[The rain] fell with an oozy, slushy sound among the grass; and made a muddy kennel of every furrow in the ploughed fields.

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He has closed the last two games for his team.

How difficult this investigation, how doubtful its results, may be understood when we mention that Hilgenfeld says, Jüdische Apocalyptik, p. 245: Essaism is the most enigmatical phenomenon of later Judaism ; and Lucius (der Essenismus, p. 63) makes a remark precisely similar.