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1. Our God is a consuming fire! He has come to burn away the chaff in us and prepare us to enter the holy place and meet with him
2. If this be true, for I pretend not to affirm it, it is as if a corn farmer expected to defray the expense of his cultivation with the chaff and the straw, and that the grain should be all clear profit
3. The Asian Edge – Stop being generic, asexual, and common! The Edge is something we teach during Boot Camp, but it's what separates the wheat from the chaff, the men from the boys
4. Now I consider myself a very capable liar, and as such I’m pretty adept at separating the wheat from the chaff; I can tell when a person is lying out flat, when he’s just telling a small lie, and when he’s lying like only a man in congress can
5. His left thumb hovered over the button controlling certain countermeasures including chaff, flares, and aerial mines, but he waited
6. But maybe we have received most of what we need already and just can’t seem to be able to divide the wheat from the chaff, as it were
7. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away
8. him! 24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their
9. chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind
10. aweful ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be at an instant suddenly
11. instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff
12. What is the chaff to the wheate says the Lord
13. dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney
14. Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable
15. To this Marxist-impregnated leadership, the orthodox were chaff, and not only dispensable, but undesirable
16. He will gather His wheat into the barn but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire
17. 41 "Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
18. and the chaff teaches: let them grow together and separate them only at the
19. instead, to save the wheat and to burn the chaff), and use them as you see fit
20. One could, for example, burn the chaff to keep warm
21. Fortunately, their interrogators were intelligent and well practiced in sorting wheat from chaff
22. And his shovel is in his hand thoroughly to cleanse his threshing floor; he will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff will he burn up with the judgment fire
23. 'In the arrow-play our horsemen would have the worst of it, for the armor of the asshuri is the better, and when it came to sword-strokes their close-marshaled ranks of trained swordsmen would cleave through our loose lines and scatter our men like chaff before the wind
24. Conan saw black bodies tossed like chaff in the inhuman hands of the slayers, against whose horrible strength and agility the daggers and swords of the priests were ineffective
25. Mines, countermeasures and chaff were on the right thumb
26. “A little chaff, for whatever use that is
27. ate the wheat from the chaff
28. the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind
29. We visited hundreds of dwellings and small villages as well as the main centres of Tulancingo, Santaros, Vincoso and everywhere there were signs of a people who were slowly being ground down by taxes and overwork, after three weeks we finally neared Xocanti, the followers now numbered in the thousands, but Wedon the high priest and all the villagers, man, woman and child, came out to escort us into the village, carrying food and drink for as many as wanted it, I began to worry that this selflessness would seriously leave Xocanti short of food but Wedon assured me that was not the case, it was a joyous reunion for me and Coatl, when Jodas and his troop of warriors marched up and as one knelt in front of us, I told them to rise and we all hugged and punched and rolled about in the dirt, even Coatl joined in the fun, not a very dignified entrance for the Most High chief of all the Tolteca, but knowing these people like we did no-one took exception to their chief wrestling on the ground and having a bit of fun, mother hearing about it later congratulated me and called it a stroke of political statesmanship unequalled ever, it was only later that I realised how right she was, that one bit of fooling around had endeared me to all who witnessed it, it had achieved more maybe than all the pomp and ceremony of our long march, I didn’t have the heart to tell her it was impromptu, trust mother to immediately sort the maize from the chaff
30. when the chaff shall separate from the wheat
31. He caught the admission, the kernel of truth within the conversational chaff, with a
32. wheat from the chaff, call all who will to repentance, and to sift through Israel
33. is left after cutting away the chaff
34. " It is only the sifting process which God permits, in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, through which we must all pass
35. How pleasant it is to meet a single saint now for a few short hours! How it cheers and refreshes us, like snow in summer or sunshine after clouds! What, then, will it be when we shall see an enormous company of saints, without a single unconverted sinner to spoil the harmony, all men and women of faith, and none unbelievers, all wheat and no chaff, "a multitude which no man can number"! Surely the "many" we shall see in heaven will make ample amends for the "few" that we now see upon earth
36. They scattered to the four corners, like chaff in the wind, just as Bill Clayton had hoped
37. wheat from the chaff
38. not wisdom or enquiry will be beguiled by this cult, and these are the chaff
39. into scything the chaff to protect the wheat
40. anything are those that cut thru the chaff to get to the wheat
41. Wish the moderate Musalmans apply their minds to the rights and wrongs in their faith to separate the wheat from the chaff of Islam, and then try to distribute the grain amongst the umma for a proper religious diet
42. Now it's time to leave the chaff behind
