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«May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.»
«His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, His finger on all flowing waters sweet Forbidding lay - motion nor sound was there - Nature lay frozen dead - and still and slow, A winding sheet fell o'e»
Author: Frances Anne Kemble
| Keywords:
arrows, crouch, crouched, flowing, forbidding, frozen, pierced, sheet, shuddered, shuddering, shudders, slow motion, winding-sheet, winding
«The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.»
«One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.»
Author: Satchel Paige
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
batter, fanned, first team, picked, runner, runners, runner up, The Runner, threw, ump, winding
«All rising to a great place is by a winding stair»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
rising, stair, winding, windings, wind rose
«Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
mountains, paths, surmount, surmounted, surmounting, winding, windings
«And ever, against eating cares, / Lap me in soft Lydian airs, / Married to immortal verse / Such as the meeting soul may pierce / In notes, with many a winding bout / Of link?d sweetness long drawn out.»
«Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.»
«He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
by and by, strike, winding, windings, wit
«Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
blue sky, Game On, head start, heath, heaths, lone, turf, winding
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