Sentences with word «fleshpots»

I thank all those from the glittering metropolitan fleshpots of New York and Toronto to imperial pinpricks like the Falklands and the Cook Islands who've helped keep me in the game by swinging by the SteynOnline store or picking up one of our gift certificates.

As well as displaying admirable faith in his own company, Young can look forward to a few interesting milestones ahead as he swans around the Louvre and the fleshpots of Paris.

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Shortly thereafter, the congregation of mice and sometimes a few rats who'd lived comfortably in this fleshpot would make their break.

They eked out a bare living, and it is no wonder that they sometimes longed for «the fleshpots of Egypt» and again felt very grateful to God for some unexpected deliverance from hunger.

The food given them in the desert was «manna» which was quite unpalatable and tasteless, compared to the fleshpots of Egypt.

We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

They are doing what Aaron is said to have done by forging the golden calf when they were afraid Moses was leading them to a disastrous unknown future and they longed to return to the fleshpots of Egypt.

Moses, leading his people out of bondage, found them, on the one hand, longing for God and freedom, on the other hand, yearning for a golden calf or the fleshpots of Egypt.

While no match for Phuket's Patong or the fleshpots of Bangkok in terms of bacchanalian partying and naughty nightlife, Read More»

Yes, that San Pedro, La Isla Bonita -LSB-...] San Pedro tends to get a terrible reputation for insularity, for wanting to be its own republic, for being a fleshpot of sin and iniquity that constantly wants to kick people off the island - and it deserves all that.

Iwona Blazwick, the Whitechapel Gallery's director, explains that Douglas drew «on the fleshpots of Soho» and references «the strip clubs and bars that have given us the flashing neon lights and the texture of life around Soho Square.»

It is staging pop - up museum standard shows assembled by superstar curators in the fleshpots of Mayfair.

«The shops are showing a marvelous array of gifts that cost small fortune and there are many of us who have to pass them by, regarding them as the fleshpots of Egypt.