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Yet her major literary work was a family trilogy of which only two volumes were published, Ben-Yehuda: His Life and Work (1940) (in a 1932 version, The Happy Warrior) and Standard-Bearer (1944), the life of Ithamar Ben-Avi (1882 – 1943), the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.
Hemdah Ben-Yehuda. 2009
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The same employee created a "Phony Fred" Web site that ridiculed Thompson as "Playboy Fred" ( "Once a Pro-Choice Skirt Chaser, Now Standard-Bearer of the Religious Right?").
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On the right of the Standard-Bearer in the West, and on the right of the third division.
The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan
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The "Standard-Bearer" and the portrait of the geographer
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May the blessing of the great Standard-Bearer rest upon his words, and give the light and grace which He alone can afford to every reader.
Standards of Life and Service Thomas Henry Howard 1886
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I think we should have lost our big Standard-Bearer that day, if our bigger Dwarf had not been at hand to bring him out of the melee when he was wounded.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872
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So the next night I kept out of the way until the Paladin had got his start and was sweeping down upon the enemy like a whirlwind at the head of his corps, then I stepped within the door in my official uniform and announced that a messenger from General La Hire's quarters desired speech with the Standard-Bearer.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872
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Standard-Bearer -- modify him, anyway, to a certainty, and give the rest of us a chance for the future.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872
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Standard-Bearer said, with some touch of bitterness, that he could see that they just felt good to be alive, they were so soaked with the comfort of their glory; and didn't like to sleep at all, because when they were asleep they didn't know they were noble, and so sleep was a clean loss of time.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872
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The Standard-Bearer was deep in thoughts and dreams a few moments, then the silk-and-velvet expanse of his vast breast rose and fell with a sigh, and he said:
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Mark Twain 1872
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