Word: speare
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...hung in the Luxembourg, the Chicago Art Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea- the Sea pushed back, the Israelites just passed over, the Egyptians not yet come...
Said a noted "Liberal": "The club, the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun, the bomb, the gas, the germ. . . . Get that picture! . . . Let us make no pious pretenses of being shocked. This is the logical development of war. . . . America, secluded, secure, satisfied, is tempted to forget...
...club, the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun, the bomb, the gas, the germ...
...Tarbell is represented by the type of quiet interior which won him notice at other of the Guild's exhibits; Mr. Paxton likewise with an interior, suave, adept ?a girl holding a cup, surfaces of flesh, porcelain, fabric, exquisitely touched. More spirited are the dancing sprites of Arthur Spear after the mode of Robert Chanler, the pencil drawings of Charles Woodbury...
...relative value of might against right, of physical prowess against spiritual courage. Humanly speaking, it was folly for David to challenge Goliath. But, with God's blessing, the staff, the scrip, the stone and sling of the shepherd boy, symbolic of spiritual power, prevailed signally over the sword, the spear and the shield of the giant warrior, typical of brute force...