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  • That way people who might want to see the film can make the Solomonian judgment for themselves whether they'd rather benefit immediately from your insights or see the film unspoiled.

    The Assassination of Richard Nixon 2005

  • With appetites that seemed to have been growing during the whole period of Tom's absence, the joyous company sat down to that repast, while Solomon moved around, his eyes glistening, his face shining, his teeth grinning, and his hips moving, as, after his fashion, he whispered little Solomonian pleasantries to his own affectionate heart.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • News of inventions, of romances, of misunderstandings righted by Solomonian judgments; of successes, promotions; and almost every day in the foreign columns were to be found reversals of those judgments by which his friends and the citizens of his little state had been convicted of sins and crimes of which they had never been guilty.

    If You Touch Them They Vanish Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • Solomonian restoration in the thirteenth century, the whole Bible was revised under the care of the Metropolitan Abba Salama (who is often confounded with St. Frumentius), and the text followed for the Old

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • The chronicles we have are silent about the matter; they merely tell us that at the close of the thirteenth century, in the reign of Yekuno Amlak, after a period of exile, the length of which we do not know, the Solomonian dynasty regained power through the aid of the monk Takla Hâymânot.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Of these sections it seems probable that the one here numbered 6 is the oldest, and that it contains the largest proportion of Solomonian sayings.

    Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

  • I would rather call the book of Proverbs Solomonian than as actually a work of Solomon's.

    Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • This lively man had made a little collection of such Solomonian decisions; but I only remember the general impression, and cannot recall to my mind any particular case.

    Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790

  • Congress cannot decide on how to make a Solomonian division of that baby.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2010

  • Laura Solomonian and Bishop Philip Poole, members of the Pensions Committee, presented an actuarial valuation of the General Synod Pension Plan (GSPP), conducted August 2008 by Eckler Ltd.

    Anglican National News 2009

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