Sentences with phrase «gnats there»

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The smell of sin hung foul on them; the mire About their roots was trampled filth of flesh Horrid with rottenness, and splashed with gore Curdling in crimson puddles; where there buzzed And sucked, and settled, creatures of the swamp, Hideous in wing and sting, gnat - clouds and flies, With moths, toads, newts, and snakes red - gulleted; And livid, loathsome worms, writhing in slime Forth from skull - holes and scalps and tumbled bones.57

Since this obedience is obedience to a purely formal authority, in the late Jewish ethic there appears the commingling of moral and ritual laws, and the overemphasis on ritual and ceremonial rules, which Jesus denounces in the statement that the Pharisees strain out gnats and swallow camels.

So all afternoon there were these pesky gnats from Baton Rouge, reacting and clawing and squirming through the tiniest holes to stop everyone, and Notre Dame's giants, just as fast, giving a little more but Anally shutting off enough jams and knocking down enough pop flies to bring in Scott Hempel and his three - point toe.

There is a danger that Conservatives will be so busy straining at Ed Miliband's gnat — his open espousal of socialism — that they will, without really noticing, swallow the camel of what he is really up to.

If the «Yes» campaign loses on the basis of vague «jam tomorrow» promises that don't materialise as absolute manifesto commitments, there won't be losses in Scotland, there will be a slaughter... and of course the gnats are going to sweep up most of the Scottish lib - dem seats anyway.

There will be 600 million particle collisions per second, and although the particles themselves are mere specks — less than a million millionth the size of a gnat — their collective energy will be that of an express train.

Competition in most urban districts is like a gnat to a bull, there but barely noticed.

There will not be a more passionate zealot them me in blasting Cupertino for worrying about something that is no bigger than a knot on a gnat's ass in the big scheme of their opportunities with the iPad.

There are many pet - friendly products like Neem Protect Spray which uses a natural tree oil to repel lice, mites, flies, mosquitoes, fleas, gnats, and ticks.

There were clouds of gnats, golden in the sunlight, odd piles of shipwrecked branches, and smooth lips of stone with their purls and eddies.

I guess there may be a gnat's crotchet of disagreement if you look closely.