Whence "salt of the earth"

Usage examples of matthew.

Much had already transpired, as Adams learned from meetings with John Jay and a young American merchant named Matthew Ridley, whom Adams had met earlier in Holland and who, though he had no official role, seemed to know all that was going on.

Dining that evening at his hotel with Matthew Ridley, Adams was in high spirits.

Eva Danas and Yusef Deniz sat down behind Alim as Chimene entered with Boaz Huerta and Matthew Innes.

Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Walter Map, Chrestien de Troyes, Robert de Borron, Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Hartmann von Aue, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, and Wagner have all written of these legends in turn, and to these writers we owe the most noted versions of the tales forming the Arthurian cycle.

It happened not only in her own house, where Matthew and her father paced the rooms at night without the concentration to read or even watch television, but all over Bedford, and it felt like a bubble of latent energy, suppressed for half a year, about to burst.

It was a question she had asked herself on the very day Matthew expressed his passion for her, and she knew that she loved him although she had loved his father, and once long, long ago she had loved Simon Bentwood too.

Fitch gave him altimeter readings to dial into the bombsight, Matthews gave him windspeeds.

I began to look into the background of Matthew Bowditch, recently retired father to Lisa and Jared, owner of trunks filled with skulls.

About the time Matthew and Dora Bowditch became grandparents for the first time, Dora underwent a sort of personality change.

It reported that Matthew Bowditch, out of the goodness of his white Yankee liberal heart, had volunteered to design a new church for a congregation of Korean Methodists whose church had been ruined in a racist arson attack.

Dora Bowditch disappeared on the way to a golf tournament, Matthew Bowditch is looking to buy a retirement home in a golfing community, their old Korean gardener plays golf in Pennsylvania.

The letters were those Matthew Bowditch had written to his new wife Dora while he was away fighting the war.

The photo showed young Matthew Bowditch and another marine standing on a beach beside a large metal pot.

Matthew Bowditch spent two years fighting for those coral rocks before he was wounded in the leg.

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, and the chief justice, Sir Matthew Hale, two worthy patriots, to put an end to those severities under which these religionists had so long labored.