43. So, when those saw the destruction, they became like the chaff which the cattles want to eat, so it cannot save itself from them and will undoubtedly enter their jaws and become among their molar teeth
44. Then he immediately demanded for a bag of chaff from the servant to spread on the rocks, for the horse to lay or sleep comfortably
45. God says: "Have you considered that you cultivate? Is it you that give it growth or We? If We pleased We could turn it into chaff
46. To one who would watch the sieve through which justice vigorously tries to separate the wheat from the chaff, the innocent from the guilty, a visit to General Sessions is the best means
47. Chaff: The refused part of winnowed corn; dried out grass or hay
48. Sieve: A strainer; a tool for separating flour from bran; or the fine substance from the coarse; that which retains the corn, and shakes out the chaff
49. Winnow: To throw up grain in the air so that the chaff may be separated from the wheat
50. separate the grain from chaff, all the present can do is try, and
1. Our khaki uniforms were stained where our straps had rubbed them and the entrenching tools had chaffed our skin raw where they hung down
2. Betty and I chaffed each other like two old friends as she sliced up some cheese and I grappled with a wine-cork
3. “That ought to stick to your ribs, sir,” one of the older, more mature troopers chaffed as we ate
4. Whenever bristles have chaffed too much, one of them has asked to be reassigned or transferred, too
5. For an instant the birds chirping in the breeze, Johnny’s chaffed hands curling about one another, and the blare of a deafening silence were the only sounds as the sun clipped the horizon and its benevolent rays came slipping across the dusty floorboards of the jailhouse
6. 45 to her garter chaffed
7. Suong told me everything in that windmill as the grindstone milled my chaffed thoughts
8. themselves would almost immediately have their skin chaffed
9. She ran the tip of her tongue across her chaffed lips and clenched her hands
10. ‘You have said that five times already,’ he chaffed her
11. The cotton underlinen clung uncomfortably to his body, and his collar chaffed against the back of his neck
12. In an effort of superhuman quality she gripped the chains of the cuffs ignoring the pain the action caused her chaffed wrists and pulled herself upward
13. O'Halloran said that he and Leonard would go, but that Farrington wouldn't go because he was a married man; and Farrington's heavy dirty eyes leered at the company in token that he understood he was being chaffed
14. Sometimes the prisoners chaffed or insulted the thin-skins I speak of, and then they would leave off complaining directly; as if they only wanted to be insulted to make them hold their tongues
15. “She was very quiet always—and I remember once, when she had suddenly begun singing at her work, everyone said, ‘Marie tried to sing today!’ and she got so chaffed that she was silent for ever after
16. When Colia chaffed him about his waggonette he had replied with perfect equality and in a friendly fashion
17. They said, in the first place, that nothing particular had happened since her departure; that the prince had been, and that Aglaya had kept him waiting a long while before she appeared—half an hour, at least; that she had then come in, and immediately asked the prince to have a game of chess; that the prince did not know the game, and Aglaya had beaten him easily; that she had been in a wonderfully merry mood, and had laughed at the prince, and chaffed him so unmercifully that one was quite sorry to see his wretched expression
1. Inside Clegg would be chaffing at the bit, but he had a shock coming
2. and that chaffing had occurred due to the violence of prolonged acceleration
3. bruises and chaffing marks to show for the experience
4. In addition to his lamentable state, Timonus was also in desperate need of a shave and his wrists were red and raw where the ropes had been constantly chaffing at him
5. Besides, Happy tuk-tuk’s denture fix had been chaffing his tongue and he needed some ice
6. “Are you ok?” he asked as he grabbed my cold hands and started chaffing them
7. but our experience matron very soon, by chaffing it with her hands,
8. Evidently they were chaffing him, and their chaff sounded horribly English
9. The conversation did not flag for an instant, so that the princess, who always kept in reserve, in case a subject should be lacking, two heavy guns—the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service—had not to move out either of them, while Countess Nordston had not a chance of chaffing Levin
10. One of his comrades, talking of women, began chaffing Rostov, saying that he was more wily than any of them and that it would not be a bad thing if he introduced to them the insult, flared up, and said such unpleasant things to the officer that it was all Denisov could do to prevent a duel
11. ‘Oh, undoubtedly!’ said Prince Andrew, and with sudden and unnatural liveliness he began chaffing Pierre about the need to be very careful with his fifty-year-old Moscow cousins, and in the midst of these jesting remarks he rose, taking Pierre by the arm, and drew him aside
12. ‘Oh, she nearly knocked our gentleman’s hat off!’ cried the red-faced humorist, showing his teeth chaffing Pierre
13. Paying no heed to his chaffing, Nekhludoff got the money out of his bag and took it to her
14. One of his comrades, talking of women, began chaffing Rostóv, saying that he was more wily than any of them and that it would not be a bad thing if he introduced to them the pretty Polish girl he had saved
15. “Oh, undoubtedly!” said Prince Andrew, and with sudden and unnatural liveliness he began chaffing Pierre about the need to be very careful with his fifty-year-old Moscow cousins, and in the midst of these jesting remarks he rose, taking Pierre by the arm, and drew him aside
16. “Oh, she nearly knocked our gentleman’s hat off!” cried the red-faced humorist, showing his teeth chaffing Pierre