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Letter "D" » dried
«Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.»
Author: John Jay Chapman
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intensity,
narrowness,
not due,
occupation,
self-seeking
«From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Keywords:
brain,
dried-up,
dried,
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judgment,
reading,
sleeping,
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up on
«For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: / That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.»
«Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.»
«I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.»
«He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.»
«For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.»
«For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.»
«Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? / Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? / Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Ancient of Days,
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gladness,
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Rahab,
ransomed,
redeemed,
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wounded,
Zion
«I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.»