Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A press in which the juice is squeezed from grapes.
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Examples
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Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
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Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own wine-press.
Magda Abu-Fadil: You Have Your Lebanon: Gibran Inspires Borderless Journey Across The Ages Magda Abu-Fadil 2010
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Sea voyagers would sneer at her, those traveling on the roads would sneer at her, and even women behind the koryas (working clothes; i.e., those who worked in a wine-press or who wove) would sneer at her.
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The grapes of wrath would be churned in the wine-press and the cup of divine wrath would be poured out against sin.
Maundy Thursday: Mass and Priesthood Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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The grapes of wrath would be churned in the wine-press and the cup of divine wrath would be poured out against sin.
Archive 2008-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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Nevertheless, the attacking column, constantly recruited and enlarged under the shower of bullets, drew inexorably nearer, and now, little by little, step by step, but surely, the army closed in around the barricade as the vice grasps the wine-press.
Les Miserables 2008
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And he said, ‘If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barn floor? or out of the wine-press?’
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