| 单词 | family Bible |
| 例句 | The family Bible and a huge dictionary with its own magnifying glass lay side by side next to a red plush album full of cramped formal portraits of my ancestors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Jenny cut the letter from their copy of Ross Milton’s newspaper and placed it inside the cover of the family Bible. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Toting the desk into the parlor, I saw that Miss Love had laid the big Toy family Bible on Granny’s loveseat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They made notations in their family Bible, indicating places where biblical scholars deemed passages inauthentic, added later by unknown authors. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He took his knife from his pocket and cut the pages from the family Bible. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know that small table where we keep the family Bible, nne? Your father broke it on my belly.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Great uncles were being resurrected from the family Bible and studied carefully. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened the door and pulled out the family Bible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She brought a family Bible and other elements. The artifacts and stories that brought the African American museum to life 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The historical society is finding the names in inventories, wills, correspondence, family Bibles and memoirs, among other paperwork. Antiques: Database of Viginia Slave Names Goes Online 2011-09-08T20:55:45Z With the exception of family Bibles, as well as rare and personal volumes, books rarely remain in families for generations like photos, china or linen. We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking. 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z “If they were married, I would feel more like I could write Lindsay’s name in the family Bible in ink.” Special Issue: Gay Marriage: Ready to Wed? No, Mom. 2011-07-22T19:37:03Z The Judith of the title is the fabled widow of Israel who decapitated the Assyrian general Holofernes, though, as Mr. Barker presents her, she is not exactly your family Bible’s Judith. Review: ‘Vinegar Tom’ and ‘Judith’ Examine Woman as Myth 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The app is handier than a tome of a book the size and weight of a family Bible. Chefs’ specials 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z At the exhibition opening, Thomas Day VI, an M.B.A. student at the University of North Carolina, will present the museum with an 1840s family Bible. Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z Future officeholders won’t have to seek out a family Bible on which to swear their oath of office or to add to that oath the not-in-the Constitution phrase “so help me God.” An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The children take turns reciting from a family Bible for practice in reading and elocution, not to mention spiritual edification. Bach Was Far More Religious Than You Might Think 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The center is a nonprofit that has also treated other parts of the Library's Hemingway collection, as well as materials including Abraham Lincoln's family Bible and documents George Washington wrote. Dear Papa: Letters to Hemingway get crucial repair 2012-09-26T09:16:04Z Sheridan's track record leads me to guess that most people will trust that the scattered plot of "1923" will eventually knot into a story worth noting in the Dutton family Bible. With "1923," the "Yellowstone" universe grimly enlists Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Former Vice President Mike Pence often talks of how he “joined the Reagan revolution and never looked back,” and took his oath with his hand on the Reagan family Bible. Want to tune in for the second GOP presidential debate? Here’s how to watch 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z She said she believed it had been recorded in a family Bible as March 12, 1909, The Washington Post reported. Virginia McLaurin, Sharecroppers’ Daughter Who Danced With the Obamas, Dies 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z South Carolina had no official record of her birth, according to her son, but Ms. McLaurin said she believed her birth date to have been recorded in a family Bible as March 12, 1909. Virginia McLaurin, centenarian who danced with Obamas, dies 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z At the ceremony, Roosevelt rose with the aid of leg braces equipped under his specially tailored trousers and placed his hand on a Dutch family Bible as he took his solemn oath. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z With a crucial feature called “shift timing,” the machine was about the size of a family Bible and allowed the producer to program in human-style inconsistencies measure by measure. Studio fights, ghost stories and more revelations in best-selling new bio on producer J Dilla 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z One of the only things he was able to salvage from his home was his family Bible, and inside he discovered his birth certificate, so at least now he has an ID. Tornado victims find scraps as they sift through destruction 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z In a thick, brilliantly illustrated family Bible acquired in 1918 — as the world was suffering through its last great pandemic — there is a curling lock of dark hair tucked into the first book of Chronicles. What the pandemic has stolen from Black America 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z “I took the oath of office — lifted my hand off our family Bible — and inherited a nation in crisis,” Biden said. Biden, in speech to Congress, offers sweeping agenda and touts democracy 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Some slave owners recorded marriages, deaths and births among the people they enslaved in family Bibles. With slavery’s impact, how do Black residents find ancestors 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z A great-uncle shared with him a family Bible that had belonged to his own great-grandmother, who was born into slavery in 1865, just before Emancipation. A Teenager Was Bullied. His Ancestors Saved Him. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z He had already taken the oath of office on a five-inch-thick family Bible and was a few minutes into his inaugural address by then. Perspective | On the third Wednesday in January, Joe Biden sought to put things back in sync with the nation’s history 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The family Bible, obtained as influenza was killing hundreds of thousands of Americans a century ago, was a prized possession of Howard’s grandmother, Alda Croft. What the pandemic has stolen from Black America 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z He took the oath with his hand on a family Bible that he used for swearing-in ceremonies as vice president and senator, an heirloom that has been in his family since 1893. Biden becomes the 46th president, vowing to heal and unite a nation in crisis 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Some chose a family Bible, as Jimmy Carter did, with the one used by Washington placed on the lectern. Who Was the First New President to …? 