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" Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. "
Letters from Egypt to Plain Folks at Home - Page 202
by Mary Louisa Whately - 1879 - 259 pages
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Manners and Customs Noticed in Various Passages of Holy Scripture ...

Mary Fawler Maude - Bible - 1845 - 494 pages
...Call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,...with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters." (Amos v. 16.) JEREMIAH xxii. 18. " ...They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah. my brother ! or, Ah...
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Trials of the Heart

Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 528 pages
...Call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come; and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us;...with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. ' " Such persons, from the nature of their employment, the distress of the moment in which they were...
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The novels and romances of A.E. Bray, Volume 8

Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 522 pages
...Call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come; and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us;...with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.' " Such persons, from the nature of their employment, the distress of the moment in which they were...
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The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Year 1245 ..., Volume 1

John D'Alton - Boyle (Ireland : Barony) - 1845 - 360 pages
...call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for cunning women, that they may come, and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,...run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters"(a). From them the Greeks, Romans, and Asiatics, adopted the custom. Homer speaks of the women...
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Brief History of the Condition of Women: In Various Ages and Nations, Volume 1

Lydia Maria Child - Women - 1845 - 312 pages
...Call for the mourning Women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women that they may come ; and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,...run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with water." Women while in captivity wore their hair shaven, and nails cut close, in token of grief, A...
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The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Year 1245 ..., Volume 1

John D'Alton - Boyle (Ireland : Barony) - 1845 - 364 pages
...call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for cunning women, that they may come, and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,...run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters"(a). From them the Greeks, Romans, and Asiatics, adopted the custom. Homer speaks of the women...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments (according ..., Volume 3

Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1102 pages
...because they were composed in metre, and to be sung to the pipe, as we learn ftf"™ 367 AM 3404. 18 And let them make haste, and ' take up a wailing for us,...with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled ! we are greatly confounded, because...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 1

Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Christianity - 1847 - 592 pages
...saith Jeremiah ix. 17 : " that they may come ; and send for cunning women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,...with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters." The weepers of Jeremiah, in conformity with the unchanging usages of the East, may be heard at every...
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Travels in New South Wales

Alexander Marjoribanks - New South Wales - 1847 - 284 pages
...call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for cunning women, that they may come; and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,...with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters." This was a sort of taunt or reproach to the Jews, for their superstitious ceremonies at the burial...
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Dwight's American Magazine, Volume 3

Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...m;iy come ; and send for the cunnmg women, that they rnay come ; and let them make haste, and take up wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eye-lids gush out with waters ;' ant! by the same means the feelings of a mourning Eastern family seem to be most powerfully excited...
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