pronađen 1060 Rezultati za: Ask
It was a company of scribes that went out to meet Alcimus and Bacchides, asking for honourable terms; (1 Maccabees 7, 12)
Rome’s task it should be to rid them of the Grecian yoke; from the Greeks it was plain they could expect nothing better than grinding slavery. (1 Maccabees 8, 18)
Boon thy letter asks of me thou shalt have; but first meet we together, face to face, yonder at Ptolemais; there will I pledge my word to the articles thou namest. (1 Maccabees 10, 56)
And now Jonathan had a favour to ask; exemption from tribute for Judaea, and the three cantons, and Samaria with its neighbouring townships;✻ he promised in return a payment of three hundred talents. (1 Maccabees 11, 28)
the men of Gaza asked for terms, which he gave them, carrying off their sons as hostages to Jerusalem. Then he went on patrolling the country, all the way to Damascus. (1 Maccabees 11, 62)
Then he asked, What needs it, such a host of men should go campaigning, when threat of war is none? (1 Maccabees 12, 44)
… Men began to ask, how they could shew their gratitude to Simon, and to his sons? (1 Maccabees 14, 25)
But for me, that undertook the business of abridgement, think you it was light labour? Nay, here was a task all watching and sweat; (2 Maccabees 2, 27)
your epitomist will ask leave to study brevity, and let long disquisitions be. (2 Maccabees 2, 32)
and when the king himself asked what manner of emissary he should next send to Jerusalem, (2 Maccabees 3, 37)
this vile Jason it was sent some of his wretches✻ with a gift of three hundred silver pieces to do honour to Hercules. True it is, the bearers of them asked they should not be spent on sacrifice, but on some other need that was more befitting; (2 Maccabees 4, 19)
So died the first, and now the second must make sport for them. When the hair was torn from his head and the skin with it, they asked, Would he eat, or must his whole body pay for it, limb by limb? (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
