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Letter "D" » drench
«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
(Playwright, Poet)
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«A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.»
«If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.»
Author: Rita Dove
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Celebrity,
Scientists,
Value
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«Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.»
«Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
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«Softly along the road of evening, / In a twilight dim with rose, / Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew, / Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.»
Author: Walter de La Mare
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«No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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«The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«Dear Doctor, I have read your play, / Which is a good one in its way, - / Purges the eyes and moves the bowels, / And drenches handkerchiefs like towels.»
Author: Lord Byron
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«Just as the baby is satisfied by drinking milk, and the poor person is pleased by seeing wealth, and the thirsty person is refreshed by drinking cool water, so is this mind drenched with delight in the Lord.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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