Shamar is the Hebrew for to hedge about (as with thorns), guard, to protect, and the term is also for the priestly doorkeeper of the sanctuary. There could be some word play in this direction as at Somerton Bill encounters numerous gatekeepers, the two outside being only the first guard...
Artist Jana, We do a photo Christmas letter. When I was putting them in envelopes to mail, I realized that in the three pictures I was in, I was wearing the same dress! So I guess I wear mine out by using them every day in one year, instead of over 10 years!! (Yet in the ...
but I get why this feeling exists: being careful or deliberate about what you write should mean that more mistakes are caught, that there’s more time to get a thought right, more time to revise for the better, whatever “better” ends up meaning. You...
this gradually increased to about 34% by the year 2006. But, eventually, the numbers then dropped by almost 3% in the last two years. Despite all of this, the population of women remained at the top in the UK by the year 2008. ...
The doctor confirms this is the only course of action and writes a letter for A&E. He gives us a choice with it. It’s up to us whether we brace the super busy state of the art hospital, or the smaller local one. Who needs a choice at a time like this? We banter it out. ...
‘It was in that registered letter addressed to your sister that the Post Office people wouldn’t hand over until we’d taken out letters of administration.’ ‘Well, I’m dashed!’ muttered John. ‘Who’d have thought of that? You’ve got the will, then?’ Liversage nodded. The Hess...
Then Mary said “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to thy word.” And so it was that the Holy One was conceived and was called the Son of God, whose name is Ea-shua, the Giver of Life. At the moment of a child’s conception the mother, in the ima...
___ His mother answered in a letter which said, "If you really want to leave, I will talk to him about it." ___ During that last week, Will was looking forward to the meal that his mom would be making. So every time he ate a camp meal, he imagined he was...
In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district. 昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信,她住在尼日利亚。在信中...
It begins with the same letter as bath. She knows no better: she learnt it at her mother's knee. But she must not hear it from your lips. HIGGINS (loftily) I cannot charge myself with having ever uttered it, Mrs Pearce. (She looks at him steadfastly. He adds, hiding an uneasy ...