John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Old Testament. (continued) |
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Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. |
2 Samuel i. 23. |
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How are the mighty fallen! |
2 Samuel i. 25. |
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Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. |
2 Samuel i. 26. |
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Abner… smote him under the fifth rib. |
2 Samuel ii. 23. |
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Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown. |
2 Samuel x. 5. |
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Thou art the man. |
2 Samuel xii. 7. |
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As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. |
2 Samuel xiv. 14. |
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They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter. |
2 Samuel xx. 18. |
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The sweet psalmist of Israel. |
2 Samuel xxiii. 1. |
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So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. 1 |
1 Kings vi. 7. |
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A proverb and a byword. |
1 Kings ix. 7. |
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I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. |
1 Kings xvii. 9. |
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An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse. |
1 Kings xvii. 12. |
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And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail. |
1 Kings xvii. 16. |
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How long halt ye between two opinions? |
1 Kings xviii. 21. |
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There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. |
1 Kings xviii. 44. |
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A still, small voice. |
1 Kings xix. 12. |
Note 1. See Cowper, Quotation 85. [back] |