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Letter "A" » abominable
«Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
abominable
«Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.»
«Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.»
«So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.»
«For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: / Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: / Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.»
«I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; / A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; / Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; / Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.»
Author: Bible
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abominable, altars, brick, broth, gardens, Graves, holier-than-thou, holier, incense, in a way, lodge, lodge in, monuments, rebellious, spread out, stand by, swine, The graves, Vessels
«Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.»
«How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? / I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; / Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: / Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.»
«Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
abominable, accident, Father, Father of, scriptures, serpent, slimier, slimy, sneaking, sneaks, sneak out, sneak up, The Christian, The Father
«Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Cancer
| Keywords:
abominable, Cancer, Death sentence, ill-omened, lied, obscene, original meaning, patients, repugnant, sentenced to death
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