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1. 5Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto
2. Meredith looked down into those eyes--why, they were Cecilia's eyes--her very eyes--and in them was the selfsame expression he had once seen in Cecilia's eyes when she had come to him to tell him something she had been a little afraid to tell him
3. that the city was hit, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was on me, and brought me in there
4. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of
5. 51 In the selfsame
6. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the Ark;
7. 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said to him
8. 26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son
9. 17 And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever
10. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt
11. 51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies
12. 14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering to your God: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings
13. 48 And the Lord spoke to Moses that selfsame day, saying,
14. 11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day
15. 17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame
16. the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from
17. 51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the
18. 13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the
19. Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame
20. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto
21. The selfsame time came Tobit home and entered into his house and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber
22. 51 In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom and appointed overseers over all the people commanding the cities of Judah to sacrifice city by city
23. “He must have been in his tower all last night watching the sky, looking for the comet,” said Jai, looking up at the selfsame sight
24. In which the key is in the air selfsame
25. The key is in the air selfsame
26. 3 Each of the other apostles was, in some and varying measure, likewise affected by these selfsame trials and tribulations, but they loved Jesus
27. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour
28. “You and Me / As well these / Have had past / Future as well; Clear are learned in their minds / Embodies selfsame spirit all one / From birth to death, in every birth; Spirit as entity hath no birth / How can thou kill what’s not born; What’s not real, it’s never been / And that’s true, it’s ever there / That’s how wise all came to see; Prima facie if thou feel / Subject Spirit is to rebirths / Why grieve over end of frame; Dies as one / For like rebirth / Why feel sad / Of what’s cyclic; Isn’t thy lament over that / Un-manifested to start with / Gets manifested just as guest / And bids adieu in due course, and, Dies not Spirit as die beings / What for then man tends to grieve
29. On the other hand, it is the paradox of the Semitic faiths in that while vouching for the selfsame God, who is believed to have enshrined the Torah, inspired the Gospel and gave the Quran, it was the Christians that ran the Crusades against the Musalmans, who had earlier oppressed the Jews
30. But when it comes to the peoples of the Books, it is not enough that the others too have faith in the selfsame God but their dogma too should be no different from their brand of dogma of a given sub-faith, and in what can be said as the acme of the Semitic religious intolerance, the Ahmadis / Shias of Pakistan and the Shias of Iraq have come to suffer at the Sunni hands as the worst victims of the Islamic dogma
31. “Why am I here is the answer to the selfsame question?” Vere swam within herself
32. The selfsame abbot has likewise trampled on ancient custom by placing the ancestral font of the good people of Sherborne in a place unfitting for its usage
33. Selfsame: Being the one mentioned or the same one in question
34. Now he that has wrought us for the selfsame thing (this very purpose) of God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the spirit (its pledge of intercession in behalf of out infirmities)
35. Finally, on March 10, a smaller islet called Reka appeared next to Nea Kameni, and since then, these three islets have fused to form one single, selfsame island
36. There she sits, a grasswidow, at the selfsame fireside
37. And apropos of coffin of stones the analogy was not at all bad as it was in fact a stoning to death on the part of seventytwo out of eighty odd constituencies that ratted at the time of the split and chiefly the belauded peasant class, probably the selfsame evicted tenants he had put in their holdings
38. “But where is this mother of thine? Ah! I see,” he added; and, turning to Governor Bellingham, whispered, “This is the selfsame child of whom we have held speech together; and behold here the unhappy woman, Hester Prynne, her mother!”
39. Hester saw and recognized the selfsame faces of that group of matrons, who had awaited her forthcoming from the prison-door, seven years ago; all save one, the youngest and only compassionate among them, whose burial-robe she had since made
40. The rear compartment of that selfsame cruiser, whose plashing tires, whose dryness and darkness and emphysematic heater, rendered the world beyond the window remote
41. "I have suffered the selfsame delinquency," said the old man
42. Parasols have come and gone in a thousand summer colors, whole flights of butterfly fans have blown away on August winds, the pavilion has burned and been built again in the selfsame size and shape, the lake has dried like a plum in its basin, and my hatred, like these things, came and went, grew very large, stopped still for love, returned, then diminished with the years
43. ‘I have suffered the selfsame delinquency,’ said the old man
44. They would be absolutely right, if man were an unconscious being, immovable in relation to truth; that is, if, having once come to know the truth, he always remained on the selfsame stage of his cognition
45. and his most august family, and that the Russian and French clergy professed almost the selfsame religion and equally honoured the Virgin; to which his Worship, the chief priest, replied that the prayers of the French clergy for the most august family reëchoed joyfully in the hearts of the whole Russian Tsar-loving family, and that, since the Russian people also worshipped the Holy Virgin, it could count on France in life and in death
46. That twixt us two the selfsame thought should be:
47. Warren had listened with a sweet and ready sympathy that had caused James quite to forget a certain stinging snubbing he had received from the selfsame lady, because once, back in the dark ages—before Nancy had opened her blue eyes on this naughty world—when he was a gawky, freckle-faced boy of sixteen, he had dared to walk home from church with Mildred, the eldest daughter of the house of Warren