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z That includes Biden, who plans to use the same family Bible he has used twice when swearing in as vice president and seven times as senator from Delaware. Biden’s Bible puts him in line with inaugural tradition 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The summer family Bible conference hosted around July 4 by Andrew Wommack Ministries brought people from around the country and caused a small surge in virus cases in the state. COVID-19 outbreak in Colorado linked with religious group 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z “I discovered a letter inside the family Bible,” wrote a man in Texas. ‘It is getting better now’: Family letters from the deadly 1918 flu pandemic 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z “The only trace of my existence, aside from myself, could be found in the family Bible: one date written on the first page and a single name, Harold,” Singer wrote in “Jazz Roads,” his autobiography. He’s 100, a renowned jazz musician and a survivor of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z When a reporter asked if he was holding a family Bible, he described it only as “a Bible.” Lafayette Square clash, still reverberating, becomes an iconic episode in Donald Trump’s presidency 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Asked if it was a family Bible, he said, simply, “It’s a Bible.” Inside the push to tear-gas protesters ahead of a Trump photo op 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z As his wife, Tiffany Mfume, held the family Bible on Tuesday to pose for a photograph, a single strap of her surgical mask, removed for the occasion, could be seen underneath. Senators Descend on Quiet Capitol, Sacrificing Pomp for Safety’s Sake 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z “If you were born like that,” he whispered conspiratorially, “you were supposed to have magical powers. This one was found in a family Bible!” Viktor Wynd: 'I was offered a mummified arm – but I didn't have €2,000 on me' 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z For 18 hours, whites ran through the streets, shooting black residents and torching homes, churches, a hospital and a library, littering the streets with charred family Bibles, rag dolls, quilts and photographs. A 1921 massacre destroyed 'Black Wall Street' in Tulsa. The city is still looking for the dead 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The governor’s hand will rest on a family Bible as he’s sworn in by Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson, and he’ll deliver the traditional inaugural address near the end of the ceremony. Louisiana inauguration overshadowed by football championship 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Their teenage children join the fray for family Bible study. PACT helps Lee County family navigate serious mental illness 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z The exhibit includes the big family Bible that recorded births and deaths on her mother’s side of the family. ‘Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words’ shows a raw and sometimes uncertain civil rights giant 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z On one 1959 visit, he told the civil rights leader of five distant ancestors who had been “poisoned by a slave” on their plantation near Bridgeboro, Ga., according to notes in a family Bible. Ray Jenkins, prizewinning journalist with ‘ringside seat’ to history, dies at 89 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z When Christy Limauro purchased an old family Bible at a library book sale in Toledo, Ohio, she was intrigued to find a small brown card tucked inside. Woman buys old family Bible at library book sale, discovers this inside 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The fireman showed Byrd his family Bible, which survived the fire unscathed, without a burn mark. ‘God was telling me don’t give up’: Family returns from church to home engulfed in flames, Bible unscathed 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The directory is like a family Bible, a collection of names, neighborhoods, children and grandchildren, and even what colleges the young adults are attending. Groton woman compiles summer social directory for 70 years 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z A Sacramento minister is “praying for a miracle” after accidentally donating a heirloom family Bible. A YouTube star's fans listed his Tarzana mansion as a homeless shelter. Then people showed up. 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z A kitten died in the fire, but when firefighters were searching for their bulldog, they found the family Bible untouched. Alabama man's Bible survives devastating home fire: 'It was a miracle' 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z He had a home birth, and the date was recorded inside a family Bible, which was lost during a fire years later, his daughter Kenyatta said. Ralph Paige, advocate for black farmers in the South, dies at 74 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z It was an old family Bible, about the size of a shoe box. Historic Bible added to Masonic museum in Nebraska 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z At Cat Tail Run, Jackson would work on antique family Bibles and books for small museums without their own bookbinding staff. West Virginia woman breathes new life into worn books 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z At his inauguration in March 1861, Lincoln’s family Bible was still en route from Springfield, Ill., along with the rest of his belongings. Jefferson took a blade to his Bible: Presidents, faith and the new Bible museum 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Organizers next plan to attempt to find descendants of those buried through historical documents and family Bibles. Georgia town to honor graves of more than 1,100 blacks 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z There were other children, including an Ida Sherrod, who are mentioned in the family Bible but whose history is unknown. Family celebrates home of a patriarch, former slave 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Terry played with a grandbaby in a diaper, her boys at work, but her brother was sitting with her, reading the family Bible. A $500 House in Detroit: rebuilding a home and the city that we'd all want 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Like many family Bibles, there is space to write his family history. Sugarloaf man’s collection of Bibles dates to 1551 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump talked about the influence of faith in his own life, referring to the family Bible, which was used when he took the oath of office at his inauguration. Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Activity by Churches 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z President-elect Donald Trump plans to be sworn into office on Friday on the Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln at his first Inauguration, as well as a family Bible, according to his inaugural committee. These Are the Bible Verses Past Presidents Have Turned to on Inauguration Day 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “The only thing that we have that my great-grandparents touched is a family Bible, and it will be on display in the historical room because this is all about exploring family history,” Sherrod said. Family celebrates home of a patriarch, former slave 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z His household effects, including his family Bible, were still being shipped from Springfield, Ill., Mr. Dimunation said. Donald Trump, the Lincoln Bible and a Page Out of History 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z She found that first family Bible at a local bookstore. Sugarloaf man’s collection of Bibles dates to 1551 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Such is the case with Ronald Reagan’s family Bible, used by Reagan when he was sworn into office as both California governor and U.S. president. Inside the Beltway: ‘The secularization of Martin Luther King Jr.’ 