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flood
«I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews; / My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow.»
Author: Andrew Marvell
(Poet, Politician, Satirist)
| Keywords:
conversion, conversions, Conversion of, empires, flood, Jews, The Flood, Vaster, vegetable
«I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat»
Author: John Randolph
| About:
Infidelity
| Keywords:
flood, for one thing, Hers, infidelity, kneel, remembrance, sainted, swept, Swept Away, The Flood
«Of all the pestilence's dire, Including famine, flood, and fire; By Satan and his imps rehearsed, The neighbors' children are the worst»
Author: Stoddard King
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dire, direst, famine, flood, imp, imps, pestilence, rehearse, rehearsed, rehearses, rehearsing
«But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.»
«For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; / And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; / And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; / And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: / (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) / The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: / But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.»
Author: Bible
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casting lots, chiefly, condemned, Day of Judgment, Day to Day, delivered, dignities, dwelling, eighth, eighths, filthy, flood, godly, Gomorrha, Noah, Old World, overthrow, preacher, presumptuous, punished, reserve, reserved, righteousness, self-willed, selfwilled, sinned, Sodom, spared, temptations, The Angels, The City of God, The Flood, uncleanness, ungodly, unlawful, vexed
«But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? / As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: / So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.»
«No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| Keywords:
cities, deprived, destroyed, destruction, flood, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, hostile, impulses, intolerance, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, loss, noble, temples
«A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Amid, bulwark, failing, flood, fortress, fortresses, helper, ills, mighty, prevailing, The Flood
«By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world»