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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]