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John the Baptist
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  • What was it the guy on the Common had said the other day, his chin resting on the Volkswagen like some grotesque John the Baptist?†   (source)
  • According to Christian tradition, Ein Kerem was the birthplace of John the Baptist.†   (source)
  • A sign told me it was St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, one of the oldest in New Orleans.†   (source)
  • Could John the Baptist have suffered such deprivation?†   (source)
  • And the moment that the preacher threw him down, crying out the words of John the Baptist, Gabriel began to kick and sputter, nearly throwing the preacher off balance; and though at first they thought that it was the power of the Lord that worked in him, they realized as he rose, still kicking and with his eyes tightly shut, that it was only fury, and too much water in his nose.†   (source)
  • They had me dressed up like a little St. John the Baptist.†   (source)
  • John the Baptist, Jesus and his clothes, rainbows, horses.†   (source)
  • Opposite Mary sat Uriel, also with an infant, presumably baby John the Baptist.†   (source)
  • Right over her head, to the left, was John the Baptist's head being served on a plate.†   (source)
  • This same gesture appears in three of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous encoded masterpieces—The Last Supper, Adoration of the Magi, and Saint John the Baptist.†   (source)
  • The bizarre scene Da Vinci had painted included an awkwardly posed Virgin Mary sitting with Baby Jesus, John the Baptist, and the Angel Uriel on a perilous outcropping of rocks.†   (source)
  • I remembered the story of John the Baptist and the moment when Gabriel arrived to deliver the news of John the Baptist's coming birth.†   (source)
  • The nuns gave Leonardo specific dimensions, and the desired theme for the painting—the Virgin Mary, baby John the Baptist, Uriel, and Baby Jesus sheltering in a cave.†   (source)
  • Just as I was processing the implications of my son's statement—that he had met John the Baptist—Colton spied a plastic horse among his toys and held it up for me to look at.†   (source)
  • I mean, other than Bible figures like John the Baptist, but I have to admit that I sort of thought of him as …. well, a "character" more than a regular person like you and me.†   (source)
  • John the Baptist is "nice"?†   (source)
  • Now to Almighty God, to the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, to the blessed John the Baptist, the holy apostles Peter and Paul, to the blessed martyr Denys, and to all the Saints, I commend my cause and that of the Church.†   (source)
  • He was a John the Baptist who took ennoblement rather than repentance for his text.†   (source)
  • She took the leg of mutton and held it high above her, as though it were the head of John the Baptist on a platter; and, the cigarette still in her mouth, advanced with solemn, hieratic steps.†   (source)
  • So much the better, since there are in the chapel of Saints Féréol and Ferrution two statues, the one of John the Baptist, the other of Saint-Antoine, of solid gold, weighing together seven marks of gold and fifteen estellins; and the pedestals are of silver-gilt, of seventeen marks, five ounces.†   (source)
  • …of goats, of red-haired people, and black cats, and she regarded crickets and dogs as unclean beasts; she never ate veal, doves, crayfishes, cheese, asparagus, artichokes, hares, nor water-melons, because a cut water-melon suggested the head of John the Baptist, and of oysters she could not speak without a shudder; she was fond of eating—and fasted rigidly; she slept ten hours out of the twenty-four—and never went to bed at all if Vassily Ivanovitch had so much as a headache; she had…†   (source)
  • The wide circumference of an elaborate ruff, beneath his grey beard, in the antiquated fashion of King James's reign, caused his head to look not a little like that of John the Baptist in a charger.†   (source)
  • There was a small stained-glass window set high in the wall at the side of the sanctuary, a crude rendering of John the Baptist in his bearskin.†   (source)
  • [1] The florin which bore on the obverse the figure of John the Baptist, the protecting saint of Florence.†   (source)
  • 13) not Peter onely, "Who men said he was;" and they answered, that "some said he was John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the Prophets:" Then (ver.†   (source)
  • This rite St. John the Baptist used in the reception of all them that gave their names to the Christ, whom hee preached to bee already come into the world; and our Saviour instituted the same for a Sacrament to be taken by all that beleeved in him.†   (source)
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