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I translated the middle part of Orme's remarks, but neither the commencement nor the end, but even these amused her very much, for she burst out laughing, and said, pointing to Harmac, over which still hung a cloud of dust: "Yes, yes, Joshua, my uncle, the walls of Jericho are down, and the question is, will you not take your opportunity?
Finch was at Jericho, and Theodora after her! exclaimed Arthur, petulantly; 'they will worry my wife to death between them. 'Then Theodora had better go home, said Percy, soberly. 'No, no; we can't do without her. She takes good care of Violet, and is very attentive and useful, and I can't have Violet left alone.
For what possible reason it slowed up on approaching the freight-car nobody ever knew; but the fact remains that it did, just as Jericho Bob laid his wicked black paw on the turkey's tail.
The holy doctor Alphonsus of Liguori relates from his experience: "The walls of Jericho did not collapse more quickly at the trumpet call of Josue than false teachings disappear after the earnest praying of the rosary. The swimming pool of Jerusalem was not as healing for the bodily sick as the rosary is as remedy for the spiritually diseased."
And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9.
They had rather live in sultry Jericho than on the mountain heights of Jerusalem; they preferred stony Bethel to the vine-clad hills of the City of God; they had rather live in the tiny insignificant village of Anathoth than in the capital itself. Why was this? Why had the Jews of Nehemiah's day such an objection to living in Jerusalem?
So they entered into Jericho, and slew all the men that were therein, while they were aftrighted at the surprising overthrow of the walls, and their courage was become useless, and they were not able to defend themselves; so they were slain, and their throats cut, some in the ways, and others as caught in their houses; nothing afforded them assistance, but they all perished, even to the women and the children; and the city was filled with dead bodies, and not one person escaped.
Bessie took the map then, and she found that Jericho was in the same state as Hedgeville, just as she had suspected.
"Whereabouts do you suppose Jericho to be?" asked Faith, laughing. "I don't know. It's where she keeps wishing I was, when she's cross, and I want anything. I wish she was there! and I mean to ask papa to send her!" "Go and take your hat off, Hendie, and have your hair brushed, and your hands washed, and then come back in a nice quiet little temper, and we'll talk about it," said Mrs. Gartney.
But, having reached the shores of the Dead Sea by an unfrequented path, we have no guide to the examination of the wild country which rises on either side of it; we therefore prefer the more wonted route which leads to its northern border, near the mouth of the Jordan and the site of the ancient Jericho.
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