Gefunden 94 Ergebnisse für: Storm

• What a sight was this that met their eyes, when day broke! A great rabble of men past all counting, that brought up scaling-ladders and engines, as if they would take the stronghold by storm. (1 Maccabees 5, 30)

• Once more Judas turned aside, to Maspha; took it by storm, slew men of it, took spoil of it, burned it to the ground; (1 Maccabees 5, 35)

• even now they stand arrayed against the citadel of Jerusalem, ready to take it by storm, and have fortified Bethsura. (1 Maccabees 6, 26)

• Then, with all haste, he took leave of it, and returned to Antioch, where he found Philip in possession, and levied war on him, taking the city by storm. (1 Maccabees 6, 63)

• What a storm of troubles broke then upon the commonwealth, most grievous to be borne! (2 Maccabees 6, 3)

• vanished, like the storm of yesterday, or secure eternally. (Proverbs 10, 25)

• Storm-wrack and cloud and no rain to follow; such thanks he wins that boasts much, and nothing accomplishes. (Proverbs 25, 14)

• Who may he be that has scaled heaven, and come back to tell its secrets; held the winds in the hollow of his hand, wrapped away the storm-clouds under his mantle, fixed the bounds of earth? Tell me his name; tell me, if thou canst, where son of his may be found? (Proverbs 30, 4)

• Burgeon they may for a little, but the wind will shake their frail hold; root and all, the storm will carry them away. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 4)

• Short-lived are all the hopes of the godless, thistle-down in the wind, flying spray before the storm, smoke that whirls away in the breeze; as soon forgotten as the guest that comes for a day, and comes no more. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 15)

• the storm-wind shall rise in their faces, and scatter them as the gust scatters chaff. The whole earth ransacked, and the thrones of the mighty pulled down, by their own disobedience, their own malignancy! (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 24)

• Sure as the lightning is sign of a storm, men’s good word is the sign of a modest nature; they will love thee all the better for thy bashfulness. (Ecclesiasticus 32, 14)