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  • On one level he was astonished by the revelation that Sofia could play the piano at all; on another, that she tackled the primary and subordinate melodies with such skill.   (source)
  • In those first days as a marine—all spent in Middletown—every interaction was a revelation.   (source)
  • Now, almost four years after the fact—and in light of the shootings at Columbine—it has been a revelation for me to hear Dave's thoughts on the matter: Taking a kid out of school and finding him a new one, grounding him or doing whatever else you need to do to pull him up short—that might look like shutting him down.   (source)
  • 14 I BECOME A KNOWN FUGITIVE I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.   (source)
  • Those were drooling epileptic fits brought on by the swaying of his camel, not divine revelation.   (source)
  • He realized he was standing at a dead stop on the stairs, paralyzed by sudden revelation.   (source)
  • But David's revelation had suddenly made everything much more complicated.   (source)
  • "In Camazotz everybody is the same as everybody else," but he gave her no argument, provided no answer, and she held on to her moment of revelation.   (source)
  • She wasn't angry at the revelation of her allergies.   (source)
  • I didn't tell him about my revelation when I lay down on the very bed he was sleeping in every night, even though I couldn't think of his sleeping in my old room without thinking of it.   (source)
  • It was a Russell's viper and it bit him while he was peeing under a tree; a later revelation was that the tree stood outside a whorehouse, where Harry had been waiting his turn.   (source)
  • Dill had seen Dracula, a revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of respect.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown
  • I realize how thin this revelation must sound to her.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
  • I remember the day I started thinking this, it was such a revelation to me.   (source)
  • However, she could not betray herself completely; there could be no doubt that some kind of revelation occurred.   (source)
  • Well, this is quite a revelation.   (source)
  • This revelation sent her reeling.   (source)
  • Karna's elation and anger at the revelation.   (source)
  • In order that some sense of mystery should still be preserved, no revelation will yet be made concerning whose upper arm sustains the bruise.   (source)
  • DANFORTH: And you thought to declare this revelation in the open court before the public?   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown
  • Holly was silent for a moment, processing this momentous revelation.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
  • To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation.   (source)
  • A revelation stopped him.   (source)
  • The words were a fascinating revelation for me.   (source)
  • He had insisted on privacy during the revelation at the slaughter yard—now he wondered whom he was protecting.   (source)
  • The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.   (source)
  • The song was obviously of his own devising, a rather candid revelation about the personal habits of a local nobleman.   (source)
  • Intuitively, she does not doubt that whatever revelation this old man—this person from her distant past—has scribbled on paper, halfway across the world, is true.   (source)
  • This was something of a revelation to her.   (source)
  • I wondered how far the effect reached, and which Mianaai had triggered it, trying, too late, to hide my revelation from herself.   (source)
  • Josh attempted a laugh; he was still shaken by the revelation that Scathach was a vampire.   (source)
  • The tendon of his jaw was working, so I knew he was preparing a revelation.   (source)
  • Lock-picking was a revelation.   (source)
  • There is no great revelation: Tom and I argued in the street, I slipped and hurt myself, he stormed off and got into his car with Anna.   (source)
  • Momma seemed in the throes of some great revelation which might destroy her.   (source)
    revelation = something surprising and previously unknown
  • Of course, this revelation was sure to end that effort immediately.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
  • "You lied to me," he said, almost as if it were a revelation.   (source)
  • One night she came back from her daily walk stunned by the revelation that one could be happy not only without love, but despite it.   (source)
  • The weight of the jackets was making me sweat, and the revelation of Horse's confession and the way the kids were acting was making me sick.   (source)
  • I had thought I would have some revelation of specific evil.   (source)
  • Not after the revelation from Ky.   (source)
  • He felt some revelation impending.   (source)
  • But between Dad's confession that Mom wasn't even supposed to be a choice and Mom's revelation that she didn't want to be a part of the choosing in the first place, I wondered how they had managed to find each other at all.   (source)
  • And when I begin to wear makeup, I have a revelation.   (source)
