Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aber nein" said Victoria. "We came here with our neighbors, and we want to stay with them. We pray for the war to be over. Then we all want to return to our homes. Perhaps we will live that long...
...sent her a dead rat in retaliation, she screamed with laughter, sent it back with a lily on its chest. She loved her two dogs-a Sealyham, Chips, and a Scottie, Chops-summoning them with ear-splitting whistles. In moments of remorse she would sink to her knees to pray...
...Abram said unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd-men; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left...
...Torquay, England that Japan "did more for the literacy education of her people in 60 years than the British in India in 150 years," blamed atrocities primarily on Japanese police who, he claimed, treated their own people the way they are now treating the enemy, admitted that he prayed daily for Japanese Christians, added: "I pray for victory-and the whopping defeat of Japan...
...executions are intended to draw spectators. . . . The old method was most satisfactory to all parties; the public was gratified by a procession ; the criminal was supported by it." He had no patience with music: "It gives me no ideas, Sir, and prevents me thinking about my own." "Pray, who is Bach, a piper?" In his last years he became asthmatic and dropsical, admitted that he was desperately afraid of being "one of those who shall be damned." "What do you mean by damned?" asked his doctor. "Sent to Hell, sir, and punished everlastingly," roared Johnson. He would glance fearfully...