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Most presidents have brought family Bibles to the inaugural ceremony. Five myths about presidential inaugurations 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Surviving military records, birth and death records, census and land records and family Bibles offer clues. Long search brings a headstone to an ‘unknown’ soldier 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Surrounded by older adults, their family Bibles and fading black and white photos, the young Mr. Puckett developed a fascination with family history. When Searching Your Ancestry Means Finding a Sense of Possibility 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z “He also took photos of canceled checks, legal documents, the papers of Civil War soldiers applying for pensions and pages in family Bibles.” 30,000 glass images reflect history of small Kansas county 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Evidence of her citizenship included a record of her birth in a family Bible and Census records. Kansas officials rule 75-year-old woman is citizen 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z “At home, my mother has the family Bible. She put my degree in that Bible. It means that much to her. I don’t have to display it. I leave it there.” Tupelo patrolman friendly face at City Hall 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z This year’s presidential nominating season will be discussed for decades in history books, but it’s making less of a mark in family Bibles. Hillary, Donald and Bernie Don't Catch On as Baby Names 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Campbell helped preserve the family Bible and a pastel portrait of Ransom Campbell, his great-great-grandfather and a Union soldier in the Civil War. Library systems amassing assortment of donated artifacts 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The incoming governor will place his hand on the family Bible to take the oath. Edwards to be sworn in Monday as Louisiana’s 56th governor 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Within a few years, your family’s farm was lost to foreclosure, along with every possession except the family Bible. Robots are coming for your job: We must fix income inequality, volatile job markets now — or face sustained turmoil 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z “However, first and foremost, I took an oath on my family Bible to uphold the law and as an elected public official my personal belief cannot prevent me from issuing the licenses as required.” Texas clerks could refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Keys was most excited to see her aunt’s family Bible, which contains the McCauley family’s lineage. Family of Rosa Parks reflect on items at Library of Congress 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Ransom moved to Delaware from Maryland in 1848, traveling with a freed slave named Ben, according to items found in the family Bible. Library systems amassing assortment of donated artifacts 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Keys was most excited to see her aunt's family Bible, which contains the McCauley family's lineage. Family of Rosa Parks reflect on items at Library of Congress 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Jan. 8 - Putting his hand on the family Bible, Baker takes the oath of office. Timeline of Baker’s 1st 100 days as Massachusetts governor 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z He said he had visited Reagan’s California ranch and presidential library, and asked to see the family Bible that Reagan used to take the oath of office. Scott Walker, Feeling Kinship With Ronald Reagan, Claims His Legacy 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The patient was a 90-year-old family Bible in need of major restoration. Bookbinding businesses keep the pages turning — for now 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z They disposed of most of the family’s belongings but were able to set aside items such as passports, a laptop, a family Bible, trophies, photographs and other keepsakes. Crew at Ebola home steps into national spotlight 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z They disposed of most of the family's belongings but were able to set aside items such as passports, a laptop, a family Bible, trophies, photographs and other keepsakes. Crew at Ebola home steps into national spotlight 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Bearing the page from the family Bible on which her birth is inscribed and copies of U.S. Recent Kansas editorials 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z He and his wife Andrea, 32, briefly returned on Monday to retrieve a family Bible and a pink baby rattle that was their daughter Sydney's favorite toy. Survivors of deadly U.S. Midwest tornado sift through wreckage 2013-11-19T01:08:22Z When the Pratkas returned, all they were able to salvage were a boxful of clothes, some pictures, the family Bible, and their birth certificates. West, Texas: The Town That Blew Up 2013-07-03T18:25:25Z Workers recovered a family Bible, flag, military medals, a purse, teddy bears and generations of photos. Second sinkhole appears in Tampa area 2013-03-05T00:33:26Z Gathered with his family in the Blue Room on the White House's ceremonial main floor, Obama put his hand on a family Bible and recited the 35-word oath that was read out loud by U.S. Obama starts second term in White House ceremony 2013-01-21T03:47:56Z Man with a family Bible in his hand, had forgotten his robe, and come in his shirt-sleeves. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z Every morning he would take his seat in the dining-room, with the big family Bible open before him. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z I can feel the brass covers of all his family Bibles sticking in my ribs as I lie by his side. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z And losin' my folks so young, and the family Bible—I don't expect I ever shall. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z The births were recorded in a family Bible but were otherwise not documented. Ky sisters to get Social Security cards under settlement in lawsuit 2011-11-23T15:00:17Z Rev. Steve Holcombe: Dear Sir: I have a large family Bible, which has been in my family a number of years. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z Talking of family Bibles, when Bishop Walsham How was Rector of Whittington he copied the following list from the entries in the family Bible of some people called Turner. Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How 2011-09-09T02:01:03.123Z A scent of rose-leaves and incense came from the shrine, which contained oranges and ikons and Easter eggs and a large family Bible. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z By the way you need not consider it necessary in future to make a kind of family Bible of me for the chronicling of domestic events. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z The births were recorded in a family Bible that has been marked up through the years, but some of the changes and deletions didn’t pass muster with the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, Benge said. No papers, big problem: Sisters in Kentucky sue government to get Social Security numbers 2011-08-04T20:11:23Z Few of us, I suspect, ever read our family Bible, and all of us probably groan when we lift out the unabridged dictionary. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z With this Greek copy we may compare a Protestant family Bible mentioned by a modern German preacher. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z There was an old and tattered family Bible on the loft, with a strong and heavy metal clasp. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z The hour of rest had come, and the mother opened the large family Bible, that they might together remember and thank Him, who had preserved them through the day. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z The next Sabbath the child was solemnly baptized David, and Robert entered his name in the large family Bible, which had been the first purchase he made for his home after Theodora had accepted him. