Sentences with phrase «marriage bed by»

The written law was but the last of a series of futile efforts to bring Israel to God's marriage bed by means of intermediaries.

Not exact matches

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

'' Teti has compiled preliminary data that shows that moms who have more problems in their marriage soon after giving birth are more likely to be bed - sharing and co-sleeping by the time their baby is six months old.

That Gillibrand was decried by potential challengers as a «vulnerable» lightweight who had been transformed, in remarkably short order, from a Blue Dog Democrat who was not particularly progressive on immigration or gay rights and bragged about keeping guns under her bed, into a pro-immigrant champion of gay marriage and gun control.

The apparent conflict with marriage co-sleeping norms, she notes elsewhere, «has been partially mitigated for Americans by the evolution of bed size from twin, to double, to queen, to king.»

Dominic Cooke's On Chesil Beach, adapted from a dour novella by Ian McEwan, transforms cultural myth into hard fact, framing the marriage bed as not a venue for bawdy larks, but face - clawing torment.

Judged, despised, cursed by gods she has long since lost faith in, Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions: how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her because that is what he was told would make the winds blow in his favor and take him to Troy; how she seduced and collaborated with the prisoner Aegisthus, who shared her bed in the dark and could kill; how Agamemnon came back with a lover himself; and how Clytemnestra finally achieved her vengeance for his stunning betrayal - his quest for victory, greater than his love for his child.

Judd Foxman is sent reeling by the end of his marriage and the termination of his job, both of which occur after he catches his wife in bed with his boss.

The Christian owner of a B&B in Berkshire was found to have discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to allow them stay in a double - bedded room because of her belief that all sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong.

The idea of the kid - free «marriage bed» went out the window pretty quickly once we met our tiny baby daughter who was incapable of ever sleeping by herself.

Linda Gottlieb's bathroom, with its soft - plum Venetian - plaster walls by Orazio De Gennaro Studio, makes for a sanctuary - like space off the master suite she shares with husband Robert Tessler — who credits their marriage's success to the one bed, two bath approach.