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...custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden and 20 for a young widow...
...attitude. His apathy, his air of defeat, his sad expression gave way to a vivacity of movement and a belligerent and combative spirit. . . . Instead of the indifference he had previously shown in the presence of the sheep he exhibited impetuosity and juvenile ardor. Isolated in a stable with a ewe he became the father of a lamb. Four years after the grafting operation he gave proof of good health...
...seized the wife of one of his officers just to show that he had power. The Lord sent Nathan to David to speak as follows: There were two men, one rich and the other poor. The rich man owned large flocks while the poor man had only one small ewe lamb. Now it happened that a traveller came to the house of the rich man, who, instead of taking one of his own lambs to feed the traveller with, took the one lamb of the poor man. When Nathan finished speaking David demanded who the rich man was saying...
...patrons of which were not the wealthy few, but the mass of the poor. Gifts of money and of utensils - even to a silver beer-bowl and a jug tipped with silver - were contributed; and to these were added offerings of the peck of corn annually, of meat and ewe lambs, and of everything that could be turned into money. Thus the colonial colleges grew up "out of the sacrificial generosity of the heart of the people...