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Example sentences for "light thing"

  • A light thing (seeks to go) up, and a weight (tends) downwards.

  • Accurséd, if thou hadst but plotted death Against me, death however horrible, That I had found a light thing to forgive.

  • With me it is a light thing to be judged Of men; albeit obeisance due I pay To this tribunal as ordained of God.

  • His spear was also such as was not carried like a light thing in his right hand, but he carried it as lying on his shoulders.

  • Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here?

  • And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

  • And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.

  • It is no light thing, sir, to feel at times that you are a murderer.

  • It is no light thing, as I regard it, to put a stumbling-block in another's way or to lead the weak or unwary into temptation.

  • This is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

  • The subject of conversation was too much occupied with his neighbour to be conscious of that glance, but Katrine saw it, and mentally noted that this man's anger would be no light thing.

  • When so many streams ran foul, was it a light thing to provide a crystal well?

  • Did you think it was a light thing to me to feel my loyalty slipping from me day by day--to be obliged to love one man, when another man was waiting?

  • She saw a shade of impatience on his countenance as he looked up and checked the words that were on his lips, by saying: "Marriage is no light thing, my young friend.

  • Is it a light thing so to mar the whole life of man?

  • It is no light thing for a woman to throw herself beyond the pale of her husband's protection.

  • It is not; and yet we should have been punished--ignominiously dismissed in all probability, which is no light thing for a man to face.

  • It was no light thing to encounter the rage and despair of fifty thousand fighting men, whose backs no enemy had ever seen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    entirely different; fair land; light battery; light breeze from the; light brownish; light color; light divine; light draft; light green; light ground; light heart; light infantry; light land; light pink; light upon; light weight; light will; light yellow; lightning flash; living body; mocking laugh; other method; special license; stood quite; that great; thinking about