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«Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.»
«Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
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Fashion
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copy, evening clothes, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, shortening, shortens, skirt, skirted, trends
«But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.»
«Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; / For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.»
Author: Bible
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cords, curtains, desolate, enlarge, habitations, inhabited, lengthen, stretch forth
«And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.»
«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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«Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping»
«All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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History
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lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens
«Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage advices, / The husband frae the wife despises!»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
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counsels, dames, greet, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, sage
«Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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