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  • an anarchic disciple of Nietzsche
  • "I am happy," said M. Waldman, "to have gained a disciple; and if your application equals your ability, I have no doubt of your success."   (source)
  • I little expected, in this enlightened and scientific age, to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus.   (source)
    disciple = someone who passionately believes in the teachings of another
  • We were studying this one book, Discipleship, and she went straight to the chapter on marriage.†   (source)
  • And the next day I did Paper 2 and the Reverend Peters read The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but this time he didn't smoke a cigarette and Siobhan made me go into the toilets before the exam and sit on my own and do breathing and counting.†   (source)
  • He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long; But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act.†   (source)
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  • King Lords in gray bandanas and Garden Disciples in green bandanas stand on a police car in the middle of the street, chanting, "Justice for Khalil!"†   (source)
  • As a child I'd read those letters as an act of worship; now I read them with different eyes, not the eyes of a critic, but also not the eyes of a disciple.†   (source)
  • His disciples followed.†   (source)
  • The usual suspects: crazed fans, wannabe disciples, and aspiring bounty hunters.†   (source)
  • Mamaji had to wait until I came into the picture to find a willing disciple.†   (source)
  • Others insisted that the suspicious placement of disciples in The Last Supper was some kind of code.†   (source)
  • "Lee was definitely voted out," said Cynthia, "and what made it so poignant was that the people who voted him out were his friends and disciples.†   (source)
  • The moon fawned over him like a disciple.†   (source)
  • And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why could we not cast it out?"†   (source)
  • She kneels before an altar with a bronze lamb, two winged angels, and a wooden carving of Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper.†   (source)
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  • People were so desperate for relief and protection from the disease they began widespread experimentation with makeshift folk remedies that were in themselves deadly, consuming concoctions of drugs assembled from common cold medications and synthesized into an extremely addictive and often fatal compound (please see "Folk Cures Through the Ages'... The discovery of the procedure to cure deliria is typically credited to Cormac T. Holmes, a neuroscientist who was a member of the initial Consortium of New Scientists and one of the first disciples of the New Religion, which teaches the Holy Trinity of God, Science, and Order.†   (source)
  • He and his new disciple hid themselves in an evil place where the Riders dared not venture.†   (source)
  • The suspension came after a school fight which involved a war between "Insanes" and "Maniacs," two factions of the "Folks" ("Folks" are those gangs allied with the Spanish Cobras and Gangster Disciples; the "People" are gangs tied to the Latin Kings and Vice Lords, symbolic of the complicated structures most inner-city gangs had come to establish).†   (source)
  • He borrows the figure of Christ joining the disciples on the road to Emmaus in The Raste Land (1922), uses the Christmas story in "Journey of the Magi" (1927), offers a fairly idiosyncratic sort of Lenten consciousness in "Ash-Wednesday" (1930).†   (source)
  • ' I remembered that the book of Acts talks about the disciple Stephen.†   (source)
  • Those in charge of the Southern rebels have convinced their disciples that the way to get back what they think is theirs is to take it from the monarchy.†   (source)
  • Neither of them wrote down their teachings, so we are forced to rely on the picture we have of them from their disciples.†   (source)
  • Deborah called Gary The Disciple because he had a habit of channeling the Lord in the middle of a conversation.†   (source)
  • When, in the mid-1990s, Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers stepped onto center stage and took over the role of God's gift to the quarterbacking position, a Walsh disciple (Packer head coach and former Walsh assistant Mike Holmgren) stood behind the curtain pulling the strings.†   (source)
  • He turned the same charm he had used to gather pupils for his Spanish dance class to collecting a growing number of disciples.†   (source)
  • And we knew where we were going: right up there to the high peaks of the Hindu Kush, those same mountains where bin Laden might still be and where his new bands of disciples were still hiding.†   (source)
  • Bratton was, like Gunn, a disciple of Broken Windows.†   (source)
  • Artists demonized John Wilkes Booth with lurid pictures of him as the devil's disciple.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino was not surprised to recognize his own thoughts in those of his favorite disciple.†   (source)
  • Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.†   (source)
  • Anyway, Patterson keeps Mautz from turning MacArthur into a prison camp, and that means the Christian Cruiser rolls on past the scorn of Mark Brittain and his disciples.†   (source)
