Fondare 198 Risultati per: Barren Fig Tree

• Who is this that makes her way up by the desert road, all gaily clad, leaning upon the arm of her true love?✻ When I came and woke thee, it was under the apple-tree, the same where sore distress overtook thy own mother, where she that bore thee had her hour of shame. (Song of Solomon 8, 5)

• Their case is pitiable indeed, who make light of true wisdom and of ordered living; vain their hope, profitless their toil, barren their achievement. (Wisdom of Solomon 3, 11)

• Let the wicked gender as they will, it shall nothing avail them; what, should those bastard slips ever strike their roots deep, base the tree firm? (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 3)

• those five cities whose shame is yet unforgotten, while smoke issues from the barren soil, and never tree bears seasonable fruit, and the pillar of salt stands monument to an unbelieving soul. (Wisdom of Solomon 10, 7)

• Not for us to be led astray by foolish tales of man’s imagining, by the sculptor’s barren art, as he picks out some image with motley colours, (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 4)

• Then wilt thou be no better than some dry tree-stump out in the desert, its leaves withered, its hope of fruit all gone. (Ecclesiasticus 6, 3)

• No living thing but fades as the grass fades; as the leaves fade, that burgeon on a growing tree, (Ecclesiasticus 14, 18)

• or a palm tree in Cades, or a rose bush in Jericho; (Ecclesiasticus 24, 18)

• grew like some fair olive in the valley, some plane-tree in a well-watered street. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 19)

• Mastic-tree spread not its branches so wide, as I the hopes I proffer of glory and of grace. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 22)

• Good fruit comes from a tree well dressed, and a man will be in word what he is in thought; (Ecclesiasticus 27, 7)

• Is she maid? Then how if she were disgraced, and in her own father’s house brought to bed? Once more, is she wed? Then how if she were false to her husband? How if she prove barren? (Ecclesiasticus 42, 10)