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"Psalmist" Quotes from Famous Books

... have been the same from the days of the Psalmist down to our own, and Hannah, putting her whole heart into her work, accomplished, so her surprised employer told her, twice as much spinning as any serving-girl ...

— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield

... old hunter doffed his cap and fell upon his knees with hands uplifted to pour out his zealot's soul in the awful sentences of the Psalmist's imprecation. ...

— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde

... only in name a British colony. Under the guise of constitutional forms it had attained independence—virtual, though not nominal. If Lord Milner had contracted the habit of Biblical quotation from the Afrikander leaders, he might well have quoted the words of the psalmist: "Many bulls have compassed me; strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round."[158] Even the approaches to Government House were watched by spies in President Krueger's pay, who carefully noted all who came and went. ...

— Lord Milner's Work in South Africa - From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 • W. Basil Worsfold

... Like the Psalmist of old she leaned upon the arm of her God and as she thus approached the dark valley, the light of her faith shone ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 - The Guide • Charles Herbert Sylvester

... replied her husband smiling, "and if you knew your Bible better, Mandy, you would have found excellent authority for your position in the words of the psalmist, 'The Lord taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.' But, say, it is a joke," he added, "to think of ...

— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor

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