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verse

noun as in written composition

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Jason and Lizzie Kling, 34, learned to read and speak Spanish with their mom by reading verses of Jesus’s teachings in the Spanish version of the Bible.

That he invited everyone—even those of us at home, which was most of us—to sing the final verse was yet another kind of reaching out.

From Time

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From Digiday

A favorite biblical verse from the Book of Colossians commands, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”

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That would incentivize bringing in nurses and doctors who are versed in preventive care, and could keep down resident fees, she said.

It needs to be said: bigotry in the name of religion is still bigotry; child abuse wrapped in a Bible verse is still child abuse.

No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.

I know the verse because Mrs. Bertalan used to have us do it in ninth-grade choir.

Shortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “Magic.”

I have seen the ugliest thoughts expressed, sometimes in verse, while using public restrooms.

As the next verse is the last you needn't trouble yourself to make any further observations.

Did he at all intrench upon your Sovereignty in Verse, because he had now and then written a Comedy that succeeded?

I am of opinion too, that the Indecency of the next Verse, you spill upon me, would admit of an equal Correction.

Only he had carved on the Girl's tombstone the last verse of the Song of the Girl, which stands at the head of this story.

Carmina de clo possunt de duecere lunam.Pale Phbe, drawn by verse, from heaven descends.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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