Fondare 158 Risultati per: Dust

• Upon this, there was rending of garments, and loud lament; dust they cast on their heads, (1 Maccabees 4, 39)

• Cruel murders of innocent childhood, his own honour dragged in the dust, would he not mark all this, and be roused to indignation? (2 Maccabees 8, 4)

• the very men whose lives he held so cheap had now, by divine aid, humbled him to the dust. Robe of office he must lay by, and slink by country ways all unattended to Antioch. A fine homecoming, this, with the loss of a whole army! (2 Maccabees 8, 35)

• made play in this world of dust, with the sons of Adam for my play-fellows. (Proverbs 8, 31)

• with that, back goes dust to its parent earth, and the spirit✻ returns to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12, 7)

• Ah, but my shift, I have laid it by: how can I put it on again? My feet I washed but now; shall I soil them with the dust? (Song of Solomon 5, 3)

• Born was I, and born drew in the common air; dust amid the dust I fell, and, baby-fashion, my first utterance was a cry; (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 3)

• There was no jewel I could match with it; all my treasures of gold were a handful of dust beside it, my silver seemed but base clay in presence of it. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 9)

• O heart of dust, O ambition worthless as the sand, life than his own clay more despicable! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)

• Quarrel not with a man of quick moods; on a desert road he is no companion for thee; he cares nothing for bloodshed, and will lay thee in the dust when none is by to aid thee. (Ecclesiasticus 8, 19)

• but worse sin is none than avarice. See how man, for all his pride, is but dust and ashes! (Ecclesiasticus 10, 9)

• God, that marshals the armies of high heaven, and man, all dust and ashes! (Ecclesiasticus 17, 31)