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to the Bible. On one day there, at the St. Paul library four were down and there were four to go, which wasn’t too shabby for the first day. I figured I was doing well getting half of my list taken care of before Christmas vacation, and then during vacation I would finish the job.
Well as any normal teenager would agree the plan of doing work during vacation vanished as soon the final bell rang to start vacation. On the first day back to school I took a trip to a local library near my house. I already knew that I wouldn’t find everything that I needed, but I checked it out any ways. I was only able to find the Oxford English Dictionary, but luckily I bumped into my wonderful English teacher Ms. Frausto who informed me that the Uptown Whittier Library would have the sufficient amount of information I needed to complete my research. In deed, my very wise mentor was right. I did find the rest of the items I was in search of, which were a periodical, a poem, and an excerpt from ...

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definition. The only difficulty I had with the dictionary was taking that huge book to the copy machine.
The next thing I looked for in the St. Paul library was the Thompson and Stock Concordance to the Bible. I didn’t even have to look for it, just borrowed it from one of my peers who already had it. On page 1034 it said my word was located in the Book of Wisdom chapter 17, verse 7. The excerpt read, “ A mockery, now, seemed those arts of theirs; ignominious the rebuff to their boasted cunning.” I read the whole passage and I thinking it was talking about the prisoners in Egypt. The concordance to bible wasn’t even difficult to use.
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