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The word hina denotes, as is confessed, the intention of Christ in sending the Spirit; that is, that he intends to send him to believers, so as that he should abide with them for ever.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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The Court thought the conduct of the solicitor not such as to deserve being punished by payment of costs, nor so pure as to entitle hina to costs from Lady Yea.
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If it be, as was said, only a promise of sending his Spirit into the world for the end by him insinuated, doubtless the word hina must denote the event of the thing, and not an intention only that might fail of accomplishment; for let all or any individuals behave themselves how they will, it is certain, as to the accomplishment and event, that the Spirit of God shall be continued in the world, in the sense pleaded for.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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You also eat a kind of rice cracker called hina arare, which we have on the site now. ohina-sama dolls, which represent the Emperor and his court in old Kyoto.
Anime Nano! 2010
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You also eat a kind of rice cracker called hina arare, which we have on the site now. ohina-sama dolls, which represent the Emperor and his court in old Kyoto.
Anime Nano! 2010
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Of the o-mamori there is quite a variety; but by far the most interesting is that labelled: 'Izumo-Yaegaki-jinja-en-musubi-on-hina' (August wedlock -- producing 'hina' of the temple of Yaegaki of Izumo).
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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This is actually a purpose clause ( "hina" plus subjunctive), yet I've never seen any version that translated it that way.
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And we never did anything to 'hina' (humiliate) Islam. "
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Every dollar now spent and 1.6 trillion before it has and will sell another portion of our country to hina.
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Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called hina-nagashi (雛流し, lit. “doll floating”), in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them.
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