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venerable
1. On this branch of history the modern day Atlantis looked more like China, with hundred story buildings along the shore and great hanger bridges and even venerable motorway bridges spanning between islands
2. But as he didn't have any cause to doubt that the venerable one's intentions weren't mere entertainment, he also thanked him humbly
3. It was described in fragments by very ancient sources indeed and then re-presented, still in its fragmentary form, by a predecessor of this same venerable master
4. “There is a legend that over a thousand years ago, the venerable Matriarch, perhaps Reja Grenassia III, like our own present Matriarch has to some degree, initiated a program of 'public relations' to curb the vitriolic suspicion and loathing the other peoples of the Spur continued to maintain toward us
5. "Kind prince, can the integral truth be put into words?" "No, Venerable Teacher, it, too, speaks for itself
6. The best explanation I could offer is the one which was delivered in a talk I had attended years ago by venerable Tsoknyi Rinpoche III
7. The primary problem with the venerable concept of the missing link would seem to be the very real possibility that there may not be anything on the other end for the human species to link up with
8. This organization displays a continuing negative animus with respect to two venerable institutions: teaching and the use of the English language
9. For many, many years the motto of this venerable magazine was:
10. In a society where youth is de rigueur and old age a nuisance, such (calloused) indifference is seemingly consistent with a society that has lost touch with its venerable customs
11. Though presently abandoned, the latter is being planned for restoration by very enthusiastic descendants of that venerable family who want to preserve its external basic structure of the past while changing its interior to adapt to modern comfort
12. Nearing the History building, she slowed down, finally dropped onto the stone wall at the back of the venerable old structure and pulled out her water bottle, wiped her brow with her hand, pushed her damp hair into place
13. The first ranking of presidents by historians was done in 1948 by the venerable Arthur Schlesinger
14. She looked rather mystified and as she was ready to ask the venerable servant where she was exactly, his long experience and hard years of service prompted him to greet her before she had time to open her mouth:
15. She arranged concerts in which I was the featured soloist: a Handel tribute at a venerable theatre in Pretoria where I sang a succession of arias; another concert at the university itself where I sang a programme with her at the piano and a colleague (Yvon Syx), soloist on guitar
16. Venerable Thubten Lhundrup describes the practice of mindfulness in this way:[42]
17. Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw, in Basic Buddhism: The Theory of Karma, gives an example of the operation of the four types of karma: reproductive, supportive, counteractive, and destructive:[155]
18. But as a venerable inspiration to posterity you will continue on
19. Q: He is a venerable old man of about eighty
20. I stayed at the venerable Mayflower Hotel whose rooms were very cheap that summer because of the weather and more importantly the Metro line construction going on around the clock in front of it
21. “After that he had adopted his look of a venerable ancient, and I was no longer attracted to him that way
22. The two were as close to adolescent giggling as it was possible for two venerable dragons with eons of experience to be
23. And again I said: Lord and after that what will You do? And I heard a voice saying to me: Hear righteous John; Then will I send out my angels over the face of all the Earth and they shall lift off the Earth everything honourable and everything precious and the venerable and holy images and the glorious and precious crosses and the sacred vessels of the churches and the divine and sacred books; and all the precious and holy things shall be lifted up by clouds into the air; And then will I order to be lifted up the great and venerable sceptre on which I stretched out my hands and all the orders of my angels shall do reverence to it; And then shall be lifted up all the race of men on clouds as the Apostle Paul foretold
24. The north-men came like stinging hornets and spread on all sides like fearful wolves, robbing, violating, committing sacrilege everywhere, ripping and slaughtering my flock of virgin scholars! Alcuin -- behold with pity and tears the shrine of Saint Cuthbert, spattered with the blood of the brides of God, stripped of its ornaments, trampled by the polluted steps of pagan fiends, within fire-black walls once graced by Northumbria's finest art! A place more venerable than all in England was the prey of pagan wretches
25. And straightway he sat down beside me and said to me "I have been sent by a most venerable angel to dwell with you the remaining days of your life
