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«Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven»
Author: Charles Williams
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Forgiveness
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broken-down, forgiven, Parties, party, promising
«Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
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«Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? / The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.»
Author: Bible
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barns, broken-down, cut of meat, desolate, garner, garnering, garners, rotten, withered
«O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? / Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, / And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, / And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim, / And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon, / And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.»
«They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.»
«The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.»
Author: Bible
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broken-down
«Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? / The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.»
«I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; / And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.»