Word: sabbaths
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...quaint notion this--that the sanctity of the Sabbath day goes into effect precisely at 11 o'clock, no sooner and no later. At first the demarcation of such a definite dead-line for weekly sin appears to be wholly illogical, but after a lengthy microscopic examination, there becomes faintly apparent the only possible loop-hole to plausibility. The authors of this legislative marvel may perhaps have the ancient Hebraic conception of a personal deity with all the very human characteristics of the Olympian gods, who, after the activities of Saturday night, is scarcely interested in what happens on Sunday...
Juma is the Turkish sabbath. Because it falls on Friday, Turkish business houses with international connections and the government itself are out of step with the rest of the world three days a week...
...Members of the Labor Party show a terrible disregard of the Sabbath," boomed Commissioner Archibald MacNeillage. "They delight in trampling it under foot. Remember that the American Ambassador, Mr. C. G. Dawes, was first received by our Labor Prime Minister on the Sabbath-day! So far as the world knows, the great interest of world peace has not been advanced one iota by that Sabbath-day meeting...
...hawk-featured, beetle-browed Commissioner William Fraser of Govan who rose to reveal that "on the Sabbath-day previous to this assembly" the Duke and Duchess of York jointly bestowed medals on ambulance attendants at Forfar on the edge of the Scotch Highlands...
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates...