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Letter "L" » limbs
«Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.»
Author: Anthony Trollope
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as yet, awkward, blush, gait, hobbledehoy, limbs, meetings, penance, shy, straggling, ungainly, ungraceful, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving
«Organic life beneath the shoreless wavesWas born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;These, as successive generations bloom,New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.»
Author: Erasmus Darwin
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bloom, breathing, caves, countless, fin, fins, first born, First Group, generations, groups, larger, limbs, move on, mud, organic, pearly, Pierce, piercing, realms, spheric, Spring and, successive, unseen, vegetation, watery, waves, whence, wing
«Some of these fine days I swear I'll throw away all my heavy luggage in the shape of hopes, and expectations, and walk the rest of the way with free limbs.»
«Th' athletic fool, to whom what Heaven denied / Of soul, is well compensated in limbs.»
«The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the worl»
«Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.»
«The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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Security
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artificial, chop, chopping, chop off, give off, in the mind, limbs, security
«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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apprehensive, as it were, Aye, cling, cling to, contract, departed, hunter, limbs, Monkeys, prehensile, reminds, suspended, tails, The Hunter
«The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. The water does not merely cleanse his limbs, but it p»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cleanse, limbs, natural phenomenon, natural science, phenomena
«Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
brevity, brief, flourished, flourishes, limbs, outward, tediousness, wit
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