(See especially Charles's Book of Enoch.) The doctrine of the resurrection of the righteous to life in the heavenly world became engrafted on to the old doctrine of Sheol, or the dark shadowy underworld (Hades), where life was joyless and feeble, and from which the soul might be for a brief space summoned forth by the arts of the necromancer. [Please select]
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Finally, the eye rested anew on the Doctor himself, with his frayed collar and joyless mien. [Please select]
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If this life seem to you narrow and motherhood staggering, bleak, joyless, think not on the fatigue but on the awakening. [Please select]
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In the midst of all that glee and gamesomeness it was strange to see one standing joyless. [Please select]
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"Who are those men, and why do their faces look so joyless." [Please select]
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Only that strange bird perched, joyless and alone, over the fire, on the pole from which the kettle hung. [Please select]
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Such people he had never seen: wan, worn, stunted, pinched, starved, joyless. [Please select]
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The after-life in Hades was believed to be a shadowy, joyless copy of the earthly existence. [Please select]
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If the months had brought her perfect vengeance on the man who had once failed her in her need, she was finding it, indeed, a joyless victory. [Please select]
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In a fork of one of these a bird's nest of last year was still hanging; but it was now empty, songless, joyless, and dead. [Please select]
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