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Letter "D" » desolate
«Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs»
Author: Myrtle Reed
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Keywords:
altars,
bare,
cobweb,
cobwebs,
desolate,
desolated,
desolating,
exterior,
fair,
go in,
heaps,
hearths,
rubbish,
rubbish heap,
veiled,
windows
«How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.»
«For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.»
«In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.»
«For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.»
«For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; / When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living; / I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.»
«Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.»
«For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.»
«For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.»
«If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Baptist Minister,
Civil-Rights Leader)
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About:
Future,
Generations,
Struggle,
Violence
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Keywords:
bitterness,
desolate,
desolated,
desolating,
legacy,
recipients,
reign,
succumb,
succumbed,
succumbing,
succumbs,
unborn