  • One night, when I was having one of these visions, I had the startling revelation that plane geometry was, in fact, a message from God.   (source)
  • That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.   (source)
  • It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me.   (source)
  • But when I say I believe in complete disclosure I don't mean it cheaply, as anecdotal sport or shallow revelation.   (source)
  • That's what I remembered in that before-death instant, when I was supposed to be having some big revelation about my past: the smell of varnish and the squeak of our sneakers on the polished floor; the tightness of my polyester shorts; the laughter echoing around the big, empty space like there were way more than twenty-five people in the gym.   (source)
  • It was the possible bitterness of revelation.   (source)
  • It was a revelation, like coming back to a land loved long ago.   (source)
  • Pastor Mike Smith spoke of Adam's dark time and how he had accepted the Lord into his heart while on his knees in the Garland County jail—a shocking revelation to those in the audience who had never heard about those years of struggle.   (source)
  • Everything seemed to be swollen, thrusting and shifting and changing, about to burst into music or into flame or revelation.   (source)
  • Muhammad sided with her—that's when he had the revelation about needing four witnesses to attest to adultery before punishment could be applied—and ordered that the accusers be flogged with forty lashes.   (source)
  • His fierce passion had been a revelation to her.   (source)
  • Ch'idzigyaak sat listening, alert to her friend's sudden revelation as to why the younger ones thought it best to leave them behind.   (source)
  • (This is a revelation to her) Where you been, Walter Lee Younger?   (source)
  • His wide-eyed attention was an invitation, and his trick of cocking his head to one side while I spoke made me feel that every word was a revelation, although he understood none of it.   (source)
  • Your Uncle Pros he got a revelation 'long 'bout midnight as to just whar that thar silver mine is that's been dodgin' him for more'n forty year.   (source)
  • Christ, such a revelation.   (source)
  • Another letter, written by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison of Washington's staff, provided the far more important revelation that Washington was dividing his army.   (source)
  • She was a revelation.   (source)
  • Something about what we had in common: a neighborhood, a summer, a revelation about a belief once considered sacred.   (source)
  • Thus direct denial, lying and the revelation of personal affairs are avoided.   (source)
  • Farmer believed, obviously, in the importance of intentions and the power of will, but also in revelation, in "signs."   (source)
  • Or had it been a true revelation?   (source)
  • At the moment the postman rang the bell, Litvinoff's pen had been poised above a blank piece of paper, his eyes watery with revelation, filled with the feeling that he was on the verge of understanding the essence of something.   (source)
  • David Menlo would not elaborate upon this revelation.   (source)
  • I was shocked again, both by her casual revelation of her crime and by her sentence.   (source)
  • When I finished with Merrill Shortley's shocking revelation, Cindy said, "Maybe you should've stayed out there, Lindsay."   (source)
  • Such a revelation would not affect the trial.   (source)
  • But after the revelation I'd had that day in the bathroom with Vikki, I appreciated what Casey was doing.   (source)
  • When they talk now it is to hurl accusation and contradiction at each other. Rebuke. Revelation. But it all falls between them. No bridges are formed.   (source)
    revelation = revealing something unknown
  • Perhaps I spoke too frankly at this, for his next revelation about the works of the king's favorite poet, the Earl of Rochester, did shock me, so much so that I remember yet the main part of the lines he declaimed.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
  • It was a revelation to find that she could laugh and wrestle over the bed like a child.   (source)
  • Tom wasn't sure why he found the revelation surprising.   (source)
  • In Pennsylvania, the news of Mike Strank's death was followed quickly by the revelation of his place in the iconic image.   (source)
  • The subdued nature of the Commandant's voice is a revelation.   (source)
  • He smiled, still blown away by the revelation that water could have a taste.   (source)
  • February 11, Sunday (a revelation) My dad never did come home last night, and this morning we didn't even go to church (which didn't bother me in the least).   (source)
  • He was looking me in the eye now, his voice charged and sincere, as though uttering a confession, a fantastic revelation which I could neither believe nor deny.   (source)
  • Each day it seemed I learned something, one step at a time, one revelation at a time.   (source)
  • The other attorneys also seemed embarrassed, and at that moment, I had something of a revelation.   (source)
  • And then—a revelation that dawns like the still quiet of sunrise.   (source)
  • Major revelation, huh?   (source)