  • In the crowded workout room, thirty disciples, most of them women, were staking out their turf, then adjusting mats as stragglers came in.†   (source)
  • To hear Chubs talk, you would have thought Jack Fields was a saint walking on earth, a disciple of Awesome, preaching the proper way to use their Blue abilities after spending years figuring it out for himself.†   (source)
  • He raises the broken wafer as he says "....in the same night that He was betrayed He took Bread; and when He had given thanks, He brake it, and gave it to His disciples, saying, 'Take, eat ....' " Father, Obasan, and Uncle are kneeling but the others stand, their hands formed into cups in which Sensei places the paper bread.†   (source)
  • She washed his feet and cried while she did, thinking inevitably of her Sweet Lord and His last earthly night with His disciples.†   (source)
  • I'm such a hopeful disciple.†   (source)
  • Well, word got around that he was selling meth to kids, and Sam Uley and his disciples ran him off our land.†   (source)
  • He was now eager to learn how the Black Disciples worked, from top to bottom.†   (source)
  • He kept telling me if I didn't like the Disciples, then I didn't like Jesus and all.†   (source)
  • Or maybe them disciples tryin' to start a church thought everbody would join up if n they said Jesus Christ would give the Garden a-Eden to anybody believed He was the son a-God and like thet.†   (source)
  • But Parmenides' disciple, Zeno, proved through a series of paradoxes that any perception of motion and change is illusory.†   (source)
  • Rather, that soul was with the disciples of Lucifer.†   (source)
  • "As our Savior rested on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead to get a donkey and her colt," Señor Villarreal explained to his son, Norberto, who helped him ready his mount with a blanket over its back.†   (source)
  • Four other monks surrounded him like disciples, all dressed in the same tattered robes, all bald, all smiling Cacciato's vacuous smile.†   (source)
  • Finding an answer to the mystery of the trial of Socrates is complicated by the fact that the two surviving accounts of the defense (or apology) of Socrates both come from disciples of his, Plato and Xenophon.†   (source)
  • Jesus said all the authority was given to Him, and He told us to go preach the gospel and make disciples of all the people we baptize.†   (source)
  • Abby felt like some sort of disciple hanging on her master's every word, which she suspected was his purpose.†   (source)
  • There was no doubt now that there were two who had received enlightenment: Tathagatha and his small disciple, whom they called Sugata.†   (source)
  • He was a disciple of my father's.†   (source)
  • What a dictionary, have to know how to spell it before you can look up how to spell it, disciple, discipline!†   (source)
  • There is not enough discipline among your disciples.†   (source)
  • GOTAMA In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones.†   (source)
  • He was on His way to attend a gathering of disciples.†   (source)
  • What do you think Jesus meant, washing his disciples' feet?†   (source)
  • And when they rose from the table, prepared especially for this day, they separated, the men on the one side, and the women on the other, and two basins were filled with water so that they could wash each other's feet, as Christ had commanded His disciples to do.†   (source)
  • Sam, an ill-tempered Messiah, glowering at his humble disciples.†   (source)
  • Daddy slaps palms with Goon and the Garden Disciple.†   (source)
  • How about the bit when he does all the healing—and all the lecturing to the disciples?†   (source)
  • The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval.†   (source)
  • A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them.†   (source)
  • So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"†   (source)
  • Then Goon and the Garden Disciple slap palms with each other.†   (source)
  • Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on her mouth.†   (source)
  • And after dinner, Jesus took the cup of wine, sharing it with His disciples.†   (source)
  • Some Garden Disciples came in when I got there.†   (source)
  • That's what Garden Disciples do, not King Lords.†   (source)
  • "And here too," Langdon said, pointing now to the crowd of disciples near Peter.†   (source)
  • I'm one hundred percent sure the cars in the driveway belong to King Lords and Garden Disciples.†   (source)
  • And what food are He and His disciples breaking and eating?†   (source)
  • Sophie squinted and saw a hand emerging from the crowd of disciples.†   (source)
  • The disciples—who were, to be brutally honest, a thick bunch—were confused.†   (source)
  • I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples.†   (source)
  • At the moment he is the conduit to my once and former disciple.†   (source)
  • And gangs like the Black Gangster Disciple Nation were given new reason to exist.†   (source)
  • When Jesus tells His disciples to follow Him, Thomas points out that they don't know where to go.†   (source)
  • You just described a likely disciple of Carlos.†   (source)
  • Jesus said to his disciples, 'Compare me to someone and tell me whom I am like.'†   (source)
