They all had rudrakshas, tulasi-malas, jasmine flowers tied up in their hair, and they were all praying, doing meditation and chanting mantras. |
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In my mind, I am praying, praying for the next buzzer to sound so I can escape the woman's bitter stare. |
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The mother dedicated her time in Knock to walking around the church praying for an angel to watch over her daughter in her absence. |
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When praying without a minyan, begin with the following three-word formula. |
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Instead, they stood back to back on the highest ground they could find, gulping air and praying for the rescuers 240 feet above to save them. |
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Worshippers hurried into the temple, praying to the gods to let them be spared. |
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In the majority of cases, the terrestrial hosts are carnivorous animals such as carabid beetles, praying mantids or crickets. |
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Or you can use biological controls, such as praying mantids, predator flies and beneficial nematodes. |
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Last night, I was praying that none of the examinees would need to use the toilet. |
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A raggle-taggle clamour of children curls by, banging homemade drums and startling an old man who has been praying into his wrinkled brown hands. |
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Is it just a case of throwing up our hands and praying that those we love remain untouched? |
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It is nice to see that the old traditions of praying for relations who have departed this life, has survived in this modern age of cynicism. |
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It seems he wandered into the station house on Easter Sunday and found several of his fellow officers praying! |
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The Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari revere the praying mantis as a divine messenger. |
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She tiptoed carefully to the mass of captured men, praying that none of them would wake. |
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Wearing my red pleather skirt, and a soft black cotton top, I walked to the Mansion praying that I wouldn't fall in the crab grass. |
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Perched on the top of a mountain, Letefoho sports a majestic cathedral with a steeple of praying hands mounted on the roof. |
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Churches were praying for the souls of the kids caught up in the glare of those flashing lights. |
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As well as this, consider getting involved in praying for the mission, or in helping out in a practical way. |
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The only explanation for this is a miracle from God, as we had been praying for her at church. |
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She raised both hands above her head, holding incense sticks, while praying. |
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He looked around, at his sleeping, praying, card-playing colleagues, and he felt a desperate sense of weight across his shoulders. |
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He laments the passing of sacramentals such as a proliferation of statues and praying the rosary. |
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I look pretty happy and at peace there, except I was actually completely blitzed on morphine and praying to go to sleep. |
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Inside were taxidermically preserved specimens of a hummingbird, snake, bat, lizard, frog, and praying mantis. |
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For her part, Jan has asked me to extend her deep gratitude to all who have been praying for her and the folks. |
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Panting, he flattened himself against a mold-streaked stone wall, praying it would be just another sentry. |
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Ever since I remember, I have been praying, meditating and attending spiritual workshops. |
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She has gone the distance so far and she's proved that she is a tough cookie, so we are praying she will keep getting better. |
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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel. |
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I think that they need to understand that praying does not substitute for public practice. |
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Throughout all of this, people kept kneeling, praying, crying, and staging theatrical die-ins in front of the fort. |
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Thus the simple chanting and praying of the early days could not have sufficed the new extended demands. |
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The insect is the first praying mantis to be homed at Studley Grange and is on display in a glass tank and now basking in the heat it is used to. |
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We were on a high and they were just hanging on praying for the final hooter. |
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The most effective of the photographs is Gandhi's reflective and praying mood, beside the burning pyre of his wife. |
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For example, the old church seemed to frown upon the system of concerts of live music as a way of praying. |
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She planted potatoes last week and has been praying for a mizzle to moistify her garden. |
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Finding just the right combination was a process akin to spinning the dial on a lock, praying each time to hit the right series. |
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I think that was the first time I prayed, only I wasn't praying, I was blaspheming. |
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I brought the back end in to pick up Graham, praying I didn't meet the same fate and look a complete twonk. |
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There was a car following close behind us and I was praying that the airport wouldn't be far away. |
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Walking through the Stations of the Cross or praying the rosary is another way to contemplate the mysteries of Jesus. |
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Yes, the one praying is so obviously a behind-the-scenes picture that never could have been taken in a normal photo op. |
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Our part is to keep the commandments of the Scriptures as well as we can, continually praying and asking the Lord's help. |
