John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Old Testament. (continued) |
| 9765 |
| Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. |
| 2 Samuel i. 23. |
| 9766 |
| How are the mighty fallen! |
| 2 Samuel i. 25. |
| 9767 |
| Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. |
| 2 Samuel i. 26. |
| 9768 |
| Abner… smote him under the fifth rib. |
| 2 Samuel ii. 23. |
| 9769 |
| Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown. |
| 2 Samuel x. 5. |
| 9770 |
| Thou art the man. |
| 2 Samuel xii. 7. |
| 9771 |
| As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. |
| 2 Samuel xiv. 14. |
| 9772 |
| They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter. |
| 2 Samuel xx. 18. |
| 9773 |
| The sweet psalmist of Israel. |
| 2 Samuel xxiii. 1. |
| 9774 |
| So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. 1 |
| 1 Kings vi. 7. |
| 9775 |
| A proverb and a byword. |
| 1 Kings ix. 7. |
| 9776 |
| I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. |
| 1 Kings xvii. 9. |
| 9777 |
| An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse. |
| 1 Kings xvii. 12. |
| 9778 |
| And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail. |
| 1 Kings xvii. 16. |
| 9779 |
| How long halt ye between two opinions? |
| 1 Kings xviii. 21. |
| 9780 |
| There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. |
| 1 Kings xviii. 44. |
| 9781 |
| A still, small voice. |
| 1 Kings xix. 12. |
| Note 1. See Cowper, Quotation 85. [back] |