  • It is a matter of faith and revelation, not reason.   (source)
  • As much as I was astounded by my revelation right in front of her, I felt cleansed even more.   (source)
  • A fearless revelation of man's depravity.   (source)
  • Here was my revelation.   (source)
  • It struck me with a slap, a horrid revelation of something hitherto unknown, and hideous; it stamped itself on my mind so that I never forgot it...Then my father, still looking as though he were ill, put out his good hand to steady himself against the door-post, and turned back into the house.   (source)
  • That subconscious revelation added a lot of thicker lavers to the embarrassment.   (source)
  • Its shape spoke to her less of translation than of revelation, of showing the shape of something hidden belowground, blowing the dust away from it slowly to read the inscription beneath...The stele twitched in her fingers, and she opened her eyes to find, to her surprise, that she'd managed to trace a small pattern on the edge of the fabric.   (source)
  • That little revelation was fun, though it does make me wonder if my observation skills are failing me.   (source)
  • The word had meant, originally, a Jew educated in Judaism who denied basic tenets of his faith, like the existence of God, the revelation, the resurrection of the dead.   (source)
  • Also she liked the insights into American home life — the revelation that most Americans showered every day, first thing in the morning, for example.   (source)
  • But then I had a revelation: Hey, wait a minute!   (source)
  • Her first airborne glimpse of the island, with its sharp demonic peaks rising from the rim of a flooded caldera, was a revelation.   (source)
  • The truth is that my first sight of the wolf's paw-prints was a revelation for which I was quite unprepared.   (source)
  • It came as a new revelation to me: the simple ability to enjoy the pleasures of one's home, to relax and feel at ease.   (source)
  • "I apologize, dear Ratri, but the revelation came so sudden—" He choked then and looked away.   (source)
  • Although I'm certain I kept my composure, I was really vastly surprised at this revelation: Sophie was not Jewish!   (source)
  • They changed something in my life: each trip made its particular revelation, though I could not have found words for it.   (source)
  • But that was wrong, he knew; her French was bookish, and what gave him pain was not the memory of Stony Hill but the revelation of her alter-soul's entombment: She came alive, speaking French; all her humor irony and wrath came suddenly together like fire and powder, and the Millie who'd survived went dark and fell away, and the woman she'd once meant to be rose out of the grave of abandoned hopes, came striding forth, as confident as a smiling ghost at dusk.   (source)
  • The body on the bed was to me like the revelation of woman's form.   (source)
  • His brother received a letter offering $20,000 for revelation of the Senator's intentions.   (source)
  • THE REVELATION OF MARY BAKER EDDY   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown
  • It came to her, this disturbing and unsought revelation, one evening in May, when Rex had told her he would be busy at the House, and, driving by chance down Charles Street, she saw him leaving what she knew to be Brenda Champion's house.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
  • Your patient, properly handled, will have no difficulty in regarding his emotion at the sight of human entrails as a revelation of Reality and his emotion at the sight of happy children or fair weather as mere sentiment, Your affectionate uncle SCREWTAPE XXXI MY DEAR, MY VERY DEAR, WORMWOOD, MY POPPET, MY PIGSNIE, How mistakenly now that all is lost you come whimpering to ask me whether the terms of affection in which I address you meant nothing from the beginning.   (source)
  • You have had another revelation.   (source)
  • Janie full of that oldest human longing—self-revelation.   (source)
  • Even in this flash of revelation, she realized vaguely that, foolish though they seemed, theirs was the right attitude.   (source)
  • She backed away and cocked her head to see how Rose of Sharon would take such a revelation.   (source)
  • To me, a barbarous Englishman, has been entrusted the revelation of this diaphanous mystery.   (source)
  • At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her.   (source)
    revelation = understanding of something previously unknown
  • You feel that way because that laugh is a revelation.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
  • In one of his rare moments of self-revelation he is reported to have said: "Now I don't know what the soul is, but whatever it is, I know that it can humble itself."   (source)
  • That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law,   (source)
    revelation = source of something previously unknown
  • For these valuable revelations she thanked him, and they ambled into the familiar gossip of the Bunch.   (source)
    revelations = things previously unknown
  • The revelation was over, but its effect lasted, and its effect was to make men feel that the revelation had not yet come.   (source)
    revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