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I was praying that the restaurant clock was slow and I wasn't a minute late. |
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Even when carrying out needful tasks, do not let your intellect be idle but keep it meditating inwardly and praying. |
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I gave up, connected the computer and sent emails to all my US friends, praying they were okay and asking them to get in touch. |
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I looked around, hoping, praying to a guardian angel to help me get out of this predicament. |
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For An Appeal to Heaven, she illuminated a breadboard with a scene of a woman praying, her hands and shoulders twined with flowers and leaves. |
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A distraught mother whose special needs son has vanished from his east Belfast home is praying for his safe return. |
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The distraught uncle said the family was praying for the safe release of the teenager. |
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After this I call the deities I've been praying to and begin the spellworking. |
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Some fans were seen weeping and praying for his fast recovery while others kept vigil in a nearby church. |
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It is said that he was the first to introduce extemporary praying in public worship, an important development which took place at this time. |
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He falls asleep while praying on his knees and wakes up with his mouth full of candlewick bedspread. |
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Mr. Kellogg presented the petition of citizens of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, praying the abolition of the franking privilege. |
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I was concerned however, but very glad to have a praying church behind me, and caring friends. |
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He goes for walk one day and witnesses a fight between a cicada and a much smaller praying mantis. |
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The deep silence here is broken by the peal of the brass bell gently tapped by a devotee praying for a wish to be granted. |
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Jesus is not praying to be rescued from death, for that is the fate of all human beings. |
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I passed the doors as I was going to bed, and I heard something wailing and praying just as plainly as I hear you. |
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They had been preaching and pointedly praying from their respective pulpits for an election devoid of violence. |
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She's praying that Christmas will not catch her still 'cotching' with her granddaughter. |
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Anne prayed her prayer of thanks to the Lord for this gracious meal and heard Luke praying with her. |
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Hye told me the only time he saw Jinnah praying was during the Eid congregations. |
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Reedie had been praying for that first elusive gold to come from Simon Lessing in today's men's triathlon. |
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This winter's stylish footwear, from ankle boots to sneakers, will have you praying for more days of snowfall. |
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We had grace around the dinner table, and we all had to take turns in praying and returning thanks every morning. |
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Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood. |
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It lingered on the lip of the cup for fully two seconds as Woods and his caddie Steve Williams froze in their tracks, bent over as if praying. |
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We ask everyone to join with us in praying for Abigail and live in hope for the future. |
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We have been living in hope since she went missing and we were praying this was not Leanne. |
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I laid in bed last night, totally sober, praying for alcohol to fall out of the sky and into my mouth. |
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Pilgrims are required to circle the Kaaba seven times, counterclockwise, praying as they go. |
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The sailors escaped back out to sea in their battered longboat, praying for rescue by a passing ship. |
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He will be looking at the long-range weather forecast and praying it won't snow. |
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That quirk also gave him repetition compulsions and an obsession about praying. |
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Turning her head she searched the room again, praying that Jabin or Mitsos had found their way into the inn. |
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During retreats we'd walk around in silence, everyone in soutanes, rosary beads in hand, or a book, meditating, praying, thinking, drifting. |
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We should resolve to maintain prayer as a priority, cultivating a spirit of intercession, praying over all we do. |
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Here is a man who was supposedly praying one minute and spewing venom the next. |
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Arable farmers who feared their crops would be washed away by continual downpours this time last year are now praying for rain. |
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She arrived at the doors of the convent while the abbess was praying in front of the church's crucifix. |
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She would have been down there taking a ceremonial ablution and praying to the river god Hapi, who was also the god of fertility. |
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I spent my time doing chores and praying, leaving precious little time for friendships. |
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While most of the people praying at the Sam Poo Thay Jien altar are ethnic Chinese, most of the people at the Anchor Temple are Javanese. |
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His trips there and back were spent praying for protection, praying he'd make it there safely and back in the pitch-dark night. |
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Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is praying that Arsenal catch a case of spring fever to throw the Premiership title race wide open. |
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A young man crippled by a disease of old age may not get the operation he and his family have been hoping and praying for over the last year. |