  • This gang, a branch of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, was plainly on edge.†   (source)
  • So the top 120 men on the Black Disciples' pyramid were paid very well.†   (source)
  • And J. T. was just one of roughly 100 leaders at this level within the Black Disciples network.†   (source)
  • Your foremost disciple, enlightenment and all, near had my head this afternoon!†   (source)
  • With the help of those cruel disciples, Galbatorix threw down the Riders; killed their leader, Vrael; and declared himself king over Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • Peter's faith in God was so steadfast that Jesus called Peter "the rock"—the unwavering disciple on whose shoulders Jesus would build his church.†   (source)
  • The numerous red ballots that appeared is the box and that were attributed by Don Apolinar Moscote to the curiosity that came from youth were part of his plan: he made his disciples vote in order to show them that elections were a farce.†   (source)
  • He wound up lounging with his disciples in his very own rose-colored porcelain swimming pool and enjoying the full respect of the citizenry, having combined, without intending to, his quest for God with his luck in the world of business.†   (source)
  • And he has one disciple.†   (source)
  • If they needed him, from noon on he would be at the country house of Dr. Lacides Olivella, his beloved disciple, who was celebrating his silver anniversary in the profession with a formal luncheon that day.†   (source)
  • It probably helped that Delvin Lane's Gangster Disciples discouraged its members from messing with little kids.†   (source)
  • We were his disciples.†   (source)
  • feet or donkeys preferred believed to have walked on water often portrayed with arms outstretched known to have spent time alone in the wilderness believed to have had a confrontation with the devil, possibly tempted last seen in the company of thieves creator of many aphorisms and parables buried, but arose on the third dayhad disciples, twelve at first, although not all equally devoted very forgiving came to redeem an unworthy world You may not subscribe to this list, may find it too glib, but if you want to read like a literature professor, you need to put aside your belief system, at least for the period during which you read, so you can see what the writer is trying to say.†   (source)
  • The Vice Lords were the biggest gang in Memphis, but the Gangster Disciples were the fastest growing and they ran Hurt Village.†   (source)
  • Then, with his loinclothed followers bearing placards demanding religious freedom and respect for their civil rights, he marched them to the gates of Congress, where his disciples took out wooden flutes, bells, and some tiny makeshift gongs and made such a din that they stopped traffic.†   (source)
  • So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, 'They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.'†   (source)
  • During the morning service, I preached the sermon, a message about Thomas, the disciple who was angry because the other disciples, and even Mary Magdalene, had gotten to see the risen Christ and he hadn't.†   (source)
  • Then he read to us—that passage about the miracle in the Gospel according to Mark: And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them.†   (source)
  • I remembered what Jesus told his disciples one day when they were trying to keep some kids from "bothering" him: "Let the little children come to me.†   (source)
  • And in our Scripture class, Owen said, "IT'S TRUE THAT THE DISCIPLES ARE STUPID—THEY NEVER UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS MEANS, THEY'RE A BUNCH OF BUNGLERS, THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD AS MUCH AS THEY WANT TO BELIEVE, AND THEY EVEN BETRAY JESUS.†   (source)
  • But Barb Wiggin and Harold Crosby closed their eyes; Harold did not look well—he seemed to be suppressing vomit, and his face took on the lime-green shade of the grass at the feet of Christ's disciples, who loomed over him.†   (source)
  • Again, Scripture leaped to my mind, this time from the book of Luke where Jesus tells the disciples, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.†   (source)
  • Garden Disciples, no doubt.†   (source)
  • The story is told in the gospel of John: Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.†   (source)
  • And one of the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able."†   (source)
  • Then Harold Crosby fell over backward in his chair; he made it worse by attempting to catch his balance—by grabbing the frame of the huge painting of "The Call of the Twelve"; then he thought better of crushing himself under Christ's disciples and he allowed himself to fall freely.†   (source)
  • Humbled and ashamed of my selfishness, I remembered what Jesus said to the disciples: 'A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.†   (source)
  • The decaying fresco portrayed Jesus and His disciples at the moment that Jesus announced one of them would betray Him.†   (source)
  • Garden Disciples.†   (source)
  • Uncertain, Sophie made her way closer to the painting, scanning the thirteen figures—Jesus Christ in the middle, six disciples on His left, and six on His right.†   (source)
