Verse
in sentence
103 examples of Verse in a sentence
Anyway, near the end of the film, the prosecutor reads a Scripture
verse
and then quotes another from memory.
He says it's Genesis 9:12, but he actually quotes
verse
6.
"Bibleman quotes chapter and
verse
to help real kids deal with real problems."
I have to talk about something specific in the short, so let this be my spoiler warning: Any cartoon where Porky Pig sings the first
verse
of "Barbara Allen" is one my permanent list of favorites.
First, in the prison, the (unseen) orchestra starts playing and Jolson sings
verse
after
verse
of "Why Can't You?" to his fellow cons.
St. Thomas Aquinas interpreted that
verse
as implying that it simply does not matter how man behaves toward animals; the only reason why we should not inflict whatever cruelties we like on animals is that doing so may lead to cruelty to humans.
Last year, the writer Zhu Yufu published a poem online, a
verse
of which reads: “It’s time Chinese people!/ the square belongs to everyone/ the feet are yours/ it’s time to use your feet and take to the square to make a choice.”
In his great
verse
drama Faust, Goethe has God send humanity the Devil (Mephistopheles) in order to stir things up.
NEW HAVEN – In his classic Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits(1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch-born British philosopher and satirist, described – in
verse
– a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a virtue of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption.
With over a million copies in print, the manual is known as the bible of American psychiatry; certainly it is an invoked chapter and
verse
in schools, prisons, courts, and by mental-health professionals around the world.
What Koran
verse
required those travellers to be roasted alive?
Devout Muslims, of course, have their own zero point: the year 610, when the Angel Gabriel revealed the Koran’s first
verse
to the Prophet Muhammad.
In defending freedom of speech, Montazeri referred to a Quranic
verse
stating that God taught humans how to express themselves.
Finally, Tatiana sold me the story of BAM, written in verse, for 350 rubles ($6).
The
verse
says, literally, “We (the court) force him until he says that he wants to do it willingly.”
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard have uniforms bearing a Koranic
verse
that reads, “Make ready for them whatever force and strings of horses you can, to terrify thereby the enemy of God and your enemy, and others besides them that you know not;God knows them.”
So, too, does the
verse
of Louis Aragon:“Nothing is as strong, not fire, not lightning,As my Paris defying dangerNothing is as beautiful as this Paris of mine.”
With light hearts they heard the Epistle read and the roll of the senior deacon's voice in the last verse, for which the outsiders present had been waiting impatiently.
Serezha knew the Gospel verses pretty well, but whilst saying them he became so absorbed in the contemplation of a bone in his father's forehead, which turned very sharply above the temple, that he became confused and put the end of one
verse
where the same word occurred after the beginning of another.
Accordingly, I became aware of the isle of Karpathos, one of the Sporades Islands, only when Captain Nemo placed his finger over a spot on the world map and quoted me this
verse
from Virgil:Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates Caeruleus Proteus . .
I think
verse
more tender than prose, and that it moves far more easily to tears."
She was the mistress of all the novels, the heroine of all the dramas, the vague "she" of all the volumes of
verse.
But he never succeeded in getting a rhyme for the second verse; and at last ended by copying a sonnet in a "Keepsake."
He repeated angrily to himself the
verse
of Corneille which Madame Derville had taught him a few days earlier:Love creates equalities, it does not seek them.
You don't mind a man being two bars in front of the accompaniment, and easing up in the middle of a line to argue it out with the pianist, and then starting the
verse
afresh.
You don't expect a man to never remember more than the first three lines of the first verse, and to keep on repeating these until it is time to begin the chorus.
In the last verse, he surpassed himself.
It was about a young girl who lived in the Hartz Mountains, and who had given up her life to save her lover's soul; and he died, and met her spirit in the air; and then, in the last verse, he jilted her spirit, and went on with another spirit - I'm not quite sure of the details, but it was something very sad, I know.
But he would get more and more piano as he went on, and the last
verse
generally collapsed in the middle with a splutter and a hiss.
George wanted to go on with another
verse.
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