So, since she had thrown away all her whorely jewels, she turned the umbilical cord into a necklace and wore it around her alabaster neck.
For he [Augustine of Hippo] calleth there the daily bread, which we continually pray for, either corporal bread and meat, which is our daily sustenance for the body, or else the visible sacrament of bread and wine, or the invisible sacraments of God's word and commandments; of the which sacraments God's word is daily heard, and the other is daily seen.
I just keep staring at all the ink we have, that wild variety of color, everything from rootbeer, midnight blue and cochineal to mauve, light doe, lilac, south sea green, maize, even pelican black, all line up in these plastic caps...
They were attractive women who frequently wore lowcut gowns as part of their image as television glamour girls. For years, such beautiful women had appeared on TV wearing mildly suggestive costumes, usually in background roles on sophisticated nightclub formats.