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«I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? / But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! / Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: / For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.»
Author: Bible
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baptism, baptized, division, henceforth, kindled, One House, straiten, straitened
«For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.»
«O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? / Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.»
«And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.»
«When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.»
«Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater that what we need in the attack.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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air power, bases, compel, devote, military action, military power, paralyze, straiten, straitened