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Letter "G" » glance
«If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.»
«A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them»
«Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.»
«A single glance: a sudden dart of painstitching her eyes before she made a sound . . .»
«Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.»
Author: Therese of Lisieux
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Prayer
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aspiration, composing, directed, expands, glance, recite, recited, recites, reciting, sentences, supernatural, supernatural being, The Others, understands, unites
«I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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feline, felines, glance, glanced, glances, glancing, sharp, vindictive
«If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.»
«BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.»
«As it pleases the Will of the Husband Lord, peace is obtained, when He Himself casts His Glance of Grace.»
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