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z Upon a round table near the window was an immense family Bible. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The company manifested a solicitude for the issue of the pending controversy—the family Bible was brought and laid on the table by the side of doctor Franklin. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z According to the record in the old family Bible, I was born at St. Johns, New Brunswick, June 22, 1817. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Mrs. Penlogan rose at once and fetched the family Bible and handed it on to Ruth. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z As bad as the family Bible," said I. " Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Mr. McCabe could never really settle down, shifting jobs two or three times, up and down at night, writing notes that he put in the family Bible. Persistence of a Father Brings News in a Killing 2011-05-07T19:53:29Z My gowns are decent and fit my morals, and I would as soon change the cover on the Manning family Bible. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z All across the South on Sunday, worshipers arrived in borrowed or newly bought clothes, carrying tattered family Bibles found among the ruins. Storms Are the Subject as Alabama Residents Go to Church 2011-05-02T01:28:54Z Then David rose and got the family Bible and laid it on the table, so that the light of the lamp fell upon its pages. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z It stood to him in place of the family Bible. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z After hastily putting on a pair of clean stockings and reading a chapter in my mother's family Bible, I left the room, murmuring to myself, "Be still, my throbbing heart, be still." The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z They will tell you that I am just twenty-one years and two days old, and I can prove it by our family Bible and certificate of baptism. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Joseph Henry was born in Albany, N. Y., December 17, 1797, or 1799, probably the latter date, this uncertainty arising from the illegibility of the faded records in the old family Bible. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z “Now, then,” said Matt, “family Bible with birth in, eh?” Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z The center is the old family Bible occupying the place of honor; all the births, deaths, and marriages of the family have been carefully recorded in this book. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives 2011-02-25T03:01:01.877Z The Gibsons have got an enormous copy of the Pilgrim's Progress,—as big as a family Bible, published in London, and all the pictures are quite different from those in our own. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z The family Bible, containing the records of births, deaths and marriages, occupies a prominent position in the room. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z She carried her family Bible to the temple, and there with many other women read God's laws from its pages faster than the king could explain it in his way. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z Many believed him to be past a hundred years when he died, but the family Bible was not available to prove the date of his birth. Lost Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:25.250Z Weston opens her family Bible on her lap and gingerly turns its fragile pages. Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history 2010-08-03T04:00:00Z It lay by itself on a circular stand, as one sometimes sees a costly family Bible in American homes. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies They got most of the real valuable things—photographs of their dead father and mother, and the family Bible, and deeds, and a few trinkets. The Reclaimers We went to the temple, I carrying my family Bible, and there we faced the King. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z Accordingly, he removed the lamp from the organ to the table, and from the sitting-room brought a big family Bible. The Cottage of Delight A Novel In a few moments she returned, bringing with her the family Bible. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency Her name's scratched out of the family Bible, with a strong hint to the Lord to scratch her entry from the Book of Life. A Man in the Open She threw a few sticks of hickory-wood on the embers and then drew out the little round stand, on which the family Bible was always lying. The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution Father would read to us from the big family Bible and explain to us as he read. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z Janet Cooper, who hadn't anything else, bet her Penguin Badge, which was like pledging the family Bible. The Underpup He could trace his ancestral line no farther back than his great-grandfather, who, it appeared from the family Bible, had, together with his grandfather and father, claimed Marchlaw as their birth-place. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative "Here is a foot note in this family Bible on this passage," said the father. Dorothy Page The Van Heerdens, her relatives, were a very old couple with hardly an idea outside their own erf and the covers of the family Bible. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion “That is our family Bible,” Jessie replied, laying her hand upon it reverently. Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls One was a big family Bible full of pictures. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade Still he prayed and read his old family Bible in the room where first he built the altar. The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Aunt Jane folded the country newspaper that she had been reading and laid it on the family Bible at her elbow. The Land of Long Ago While he spoke Dr. Grey had been turning over the leaves of the old family Bible, which happened to lie within his reach; and now, without premonition, he read aloud the fifty-fifth Psalm. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part When they came up to the house, Zephaniah Pennel was sitting in the door, with his gray head bent over the leaves of the great family Bible. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine The family Bible was thrown upside down into the ashes. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Accordingly Mrs. Wellington Seymour's age is 37—a fact, which, upon consulting the family Bible, I find to be perfectly correct—and I only hope Mrs. S. will, some day, forgive me for publishing it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 In the old family Bible now in possession of Mr. Charles Dickens it is Huffam in his father's own handwriting. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land There were no shrubs and the trees were gaunt scarred trunks, without branches or leaves, reminding one of an ancient gloomy picture in the old-time family Bible, known as “Dry Bones in the Valley.” The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor When the great family Bible was brought out for prayers, and little Mara composed herself on a low stool by her grandmother's side, he, however, did not conduct himself as a babe of grace. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Each pilgrim sings with a book in his grasp—a family Bible at the least for bigness; tomes so recklessly enormous that our second impulse is to laughter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The furniture was big and ponderous; on a little stand was placed a heavy family Bible, a hymn book, bound in purple velvet, with gilt clasp, lying on top. A Dear Little Girl She took down de family Bible from de stand an' marked out Mis' Laughter's name. