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Letter "W" » wheat
«As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you»
«Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
beds, exile, flower bed, inter, interred, judiciary, related, sleeve, social order, tastes, wheat
«But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.»
«Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.»
«But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.»
«Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.»
«But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? / Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: / And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: / But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.»
«For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; / A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; / A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
barley, brass, Brooks, dig, fig, fountains, Land A, olive, olive oil, pomegranate, pomegranates, pomegranate tree, scarceness, valleys, vines, wheat
«As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
affliction, purify, separates, thresh, threshed, threshing, wheat
«Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed»
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