WORD OF THE DAY
spirit
To the translation and interpretation of the Scriptures men might bring a fallible judgment, but this would be assisted by the direct action of the Spirit of God in proportion to their faith.
It pained Dean to see her 30 pounds thinner, wearing an ill fitting wig in place of her waist-length ebony hair, but her indomitable spirit continued to leave him in awe.
No woman had given birth in many sun-cycles, because the planet's spirit was severed without the dhjan and the nishani.
They claimed to have done so in the spirit of good will and a desire to protect the privacy of the tipster.
Under the Restoration he became a peer of France, but protested against the reactionary spirit of the government, and remained in opposition.
It is the same spirit that makes people fanatical about a certain sports team, regardless of the players or the score.
From 1760 owing to the gradual spread of the sceptical spirit and the teaching of Voltaire more tolerant views prevailed.
While Martha is my kindred spirit, Quinn and I always got along fairly well the few times we're all gotten together.
During the month that the French troops were pillaging in Moscow and the Russian troops were quietly encamped at Tarutino, a change had taken place in the relative strength of the two armies--both in spirit and in number--as a result of which the superiority had passed to the Russian side.
Katie chuckled, and he was almost relieved at the sight of her smile. Her features had grown paler and gaunter under his watch. He feared the underworld would sink her spirit, too. One of them had to have some sort of hope they'd make it out alive.
That Douglas undertook this work and that he makes a plea for more accurate scholarship in the translation have been the basis of a prevalent notion that he is a Humanist in spirit and the first exponent of Renaissance doctrine in Scottish literature.