The king said, -Divide the living boy in two; then give half to the one, and half to the other. But the woman whose son was alive... said to the king -because compassion for her son burned within her - -Please, my lord, give her the living boy; certainly do not kill him! The other said, -It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. Then the king responded: -Give the first woman the living boy; do not kill him. She is his mother.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that... goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me n...othing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how hea...ven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the middle of that quiet floor sits a fleet of small black ships,... square-rigged, sails furled, motionless, their spars like burned matchsticks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Zhivago: It seems you bombed the wrong village. Strelnikov: They always say that. And what does it matter? A village betrays ...us, a village is burned. The point made. Zhivago: Your point. Their village.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood or ...season of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You who have condemned me, I know your kind. Your forebears poisoned Socrates, burned Joan of Arc, hanged, tortured all those whos...e only offense was to bring light into darkness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »