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Letter "H" » haunting
«Moody and withdrawn, the lake unites a haunting loveliness to a raw desolateness.»
Author: Dale Morgan
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Character
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haunting, lake, loveliness, Moody, raw, unites, withdrawn
«A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain Of a haunting refrain She'll start upon A marathon And run around your brain»
Author: Irving Berlin
(Composer)
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haunting, haunts, melody, Night and Day, refrain, run around, strain
«[Leningrad] sits astride the Neva, frozen in time, a haunting m?lange of pale hues, glorious fa?ades and teeming ghosts.»
«In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea»
«But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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«A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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approximation, correspondence, Correspondences, haunting, impertinent, irrelevant, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, preposterous
«An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Life
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electrified, electrify, electrifying, enchant, enchanted, enchanting, enchantment, enchants, haunting, overwhelmed, speaking, The Haunted, The Haunting
«A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism.»
«Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!»
«From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed»
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