  • The book of Acts flashed into my head, the scene of Jesus' ascension, when Jesus told the disciples that they would be his witnesses, that they would tell people all over the world about him.†   (source)
  • I could see he was nervous about the silence that greeted the Rev. Mr. Wiggin's request for an angel; possibly the towering portraits of the disciples in his immediate vicinity made Harold Crosby feel inadequate, or else he feared that—in the absence of volunteers—the rector would select an angel from among the cowardly children, and (God forbid) what if Mr. Wiggin chose him?†   (source)
  • The Garden Disciples?†   (source)
  • During the morning service, I preached the sermon, a message about Thomas, the disciple who was angry because the other disciples, and even Mary Magdalene, had gotten to see the risen Christ and he hadn't.†   (source)
  • In the rear of the nave, rendered even more insignificant than usual by his proximity to the giant painting of "The Call of the Twelve," pudgy Harold Crosby sat diminished by the depiction of Jesus appointing his disciples; all eyes rarely feasted on fat Harold Crosby, who was not grotesque enough to be teased—or even noticed—but who was enough of a slob to be rejected whenever he caused the slightest attention to be drawn to himself.†   (source)
  • Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls—but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up?†   (source)
  • Galbatorix was not the first Rider to go mad, although he was the first to have acquired a disciple such as Morzan.†   (source)
  • It concerns your disciple, the one who no longer follows his master but instead picks up his thirty pieces of silver and a great deal more.†   (source)
  • Important support for Stone's conclusion comes from the earliest surviving reference to the trial of Socrates that does not come from one of his disciples.†   (source)
  • It was Murtagh, after all, who convinced me that you were worthy of joining my newest generation of disciples.†   (source)
  • What's important is thet when the spirit a-Jesus Christ come down on them disciples later, they quit settin' round a-moanin' and a-tremblin', and got to work.†   (source)
  • And this"—the elf cast his arms out wide—"is a history of Tosk, from his birth to his death: a true history, such as his disciples have never shared with those outside their sect."†   (source)
  • He was a very nice kid, and I liked him, but I could never see eye to eye with him on a lot of stuff in the Bible, especially the Disciples.†   (source)
  • By 6:30 his task would be finished, each disciple armed with the information that would elevate him-and her-to the highest ranks of Moscow's elite.†   (source)
  • The time had come to call together his disciples in the Soviet government and let them know the monseigneur had arrived, that their personal messiah was here to set them free.†   (source)
  • Take the Disciples, for instance.†   (source)
  • All modesty aside, I was the closest thing Shay had to a disciple; and if that was true, it meant learning from the mistakes of history.†   (source)
  • To his right was a wreck of a low wooden table with file folders spread across the top, and to his left, under a pile of newspapers, unseen by his "disciples," was a cut-down Type 56, AK-47 assault weapon.†   (source)
  • The bottom part of the painting shows the miracle of the possessed boy, waiting for Jesus to cure him, along with the Apostles and the other disciples.†   (source)
  • They were written in Greek, by authors who had a modicum of education—unlike Jesus's fishermen disciples, who were illiterate, like ninety percent of the population.†   (source)
  • And who better to sell it than the thousands of junior members of all those street gangs like the Black Gangster Disciple Nation?†   (source)
  • My mind kept tripping over a verse from Matthew where Jesus spoke to his disciples: I was a stranger, and you took me in; naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came unto me.†   (source)
  • Even among prisoners on death row, the annual execution rate is only 2 percent—compared with the 7 percent annual chance of dying faced by a member of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation crack gang.†   (source)
  • In fact, if you were to hold a McDonald's organizational chart and a Black Disciples org chart side by side, you could hardly tell the difference.†   (source)
  • The Black Disciples worked hard to be seen as a pillar rather than a scourge of the housing-project community.†   (source)
  • The gang that Venkatesh had fallen in with was one of about a hundred branches—franchises, really—of a larger Black Disciples organization.†   (source)
  • The cost of weapons is small here because the Black Disciples had a side deal with local gunrunners, helping them navigate the neighborhood in exchange for free or steeply discounted guns.†   (source)
  • The top 120 men in the Black Disciples gang represented just 2.2 percent of the full-fledged gang membership but took home well more than half the money.†   (source)
  • Not long after he made the board of directors, the Black Disciples were essentially shut down by a federal indictment—the same indictment that led the gangster named Booty to turn over his notebooks to Venkatesh—and J. T. was sent to prison.†   (source)