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 The only thing I've to say against the Remarks of Bill Nye, in one volume, says the Baron, is the size of the book, which is as big as a family Bible. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 So the toilful good soul kept them at her knee for the next hour or two, while they looked through all the pictures in the old family Bible. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine "Entries in family Bibles and prayer-books—registers—tombstones—ay, by the way, an old tombstone," continued Gammon, musingly, "that would settle the business!" Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Thus came Kenyon Adams, recorded in the family Bible as the third son of Mary and Amos Adams, into the wilderness of this world. In the Heart of a Fool Surely Christ will not disappoint the poor old grandmother's vision of Jerusalem the Golden seen through tear-dimmed spectacles as she pores over the family Bible. Dreamers of the Ghetto “And myself can sing to you and dance to you, and I’m twenty years old by the family Bible––” “I’m twenty-two––makes it about right,” said Tom. Rim o' the World Finally he read even the old family Bible his mother had toted into his room for his comfort. In a Little Town She pointed without another word to the old family Bible. Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story He took the family Bible from its place on the shelf. Good Luck This isn’t the date in the family Bible, as Kate 158 could tell you if she weren’t a lady, but I’m sure my parents made a mistake. The Readjustment We last read them in volumes the size of a family Bible, and we are glad to have an opportunity to renew our acquaintance with them in a form so much more handy and elegant.” Life of Charles Darwin The family Bible was hunted up, dusted, and placed in a conspicuous position on the centertable in the front room. Continuous Vaudeville In the old family Bible I see it recorded that I was born April 17, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa., the son of Jonathan C. Gibbs and Maria, his wife. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century However, when finally Mr. Bradley took down the large family Bible to read the evening chapter, all were serious and listened to the Word of God with devotion. Three Young Pioneers A Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country I can read the Constitution, I am possessed of two hundred and fifty dollars, and the last time I looked in the old family Bible I found I was over twenty-one years of age. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The family Bible, family pictures, school-books, and books not exceeding in value fifty dollars. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I see myself, sitting on a great black book, the family Bible. Rosin the Beau Pitt rose, went to the table, where a large family Bible and Book of Common Prayer lay, and fetched the Bible to the breakfast-table. A Red Wallflower I suppose Marion would have been very much surprised had she known what I know, that Aunt Hannah and Uncle Reuben shed tears over that letter, and put it in the family Bible. The Chautauqua Girls At Home They took the family Bible, and read and talked a long time, sitting on the daisied grass, under the pleasant shade of a willow. Stories of Many Lands He said nothing of where he had been, but walked into the house with a stern face, and called for the family Bible, which had belonged to his grandfather in the time of the Commonwealth. Athelstane Ford It’s just come to my mind now that this here is one of my anniversaries, an’ I’ll have to look up the facts in my family Bible, an’ change my ring.” At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Imagine a devout pastor when his son kicks the family Bible and you have the mental state of half the students of Plato upon hearing a defense of socialism. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Josiah Franklin looked around on the group at the fireside, and opened the family Bible. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin She looks in the old family Bible, standing in its accustomed place on a table by the window. When the Birds Begin to Sing “I will put it on top of The Times and the family Bible and I will say ‘Ha! now I am British. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol Near a stiffly curtained window was a sort of family altar—a table on which lay a family Bible. Frank of Freedom Hill Immediately after obeying the Saviour I bought a family Bible and a pocket Testament; not that we had none before, but they were not such as suited my convenience. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings "An' I suppose Corney has a grand place, wi' a desk and books as thick as a family Bible?" Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road They also procured a handsome family Bible for the sheriff. The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier “I will read The Times and buy a family Bible,” said Aristide. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol Mrs. Lyman was sitting before the kitchen fire with the great family Bible in her lap; but, instead of reading it, she was winding round it some white soft wicking. Little Grandmother It is as if this traditional lodgment of the family Bible restrained them. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends His own record of his life, from his family Bible, is in N.Y. Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents Laddie, who figured as Archibald only in the family Bible, sat close to the inglenook—a handsome young fellow with a daring brow and rollicking eyes. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 The six haircloth chairs, the marble-topped centre-table with its wool and bead mat, its glass lamp with the red wick, its photograph-album and gilt family Bible, did not speak her language. Rita The family were very much concerned and wrote the prophecy down in the family Bible, and also spread the story through the province. Historic Boyhoods A small bookshelf supported the family Bible and several ancient and much-worn volumes. Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication The rims of her spectacles were of tortoiseshell, and she had a huge family Bible on her knee, while her feet rested upon a three-legged stool. The Eagle Cliff A month later Deborah discovered it between the leaves of the family Bible. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 This accomplished, he took down an old family Bible from a shelf, and had worship, for he was a man who feared and loved God. The Story of the Rock The preacher brother laid the large family Bible in my lap and said, 'Now, Brother Stuart, you are in the home of a Methodist preacher; do what you think best.' And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses When people don’t write them down in their family Bibles, they carry them, extended, in their heads. The Gypsies Take up the family Bible and read the record of the marriage day. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony He rose, and took from the shelf a large family Bible. Odd It's mostly the young as bears his particular kind of sufferin', but it's on his face in as plain readin' as the family Bible. Aunt Rachel After supper, in the dining-room, Miss Jemima handed the old family Bible to her brother, and he took it with a loving grasp. