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Letter "B" » bolt
«They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt, And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance, Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom Silent in all of th»
«The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| About:
Diversity,
Earth
| Keywords:
accountable, astonishing, bolt, bolt of lightning, cell, cooled, derived, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, originally, probability
«We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall»
«Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.»
«What are fears but voices airy?Whispering harm where harm is not.And deluding the unwaryTill the fatal bolt is shot!»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
airy, bolt, bolted, delude, deludes, deluding, fatal, shot, unwary, voices, whispering, whisperings
«There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Mind,
Reflection,
Thinking,
Thought
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accord, bolt, distinct
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