My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.
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Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.
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Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.
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The saints are exceedingly loving and gentle to mankind, and even to brute beasts. . . . Surely we ought to show [animals] great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
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Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt.
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A strict regard for truth obliges us to say, that the few women whom we saw that day looked exceedingly pinched up. They had prominent chins a...
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Bless your heart, they don't mind—they're exceedingly kind— They don't blame you—as long as you're funny!
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I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases
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Galatians 1:14:
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
(NIV)
And [you have heard how] I outstripped many of the men of my own generation among the people of my race in [my advancement in study and observance of the laws of] Judaism, so extremely enthusiastic and zealous I was for the traditions of my ancestors.
(AMP)
And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
(KJV)
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Genesis 15:1:
After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: 'Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.'
(NIV)
AFTER THESE things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am your Shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great.
(AMP)
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
(KJV)
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Jeremiah 17:9:
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
(NIV)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]? [Matt. 13:15-17; Mark 7:21-23; Eph. 4:20-24.](AMP)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
(KJV)
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2 Peter 1:4:
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
(NIV)
By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.
(AMP)
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
(KJV)
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...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...
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But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
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Obadiah 1:2:
'See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.'
(NIV)
Behold, I will make you small among the nations [Edom]; you shall be despised exceedingly. [Ezek. 35.](AMP)
Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
(KJV)
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1 Peter 1:6:
In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
(NIV)
[You should] be exceedingly glad on this account, though now for a little while you may be distressed by trials and suffer temptations,
(AMP)
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
(KJV)
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Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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