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  • Angela Lansbury, "one of the few actors it makes sense to call beloved."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • I have to say that it's just as embarrassing to be called "beloved."

    Stuff Ed Gorman 2007

  • The King and Heir had personalities and faces, and were well on the way to becoming "beloved."

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • The King and Heir had personalities and faces, and were well on the way to becoming "beloved."

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Acorna asked, using the Linyaari term for "beloved."

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • Acorna asked, using the Linyaari term for "beloved."

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • Ah-but the second verse was coming; and after all those promises of eternal fidelity, the partners suddenly dropped the hands they held and caught those of a new partner, and without missing a beat, sang the second verse just as passionately to a new "beloved."

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • She had been surprised at the addition of the word "beloved."

    From out the Vasty Deep Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

  • In other words, the natural Israel -- not "the remnant of them according to the election of grace," but THE NATION, sprung from Abraham according to the flesh -- are still an elect people, and as such, "beloved."

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The insertion implied that those inserting it thought that Paul had preached the Gospel to the Colossians as well as Epaphras, Whereas the omission in the oldest manuscripts implies that Epaphras alone was the founder of the Church at Colosse. of -- "from Epaphras." dear -- Greek, "beloved." fellow servant -- namely, of Christ.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

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