vine-dresser

The image of the vineyard with its moral, doctrinal and spiritual implications, will reappear in the speech at the Last Supper when, taking his leave of the Apostles, the Lord will say: I am the true vine and my Father is the vine-dresser.

Archive 2008-10-01 papabear 2008

Charles never left the paltry banks of the Saale, he had not now been much better known than any vine-dresser who wielded his pruning-hook in the same territories.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

The image of the vineyard with its moral, doctrinal and spiritual implications, will reappear in the speech at the Last Supper when, taking his leave of the Apostles, the Lord will say: I am the true vine and my Father is the vine-dresser.

Zenit: Benedict XVI's Homily at Synod's Inaugural Mass papabear 2008

The image of the vineyard with its moral, doctrinal and spiritual implications, will reappear in the speech at the Last Supper when, taking his leave of the Apostles, the Lord will say: I am the true vine and my Father is the vine-dresser.

Archive 2008-10-05 papabear 2008

Ezion-Geber the whole of his family, which consisted of his wife, then far advanced in years, a son, and a daughter; he had in his train two eunuchs, one of whom acted as a cook, and the other as a laborer and vine-dresser; and a pious Essenian, who knew the

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

And when you want to keep a pruning-hook safe, then justice is useful to the individual and to the State; but when you want to use it, then the art of the vine-dresser?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

A servant girl cost 600 (Martial vi. 66), while Columella (iii. 3.8) says that a skilled vine-dresser was worth 8,000.

Mind the Gap 2004

And yet the vine-dresser does this, the sprigs being slender and weak; and we, to favor a bitch, take from her many of her new-born puppies, whilst they are yet blind.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

For the first year and a half of his existence he had been the foster-child of the sturdy wife of a vine-dresser of Medoc — a lineal descendant of the heroes of ancient prowess; in a word, he was one of those individuals whom nature seems to have predestined for remarkable things, and around whose cradle have hovered the fairy godmothers of adventure and good luck.

Off on a Comet 2003

I am Trygaeus of the Athmonian deme, a good vine-dresser, little addicted to quibbling and not at all an informer.

Peace 2000