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Instead, he waited eagerly, anxiously, praying and hoping for his son's return. |
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Envious minds in Madrid who fumed at the performances of the galactico last season will be praying for a revolution. |
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So here I sit under a canopy hoping and praying that the next old geezer to step up has a heart attack before he can finish the match. |
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Quickly, I leaped out of my seat and approached his front door, praying under my breath it wasn't deadlocked. |
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Then she took it off and looked at the price tag, praying it would not exceed her credit card limit. |
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The pupils from the two schools joined together in singing, reading, praying and processions to make the ceremony beautiful. |
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Neither the church nor any man is dehorted here from praying for any sinner yet living. |
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Eventually he began sobbing and praying for a miracle, whereupon a lone figure on a jet ski appeared. |
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We can discharge this obligation by simply praying for him as we pray for our dear ones and our own very selves. |
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She was helped through her exams by knowing that her vicar was praying for her to succeed. |
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Meg watched as twenty girls held their breaths, hoping and praying for their name to be called. |
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It is the size of a paper clip and is described as a cross between a stick insect and a praying mantis. |
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Would God hear my prayer, for a hundred million were praying for their loved ones? |
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You can just imagine the Oxbridge types in cardigans praying this whole ghastly fad would soon blow over. |
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And instead of sitting around the hearth reminiscing about our venerable ancestors, I usually end up praying by myself upstairs. |
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Bulls fans will be praying for a bruising encounter tonight as Bradford travel to Knowsley Road in seven days time for the Super League opener. |
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Hope had kindled in her heart when news of her pregnancy came, praying to the gods she'd have something to live for. |
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They abandoned their plans for the night's entertainment and took to their heels, praying the alley had an open end. |
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I remember seeing Mrs. Zito praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction. |
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All of them will certainly be praying for the strength to get through the next few weeks and months and years. |
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I remember seeing her praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction. |
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I lay down beside him on my back, stiff as a ramrod, praying he wasn't going to do what he did. |
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Lisa couldn't fall asleep so she stayed awake and studied him, praying he would find his way out of the maze of lies he'd created for himself. |
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And it's praying for the other captives and other families who are living in fear and dread. |
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We ask you also to join us in praying for great wisdom for our world leaders upon whom rest such awesome responsibilities. |
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No amount of hoping, no amount of wishing or praying, could bring my mother back to me. |
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I was on my knees as I said these things, kneeling near the end of my bed with my hands joined in a vague approximation of a person praying. |
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I'm still praying for you, and I hope everything works out for the greater good! |
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His act of praying transforms the cityscape into a sacred space and holy ground. |
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I spent much extra time with my children talking, praying, reading, and wrestling with the difficult times which we faced. |
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However, our lesson also states showing mercy by giving alms and earnestly praying elicits God's reward. |
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Sophie leant her elbows on her knees and cradled her chin in her hands, praying, hoping and wishing for anything to come and make things easier. |
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So many years of his life had been spent praying for the time when he could lean on someone, trust someone to be there. |
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It looked like a broken down missile, but we had not choice, in we went and I buckled down, praying to the Force that this rust bucket would hold together. |
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He slowly inhaled and exhaled while praying a Hail Mary for his sisters. |
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Finally, there was a vigil of about ten people standing hand in hand across the street form the clinic praying quietly. |
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We are all thinking about you Anne and praying for a speedy recovery. |
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Business has left in droves over the past year and he is praying that she can return to her tenuous VP posting in his office to shake some money trees. |
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She ended up praying with me and giving me her blessing to portray her Dad. |
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Whether mourning the miseries of war, praying for divine help or preparing herself for death, it seemed as if her life as a writer was at its end. |
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Scientists group cockroaches, praying mantids, grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, stick insects and some other insects together as orthopteroid insects. |
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This is the kind of soprano voice the operatic world has been praying for! |
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Most praying mantids have a single midline ear in the ventral metathorax. |
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After praying for forgiveness, Fotros was redeemed by the imam Ali who gave him back his wings. |
