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Proverbs 27:1

I had a feeling something was going to happen when I went to bed tonight,” said Aunt Mary Maria, pressing both hands to her temples. “When I read my nightly chapter in the Bible the words, ‘Ye know not what a day may bring forth,’ seemed to stand out from the page as it were. It was a sign.

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Paggett, M. P.

Oh, I am very well aware that there is a comical side to a toad under a harrow, Miss Dew. But the question is, does the toad see it?

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Proverbs 25:17

Susan, reading her nightly chapter in her Bible, came across the verse, “Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house lest he weary of thee and hate thee.” She put a sprig of southernwood in it to mark the spot. “Even in those days,” she reflected.

Proverbs 18:14

Don’t let us discuss it, Annie. I want peace… just peace. ‘A wounded spirit who can bear?

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Job 1:21

Last fall, when that valuable horse took sick… worth four hundred if a dollar… instead of sending for the Lowbridge vet she ‘went to the Bible’ and turned up a verse… ‘The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.’ So send for the vet she would not and the horse died.

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Mark 10:7

When Alden told her last Christmas that we were engaged she went to the Bible and the very first verse she turned up was, ‘A man shall leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife.’ She said it was perfectly clear then what she ought to do and she consented at once.

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The Walrus and the Carpenter

“‘The time has come the Walrus said to talk of’ …having a dog,” said Gilbert..

The Power of the Dog

Susan was not acquainted with Kipling’s poem on the folly of giving your heart to a dog to tear; but if she had been she would, in spite of her contempt for poetry, have thought that for once a poet had uttered sense.

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I saw a Ship a-Sailing

“I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing on the sea, And oh, it was all laden with pretty things for me,”

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The Lord’s Prayer Now I Lay Me

All the Ingleside children had been started in life with the old classic, “Now I lay me”… then promoted to “Our Father” … then encouraged to make their own small petitions also in whatever language they chose.

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The Lord’s Prayer

“Mother, I guess I was naughty last night. I said, ‘Give us tomorrow our daily bread,’ instead of today. It seemed more logical. Do you think God minded, Mother?”

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Queen Elizabeth

A new girl had begun coming to school… a girl who said, when the teacher asked her her name, “I am Jenny Penny,” as one might say, “I am Queen Elizabeth,” or “I am Helen of Troy.”

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I saw a Ship a-Sailing

“I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing on the sea, And oh, it was all laden with pretty things for me,”

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Judges 16

Why, it is in the Bible, Susan. Delilah is very proud of her Bible name.

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The Daydream

They would sit by the fountain… there was a fountain by this time… and pledge their vows anew and she would follow him, “over the hills and faraway, beyond their utmost purple rim,” just as the Sleeping Princess did in the poem Mother read to her one night from the old volume of Tennyson Father had given her long, long ago. But the lover of the Mysterious Eyed gave her jewels beyond all compare.

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Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Anne… who felt that she had, in Jane Welsh Carlyle’s splendid phrase, “spent the evening under a harrow.”

Proverbs 31:12

My dear, dear love! I didn’t think you needed words to know that. I couldn’t live without you. Always you give me strength. There’s a verse somewhere in the Bible that is meant for you… ‘She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Psalm 4:8

There’s another verse in the Bible… queer how those old verses you learn in Sunday School come back to you through life!…. ‘I will lay me down in peace and sleep.’