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Letter "P" » pluck
«One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.»
«O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! / As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence; / And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.»
«Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.»
«My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.»
«My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: / And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.»
«They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.»
«O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? / Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.»
«She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
allowed, compared, delectable, faculty, Faculty of, flower, lover, nevertheless, pluck, plucks, reborn, rose, spring, The Rose
«Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
nettle, nettled, nettles, pluck, safety
«Murder her brothers and then marry her - Uncertain way of gain, but I am in So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
brothers, in so far, pluck, uncertain
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