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"I had doubts and concerns about what a campaign would mean for my family," he confided to the assembled scribes.
Remember the hands, calloused and sunburned,of the Quumran scribes, seated at a cave's mouth,negotiating light that dawn brought backwith the promise of deliverance.Shadow and light, black fireon white fire, the unswerving word,conferring a sacred indifferenceto an urban, merely visual appeal.The caves, dark sockets in a cliff wall,return no one's gaze today,even if they once did seea mountain range of crumpled felt,castiron eagles fixed on approaching spears,and a southbound Jordan feeding the samefluid body, ever moremineral, ever heavier with salt.
The diphthongs ae, oe, and ue appear so often in German that mediæval scribes started writing the e above the first vowel, something like this: \?\.
And I think, earlier this year, of Serbia, where the bones of Prince Lazar, the martyr of the battle against the Turks in 1389, have become hallowed in history and whose legends were written down by church scribes and canonized in cycles of folk poetry.
Skeat does, indeed, in his last and longest note (I mean the one in the Cambridge Review ) go into the question as to how it came to pass that the a in Cambridge is pronounced long as in came --a point which I had not considered--and he also differs from me in attributing, without any apparent evidence, the change of the Gr of Granta into the C of Canta to the Anglo-French scribes of the twelfth century; for I was, and am still, disposed to attribute it, in part at least, to the undoubted confusion between the old forms of Cambridge and of Canterbury which I have pointed out in both my notes.
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