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Any genuine phobics will be praying she topples out of her harness. |
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We cut to a close-up of a soldier shown from behind, praying, his rifle slung over his back. |
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They were praying for death for deliverance from pathetic existence. |
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My boyfriend totally accepts God's importance to me and would never prevent me from praying or going to church or doing anything else which blesses God. |
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I practice daily praying to the kami that nothing will go wrong. |
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This is just the scenario the mediocrities were praying for. |
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It was slightly discomforting and jarring, especially for a nation clinging to the last vestiges of amateurism and praying for the return of the Corinthian spirit. |
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I wandered among the demonstrators and saw that many were praying or fingering their prayer beads at the same time as they were responding to the speakers. |
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Those of you who think the weekend was spent praying are mistaken. |
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This is critical to stem actions in some of the houses of God which if anything border on ridiculing the same Almighty Lord they ought to be praying to. |
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I spend a lot of time praying that they are imbued with greater wisdom. |
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By 5pm that day, after Mayday calls went unanswered, they were forced to abandon ship, torching the wheelhouse as a last-ditch smoke signal and praying it would be seen. |
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She goes into the kitchen and I hear the sizzle of ham competing with the murmur of talk from the other room where I've already heard a fellow praying, leading prayer. |
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Since we don't know God's plan beforehand, we should keep praying with all the strength and faith we can, while trustfully accepting whatever comes. |
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My family is extremely churchy and they're always praying for me. |
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And we can share loving, supportive amens, praying that one another's petitions come true, adding our voices to each other's grateful thanksgivings. |
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The old ladies were praying a rosary in the back of the bus. |
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Halkin goes on to acknowledge, however, that he would never fight for bareheaded praying rights. |
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They were intended to move the will of the one praying not only to compunction for sin and penitence, but to a desire for God and confidence in God's love. |
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Every Wednesday morning, a large crowd of hopeful ayahs, cooks and drivers would sit outside the American embassy, praying that an expat would call them for an interview. |
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That is to say, he certainly wasn't praying for more pennies from heaven. |
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It is a waiting game and a praying game but he is a tough cookie. |
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England fans have been praying that Rooney could step off the treatment table and immediately transform England from unimaginative plodders into sparkling world-beaters. |
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And now when they have been praying for dry weather so that they can harvest their kharif crop and take it to grain markets, heavy rains are wreaking havoc. |
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A plenary indulgence may be gained each day up to and including November 8th, by visiting a cemetery and there praying for the holy souls and the Pope's intentions. |
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Last week as I was sitting down at my desk to write a long deferred article, I was startled to see an emerald-green praying mantis sitting on my writing pad. |
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I'm sure there are some long-time metrosexuals who are praying this will secure his conversion to the dark side, once he gets used to admiring his pretty reflection. |
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Soon, believers seeking cures began flocking to the chapel and praying to its guardian angel, St. Roch. |
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I nodded her away, praying that she'd take the hint and scram. |
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So I continued to bide my time, hoping, waiting, praying for salvation. |
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The broken hollow path bending upwards round the base, is always occupied by a grotesque group of cripples and beldames, in rags and tatters, laughing and whining and praying. |
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And the only person praying harder for that than Gov. Palin will be yours truly. |
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You'll find the Gonds who give the region its name all around, singing, dancing, praying. |
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A fourth movement to better praying is a turning toward wonderment, to bedazzlement, to gap-mouthed praise in the face of it all. |
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There certainly isn't anything cute or cuddly about a housefly, a corn earworm, a cockroach, or a praying mantis. |
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On his way to meet his teacher, Twixy uses his loud voice to stun a threatening praying mantis. |
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And if you come across an L-driver they have no idea how to respond and are clearly just praying that you don't cost them their test. |
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He spent whole days and nights on his knees praying, yet he could have won Strictly Come Dancing with his virtuoso Brazilian tango, the maxixe. |
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Residents include Amazonian leaf-cutting ants, praying mantis, giant millipedes, and deadly assassin bugs. |
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But while praying, they were imprisoned by the governor of the island, ostensibly on suspicion of being pirates. |
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When they weren't praying, they were cooking up a treasure trove of culinary treats, such as rakott knimpli, paprikas csirke and gomboc. |
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Or they may be eager to enter the Anthropod Zoo, where an enormous praying mantis stands at the entrance. |
