{"query": "Miss Havisham", "count": 8, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d13e7fcfa038", "title": "Miss Havisham", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jilted at the altar; stops every clock in the house at twenty minutes to nine; sits in her bridal gown for decades growing the cake into a ruin; raises Estella as an instrument of revenge on men; burn"}, {"id": "card_n_e70503d9cf46", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_066: A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall in due order. Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly lo"}, {"id": "card_n_8817fb29e463", "title": "Easton: Sling", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "With a sling and a stone David smote the Philistine giant (1 Sam. 17:40, 49). There were 700 Benjamites who were so skilled in its use that with the left hand they “could sling stones at a hair breadt"}, {"id": "card_n_a3bd0b872eb3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_048: With the allurements of smells, I am not much concerned.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "With the allurements of smells, I am not much concerned. When absent, I do not miss them; when present, I do not refuse them; yet ever ready to be without them. So I seem to myself; perchance I am dec"}, {"id": "card_n_9833bb6df123", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xiii: What use is there of suspicion at all?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What use is there of suspicion at all? or, why should thoughts of mistrust, and suspicion concerning that which is future, trouble thy mind at all? What now is to be done, if thou mayest search and in"}, {"id": "card_n_f0bafed54207", "title": "The Initiative Was Never Yours", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.\n\nThere is a quiet relief in these words that we often miss because we read them too quickly. Je"}, {"id": "card_n_71c200f80327", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxxvi: What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What things soever are not within the proper power and jurisdiction of thine own will either to compass or avoid, if thou shalt propose unto thyself any of those things as either good, or evil; it mus"}, {"id": "card_n_eb934acbad16", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §4: May I not write in such a style as this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "May I not write in such a style as this? In such a method, too, and yet not miss My end--thy good? Why may it not be done? Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none. Yea, dark or bright, if"}]}