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These are the Ten Commandments:* 1) Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. 2) Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image. . . . 3) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. . . . 4) Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. . . . 5) Honor thy father and thy mother. . . . 6) Thou shalt do no murder. 7) Thou shalt not commit adultery 8) Thou shalt not steal. 9) Thou shalt not bear false witness. . . . 10) Thou shalt not covet. . . . Even after this present rereading, how many people can repeat all the Ten Commandments? Few, very...
Closely scrutinized, each gleaming adornment was seen to be a golden watch key, graven with fine print and a florid script on the one side, with three stars, a pointing hand and the Greek P B K on the reverse...
...Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Then he revisited New Orleans, met Gentleman Jim Corbett in a square place with ropes around. Fourteen rounds, and the Strong Boy lay still, with blood purling down his jowls. By the ropes, Senator Roscoe Conkling, tall in black, was graven in wood; Steve Brodie, apoplectic with woe, wobbled about on his seat. Thereafter, the Strong Boy devoted himself to other activities...
...average British crowd"-God bless its sensible heart! Stimulated by the thought that "the shallow end is often much deeper than we think," the gallant Major considers, among other trivia: Midnight Revels (at home and abroad), Legal Cruelty (English courts), Universal Uncles (radiorators), A Rest Cure (English billiards), Graven Images (Madame Tussaud's famed waxworks), Royal and Antient (droll golf talk), The Springs of Laughter (Musical comedy). The vein employed is gentle satire of patent absurdities. Manners are mildly abused; the reader mildly amused. The soundings of the shallow end remain about as charted...