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn The table that held the family Bible had a cover made of rope, hanging in huge tassels down at each corner. The Second Chance Will they take the old family Bible and open it and see the mark of tears of contrition and tears of consoling promise wept by eyes long before gone out into darkness? The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony The extreme noise of the family’s entry was rendered fully apparent by the appalling calm which ensued when Mr Jack opened the family Bible, and cleared his throat to begin worship. Philosopher Jack Possibly the cause might have been found in a large and much-worn family Bible, which lay on a small table in company with a pair of tortoiseshell spectacles, at the old woman’s elbow. Rivers of Ice His old grandmother sat in one corner, reading, through her familiar spectacles, the well-worn family Bible. The Runaway The Adventures of Rodney Roverton Every-body has heard of the good old lady who purchased a family Bible at a bookstore, and soon after returned it, being desirous to exchange it for one of larger print. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 The Vans family Bible is in the library of the Essex Institute. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 The record in the family Bible at home says I am, and what I read in that book I believe. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers They are to understand that the world goes on much as usual, and that their family Bibles still contain the old Table of Contents. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The books of town clerks, the records of clergymen, and the entries in family Bibles were the sources of information. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 The more he feared I was right the worse he got, till Ma had to call him to order by putting the family Bible in his lap and making him read and pray. Dixie Hart His father had kept it displayed upon the drawing-room wall, over the table on which the family Bible had rested. The Colonel's Dream These having been produced from between the leaves of the family Bible, Madeline read, while Grandma made a vigorous practical application of the various mixtures. Cape Cod Folks The obsolescent family Bible, with its chronicle of births, deaths and marriages, is an institution of too great value in more ways than one, to be given up. Applied Eugenics I used to have my age in the family Bible and my husband’s too, but it got burnt up. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Presently I heard the voice of the minister, and looking toward the foot of the bed, I saw opened before him the great family Bible from which he was reading. Confessions of Boyhood Deny yourself and leave at home the gold or silver toilet set, photograph album, family Bibles, heavy fancy work, gilded horseshoe for luck, etc. A Truthful Woman in Southern California These boxes were used in the seventeenth century for writing-desks and later to keep the large family Bibles in. Ralestone Luck They had left her sitting in the high-backed rocker by the window, the great family Bible and her spectacles on the little light-stand beside her.... Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Henry wrote to him and told him to look in the bottom of the wardrobe in the old family Bible. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 You go to read a chapter in the family Bible. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Learoyd, still too weak to attend to farm duties, was seated in the arm-chair by the fire; in his hands was the family Bible, but he was not reading. More Tales of the Ridings But it is not until spinsterhood is fully confirmed by grey hair and the family Bible that a girl begins to look with favour upon the army of the detached. The Spinster Book There had been another member of the little family, but God had taken her, and Grandma Way's placid face was no longer seen bending over the old family Bible, in the chimney corner. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland When her old white folks died, the young ones hunted it up for her out of the old family Bible and sent it to me. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Generally the Harriets and Sarahs endured only in the seclusion of the family Bible and the baptismal records. The Jamesons Sir, I keep a railroad journal at home, as large as a family Bible. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales The latter are just like the illustrations in family Bibles. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years Before they began the repast Mr. Bobbsey brought forth the family Bible and read the wonderful story of Christ's birth to them, and asked the blessing. The Bobbsey Twins Or, Merry Days Indoors and Out So Jerusha turned over the great family Bible, her custom always of a Sunday afternoon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics The day came when I was free, and forth I went full of hope, twenty-three years old by the family Bible, with a strong, agile body and a homely face. The Soldier of the Valley He's sot his pedigree down in the births, deaths, and marriages, in our family Bible. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales I still have the family Bible, a set of Shakespeare with the marginal notations made by father while he was at Oxford, and a few others. Class of '29 She told me that she had deposited several bank-notes in the leaves of her family Bible, thinking that, to be sure, nobody was likely to look there for them. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic The marginal reading in our family Bibles, as well as in the revised version, is "participation in." The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church I thought I was born in New York, I thought we always lived there, but just a while ago I ran onto your old family Bible, and it had the records in it. Read-Aloud Plays When work was over and the house quiet, Aunt Lucinda placed the large family Bible upon the table, preparatory to their evening worship. Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past Later in the week there appeared in the windows melodions, phonographs, big gilt family Bibles, bread machines, sewing machines, and Morris chairs. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy My dear children, what a task would you think it, even with a long lifetime before you, were you bidden to copy every chapter and verse, and word, in yonder great family Bible! True Stories of History and Biography Our family Bible, in the record just between the Old and the New Testaments, has this entry: "Thomas DeWitt, Born January 7, 1832." T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Florence was leaning with clasped hands on the table gazing intently at her cousin; while Mary knelt on the other side, her hand resting on the large family Bible. Inez A Tale of the Alamo One morning he called them all together, as usual, to lead them in prayer to God; the "old family Bible" was brought out, and laid on the table. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader "You may look at the record in the family Bible the next time you visit Woodburn, if you care to," Lucilla said, with a careless little toss of her head. Elsie at the World's Fair Looking at it, longing to plant his feet upon it, some one seemed to approach Charlie whom he immediately knew, because he resembled pictures in the old family Bible at Aunt Stanshy’s. The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play The family Bible held a perfect fascination for me, not a page that was not discoloured either with time or tears. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him The liquor stood, with two glasses and a jug of water, between the Coomstock family Bible, on its green worsted mat, and a glass shade containing the stuffed carcass of a fox-terrier. Children of the Mist Even years later important letters and despatches were often written with ink made of gunpowder and on a blank leaf torn from a family Bible. