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... the fruition of their contemptible desires! Let them set up a thing called society and worship it; let them lose themselves in the contemplation of objects whose beauty they can never appreciate save by counting the cost; let them disgrace the names their honest fathers bore, ...

— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

... goddess the only fruit he got was the lopped-off heads of the goats and buffaloes of the sacrifice. The day that we seek the good of the country along the path of righteousness, He who is greater than our country will grant us true fruition." ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

... from his saddle in crossing the canal, but saving himself by holding on to the tail of his charger. This perilous achievement seems to have satisfied the good bishop's belligerent propensities. He retired on his laurels (says Agapida) to his city of Jaen, where, in the fruition of all good things, he gradually waxed too corpulent for his corselet, which was hung up in the hall of his episcopal palace, and we hear no more of his military deeds throughout the residue of the holy war ...

— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

... the kingdom rage With hatred and derision, God spreads its reign from age to age, And brings it to fruition. ...

— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg

... only our interest in God and actual fruition of Him which was lost in Adam's covenant-breaking fall, but all spiritual knowledge of Him, and true disposition towards such a felicity. Man hath now a heart too suitable to his low estate—a low ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

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