  • Maybe he's saving the great revelation for Harry's party.   (source)
  • But he was, and the revelation came that evening after dinner.   (source)
  • Mrs. Sowerby laughed so heartily at the revelation of this difficulty that she quite rocked backward and forward in her blue cloak, and Dickon laughed with her.   (source)
  • This revelation seemed to me inestimably precious.   (source)
  • And who over the ruins of his life pursued its fleeting, fluttering significance, while he suffered its seeming meaninglessness and lived its seeming madness, and who hoped in secret at the last turn of the labyrinth of Chaos for revelation and God's presence?   (source)
  • It was a terrible revelation.   (source)
  • Still midget-near the live pelt of the earth, he saw many things that he kept in fearful secret, knowing that revelation would be punished with ridicule.   (source)
  • It was all very painful for Joachim; but the person who was the source of their amusement seemed insensitive to this revelation of his inner state.   (source)
  • The Surgeon looked, and for all his self-command, somewhat started at the abrupt revelation.   (source)
  • She always regarded that sudden coming upon him in the lane as a revelation.   (source)
  • The revelation was a shock.   (source)
  • Life at Hampton was a constant revelation to me; was constantly taking me into a new world.   (source)
  • There could be a relation to familiar things that was astounding in its revelation.   (source)
  • The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.   (source)
  • In those days only one other book seemed to offer so powerful a revelation, and that was Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.   (source)
  • Unfortunately I was not able to set at rest, by further talks with Bloch, in which I might have insisted upon an explanation, the doubts he had engendered in me when he told me that fine lines of poetry (from which I, if you please, expected nothing less than the revelation of truth itself) were all the finer if they meant absolutely nothing.   (source)
  • There was a revelation.   (source)
  • The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation.   (source)
  • She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul, the abolition of time, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanctification of all the dogmas.   (source)
  • I had had brothers myself, and it was no revelation to me that little girls could be slavish idolaters of little boys.   (source)
  • There was something uncanny in the revelation.   (source)
  • But, before venturing to make the revelation, dubious Tess indirectly sounded the dairyman as to its possible effect upon Mr Clare, by asking the former if Mr Clare had any great respect for old county families when they had lost all their money and land.   (source)
  • It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were.   (source)
  • Yes, here was a curious revelation, indeed, of the depth to which this people had been sunk in slavery.   (source)
  • He said the prophets who, in the ages which followed the first revelation, walked and talked with God, declared he would come again.   (source)
  • A new revelation burst in upon him.   (source)
  • At that moment, when the revelation of everything was hanging over him, there was nothing he expected so much as that she would answer mockingly as before that his suspicions were absurd and utterly groundless.   (source)
  • I have a great revelation to make to you, my fellow-citizens!   (source)
  • "How can you let Tantripp talk such gossip to you, Celia?" said Dorothea, indignantly, not the less angry because details asleep in her memory were now awakened to confirm the unwelcome revelation.   (source)
  • Therefore, I had sent him the unopened pocket-book by Herbert, to hold in his own keeping, and I felt a kind of satisfaction—whether it was a false kind or a true, I hardly know—in not having profited by his generosity since his revelation of himself.   (source)
  • He had that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them.   (source)
  • Earnshaw blushed crimson when his cousin made this revelation of his private literary accumulations, and stammered an indignant denial of her accusations.   (source)
  • It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain.   (source)
  • True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him.   (source)
  • Well, as Danforth says, all that is over now, though I do not know but I expose myself to a criminal prosecution on the evidence of the very revelation I am making.   (source)
  • In a word, she was one of those who feel and act correctly without being able to give a logical reason for it, even admitting revelation as her authority.   (source)
  • Everybody there adopts great numbers of theories, on philosophy, morals, and politics, without inquiry, upon public trust; and if we look to it very narrowly, it will be perceived that religion herself holds her sway there, much less as a doctrine of revelation than as a commonly received opinion.   (source)
