Aaron's beard
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“It’s like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard, Flowing down Aaron’s beard, flowing down the collar of his priestly robes. It’s like the dew on Mount Hermon flowing down the slopes of Zion. Yes, that’s where God commands the blessing, ordains eternal life. Psalm 133:1-3.”
From Fox News
Next I visit the park’s Lamberton Conservatory, taking particular pleasure in the collection of cactuses, with amusingly named varieties such as Aaron’s Beard and Electrode.
From Washington Post
She would volunteer instruction on any and every subject under heaven, from the precise length of Aaron’s beard, to the cost of soup-kitchens; and once she cornered you, you had to listen or pretend to.
From Project Gutenberg
Take away our fear of fat, And make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron's beard.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is like the precious oil upon the head, That ran down upon the beard, Even Aaron's beard; That came down upon the skirt of his garments; Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there the Lord commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.
From Project Gutenberg
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