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These and other terms seem to be used more or less interchangeably, and all sorts of instances of the miraculous were, apparently, accepted unquestioningly: as a tenth-century BCE bumper sticker might have put it, “Miracles happen.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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But by then the search for food and drink had led me to Mutanabbi Street, named after the famous tenth-century Iraqi poet who had once boasted his verse was so powerful that the blind could read it and the deaf could hear it.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).
The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010
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These and other terms seem to be used more or less interchangeably, and all sorts of instances of the miraculous were, apparently, accepted unquestioningly: as a tenth-century BCE bumper sticker might have put it, “Miracles happen.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).
The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010
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Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).
The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010
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These and other terms seem to be used more or less interchangeably, and all sorts of instances of the miraculous were, apparently, accepted unquestioningly: as a tenth-century BCE bumper sticker might have put it, “Miracles happen.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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But by then the search for food and drink had led me to Mutanabbi Street, named after the famous tenth-century Iraqi poet who had once boasted his verse was so powerful that the blind could read it and the deaf could hear it.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Sometime the very letters become decorative designs (see the elaborately ornate and well-nigh illegible initials in the Harkness Gospels from tenth-century Brittany, or the large word panels in the thirteenth-century German Hebrew Xanten Bible, or the stunning calligraphy of the fourteenth-century Turkish Qur'an).
The New York Public Library: All That Is Godly Must Glitter The New York Public Library 2010
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These and other terms seem to be used more or less interchangeably, and all sorts of instances of the miraculous were, apparently, accepted unquestioningly: as a tenth-century BCE bumper sticker might have put it, “Miracles happen.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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