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Letter "O" » orchard
«A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
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apple orchard, carry off, earlier, orchard, orchards, stealing
«I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.»
Author: Wendell Berry
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climbed, healing, heat, of my own, orchard, orchards, planted, Public place, Shadow of the, The Vines, vines, woods
«There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.»
«Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.»
Author: Horace Mann
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apple, apple orchard, canker, cankers, corrupt, efforts, exclude, force of law, on paper, orchard, orchards, public property, sign in, The Force, worms
«In the pleasant orchard closes, / `God bless all our gains', say we; / But `May God bless all our losses' / Better suits with our degree.»
«When I sound the fairy call, gather here in silent meeiing,Chin to knee on the orchard wall, cooled with dew and cherries eating.Merry, merry, take a cherry, mine are sounder, mine are rounder,Mine are sweeter for the eater, when the dews fall, and you'll be fairies all.»
«Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - I keep it, staying at Home - With a bobolink for a Chorister - And an Orchard, for a Dome»
«A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomach ache.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
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ache, apple orchard, orchard, orchards, stomach, stomach ache
«Keep cold, young orchard. Goodbye and keep cold. / Dread fifty above more than fifty below.»
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