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The Epistle of James advises: "Confess your sins to one another, that you may be healed."
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The most strident criticism came in the form of a dense, multipage epistle from Ambler, a tiny Inupiat village on the Kobuk River north of the Arctic Circle. (source)epistle = letter
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Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.† (source)
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exhaustively what I ate and drank and wore and watched on television, what books I read, what games I played, what movies I saw, things the Barbours did and said and things Dad and Xandra did and said—these epistles (dated and signed, in a careful hand, ready to be torn out of the notebook and mailed) alternating with miserable bursts of I Hate Everyone and I Wish I was Dead, months grinding by with a disjointed scribble or two, B's house, haven't been to school in three days and it's Friday already, my life in haiku, I am in a state of semi-zombie, God we got so trashed last night like I whited out sort of we played a game called Liar's Dice and ate cornflakes and breath mints for dinner.† (source)
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Poor Pim, I might have known what the effect of such an epistle would be.† (source)
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As far as that goes, St. Augustine denied that man has any right to criticize God, referring to Paul's Epistle to the Romans: 'O Man, who art thou that replies!† (source)
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On the way, Sor Asuncion read us the epistle, which is what she called the rules we were to observe.† (source)
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Stopping at a passage, he handed the book to John, who read, The Warrior function is...unmistakable in Scripture....Within the epistles, the mature believing man is often described in militant terms—a warrior equipped to battle mighty enemies and shatter satanic strongholds.† (source)
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"Affectation is as disagreeable in a letter as in conversation," he once told Abigail, in explanation of his views on "epistolary style," and the same principle applied to making a speech.† (source)
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Presenting my respectful compliments to Lady Fuddleston, I have the honour (epistolarily) to introduce to her ladyship my two friends, Miss Tuffin and Miss Hawky.† (source)
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A few screens down, a familiar-sounding noun appears: "epistle."† (source)
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And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles.† (source)
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He, whoever he may be, is aware of my friendship for Lady Constance—and is familiar with her epistolary style.† (source)
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In one letter, written in 1886 from Norfolk (he was traveling on business for his tobacco firm, this being just before the villainous "Buck" Duke destroyed him), he disclosed the true whereabouts of the gold—placed not in the safe deposit box (your grandmother obviously became confused about this later) but in a bricked-up cubbyhole in the basement of the house in N.C. I am having a photostatic copy of this letter sent to you later on, as I know of your interest in slavery and should you ever want to write about that institution this tragic epistle might provide you with fascinating insights.† (source)
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Orfeo had begun to describe in spectacular detail the "gracious luminous sap that falls like the blood of the Cross from the tree in the valley of the bonewhite mountains that circle the moon," when Alessandro produced from his vest pocket the beautiful fountain pen with which he wrote anything and everything-his essays on aesthetics, his departmental examinations, letters declaring love to married women in Bologna who dared not answer, summaries of account, instructions for feeding his horse, epistles (also never answered) to the prime minister of Italy.† (source)
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She had obtained the name and address from Doctor Gregory and she hoped he would not mind if she sometimes sent word to wish him well, etc., etc. So far it was easy to recognize the tone—from "Daddy-Long-Legs" and "Molly-Make-Believe," sprightly and sentimental epistolary collections enjoying a vogue in the States.† (source)
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