FAR Formosa is dear to my heart. On that island the best of my years have
been spent. There the interest of my life has been centered. I love to look
up to its lofty peaks, down into its yawning chasms, and away out on its
surging sea. I love its dark-skinned people—Chinese, Pepohoan, and
savage–among whom I have gone these twenty-three years, preaching the gospel
of Jesus. To serve them in the gospel I would gladly, a thousand times over,
give up my life. Before what I now write has been read I will have set my
face once more westward toward the far East, and by God’s good hand will have
reached again my beloved Formosan home beyond the Pacific Sea. There I hope
to spend what remains of my life, and when my day of service is over. I
should like to find a resting-place within sound of its surf and under the
shade of its waving bamboo.
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What does the word “over” mean in the phrase “a thousand times over”?
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It means repeated a thousand times:
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