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«I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.»
«These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: candlesticks, olive
«Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.»
«I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.»
«So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: fourth part, olive, olive tree
«In her mouth was an olive-leaf pluckt off.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: leaf, olive
«Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof? / And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? / And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.»
«The olive-grove of Academe, / Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird / Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.»
«Hold out the olive branch»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: branch, olive, olive branch
«I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.»
Author: Rodney Dangerfield (Comedian) | About: Drinking | Keywords: olive, sample, samples, urine

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