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Abraham
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    Dolefully I thought of Abraham and Isaac.†  (source)
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    She talked to Yuko about it and they realized that this man, preaching to a thousand impressionable and trusting parishioners, didn't know, or didn't care, that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity were not-so-distantly related branches of the same monotheistic, Abrahamic faith.†  (source)
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    There—now thou hast touched a hand which has been clasped by Abraham and Isaac and Jacob!†  (source)
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    In the Koran, the story appears in much the same manner as the covenant of Abraham and Isaac does in the Torah and the Bible.†  (source)
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    Let him read them about Abraham and Sarah, about Isaac and Rebecca, of how Jacob went to Laban and wrestled with the Lord in his dream and said, "This place is holy"—and he will impress the devout mind of the peasant.†  (source)
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    In the latter quarter of each year cattle were at once the mainstay and the terror of families about Casterbridge and its neighbourhood, where breeding was carried on with Abrahamic success.†  (source)
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    And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.†  (source)
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    18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.†  (source)
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    35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 35:12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.†  (source)
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    49:31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.†  (source)
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    35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.†  (source)
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    48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.†  (source)
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    48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, 48:16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.†  (source)
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    He would never again see the boy, just as he had never seen Abraham again after having charged him his one-tenth fee.  (source)
    Abraham = someone's name in this story
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    The nation could hardly bury its martyred Father Abraham with a lead ball lodged in his brain.  (source)
    Abraham = someone else's first name
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    —Abraham Coles.  (source)
    Abraham = religion:  an important figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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