Word: fastedness
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Their eyes fasted on destroyers and mine-sweepers. They very glibly interpreted Baker at the foretruck. They discerned fore from off with a pense of accomplishment. The water in which all these vessels foaled was early and part of the vast Atlantic, and their hungry hearts longed for action of...
In the mornings, onetime Boxer Sydney Robey Leibbrandt punched his shadow about his cell. In the afternoons, he ranted Nazi cant. At night, he ignored his comfortable prison bed for a wooden bench. Three days of each month, he fasted.
The 21-day fast of Mohandas K. Gandhi is the Mahatma's tenth public hunger strike since 1918. Many were for minor reasons. Only twice before has Gandhi fasted "against" the British.
The motu proprio of the Supreme Pontiff permitted, for the first time in the recorded history of the Church, an alteration in the time of celebrating the High Mass usually performed at midnight Christmas Eve. In localities where a blackout is enforced His Holiness permitted this Mass to be celebrated...
Along the steaming highway man and beast jogged, followed by a caravan of 100 cars. Duke-ridden by a no-lb. jockey the first 14 miles, a lighter boy the next 14, and finally a little girl - was trotted for eight minutes, walked for four and rubbed down every ten...