Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pray," said Father Projuarez huskily, when he was led out. As General Cruz nodded, the priest fell on his knees, clasped a crucifix to his breast, prayed briefly. Rising, he walked resolutely to the garden wall, turned his back upon it, and extended his hands in the gesture of benediction, crying: "May God have mercy on you all!" An instant later the listening crowd outside heard three crisp commands: "Ready . . . Aim . . . Fire...
...Flowers, Negro, 32, onetime (Feb.-Dec., 1926) middleweight boxing champion of the world; in Manhattan; unexpectedly, after an operation for the removal of a growth over his left eye. Rightly known as "the Georgia Deacon," he uttered as his last words: "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take...
...English Estates," Professor Pray, Robinson Hall...
...them; and he was not disposed late in life to seek a rite without which he had always maintained full church membership. Attendance upon church-services was his established and regular habit, rather than an infrequent practice, as you imply. The statement that "he was never known to pray in church" is a gratuitous assumption and a slur upon his sincerity as a participant in public worship. What would you expect him to do?interrupt the preacher and offer to lead the congregation aloud in prayer...
...Landscape School of the Eighteenth Century," Professor Pray, Robinson Hall...