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Letter "A" » abroad
«The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.»
Author: John Bright
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abroad, Angel of death, beating, death angel, The Angel, The Land, throughout
«The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| About:
America and Americans,
Movies
| Keywords:
abroad, demonstrates, immense, movies, popularity, unfinished
«One man with an idea in his head is in danger of being considered a madman: two men with the same idea in common may be foolish, but can hardly be mad; ten men sharing an idea begin to act, a hundred draw attention as fanatics, a thousand and society begins to tremble, a hundred thousand and there is war abroad, and the cause has victories tangible and real; and why only a hundred thousand? Why not a hundred million and peace upon the earth? You and I who agree together, it is we who have to answer that question.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, a hundred thousand, common cause, fanatics, hundred thousand, in common, madman, sharing, tangible, Thousand and, thousand million, tremble, victories
«The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad»
«The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, Christian religion, cross, foot, gather, scattered, scattering, The Christian, The cross
«The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
abroad, consummate, consummated, consummating, reader
«Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind,
Men
| Keywords:
abroad, circular, compass, compasses, compassing, courses, heights, huge, Long Course, motions, mountains, mountain pass, ocean, pass by, rivers, River Went, The Long, The Sea, vast, waves, wondering
«The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad»
«Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abroad, apt, conciliate, conciliating, obsequious, shrew, shrews
«Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abroad, bird of, celebrated, dawning, fairy, nights, planets, saviour, The Bird, wherein, wholesome
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