Sentences with phrase «rich treasure house»

«NFAA is a rich treasure house of knowledge and resources for any author.

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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!

Today more and more of us expect a rich variety of experiences — including work and prayer — in our lives, and many are reaching into the Catholic or Eastern religions» treasure houses to recapture the more inner - directed spiritual wisdom of an earlier day.

Hannah Fisher, international marketing manager of malts, Beam Suntory, says: «Bowmore is a brand with rich heritage and having the world's oldest Scotch maturation warehouse that houses so many treasures in each and every cask we wanted consumers to be able to see and feel this unique environment and unlock the hidden depths of the brand for themselves.»

Apart from Tropical Traditions Gold Label coconuts being grown in one of the richest volcanic soil areas of the Philippines, — which makes it a treasure house of natural, healthy mineral nutrients — it is not mass produced.

Unlike the Whitney, though, which is a museum built to house and display treasures that belong to the public, Pace is building a sales showroom and offices for the rich.

Even the rich and powerful George Vanderbilts of the world have to pay property taxes, but when their property is a national treasure like Biltmore House, figuring out how much it's worth is complicated.