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Значения термина strain at gnats на английском

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Использование термина strain at gnats на английском
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Don't strain at gnats like want of faith and resignation, and swallow such a camel as twenty or thirty deaths.
Two Years Ago, Volume I
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The little girl who answered had read that the Pharisees " strained at gnats and swallowed camels."
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children'...
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"You can strain at gnats though," commented Sir Eustace, pivoting round on his skates.
Greatheart
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Yes, I'm quite of your way of thinking, Miss Rose; it is very vulgar to be straining at gnats and flies, more particularly at table.
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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'And I will tell you how men become mere vegetables, by filling their minds with useless-needlessscruples-bystraining at gnats-'
The Three Clerks
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"I do; he's a first-rate fellow-noneof your milk and water chaps, that swallow camels and strain at gnats."
Outward Bound Or, Young America Afloat: A Story of Travel and Ad...
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"Yes," said Spike sentimentally, "I'm quite of Miss Rose's way of thinking- strainingat gnats is very ill-manners, especially at table.
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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"Do you think it as vulgar as Hurl-Gate, aunty?" To me it always seems the most vulgar to be straining at gnats."
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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