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. Memories A Story of German Love Books were both scarce and dear, the family Bible being, of course, the principal one. From John O'Groats to Land's End Then it was the old woman took down the family Bible, and showed to him the plates representative of the marvels of old. Lancashire Idylls (1898) Oh, my friends, it is not a matter of very great importance that you have a family Bible on the center-table in your parlor! New Tabernacle Sermons Their library consisted chiefly in a large family Bible, with notes and expositions by various learned expositors, from Bishop Jewell downwards. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 Boy, don't you worry about any family Bible business. Through stained glass I never knew what became of that book-mark until years later, after he was married, when I saw it in his family Bible, and then I could guess where it had been in the interval. From John O'Groats to Land's End Old mistress put all our ages in the family Bible, and I was born on Christmas morning in 1840 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 Better have one pocket New Testament, the passages marked, the leaves turned down, the binding worn smooth with much usage, than fifty pictorial family Bibles too handsome to read! New Tabernacle Sermons But especially the altar of worship, the family Bible, the fireside catechising, the stern discipline, and the solemn Sabbaths moulded the boy and awakened the powers that distinguished the man. Sketches of the Covenanters Your name's written in the family Bible all right. Through stained glass The good people looked with reverence at a man that had read three whole shelves full of books, and some of them, too, as large as a family Bible. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists My dear old grand-father was then alive, and he would sit at the table with the large old family Bible before him for the whole evening. The Moral Picture Book Yes ma'm, we colored people had a church down there in West Virginia, and grandmother Delilah had a family Bible of her own. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives If you are right, I must be wrong; but fifty years hence we shall settle that matter with spectacles on nose over our family Bibles. Marriage "She said," continued Lewis, coloring slightly, "that a Leighton didn't have to have his name written in a family Bible because God never forgets to write it in his face." Through stained glass There was an instant of rapid motion, a few skillful lines, and it needed no word of explanation to recognize the great family Bible. Four Girls at Chautauqua When I yelled for help my pocketbook looked like a last season's autumn leaf in the family Bible. You Can Search Me And in addition to this, I came in on Thursday and found that he had laid the large family Bible on the darling's stomach. Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot Now, it so happened that Lillie's maternal grandfather, a nice, pious old gentleman, had taken the occasion to make her the edifying and suggestive present of a large, elegantly bound family Bible. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel Sir Lupus's family Bible lay on the window-sill; the General bade Mount fetch it, and he did so. The Maid-At-Arms Katy was fifteen and a half, according to the family Bible. The Mystery of Metropolisville When two men are fighting for life they don't bother about upsetting a table with a vase, or notice any "Keep off the grass" signs; no, not even if the family Bible be underfoot. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form She had a distinct recollection of the box--it used to stand on the sideboard, and a large-sized family Bible generally lay on the top of it. Wife in Name Only If I failed to speak, methinks the old family Bible, that I brought home with me, would rebuke my silence, and the very walls of my youthful home would tell the story of my ingratitude. Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Thirteen large family Bibles, and fifty small ones, have thus been given away—good, well-bound Bibles. The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young The master's family was thoughtful in keeping our records in their own big family Bible. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 She kept dates by the old family Bible. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 The library of many a farmer consisted of only the family Bible with one or more numbers of this famous almanac. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans He folded up the paper and slipped it under the family Bible, where it was least likely to be soon discovered. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays If there is any paint left over, it will be used up for the family Bible and the canary. Dreams She threw a few sticks of hickory-wood on the embers, and then drew out the little round stand, on which the family Bible was always lying. Twilight Stories Every peasant's child could be made to understand the quaint pictures in the family Bible or the catechism which illustrated vividly all those texts. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom "Can we have a copy of the poetry to keep in the family Bible?" inquired Mrs. Cobb respectfully. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Each pilgrim sings with a book in his grasp—a family Bible at the least for bigness; tomes so recklessly enormous that our second, impulse is to laughter. Lay Morals He supported himself with one hand on a small table upon the top of which was a family Bible. The Mucker In all the seven generations of their sojourn in America they have never had anything like this to record in the family Bible. Dear Enemy Some notes, found in an old family Bible in Teesdale, are quoted by Mr. Joseph Morris. Yorkshire Her name is Rebecca, and she looks not unlike Rebekah at the Well in our family Bible; her hair and eyes being so dark as to suggest a strain of Italian or Spanish blood. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm I distinctly remember the shudder that passed over me on seeing a mother take our family Bible to make a high seat for her child at table. The Woman's Bible Quite unexpectedly he lost his balance, the table tipped, he was thrown still farther over toward it, and all in the flash of an eye tramp, table, and family Bible crashed to the floor. The Mucker I remembered that deprecating sentence in the family Bible, written in a woman's hand. Birds of Prey Behind the glazed doors of the mahogany bookcase appeared Hume and Smollett, Scott and Shakespeare; and conspicuous among these a handsome family Bible. Charlotte's Inheritance His library consisted of practically one book, the family Bible. The Elson Readers, Book 5 Before going with Minim, I always fortify myself with a glance at the great family Bible, in which Adam, Eve, and the patriarchs, are indifferently well represented. Prue and I I have dozens of wives whose numbers, even, I do not know without looking in the family Bible. Roughing It, Part 2. I mean the old family Bible that belonged to my grand-mamma. Birds of Prey Do we not ofttimes offer a family Bible for a new subscriber when an old subscriber may be in a lost and undone state? Remarks Meanwhile, the thump made by the big family Bible as Hannah deposited it on the table warned both him and the truant outside that prayer-time had come. The History of David Grieve A shriek, from Mrs. Martin, made her husband, who was sitting at the table, with the large family Bible open before him, raise his head. The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People In the middle of these was a large well-worn family Bible. A Peep Behind the Scenes Charlotte looked over my shoulder as I examined the fly-leaf of the family Bible. Birds of Prey As soon as the rest of the family were gone, we would take down the family Bible and ask the Lord to help us to turn to some scripture that would be good for us. Trials and Triumphs of Faith When she returned to the kitchen, she lighted a candle, and opened the old family Bible, with its large type, which seemed to her a more sacred book than the little one she used daily. Brought Home The hour of eleven brought the master to the door in his arm-chair, with his family Bible in his lap. