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Current Music: crown me king- "moses in the reads, herod & pharoh"4 gunslingers | crown me king
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2002
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Simon-Pure Southerner from the very fact of their nativity, and visited with the most horrible retribution wherever they have shown a leaning toward the land of their birth, they find it necessary to out-herod
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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In out heroding-herod in the way of splendour, showy dresses and expensive machinery, the Masque soon fell into decay; and, as Ben Jonson states, "The glory of all these solemnities had perished like a blaze, and gone out in the beholder's eyes; so short-lived are the bodies of all things in comparison with their souls."
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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(For Virgil and Nativity play and prophecy see authorities in Comparetti, "Virgil in Middles Ages", p. 310 sqq.) "To out-herod Herod", i.e. to over-act, dates from
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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My brother shews unto them the Image which [re] presented the flight of Joseph and holy mary with the child Jesus, to avoid the anger of herod, and the
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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That being said with people like hitler, stalin, pol pot, herod (maybe lol) making up part of earths history i have no doubt there are groups of people who sit around a table, sip cognac and talk about taking over the planet.
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That being said with people like hitler, stalin, pol pot, herod (maybe lol) making up part of earths history i have no doubt there are groups of people who sit around a table, sip cognac and talk about taking over the planet.
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Rational Review 2009
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Great Job ... congrats! adam herod (Raleigh): Congrats team!
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That being said with people like hitler, stalin, pol pot, herod (maybe lol) making up part of earths history i have no doubt there are groups of people who sit around a table, sip cognac and talk about taking over the planet.
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