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«Beauty is but a flower which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air»
Author: Thomas Nashe | About: Beauty | Keywords: brightness, devour, wrinkles
«Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye»
«David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son? / Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples, / Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; / Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: devour, feasts, greetings, scribes, seats, widows
«And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, / And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: / Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.»
«And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: devour
«For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.»
«All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: devour
«Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? / But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.»
«For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, / But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: devour, fiery, indignation, wilfully
«For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.»