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Biology arched or hoodlike in form
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This echoes John's prophecy in Revelation 21:8: "But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, for murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death" (Meeks, 1993: 2335).
(Exit Clov.) Accursed fornicator! How are your stumps?
5:5, 'Omnis fornicator aut immundus non habet hereditatem Christi' (555), and by an authority from Matt.
leg., 1 [female] (FCD190*, Tetanorhynchus fornicator paralectotype, collected in copula with FCD191) and 1 [male] (FCD191*, T.
Apparently, no one had discovered this "poisoned environment" until a fornicator decided it was worthwhile to make it a case of "discrimination" and had it confirmed by an agnostic partisan adjudicator.
Despite the drudgery of farm labor, Burns found time to get a servant girl with child, for which he was denounced from the pulpit as a fornicator (not for the last time in his short life), (1) and he was about to do the same favor for Jean Armour, the "jewel" of the six "Mauchline Belles" whom he celebrates in "The Belles of Mauchline," a song he wrote that year:
"My Christ was not a fornicator, an adulterer or a homosexual," one of the plaintiffs in the Indiana lawsuit protested.
of La Verne) explores how Kean's acting style was so affecting his biographers forgot the man sought to control English theater, how his persona was so influential even after death that both Dumas used it to explode aristocratic pretensions and Twain used it to explore the loving link between American audiences and titillation, how Kean's son attempted to make him less of a fornicator and more of a philosopher, and how Sartre made Kean existentially transparent.
Which is when the egotistical Bishop Pucci (Jeremy Irons, resplendently camp and dressed like a meeting between Zorro and Moulin Rouge), the Pope's top Inquisitor, flounces in to take charge of hunting down and executing Casanova as a fornicator.
But instead, they seem accusatory--Joy comes off smug, self-absorbed, a "bad mother" and careless fornicator. Adding nothing beyond multimedia novelty, these sequences should be ditched pronto.
(130.) Bracciolini, 1964-66, 692, "Quid quod matrimonio qui abstinet vel adulter vel fornicator evadet, aut alteri vitio detestabiliori involvetur.
Another strategy was to replace a vulgar term with a learned synonym lacking its profane connotations, as in "`The fornicator ducked back'" (311), or with a near-sounding placebo, such as "`Go muck yourself, he said in English and then, in Spanish, to the armoured car driver" (241).
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