  • J. T. had anywhere from twenty-five to seventy-five foot soldiers on his payroll at any given time, depending on the time of year (autumn was the best crack-selling season; summer and Christmastime were slow) and the size of the gang's territory (which doubled at one point when the Black Disciples engineered a hostile takeover of a rival gang's turf).†   (source)
  • Dressed in his rags and accompanied everywhere by the boy, the tall, gaunt doctor looked like a peasant Seeker after Truth, and his companion like a patient, blindly devoted, and obedient disciple.†   (source)
  • Behold, then Govinda, the shy one, also stepped forward and spoke: "I also take my refuge in the exalted one and his teachings," and he asked to accepted into the community of his disciples and was accepted.†   (source)
  • Exhausted, I hear Leslie's cataract of words as if through muffled layers of wool, trying without much success to piece it all together—this scrambled confessional with its hodgepodge of terms like Reichian and Jungian, Adlerian, a Disciple of Karen Homey, sublimation, gestalt, fixations, toilet training, and other things I have been aware of but never heard a human being speak of in such tones, which down South are reserved for Thomas Jefferson, Uncle Remus and the blessed Trinity.†   (source)
  • He was said to wander through the land, teaching, surrounded by disciples, without possession, without home, without a wife, in the yellow cloak of an ascetic, but with a cheerful brow, a man of bliss, and Brahmans and princes would bow down before him and would become his students.†   (source)
  • Tathagatha and Sugata would be part of a single legend, he knew, and Tathagatha would shine in the light shed by his disciple.†   (source)
  • Beyond its wall His disciples,
    Overcome with sleep, sprawled on the ground
    In the wayside feathergrass.†   (source)
  • If I merely were one of your disciples, oh venerable one, I'd fear that it might happen to me that only seemingly, only deceptively my self would be calm and be redeemed, but that in truth it would live on and grow, for then I had replaced my self with the teachings, my duty to follow you, my love for you, and the community of the monks!†   (source)
  • But they met and spoke with other travelers upon the road, so that, before the summer had passed, pilgrims coming to the purple grove were asking to meet this disciple of the Buddha's, and to hear his words also.†   (source)
  • He left His disciples outside the stone fence
    Saying, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death;
    Tarry ye here, and watch with me."†   (source)
  • And then there were times when even the soft-spoken Tathagatha listened to the words of his disciple, who had digested all of the things he had preached, had meditated long and fully upon them and now, as though he had found entrance to a secret sea, dipped with his steel-hard hand into places of hidden waters, and then sprinkled a thing of truth and beauty upon the heads of the hearers.†   (source)
  • Their most faithful disciples were the two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover.†   (source)
  • Christ Himself had used that comparison for the disciple to whom He gave the keys of His Church.†   (source)
  • You won't be a little disciple putting up anemic little things in early Jacobean or late Cameron.†   (source)
  • But on the other hand it is dangerous to take such men as Tolstoy at their disciples' valuation.†   (source)
  • He said to His disciples 'My peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.'†   (source)
  • Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?†   (source)
  • And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.†   (source)
  • So then, He gave to His disciples peace, but not peace as the world gives.†   (source)
  • he doubtless did not consider it to have been either his will or his shrewdness which supplied waiting to his hand the opportunity, and it was probably less of shrewdness and more of courage than even will which got him engaged to Miss Rosa within a period of three months and almost before she was aware of the fact—Miss Rosa, the chief disciple and advocate of that cult of demon-harrying of which he was the chief object (even though not victim), engaged to him before she had got accustomed to having him in the house; —yes, more of courage than even will yet something of shrewdness too: the shrewdness acquired in excruciating driblets through the fifty years suddenly capitulant an†   (source)
  • Now one day when his disciples were by him, Titus said to him: "You who cure all maladies, why do you not fix it so that Petronilla can get up from her bed?"†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, as you may suppose, many of his early disciples had died, and as there were few replacements, the number resident under the rule of the old Capuchin steadily diminished.†   (source)
  • He wore now the new suit and the straw hat, and he stopped at the shed and stood there looking at the working men as Christmas had done on that day three years ago, as if somehow the very attitudes of the master's dead life motivated, unawares to him, the willing muscles of the disciple who had learned too quick and too well.†   (source)
  • There was an old philosopher caught by his disciple behind the Stoa with a woman, and he said, 'Mock not!†   (source)
