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    1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    2. One more tortuous shriek proclaimed, 'Come one, come all!'


    3. are more tortuous and the distance increases


    4. The streets are tortuous in that area,


    5. The certain sinking of the burning steamer in the tortuous channel of the harbour would have effectually barred out the navy, completing the work already attempted by the enemy


    6. He could follow the river, which would eventually lead him back to Brockenhurst Sett, but it was a winding and tortuous route, or he could strike out overland, using the stars as his guide


    7. Did the lords and the eldest all search for answers in old books and the silent blinking of the stars through the windows? Was it in such long nights in their rooms that they spoke with The wise and all of the Light’s advisors while the candles flickered light out upon old maps and papers with tortuous ink writing?


    8. He was thoroughly bored at sitting in the pokey motor for such a tortuous journey with only one CD and a broken radio for company


    9. I opened my eyes suddenly, recognising the tortuous agony as existence, looking up to the fullest moon I had ever laid eyes on


    10. To reach the heart of the city, various buses take passengers that so wish through a tortuous road that squirms through dense and thick mountains of considerable elevation

    11. One rocky passage soon blends into the other: tortuous and monotonous and mesmerising


    12. Roger and Josie never anticipated that the road to an adoption was so steep and tortuous


    13. For Roger, this was a joyful climax to a long and tortuous path to intellectual achievement and recognition


    14. After ten years of tortuous living, Robert has almost totally recovered and has a job


    15. a long and tortuous process that I will probably be going through


    16. It means another tortuous episode in her life --- physical and verbal abuse


    17. ” It soon became obvious that the guards, the same ones that were held at bay yesterday, whose truncheons now were at no disadvantage, would continue to harass Moshe and his crew mercilessly throughout their tortuous journey


    18. He also remembered the bleakness of any possible future for them on that tortuous odyssey and smiled as they retraced their steps


    19. He also remembered the bleakness of any possible future for them on that tortuous odyssey


    20. Privately, he was appalled at the tortuous path of the command structure

    21. "When we went to England, I figured even a mind as tortuous as yours wouldn't have us move again—so it must be here, and the coinage shouted Medieval


    22. Jai pulled the sword free with a tortuous effort and swung it again even as the skin on his hands turned brown with searing burns


    23. He disregarded the tortuous stair


    24. An hour's ride and they turned north, forging through wild and rugged hills, following dim trails and tortuous paths


    25. Let's call the police," cried Reed, still pushing the Alliford Bay through a tortuous zigzag course


    26. night, frequently cursing the narrow tortuous road twisting through the heavily forested mountains and repeatedly slamming on the brakes to avoid plunging into oblivion


    27. Because the color of his skin was lighter than that of the other slaves, he was assigned inside duty, rather than having to sweat and struggle under the tortuous sun


    28. Now, when I recall the course of practicing Falun Gong, I find my life during those three years miserable and tortuous


    29. dreadful, tortuous days the horrible, cold rains fell, filling up the


    30. ‘Jason, I’m taking you down to Bill Edwards’ sports shop to buy you your cricket bat and your kit,’ Wat tells his son, of whom he now has custody from the High Court, after a tortuous time with legal arrangements, solicitors and court appearances in London

    31. The plane’s long and tortuous descent to the seabed 3000 meters below had snapped the plane in half, spilling out all its contents, including the remains of Kate, the pilot


    32. the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God


    33. This hadn’t been a hate killing, but a killing for mere survival, and it still saddened Garcia to no end that it was going to be a long, tortuous death


    34. Or think about how many athletes feel utterly driven to go through tortuous training routines because of how much it means to them


    35. But those that lose the key once found, are doomed to an existence lived in the past, their youth forever preserved for them in tortuous circles of empty resemblance and forgotten names


    36. Varicose veins typically appear on the legs as dilated, tortuous veins close to the surface


    37. The hills were rocky, a tortuous up and down


    38. It was a long, tortuous moment as Ravan paused and leaned his head back, his eyes narrowing


    39. maintain high speed over a long and tortuous track


    40. Three hours of tortuous going resulted in the lights of

    41. A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man


    42. I, who was looking on, an eager and curious spectator,—I, who was watching the working of this mournful tragedy,—I, who like a wicked angel was laughing at the evil men committed protected by secrecy (a secret is easily kept by the rich and powerful), I am in my turn bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart!"


    43. It was a tortuous path to walk


    44. Having reached the summit of his vengeance by a long and tortuous path, he saw an abyss of doubt yawning before him


    45. He had heard this very sound in his imagination on that far-off evening when his wife and himself, after a tortuous ride through a strip of forest, had reined in their horses near the stream, and had gazed for the first time upon the jungle-grown solitude of the gorge


    46. That, in itself, was strange, for in Atlanta every respectable newcomer hastened to present his credentials, to tell proudly of his home and family, to trace the tortuous mazes of relationship that stretched over the entire South


    47. People stared at the back of his head, wanting him to hurry up and choose, but what if the theater held only a finite number of groups and couples, and they were already here? He ranged deeper into the tortuous upholstery


    48. From thence the tortuous shoots straggled to the wall, clutched it, and ran the whole length of the house, ending near the wood-pile, where the logs were ranged with as much precision as the books in a library


    49. All the tradesmen in the tortuous old street were on the sill of their shop-doors to watch the procession, which was joined in the market-place by Maitre Cruchot


    50. When she came forth from the old house on her way to the parish church, Nanon, who was loved by all the neighborhood, received many compliments as she walked down the tortuous street








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