  • Then rising, and throwing back her veil, she implored her in the great name of the God whom they both worshipped, and by that revelation of the Law upon Mount Sinai, in which they both believed, that she would have compassion upon them, and suffer them to go forward under their safeguard.   (source)
  • Then, at your play, behold the fairest flower
    Of youth collect, to hear the revelation!   (source)
  • And then they brought the Earl Hernox out of prison into the midst of the hall, that knew Galahad anon, and yet he saw him never afore but by revelation of Our Lord.   (source)
  • The soothing voice and the offer of the paper for his wound were revelations to Louie: There was compassion in this man.†   (source)
  • And then the cascade of revelations began, just as it had for Edgar.†   (source)
  • It was as revelatory, exciting, intense, and surreal as Mayor Schmoke promised.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's had some revelations lately, too.†   (source)
  • Brought up by the Dursleys, there were many things that wizards took for granted that were revelations to Harry, but these surprises had become fewer with each successive year.†   (source)
  • Once he got past the dense language, the books Jen had loaned him were full of revelations.†   (source)
  • The revelations about the jail seemed to raise the stakes in this trial.†   (source)
  • He finally stood, letting his mind work through the new revelations, hoping they'd sort themselves into nice little stacks for later analysis.†   (source)
  • They are visceral revelations about her pre-life.†   (source)
  • She could practically see the revelations as they bloomed in his mind.†   (source)
  • I'm emotionally spent and have had all the revelations I can take for one night.†   (source)
  • As he had already admitted, Sticky often got mixed up when he was excited, and in this frenzy of mysteries and revelations, he could hardly think straight.†   (source)
  • I find it hard to believe in these whisperings, these revelations, though I always do at the time.†   (source)
  • Too many memories, too many revelations.†   (source)
  • Iko's fan was whirring like mad as if her processor could barely keep up with all these revelations.†   (source)
  • The revelations of the past half hour buzz in my mind.†   (source)
  • It was a great concern of Sayuri's that no one be embarrassed by her revelations.†   (source)
  • It can be revelatory of virtually any element in the work.†   (source)
  • By the time we got to Sioux Falls, we were so busy getting to know our cute baby nephew, catching up on family news, and visiting the waterfall that we didn't have a lot of time to discuss Colton's strange revelations.†   (source)
  • Worse had occurred too, although these revelations emerged only slowly.†   (source)
  • 'No, slave,' she persisted in her grave monotone, as though thinking aloud, the words revelations, pieces of a puzzle.†   (source)
  • There were tiny revelations that had Leigh Anne upset for days, for what they implied about his childhood.†   (source)
  • That session ended up being one of many that brought about several revelations about me and how I viewed the world for so many years.†   (source)
  • Susanne urged him to check with her when he was ready for the real revelations.†   (source)
  • Testimony in the London courtroom, however, provided new revelations about the company's attitude toward civil liberties and freedom of speech.†   (source)
  • And Moishe the Beadle, the poorest of the poor of Sighet, spoke to me for hours on end about the Kabbalah's revelations and its mysteries.†   (source)
  • She missed a Bible study class on Revelations that she planned to attend at Scripture Cathedral early yesterday evening.†   (source)
  • Among the most interesting revelations in the data is the correlation between a baby's name and the parents' socioeconomic status.†   (source)
  • In Revelations, we're told of a beast that uses miracles to fool men into worshipping it.†   (source)
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  • That evening he read aloud from the Bible, familiar passages from Isaiah, Luke, and the Book of Revelation, about wars and rumors of wars.   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • Sophie tilted her head and scanned the list of titles: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail THE GODDESS IN THE GOSPELS Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine "Here is perhaps the best-known tome," Teabing said, pulling a tattered hardcover from the stack and handing it to her.   (source)
  • I thought I had part of the Book of Ecclesiastes and maybe a little of Revelation, but I haven't even that now.   (source)
  • Sometimes, just before sundown, just as the blue of the sky began darkening to violet, we had these wild, electric-lined, Maxfield Parrish clouds rolling out gold and white into the desert like Divine Revelation leading the Mormons west.   (source)
  • That looks a lot like the fourth horseman, the one who in Revelation rides the pale (or green) horse and whose name is Death.   (source)
  • When you look at the book of Revelation and other biblical teachings about heaven, it's kind of fragmented.   (source)
  • And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up…. If any man have an ear, let him hear.