  • The Devil's Disciple was not a bad man; he was only, like most men who pride themselves on their astuteness, a foolish one.†   (source)
  • But the odd thing is that Jesus did not turn the disciples into storm troopers, burn down the Temple at Jerusalem, and fix the blame on Pontius Pilate.†   (source)
  • Never mind, the rent was precisely twopence half-penny; the children loved it; it did her husband good to be three thousand, or if she must be accurate, three hundred miles from his libraries and his lectures and his disciples; and there was room for visitors.†   (source)
  • He had a brain and many enterprises, real directing power, philosophical capacity, and if I were methodical enough to take thought before an important and practical decision and also (N.B.)* if I were really his disciple and not what I am, I'd ask myself, "What would Caesar suffer in this case?†   (source)
  • Sometimes, in the morning hours, he dictated to his young disciple certain facts about the old missions in the diocese; facts which he had come upon by chance and feared would be forgotten.†   (source)
  • And in this pillage of the loaded shelves, he found himself wedged firmly into the grotesque pattern of Protestant fiction which yields the rewards of Dionysus to the loyal disciples of John Calvin, panting and praying in a breath, guarding the plumtree with the altar fires, outdoing the pagan harlot with the sanctified hussy.†   (source)
  • That, at any rate, would separate the boy from Guenever, and it would be pleasant to have his disciple with him—a fine soldier—whether Merlyn's warning were true or not.†   (source)
  • Those men His disciples knew no such things : they went forth to journey afar, to suffer by land and sea, to know torture, imprisonment, disappointment, to suffer death by martyrdom.†   (source)
  • * The Lord, the beautiful youth Krsna, is an incarnation of Visnu, the Universal God; Prince Arjuna is his disciple and friend.†   (source)
  • The disciple has been blessed with a vision transcending the scope of normal human destiny, and amounting to a glimpse of the essential nature of the cosmos.†   (source)
  • The disciples are his initiates, not themselves masters of the mystery, yet introduced to the full experience of the paradox of the two worlds in one.†   (source)
  • This vision of Apocalypse comes to us from the Gospel according to Matthew: And as Jesus sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us when shall these things be?†   (source)
  • She stood in front of the Disciples at Emmaus.†   (source)
  • I should represent Christ alone—the disciples did leave Him alone occasionally.†   (source)
  • Now, no doubt you know the names of all the twelve disciples.†   (source)
  • I knew him, I may even say that I was a disciple.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: Is not every disciple of Gassendi a musician?†   (source)
  • But Mrs. Leivers and her children were almost his disciples.†   (source)
  • From Prometheus to my own Devil's Disciple, such enemies have always been popular.†   (source)
  • Now, Earl, what is the lesson Jesus was trying to teach his disciples?†   (source)
  • 'You don't know how such a life tries a man like Kurtz,' cried Kurtz's last disciple.†   (source)
  • The names of the first two disciples were—†   (source)
  • As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines.†   (source)
  • The artful diplomatist and disciple of the Machiavellian Binkie!†   (source)
  • 'All holy men dream dreams, and by following holy men their disciples attain that power.'†   (source)
  • But my home in Steventon was in the family of a clergyman, who was a true disciple of Jesus.†   (source)
  • At no time was the old soldier an admirer of the peaceful disciples of Fox.†   (source)
  • I spoke to the disciples in the temple; they drove me out.†   (source)
  • It was evidently the meeting of a teacher and a disciple.†   (source)
  • "The theories say that, do they?" replied the Professor in the tone of a meek disciple.†   (source)
  • And the mother of Jesus was there; And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.†   (source)
  • Among them he recognized his mother with the beloved disciple.†   (source)
  • 'It is my new chela [disciple] that is gone away from me, and I know not where he is.'†   (source)
  • And to the disciple, "Behold thy mother!"†   (source)
  • 'Yes, that am I—a scribe, when I am a Sahib, but it is set aside when I come as thy disciple.†   (source)
  • The word has come to me, who am this Holy One's disciple.†   (source)
  • Besides, I am just now disciple of a very holy man.†   (source)
  • The lama tried to rise, but sank back again, sighing for his disciple, dead in far-away Kulu.†   (source)
  • Be warned by his demeanour, my disciple.'†   (source)
  • 'And what like of man was thy disciple?'†   (source)
  • They knew, and Kim knew that they knew, how the old lama had met his disciple.†   (source)
  • 'Her tongue grows no shorter with the years, then?' the disciple smiled.†   (source)
  • I am now that holy man's disciple; and we go a pilgrimage together—to Benares, he says.†   (source)
  • 'Was there ever such a disciple as I?' he cried merrily to the lama.†   (source)
  • 'I am his disciple, and we must find that River.†   (source)
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