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Further fueling the fires of dissent, Wheelwright addressed his congregation as “brothers and sisters” rather than just “brethren” and used as examples of valor not only David and Barak but also the women Deborah and Jael. To the court and the other ministers, it was unthinkable to credit a woman with public power.
American Jezebel
Eve LaPlante
And he himself, when faced with the knowledge that he was free to accept what was, had rejected the new opportunity. To seize it would have been to murder himself. The ghost of every humiliation he had ever suffered cried out against it. His murdered dreams and ambitions came back to eldritch life and asked if he could forget them so easily.
The detective’s hands were constantly in motion, like flabby gloves informed by the fingers of a bored puppeteer.
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
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