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Letter "T" » The Giant
«To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen, / Some recommend the bowling-green; / Some, hilly walks; all, exercise; / Fling but a stone, the giant dies. / Laugh and be well.»
Author: Matthew Green
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be well, bowling green, fling, hilly, recommend, spleen, The Giant
«Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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«Miss Garland's figure resembles the giant-economy-size tube of toothpaste in girls' bathrooms: Squeezed intemperately at all points, it acquires a shape that defies definition by the most resourceful solid geometrician.»
Author: Sir John Simon
(Physician)
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«The giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.»
«Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.»
«These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.»
«Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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pygmies, Pygmy, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts, The Giant
«The baby figure of the giant massOf things to come at large.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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at large, giant, The Giant, Things to Come
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