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_The Lord is about your Paths, and about your Bed, and spieth out all your Ways_.

Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766 Anonymous

And when he spieth peril that should befall, he whetteth his tusks and frotteth them, and assayeth in that while fretting against trees, if the points of his tusks be all blunt.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

The lion is cruel and wood when he is wroth, and biteth and grieveth himself for indignation, and gnasheth with his teeth, and namely when he hungreth, and spieth and lieth in wait, to take beasts which pass by the way.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

For because that he may not open the hard shell of the oyster, he spieth and awaiteth when the oyster openeth, and then the crab, that lieth in await, taketh a little stone, and putteth it between the shells, that the oyster may not close himself.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

The sparrow when he spieth his Dear upon the tree,

Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II Austin Dobson 1880

And those who will not believe that the one true and living God is above their path and about their bed and spieth out all their ways, and that in him they live and move and have their being, are but too likely at last to people with fancied saints and dæmons that void in the imagination and in the heart which their own unbelief has made.

The Hermits Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 1878

There is no getting away from the jumping cat -- if I climb up into heaven, it is there; if I go down to hell, it is there also; if I take the wings of the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there, and so on; it is about my path and about my bed and spieth out all my ways.

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

It will be worse than useless to teach a child that God is always at hand, 'and spieth out all our ways,' if she act as though she did not believe in the existence of a Deity.

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper 1847

And those who will not believe that the one true and living God is above their path and about their bed and spieth out all their ways, and that in him they live and move and have their being, are but too likely at last to people with fancied saints and daemons that void in the imagination and in the heart which their own unbelief has made.

The Hermits Charles Kingsley 1847

God and Christ cannot change, for they are eternal -- the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever; and if Christ was near St. Peter on the lake of Gennesaret, he is near us now, and here; for in him we live and move and have our being; and he is about our path, and about our bed, and spieth out all our ways: near us for ever, whether we know it or not.

Discipline and Other Sermons Charles Kingsley 1847