have a share in the...
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  • to write the way they sound. I am not an intellectual, not in the dreary sense that word is used today, and do not want to be: I am aiming at what Henry...
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  • role-playing games. In line with the stereotype, he also has poor fashion sense. It is sometimes implied that Martin is gay but closeted. He is the son...
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  • breastplate perused his first volume and pronounced, "Thou hast div'd deep into the water, and hast brought up a potsherd". He was woken by his neighbour's...
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    employed by him specifically because he was “of good character but no model sense” and have been involved in a public scandal. In other words, a Bohemian...
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    Gnostic Mass she is also identified with Mother Earth, in her most fertile sense. Along with her status as an archetype or goddess, Crowley believed that...
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    author Joyce Carol Oates highlighted Le Guin's "outspoken sense of justice, decency, and common sense", and called her "one of the great American writers and...
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  • the text to the singer's interpretation of the melody and to enhance a sense of continuity by filling the gaps between phrases. The melody is often varied...
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    manner I reached home. This was in the summer of 1785. This experience and sense of calling ultimately led him to devote his life to abolishing the slave...
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    its frequent conjectural emendations, mainly to make it conform to his sense of Chaucer's metre. The justice of such criticisms should not obscure his...
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