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences The family Bible was found in every cottage, and my uncle gave two cottage Bible-readings every week of his life. Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir When all was in readiness for the service to begin, a song was sung and then a chapter from the large German family Bible was read. The Poorhouse Waif and His Divine Teacher It was not quite peep of day, however, when she laid her well-worn family Bible aside. The Best American Humorous Short Stories So they gathered around the wide kitchen fire and the family Bible was brought out. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England These masters translated the Bible into pictures, and here are the originals of many of the cuts that adorn our finely illustrated family Bibles. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany I never seen nothing like it since I been in the business, and while I ain't going to flash no family Bible that's been some time. The Sorrows of a Show Girl The old lady fumbled at her work till Marjorie came back to her with the family Bible in her hands. Miss Prudence A Story of Two Girls' Lives. Horace soon discovered that the Old Testament was in six volumes, each volume as large as a family Bible. Dotty Dimple at Play People will never read the Word of God in your life simply because you have a neat little Testament in your pocket or a large family Bible on your center table. How to Live a Holy Life Twenty-eight, if the family Bible does not lie; but she'd never forgive me if she knew I told you that. Aikenside It was Betty who lingered longest in the library, fascinated by the autographed letters of Washington, his tripod used in surveying, and his family Bible. Betty Gordon in Washington She could recount the details of the unfortunate matrimonial alliances on both sides of the family for generations back, and was even more infallible in the matter of birth dates than the family Bible. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Aunt Rebecca Miller was an elder sister to Mrs. Reist, so said the inscription in the big family Bible. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites Well, you can take the old family Bible, look it over and then decide. The Pastor's Son Then she brought the old family Bible, indicating that after that hour she was in no mood for commonplace conversation. Opening a Chestnut Burr And here it was among razors and pistols and family Bibles in a pawnbroker's window. Gallegher and Other Stories In the old family Bible the name of James Monroe Cox appears, indicative of a family admiration. The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox "When we get it we'll keep it in the family Bible," said Felicity. The Story Girl Well, my grandmother, she was an anncient woman; some said she was ninety- seven, and more called it ninety-eight, but she didn't rightly know herself, bein' she had lost the family Bible. Hildegarde's Neighbors I always quoted the text 'Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof' to him, until at length he sent for the family Bible and ruled it out with red ink in a rage. Allan and the Holy Flower In her lap, open, lay her huge family Bible; a spray of pressed maidenhair fern marked the place. Aladdin O'Brien Fifty he was by the almanac, and by the old family Bible as well, and yet he did not look it. Kennedy Square Father sat silently in the chimney-corner, reading in the family Bible. The Wedding Guest It is not that a woman should call herself in years younger than her father's family Bible will have her to be. The Small House at Allington Glancing across the room, I saw two of the little ones contending for possession of a large family Bible, which lay upon a small table. Home Lights and Shadows Beni had the family Bible, the basket of silverware from the sideboard, a copper kettle and papa's fur overcoat. American Fairy Tales The family Bible of the Gordons lay open, on the reading desk, and upon its yellow pages rested a Maltese cross of snowy Roman hyacinths. At the Mercy of Tiberius His mother's workbox; his father's SHAKESPEARE; the family Bible—a piteous catalogue. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life They formed a volume as big as a family Bible. The Days Before Yesterday She went up the walk, entered the living room, slipped the letter under the lid of the big family Bible, and walking to the telephone she called Dr. Gray's office. A Daughter of the Land There was an old, unused family Bible at home. Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East He saw them carry him home, lay him on the bed, and spread on his breast an open family Bible, which looked as heavy as an anvil. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain The dates in the old family Bible show that I am in the decline of life, but I cannot recall a period in my existence when I felt really young. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters If we weren't a little crowded this year by the typesetter, I'd send a check large enough to buy a family Bible or some other useful thing like that. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) On the top dresser to the right of the fireplace in the kitchen of Kenmuir lies the family Bible. Bob, Son of Battle A man's ignorance is as much his private property, and as precious in his own eyes, as his family Bible. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 "But do you really think a claim based upon a family Bible and a family likeness a subject for serious consideration?" A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories There wasn't no records—there wasn't no family Bible! it's all a lie—you hear me! Tales of Trail and Town Lila paced slowly up and down the room, her head bent a little sideways, as she listened to Tucker's cheerful voice reading the evening chapter from the family Bible. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields The big, rickety family Bible was taken from the center table and opened with shaking fingers by Mrs. Baker. The Depot Master The great family Bible had the look upon its leathern covers of a book that bad never been new, and we honored it the more for its apparent age. A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Observing the book in her lap, he continued, "So you were reading the old family Bible to learn lessons of patience and forbearance?" He Fell in Love with His Wife On an old oaken table, well rubbed and polished, lay the family Bible and prayer-book, and the drawer contained the family library, composed of about half a score of well-thumbed volumes. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon She dusts books with more caution than china, and her respect for a family Bible is greater than her respect for me. The Confession "Have you never chanced to see the old family Bible?" Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 My dear children, what a task would you think it, even with a long lifetime before you, were you bidden to copy every chapter, and verse, and word, in yonder family Bible! Grandfather's Chair I have come to the conclusion that one year of newspapering counts for two years of ordinary, existence, and that while I'm twenty-eight in the family Bible I'm fully forty inside. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed The man standing in front of the musicians waving a stick took the likeness of Satan, as seen in the picture in our family Bible at home. Man and Wife I don't know which is the finer study: the picture of his Majesty William III. crossing the Boyne, or the plump little Queen presenting a huge family Bible to an apparently uninterested black youth. Penelope's Irish Experiences She put the book in the front room on top of the family Bible. Martin Eden |
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