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Letter "G" » gilds
«The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.»
«There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives.»
Author: Hamlin Garland
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farmers, ferocious, gild, gilding, gilds, glamour, lighting-up, light up, toil
«A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent»
«In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain»
«A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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adds, gild, gilding, gilds, spoils, supplies, sweetens
«The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung, / Where grew the arts of war and peace, / Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! / Eternal summer gilds them yet, / But all, except their sun, is set.»
«But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly / `To gild refin?d gold, or paint the lily'.»
«Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight»
«Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.»
«For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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gild, gilding, gilds, happiest
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