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or live in villages of stone
Melez Prayer Rug Large numbers, also, are settled in Persia, where they cultivate the soil of small tracts of land, or live in villages of stone houses.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

of life is vexation of spirit
Nevertheless even this wise use and enjoyment of temporal good does not and cannot satisfy the craving heart of man; even this, when it is made the ruling aim and chief good of life, is vexation of spirit.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

of Lachmann is void of sense
This answers the charge that the reading of Lachmann is void of sense” (An Account of the Printed Text, p. 107).
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

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