vanities

• “O ye who believe! eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities: but let there be amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good-will: nor kill (or destroy) yourselves (commit suicide): for verily Allah hath been to you Most Merciful.”

  The Invasion | ATTACKERMAN

• “The spirit that was dissipated after a thousand vanities is now collected and made to centre in God.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “In the absence of such action a bonfire of the vanities is the only solution.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Unpalatable medicine for the NHS

• “The ones shown in the images are Gray Oak and Teak, but the vanities are also available in Glossy White, and Wenge.”

  Naos Vanities and Bathrooms Collection from Neabath

• “So I have departed from the teachings of my childhood and turned to the so-called vanities of the world.”

  Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'

• “The only thing recalling the vanities of the world was a mirror let into the panel above the praying-stool.”

  A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg

• “And then I thought of that other noble tower of needless things that stood in the field beyond my garden; the bonfire, the mountain of vanities, that is meant for burning; and how it stood dark and lonely in the meadow, and the birds hopped on its corners and the dew touched and spangled its twigs.”

  A Miscellany of Men

• “One of her vanities was her small feet, on which she always wore the daintiest of shoes, often totally unsuited to the occasion.”

  The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson

• “The glass likewise of vanities, which is thine only joy,”

  A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6

• “Their idols are called their vanities, for they cannot profit nor help.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)

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