Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan emerged, last week, from Soviet Russia. From Moscow via the Crimea and the Black Sea they came to Constantinople, then plunged inland to Angora, the new capital of the Turkish Republic. There King Amanullah, called "The Peace of God" had his hand warmly shaken and both cheeks soundly kissed by the Ghazi, "The Victorious One," President Mustafa Kemal Pasha...
Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God. (St. Matthew...
...serve God you must train your mind as well as your soul. Liquor and some other things deprave the mind and soul...
Mediaeval persons, who had not quite escaped the cheering madness which makes savages discover in every stone an emblem, in every wind a god, imagined the unicorn, a strange single antlered creature which no one had ever seen, as a symbol for purity. It was a rare beast as well as one unreal; to capture the unicorn, one must first capture a virgin and induce her to sit still upon the ground. The unicorn, attracted by a purity akin to his own, might come and lay his shaggy, frightened head upon her lap. Then hunters might come up and kill...
...woven chase, God and Gabriel had more than these companions. A jovial company of gentlemen, urging great horses and blowing on golden horns, were riding, running, through a wilderness of flowers. Their meek quarry fled through the brilliant fields; behind him, silent and happy, the pursuit increased and came more quickly; a wind stiffened in their flags and made the starry flowers bend across the grass. The white hounds leaned upon their leashes and the bowmen bent their bows. Crouching in a garden at last, the prisoned unicorn gazed upon his followers. They levelled spears amid a thousand flowers...