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Yea . A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. {Bible.}
Yea . Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. {Bible.}
Yea . He scarce is knight, yea, but half-man, nor meet / To fight for gentle damsel, he who lets / His heart be stirr'd with any foolish heat / At any gentle damsel's waywardness. {Tennyson.}
Yea . Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. {Carlyle.}
Yea . The mouth that can say 'Yea,' can say 'Nay.' - Boca que diz sim, diz naõ {Portuguese. Proverb.}
Yea . The promises of God are yea and amen. {Hammond.}
Yea . There is so much of good among the worst, so much of evil in the best, such seeming partialities in providence, so many things to lessen and expand, yea, and with all man's boast, so little real freedom of his will, that to look a little lower than the surface, garb, or dialect, or fashion, thou shalt feebly pronounce for a saint, and faintly condemn for a sinner. {Tupper.}
Yea . They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime / Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, / Wanting the mental range; or low desire / Not to feel lowest makes them level all; / Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, / To leave an equal baseness. {Tennyson.}
Yea . Yea, let all good things await / Him who cares {Tennyson.}
Yea . Yea, surely the sea like a harper laid hand on the shore as a lyre. {Swinburne.}
 
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Frost-bitten : p. a. Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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