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The Oracles.
... to be prepared a great number of couches, magnificently decorated ... and goblets and
other vessels of gold, and dresses ... articles, all intended to be used in the ...
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On Sleep.
... and smooth carpets worked with gold, and long ... Moreover, silver-footed couches argue
great ostentation; and ... in the night, have always used ejaculations, even ...
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Second Great Group of Parables.
... white, and worth twice its weight in gold (Genesis 41 ... It is used thirty-four times
in the New Testament ... is taken from the custom of reclining on couches at feasts ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xcii second great group of 6.htm

Demonstration v. --Of Wars.
... things, [747] and whatsoever it finds it couches over as a ... of the image, he was compared
to gold which is more precious than anything which is used in the ...
/.../aphrahat/aphrahat select demonstrations/demonstration v of wars.htm

1 Timothy ii. 4-Feb
... that those who once reclined on ivory couches, are poorer ... it is still a chain; nay
the gold is the ... the highest kind of "sobriety." "Honesty," when used for it ...
/.../homily vii 1 timothy ii.htm

Greek and Jew
... There were low couches spread with costly white material which were used when Amaryllis ...
black, her hair was fair and brilliant with a wash of gold powder ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter viii greek and jew.htm

The Nations of the North-East
... "Damask couches" were already ... Gold and silver, bronze and iron in large quantities
were yielded up to ... Paddan was used in the same sense in the Babylonia of the ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iv the nations of.htm

Ephesians iv. 17-19
... And this expression is used with reference to falsehood; for ... for display, but for
refreshment; not couches of ivory ... he is of his wife's wearing jewels of gold. ...
/.../homily xiii ephesians iv 17-19.htm

Change not Always Improvement.
... 54] to be shod in anything but gold, is by ... him [56] ) with muddy feet"as the Platonic
couches testify"but ... very litters and sedans in which they used to be ...
/.../tertullian/on the pallium/chapter iv change not always improvement.htm

The Gathering Storm
... art, they would loll on soft couches beside fountains ... cost the young Valentinian
sixteen hundred pounds of gold. ... the old Seleucid kings, which was used as the ...
/.../chapter i the gathering storm.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Esther 1:6
Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
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