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  • Also, a little correction to the last post–the RaDiSH has pointed out to me that the origin of Mea Sharim is not about gates, but rather 100fold reapings, cf.

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  • Also, a little correction to the last post–the RaDiSH has pointed out to me that the origin of Mea Sharim is not about gates, but rather 100fold reapings, cf.

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  • Thus will be kindled the sense of human dignity and pride, to burn away the reapings of lustful appetites.

    A Compilation on Bahá’í Education Universal House of Justice

  • However, Sura was a professional sorcerer also, who attended all the rice sowings and reapings for miles around for the purpose of subduing the stubborn souls of things.

    Lord Jim 1900

  • On the heels of the spring-reapings came a cry for bread, and the Government, which had decreed that no man should die of want, sent wheat.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • However, Sura was a professional sorcerer also, who attended all the rice sowings and reapings for miles around for the purpose of subduing the stubborn souls of things.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • However, Sura was a professional sorcerer also, who attended all the rice sowings and reapings for miles around for the purpose of subduing the stubborn souls of things.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • For a second they hesitated, then moved by a common impulse, feeling the push of the wonderful new harvest behind them, they gathered themselves together for the final assault, and again offered the wheat for sale; offered it by thousands upon thousands of bushels; poured, as it were, the reapings of entire principalities out upon the floor of the Board of Trade.

    The Pit Frank Norris 1886

  • Thus will be kindled the sense of human dignity and pride, to burn away the reapings of lustful appetites.

    Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

  • Such were the reapings in Paradise that Henry Martyn has won from his thirty-one years 'life and his seeming failure.

    Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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