Sentence examples for verse documents from inspiring English sources

The song's opening verse documents Shankar's plea to Harrison for assistance, and the lyrics "My friend came to me with sadness in his eyes / Told me that he wanted help before his country dies" provided an enduring image for what United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan later recognised as the basic human aspect behind the cause.

In certain Orthodox Jewish communities, from Borough Park to Monsey, N.Y., rabbis say, there is a strong aversion to chopping down fruit trees, which results from some combination of biblical verses, Jewish law and mystical documents that prohibit destroying them wantonly.

"He forged letters and other documents, and inserted forged verses, inscriptions, lists and autographs in genuine 16th- and 17th-century manuscripts and printed books," an exhibit label notes.

Our photo essay documents some of the victimsSecond verse, different from the firstPaul Ryan, a Republican congressman, wants to reform the welfare system in America.

The earliest verse has been preserved mainly in passages incorporated into later documents, both literary and legal; most have suffered in transmission and are very obscure.

The program ended with "Hermit Songs," a collection of evocative miniatures based on lines and verses scribbled by medieval Irish monks and scholars into the margins of documents they were copying.

The text is stuffed with posters, verses, letters, doodles, extracts from notebooks and newspapers, snatches of ballads, transcripts of documents and stories within stories.

From the north (the Old Low German or Old Saxon speech area), the most extensive documents preserved are Heliand (c. 830), a life of Christ in alliterative verse, and a fragment of a poem based on the book of Genesis.

The other important document was the Fernaig manuscript, compiled between 1688 and 1693, containing about 4,200 lines of verse, mostly political and religious.

(The verse that begins, "Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen," does not appear in the document, though a fragment of lyrics from Mr. Dylan's song "North Country Blues" can be seen on the reverse side).

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