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Had He split the sea before us but not fed us in the desert,
Sprout, Sprout, Let It All Out frankwu 2010
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I squeeze my eyelids shut but the afterglow, red and veiny yellow, remembers what I've seen, and what I saw before that, and what I've yet to see some astronomers wonder how to dim the whole stretched-out desert,
Writing in the Dark Chalon Emmons 2010
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It had always been like this: throughout the year the two boys had spent together in the desert,
The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980
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Even when the last echoes had died away into the desert,
Against The Fall Of Night Clarke, Arthur C. 1953
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Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Israel, he went not as he had gone before, to seek divination: but setting his face towards the desert,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision
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Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into the desert,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 45: 1 Machabees The Challoner Revision
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And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from the Jordan and was led the by the spirit into the desert,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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