Word: prays
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...this time I reverted in my mind to the remarks made of me in childhood, and the things that had been shewn me--and as it had been said of me in childhood by those by whom I had been taught to pray, both white and black, and in whom I had the greatest confidence, that I had too much sense to be raised, and if I was, I would never be of any use to any one as a slave. Now finding I had arrived to man's estate, and was a slave, and these revelations being made known...
...What is the news, good neighbor, I pray...
...week, the lines of sightseers wound up the hill in Arlington National Cemetery, where the two assassinated brothers lie buried. On what would have been Robert F. Kennedy's 43rd birthday, his brother Ted brought his own and the slain Senator's family to pray and leave flowers. Two days later, on the fifth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas, the family returned to visit the flame-lit grave a little farther up the hill. In New York, Mrs. Aristotle Onassis took John and Caroline Kennedy to a special Mass for their father...
...compliments out of the way, the Shah devoted special attention during the next few days to the Moslem tie that binds the Aryans of Iran, most of whom are members of the Shi'a sect, to the Arabs of the Sunni sect, who inhabit Saudi Arabia. The Shah prayed at the Prophet's mosque in the holy city of Medina, and in Mecca he performed the umra, the little pilgrimage, walking seven times around the Kaaba, toward which Moslems turn when they pray...
...Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship was in danger, as she often was) for fear that prayer would rob them of the will to work...