26. " "Who then" I continued "are they who were crowned and who go to the tower?" "These are they who have suffered on account of the law; but the others and they who returned their branches green and with offshoots but without fruit are they who have been afflicted on account of the law but who have not suffered nor denied their law; and they who returned their branches green as they had received them are the venerable and the just and they who have walked carefully in a pure heart and have kept the commandments of the Lord
27. 1 On account of the sudden and repeated calamities and mischances brethren that have come on us we suppose that we have the more slowly given heed to the things that are disputed among you beloved and to the foul and unholy sedition alien and foreign to the elect of God which a few headstrong and self-willed persons have kindled to such a degree of madness that your venerable and famous name worthy to be loved of all men is greatly blasphemed
28. Commercial lumbering, fishing, and the coal and iron ore docks symbolized the economic significance of these venerable Great Lakes ports
29. 2 Wherefore let us leave empty and vain thoughts and come to the glorious and venerable rule of our holy calling
30. that would help lead the crew toward that age old and venerable
31. venerable old poetry critic
32. “But, first things first,” continued the venerable Dr
33. I was in a venerable old hospital, a building where many, many souls met their end
34. As if this scene wasn’t enough, also arrived at the place of the events the venerable Prefect Farfan, whom this type of situations was displeasing enormously, the more because in this one there was involved her future fiancée, accused, also, of serious charges by practices of magic and sorcery
35. They suddenly felt insecure and venerable, as they only had contact with the agents, to which they paid the rent
36. Gazing at him with a sense of affection, he felt that his father looked every inch a venerable guruji
37. especially the venerable
38. The venerable piece was tucked in a pocket out of the way so not to be lain on
39. The darkness blotted the venerable magnolia with its signature ornament but nothing could block the mordant stench of the truculent half-breed and as he silently passed the killing tree; this smell of smells ambushed Sam‘s flared nostrils like ninja
40. It was therefore little surprise that the second eldest in each of these families would one day stand and face these two venerable and honored warships
41. The old bookseller, knowing about Aureliano’s love for books that had been read only by the Venerable Bede, urged him with a certain fatherly malice to get into the discussion, and without even taking a breath, he explained that the cockroach, the oldest winged insect on the face of the earth, had already been the victim of slippers in the Old Testa-ment, but that since the species was definitely resistant to any and all methods of extermination, from tomato dices with borax to flour and sugar, and with its one thousand six hundred three varieties had resisted the most ancient, tenacious, and pitiless persecution that mankind had unleashed against any living thing since the beginnings, including man himself, to such an ex-tent that just as an instinct for reproduction was at-tributed to humankind, so there must have been another one more definite and pressing, which was the in-stinct to kill cockroaches, and if the latter had succeeded in escaping human ferocity it was because they had taken refuge in the shadows, where they became invul-nerable because of man’s congenital fear of the dark, but on the other hand they became susceptible to the glow of noon, so that by the Middle Ages already, and in present times, and per omnia secula seculorum, the only effective method for killing cockroaches was the glare of the sun
42. Justice that request for interview with venerable doctor has
43. I once said that Jesus has many venerable images but that
44. For this reason, we brought out the fact which was revealed by the venerable scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho, who illustrated the leniency, affection, and tenderness of the Merciful God upon all His creatures and His obedients
45. From the scrap-built slums of the fringes to the sky-reaching buildings of midtown and the venerable brick buildings and monuments of old town
46. Ancient and venerable as the Synods of Canterbury and York undoubtedly are, I think no one will say that they truly represent the Church of England
47. A day later, as she watched the fury of the participants at the first person who had ‘cheated’: one venerable lady was standing on her chair and pointing accusingly at the perpetrator saying I know not what, but doing so with great Vietnamese venom, my interpreter said, ‘It does work’
48. Such a remark violated the dignity of the venerable elders
49. It causes us to become venerable to our Pearls of Possibility
50. So, be sure that anything conflicting with that was but interpolated by the hands of people of aberration and atheism then they attributed it to a group of venerable scholars so as to make it work with the simple-minded people so that the hypocrites and the people of ill hearts say: “If the Prophets did what they did, how could we, then, abstain from getting the desires?!”
