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«Hence I pronounce this, that as old experience doth attain to something like prophetic strain, so all comely facility traces back to long pondering; intuitions are the reward of ancient gropings»
Author: Stephen MacKenna
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Experience
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comely, facility, intuitions, pondering, pronounce, strain
«Has anybody seen my Mopser? - / A comely dog is he, / With hair the colour of a Charles the Fifth, / And teeth like ships at sea.»
«I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.»
«Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.»
«In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.»
«I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.»
«And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.»
«For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.»
«HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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cheery, comely, deficient, denies, discontent, earthly, houri, inhabiting, Mohammedan, Mohammedans, spouse
«I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.»
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