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Letter "F" » flayed
«She flays with indignation haughty, The passages she thinks are naughty, but reads them carefully so that, she'll know what to be angry at»
«He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.»
Author: John Updike
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«And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? / Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; / Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.»
«And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.»
«And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.»
«But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.»
«The negroes more philosophy displayed, - / Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed.»