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Letter "D" » damp
«Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!»
«Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners»
Author: Isaac Disraeli
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Books
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accidents, besides, Borrowers, collections, damp, damps, rats, subject to, worms
«Oh the bricks they will bleed and the rain it will weep, And the damp Lagan fog lull the city to sleep, It's to hell with the future and live on the past, May the Lord in his Mercy be Kind to Belfast»
«There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.»
Author: Sheridan Morley
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Passion
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damp, damps, facing, open air, seats, Something in the air
«The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.»
«Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.»
«Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.»
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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«Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven»
«The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.»
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