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Letter "H" » harrow
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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«Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth»
Author: Margaret Fuller
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«Unto this wood I came As to a nest; Dreaming that sylvan peace Offered the harrowed ease- Nature a soft release From men's unrest»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
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harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, offered, peace offering, release, sylvan, The Harrow, unrest
«And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.»
«Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? / Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee? / Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? / Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn? / Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? / Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, / And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.»
«And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.»
«The toad beneath the harrow knows / Exactly where each tooth-point goes; / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad.»
«Only a man harrowing clods / In a slow silent walk / With an old horse that stumbles and nods / Half asleep as they stalk.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
freeze, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, lightest, Spheres, tale, The Harrow, unfold
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