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drawn up for Eleazar
When this epistle was sent to the king, he commanded that an epistle should be drawn up for Eleazar, the Jewish high priest, concerning these matters; and that they should inform him of the release of the Jews that had been in slavery among them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

di un forcipe Ercolanese
In 1846-7 Benedetto Vulpes made a series of communications to the Royal Academy of Archaeology at Herculaneum as follows:— (1) Illustrazione di un forcipe Ercolanese a branche curve.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

DEUX Un Français entra
DEUX À DEUX Un Français entra dans une salle de jeu où des Anglais jouaient à l'écarté.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

dependent upon functions exercised
Every function which one individual exercises is invariably dependent upon functions exercised by others and forms with them a system of interdependent parts.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

deliver us from evil
This was said, before the Reformation, in a low voice by the priest, until he came to, “and lead us not into temptation,” to which the choir responded, “but deliver us from evil.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

defend us from every
If they are unworthy of us, our conduct and our consciences will in themselves protest and defend us from every accusation!”
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

door unsuspiciously fully expecting
She opened the door unsuspiciously, fully expecting to see her Irish cousin standing before her.
— from Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

deliver us from evil
And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
— from Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California by Mary E. (Mary Evarts) Anderson

Deliver us from evil
It was said that after his head was off it finished the sentence, “Deliver us from evil.”
— from Royal Winchester: Wanderings in and about the Ancient Capital of England by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

deliver us from evil
For the love of the poor souls that watch for us in heaven, O deliver us from evil.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 by Robert Louis Stevenson

deters us from every
And each time the natural laziness which deters us from every difficult enterprise, every work of importance, has urged me to leave the thing alone, to drink my tea and to think merely of the worries of to-day and of my hopes for to-morrow, which let themselves be pondered over without effort or distress of mind.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

deliver us from evil
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
— from A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors by Episcopal Church. Army and Navy Commission

deliver us from evil
‘Oh, Dolly, when He is our Father near, though our own dear fathers are far away, and there’s deliver us from evil—all that hurts us, you know-and forgive us.
— from The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

deliver us from evil
A modern Aristotle might say that the hypothesis of a creative first cause, personal or otherwise, logically involves the assumption of as many original specific energies as there are qualities to be accounted for, and thus gives us the unnecessary trouble of counting everything twice over; that every difficulty and contradiction from which the transcendental assumption is intended to free us, must, on analysis, reappear in the assumption itself—for example, the God who is to deliver us from evil must be himself conceived as the creator of evil; that the infinite and absolute can neither cause, nor be apprehended by, the finite and relative; that to separate from Nature all the forces required for its perpetuation, and relegate them to a sphere apart, is a false antithesis and a sterile abstraction; lastly, that causation, whether efficient or final, once begun, cannot stop; that if this world is not self-existing, nothing is; that the mutual adaptation of thoughts in a designing intelligence requires to be accounted for just like any other adaptation; that if the relative involves the absolute, so also does the relation between the two involve another absolute, and so on to infinity.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

deliver us from evil
Our Father who art in heaven, deliver us from evil.
— from Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use by George Mezger


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