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| 1. | Marriage is not a simple act in which two individuals sign a paper. Marriage is an act in which two people declare before the law, before God, and before themselves that they will commit themselves to being friends, partners, everything necessary for the other's life to be happy. That he or she will feel happy to see his or her loved one happy. That you are committed to the life of the person you are marrying. Marriage is not a military or electoral obligation: it is the declaration that two people love each other and want to share a life together. | |
| 2. | When you speak of a pay-raise before recognition, I am inclined to think you are putting the cart before the horse. | |
| 3. | Planning the wedding before proposing is putting the cart before the horse. | |
| 4. | When Chokichi thought listlessly about this winter, and the similar winter before and the one before that, he vividly experienced the fact that as people grow older, they gradually lose their happiness. | |
| 5. | All men are equal before the law... and when placed before a beautiful woman. | |
| 6. | I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s. | |
| 7. | When I was in middle school, I had a friend in the track club who normally studied 3 hours a day. He didn't speed up the pace before tests. On the contrary, he didn't have any club activities and so had lot of free time, so before the test we would go to his house and play video games every day. If we hadn't done that, I would have gotten better grades too. | |
| 8. | Laugh before breakfast, you'll cry before supper. | |
| 9. | He feasts before fasting and fasts before feasting. | |
| 10. | If a man is promoted before a woman, it's called favoritism. If she gets promoted before a man, it's called equality. | |
| 11. | He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God. He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. | |
| 12. | The Indians came to Brazil before the Portuguese, I came to Uberlândia before Angela. | |
| 13. | But who really invented the stories nobody knows; it is all so long ago, long before reading and writing were invented. The first of the stories actually written down, were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or on Babylonian cakes of clay, three or four thousand years before our time. | |
| 14. | Tom couldn't understand Mary's nervousness before the act before he himself got stage fright. | |
| 15. | The boss saw the results of the month before and yelled at me like never before. | |
| 16. | Meanwhile still stranger sights appeared by sea and land. Before the crews had time to heave their anchors, the ships of themselves made sail, and a dolphin, leaping and sporting on the waves, swam before the commander's ship as a guide; whilst on shore Chloe's goats and sheep were led along by the sweet music of the pipe, which continued sounding deliciously, though the player was still invisible. | |
| 17. | Salmon and steelhead start their lives in freshwater streams and tributaries. They then migrate downstream, rearing and maturing, before they reach the ocean. They live in the ocean for 2 to 5 years, migrating thousands of miles, before beginning the journey upstream to their natal streams where they spawn to produce the next generation of fish. | |
| 18. | What has happened before will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing new in the whole world. | |
| 19. | "Look," they say, "here is something new!" But no, it has all happened before, long before we were born. | |
| 20. | Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travelers. | |
| 21. | And he returned by the way that he came from the south to Bethel, to the place where before he had pitched his tent between Bethel and Hai, in the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord. | |
| 22. | And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth. | |
| 23. | He said to the near kinsman, "Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's. I thought I should tell you, saying, 'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." | |
| 24. | I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field. | |
| 25. | And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharaoh's horse and chariots and the whole army were in Phihahiroth, before Beelsephon. |