Word: gabrielic
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...discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested by Franciscan missions in these towns and for 1,000 miles along the Pacific Coast. The mission of San Gabriel Arcangel out side Los Angeles grew the first wine grapes and oranges ever seen in California...
...disguised as deep feelings, jealousy or thought. It also contains little stories grained into the theoretical material: Tucker Ames worried until he could not get ahead because his daughter was in the hospital, his business failing, and his wife in love with another man; Phyllis Foster worried over injustice; Gabriel Gadbury worried over his wife's extravagance; Robert E. Lee refused to worry over what history would say of his surrender; Martin Luther chose to be true to himself when "faced with one of the greatest decisions in history." In it are to be found a catalog of definitions...
Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.) Dramacritic Gilbert Wolf Gabriel M.A. Ex-Senator George Wharton Pepper. . .LL.D...
...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
...insurrection fails because of the negroes' superstitions. Rain and lightning and thunder are responsible for the loss of many of Gabriel's followers, as well as (partly) for the defection of Ben. Against superstition and treachery even the gods contend in vain, and when Gabriel goes down in defeat he goes down with an undeniable grandeur which even Mr. Bontemps can impart to the reader...