    --REVELATION 13:1   (source)
  • No, those so-called verities of faith are only accessible through belief and the Christian Revelation.   (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
  • Her eyes were hot, as if she had just sat down and read the Book of Revelations straight through.   (source)
    revelations = a book of The Bible
  • 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.   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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  • They love Daniel and Revelation, and seem to forget that Second Corinthians is even a chapter in the good book.   (source)
  • As the patients took turns to peck like hens around the four points of Gebrew's handheld cross—once for the crucified Christ, then for Mary, then once for all the archangels and the saints, and then for the four living creatures of the Book of Revelation—and waited for Gebrew to touch it to their forehead, order was imposed.   (source)
  • And now, with the End of the World at hand, and the skies darkening at dawn, and the fires of Revelation raining down and setting the rigging ablaze, Captain Roberts tied himself to the ship's wheel as the sea rose below him and felt the Sweet Judy lifted into the sky as if by some almighty hand.   (source)
  • Attend our services, prayer meetings Thrice weekly Join us in the NEW REVELATION of the OLD TIME RELIGION!   (source)
  • Instead, I found myself at Gracie Square on the promenade by the river, gazing as if in a trance at the municipal hideousness of the river islands, unable to efface the mangled image of Bobby Weed from my mind even as I kept murmuring—endlessly it seemed—lines from Revelation I had memorized as a boy: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.   (source)
  • She believed she would find the words in Revelation, and she did.   (source)
  • All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St. John.   (source)
  • Winslow jumped to Revelation.   (source)
  • The hour I had looked forward to all day must be spent by myself alone, in my own bedroom, gazing at my Revelation suit-case and the stout hold-all.   (source)
    revelation = a brand name
  • 9 Jewish folk legend declares that during the day of the revelation diverse rumblings sounded from Mount Sinai.   (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
  • Instinct'—'Feeling'—'Revelation'—'Divine Intuition'—'Dialectic Materialism.   (source)
    revelation = the concept of truths revealed through scripture
  • I sat just as still as I could and the text was Revelations, third chapter, second and third verses.   (source)
    revelations = a book of The Bible
  • 'Tis the beast he is, this Wolf Larsen—the great big beast mentioned iv in Revelation; an' no good end will he ever come to.   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • One side was blank, for it had been the last leaf; the other contained a verse or two of Revelation—these words among the rest, which struck sharply home upon my mind: "Without are dogs and murderers."   (source)
  • And all the time, from the far front back over the line of march, as well as forward into the farthest future, streams a light of which the wranglers know nothing, except that it is forever leading them on—the Light of Revelation!   (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
  • For the evening reading before prayers, he selected the twenty-first chapter of Revelation.   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John.   (source)
  • One of his brother Masons had revealed to Pierre the following prophecy concerning Napoleon, drawn from the Revelation of St. John.   (source)
  • Mas'r George, by request, read the last chapters of Revelation, often interrupted by such exclamations as "The sakes now!"   (source)
  • And yet, this want may be supplied us;
    We call the Supernatural to guide us;
    We pine and thirst for Revelation,
    Which nowhere worthier is, more nobly sent,
    Than here, in our New Testament.   (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
  • But I was scarce fifteen, when, after doubting by turns of several points, as I found them disputed in the different books I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.   (source)
    revelation = the concept of truths revealed through scripture
  • The Book of Revelation is a vibrant example of our shared truth.   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • How does this affect your view of the book of Revelation?   (source)
  • Aristotle goes only part of the way because he didn't know of the Christian revelation.   (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
  • I thought of the battle described in the book of Revelation, and my heartbeat stepped up a notch.   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • "Oh, heavens, the Book of Revelation is a mess!" the dean said.   (source)
  • Preacher Henry always took his text out of the Revelation of St. John.   (source)
  • There was something apocalyptic about his tone, as if he were referring to the Seven Seals of Revelation or Pandora's box.   (source)
  • Part of Ecclesiastes and Revelation.   (source)
  • D. H. Lawrence writes essays about Egyptian and Mexican myth, Freudian psychoanalysis, issues in the Book of Revelation, and the history of the novel in Europe and America.   (source)
  • Chapter twenty-one of Revelation sets it out in reeds, and other books tell it in cubits, and not a one of them quite matches up.   (source)
  • One path goes through faith and the Christian Revelation, and the other goes through reason and the senses.   (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
  • I recited the 23rd Psalm, the 121st Psalm, the 100th and 137th and 19th and 66th Psalms, the 21st chapter of Revelation, Genesis one, Luke 22, First Corinthians, and finally John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life."   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • Seven are the seals of Revelation.   (source)
  • Then, of course, there was John the apostle, who described heaven in great detail in the book of Revelation.   (source)
  • Aquinas believed that there need be no conflict between what philosophy or reason teaches us and what the Christian Revelation or faith teaches us.   (source)
    revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
  • Of these two, the path of faith and revelation is certainly the surest, because it is easy to lose one's way by trusting to reason alone.   (source)
  • The Christophany, or manifestation of Christ, in the book of Daniel, the appearance of the King of kings in Revelation.   (source)
    revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
  • "Father," Langdon said, his tone challenging, "we're all familiar with the Revelation of Saint John and the literal meaning of the Apocalypse, but biblical prophecy hardly seems—"   (source)
  • I'm not one of those preachers who camps out on end-times prophecy, but now I remembered a particularly vivid section of Revelation: In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.   (source)
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