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Red Sea
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    Intel told us that a cargo ship disguised under an Egyptian flag was laying mines in the Red Sea.  (source)
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    Except that this time Pharaoh shows up on the doorstep threatening to drag them back across the Red Sea.  (source)
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    Beyond it, the wine-red sea glimmered with the last rays of the dying sunset.  (source)
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    The Red Sea was calm, unremarkable from this height.  (source)
    Red Sea = the sea between Africa and Asia that is linked to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
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    I'm small and all I remember are dreams of blood, me drowning in a red sea, blood on sheets, on the walls, splashing against the white pail in streams out of my mother's ankle.  (source)
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    Percy kept one eye on the red sea serpent, which was still slithering through the waves about a hundred yards to port.  (source)
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    He swung the wheel as he began the next verse, and lightning illuminated a path across the restless wave—and there, in the light of the burning sky, was a gap, a valley or cleft in the wall of rock, like the miracle of the Red Sea, thought Captain Roberts, only, of course, the other way around.  (source)
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    The bloody loaves and fishes ....Lazarus ....the lepers ....Moses and the Red Sea ....  (source)
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    Yes, my God is a mighty God Lord, deliver And he set old Israel free Swallowed that Egyptian army Lord, deliver With the waves of the great Red Sea  (source)
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    I stared with the fiercest, most righteous anger and hatred as Jeb Batchelder easily moved through the crowd of Erasers, parting them as if he were Moses and they were the Red Sea.  (source)
    Red Sea = the reference to the Red Sea is incidental to the reference from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles of the miraculous opening of a pathway through the Red Sea as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt
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    You have heard his name from your parents, for it was he who led them to the path, guiding them like a great captain; like that great pilot of ancient times who led his people safe and unharmed across the bottom of the blood-red sea.  (source)
    red sea = the sea between Africa and Asia that is linked to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
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    In a number of texts Mary's motherhood is compared to the crossing of the Red Sea by the Jews.  (source)
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    It seemed each time Mo Rhodes told the Themista story it got a little bit better, and every time she told it, Misty made an analogy to the Red Sea crashing down; she said that when she imagined Themista's young man, he always looked like Charlton Heston.  (source)
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    "IF THE RED SEA ACTUALLY PARTED, IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THAT," he said.  (source)
    RED SEA = the reference to the Red Sea is incidental to the reference from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles of the miraculous opening of a pathway through the Red Sea as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt
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    Are miracles something like the Red Sea parting or more like Evan Walker finding me locked in a block of ice in a wilderness of white?  (source)
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    He parted the Red Sea.  (source)
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    Like the parting of the Red Sea.  (source)
    parting of the Red Sea = the reference to the Red Sea is incidental to the reference from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles of the miraculous opening of a pathway through the Red Sea as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt
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    But the sea of fighting figures seemed to have fallen away from them on either side like the Red Sea parting, leaving a clear space around her and Jace.  (source)
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    Every year they put on their Christmas pageant at the Beaufort Playhouse, which was actually a play that had been written by Hegbert Sullivan, a minister who'd been with the church since Moses parted the Red Sea.  (source)
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    Suddenly, the bathing suit rack before me parted right down the middle, like the Red Sea.  (source)
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    He started forward in a straight line, and the wall of officers before him parted like the Red Sea.  (source)
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    Langdon often reminded his students that most modern religions included stories that did not hold up to scientific scrutiny: everything from Moses parting the Red Sea ....to Joseph Smith using magic eyeglasses to translate the Book of Mormon from a series of gold plates he found buried in upstate New York.  (source)
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    With the possible exception of that scene in The Ten Commandments where Charlton Heston parts the Red Sea, Marley had presented the biggest logistical nightmare in the history of cinema.  (source)
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    As it turned out it was hours before her ordeal was over, and during her pains she talked on and on in the emergency room about the parting of the Red Sea and staffs that turned into snakes, so that the doctor began to question his decision to give her painkillers.  (source)
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    The Shadow-hunters who had been clustered around the benches drew back, like the waves of the Red Sea parting for Moses, leaving a clear path down the center of the room.  (source)
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    Everyone turned and stared at Stevie Rae as if she'd just parted the Red Sea or something.  (source)
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