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As a doctor he loved each patient and included them in what he called prayers.
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They next offered to pray with him; but he was too well acquainted with those forms of imprecation which they called prayers.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743
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Welner outrageously cited as signs of Khadr's future dangerousness that he has "memorized the Quran and studies it energetically," and that he leads other detainees in prayers.
Jennifer Turner: Government Witness Claims Gitmo Radicalized Child Soldier Jennifer Turner 2010
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When the commotion started the instruction ripple down that we all were to get down on our knees in prayers.
Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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The night was dark and horrible, flickering lights from the Camp of the Imam was showing few people busy in prayers.
Hazrat Imam Hussain..Maksade Hussain « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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The night was dark and horrible, flickering lights from the Camp of the Imam was showing few people busy in prayers.
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The night was dark and horrible, flickering lights from the Camp of the Imam was showing few people busy in prayers.
2006 October 13 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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What Horseface said, when he saw him dead, well it wasn't what the rich call prayers.
McAlpine's Fusiliers 1998
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I wanted you to know that he will continue to be remembered and that he and his family will continue to be to be remembered in prayers.
Jerry Lynn Pool 1970
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At all events, when we think of Jacob by the brook Jabbok, and of a 'greater than our father Jacob' by the brook Kedron, we may well learn what persistence, what earnestness and effort of the whole nature, go to make up the ideal of prayer, and may well blush for the miserable indifference and torpor of what we venture to call our prayers.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868
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