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When you hear such expressions as "So mote it be" (signifying approval); "Called from labor to refreshment": "Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly"; and that gem that Blackstone loved and quoted in his Commentaries, "From a time whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary"; you may well know that the persons who use them are members of "That Ancient and Honorable Institution of Freemasons that has outlived the fortunes of kings and the mutations of empires...
...Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid...
...college football season characterized by colossal upsets, the Dixie cup runneth over. Last week-while Ohio State, Texas Christian and the Army Cadets toppled from the ranks of the undefeated and untied-two of the three big-time teams remaining on the top rung represented Southern colleges, located within 70 miles of one another: the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech...
...expenses runneth over...
...point is that the Aberdeen-Angus breed has its origin in "time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and is the carrier of dominant characteristics of a kind desirable in a breed of beef cattle, intensified by a longer period of breeding like to like than is the case with other beef breeds...