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• It may be that Peter had some of these hard shells in mind when he said: “Our beloved brother Paul hath written many things hard to be understood; which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” The Lord forbid that I should thus do with any of the Scriptures. —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary
• The PCs have patterned lids too, in pink, blue, green and black as well as a white carbon-fiber wrist wrest, which is a boon for those of you who regularly wear out your wrist rest (wait ... what?) —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
• This officer had largely contributed to prevent the success of the siege of St. Jean d'Acre; he was proud of it, and had devised a ruse de guerre by taking advantage of a momentary weakness to wrest from the French their valuable conquest. —  History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)
• It may be that Peter had some of these hard shells in mind when he said: "Our beloved brother Paul hath written many things hard to be understood; which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they also do the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." —  Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
• I had told her all my plans for the future, and as, like me, she despised the world and human beings, she had approved those plans and solemnly vowed by the memory of her mother, murdered by want, famine, and grief, to avenge herself with me upon society--wrest from it what formerly it had so cruelly denied: wealth, honor, and distinction And I think I have kept my oath," she said earnestly. —  A Conspiracy of the Carbonari

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