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If there wasn't a dragging brake beam to rip me down the back, I was go'n make it! Boy howdy, I did some fancy praying. |
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The Messenger of Allah happened to pass by a person who was busy in praying while the dawn prayer had commenced. |
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I couldn't believe that iron-handed old tyrant would have a son waho cared for nothing but praying. |
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Can a devotional poem serve both poetry and the needs of an actual praying community? |
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But most of all, Adana Forsyth and her family are praying for a miracle breakthrough into a rare condition which causes her skin to peel off. |
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A photograph of the pope praying at Boniface's grave became the centerpiece of a prayer card distributed from the cathedral. |
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Prey recognition time of praying mantids and consequent survivorship of unpalatable prey. |
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Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity. |
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Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 68, had been praying with around 30 others when two thugs with guns, knives and cleavers burst in and ran amok. |
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Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 68, had been praying with 30 others when two thugs with guns, knives and cleavers attacked. |
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Margaret Tudor praying in coronation robes, 16th century, probably by Gerard Horenbout. |
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Balfour giving notice for an Address to the Queen praying for a public funeral and a public memorial in Westminster Abbey. |
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The tomb was sealed with concrete by religious authorities in 1975 due to some Muslims praying at the site. |
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He told them a parable on the necessity of praying always and not losing heart. |
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She divided her praying time between the chapel and her cell, and spent her non-praying time mending garments. |
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They were no doubt praying my teenage bolshiness was enough to keep me out of the clutches of questionable men and drug dealers. |
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Roberts was widely known as a young man who spent many hours praying each week both personally and at group prayer meetings. |
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That is, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca and hence the direction that Muslims should face when praying. |
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More than 2000 people from the Shia Ja'afari sect were praying at the mosque at the time of the bombing. |
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However, even to those who enter the prayer hall of a mosque without the intention of praying, there are still rules that apply. |
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That is a lot to pray for, but Pope Francis is praying for all of us. |
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Loud talking within the mosque, as well as discussion of topics deemed disrespectful, is forbidden in areas where people are praying. |
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Nigerian police said he had escaped in the northern city of Zaria on Saturday while his captors were praying. |
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I think some crazed hermits have kneeled in their caves, praying, much the way in which I have craved the return of five o'clock shadow. |
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Sources of mortality not modeled, but witnessed by us, are predation by other wolf spiders and praying mantids. |
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In Homer's Iliad and Odyssey the gods are implicated as the cause of plagues or widespread disease and that those maladies could be cured by praying to them. |
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I bought a home pregnancy test yesterday and I'm praying that stress is the cause for the lack of my monthly visitor as I watch the stick that I just peed on. |
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And when midnight came, as I was standing and praying, the house where you shut me in was hung up by the four corners, and there was a flashing of light in mine eyes. |
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Dr Nityananda has been conducting trailblazing research on the vision of the praying mantis, creating possibly the smallest 3D glasses in the world. |
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She explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see. |
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This is the first major research project investigating these mechanisms following the discovery made by Samuel Rossel in 1983 that praying mantises have 3D vision. |
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Some brave seminarians at the college walk from the seminary on the Aventine hill to whichever church is on the schedule that day, often praying the rosary en route. |
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Wait, I'm going to ask this super smoking hot praying mantis. |
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These duties remained the same even after wives became pregnant and with the added responsibility of praying and making offerings to Kanopa, who was the god of pregnancy. |
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While Odysseus was away praying, his men ignored the warnings of Tiresias and Circe and hunted the sacred cattle of the sun god Helios as their food had run short. |
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Offices, schools, and factories were required to offer praying space. |
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She'd wait like a praying mantis to catch me out drunk or stoned. |
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In fact, that's why this type of insect is called the praying mantid. |
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As I toured her garden, I noticed that she not only collects popular garden art like dragonflies and butterflies, but also praying mantis sculptures. |
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Praying the Gospels, the Praying Book of Acts and the General Epistles, Praying the Letters of the apostle Paul, and praying the book of Revelation. |
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There were some 20 men praying, all wearing tallises and skull caps. |
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The front end looks right out of a science fiction movie, if you were to build a mechanical praying mantis the headlamp assembly would fit like a glove. |
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