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«It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins»
Author: Samuel Pepys
(Administrator)
| About:
Pain
| Keywords:
fart, farts, passages, precursor, precursors
«[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.»
Author: William H. Gass
| Keywords:
airports, landmark, landmarks, paragraphs, passages, point of reference, reference, reference point, restroom, restrooms, speedy
«Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.»
«And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; / Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
escaped, frame, Gilead, go over, Jordan, nay, passages, pronounce, shibboleth, shibboleths, slew, Two thousand
«A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master.»
«All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.»
«It is true that in the height of enthusiasm I have been cheated into some fine passages; but that is not the thing.»
«'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.»
«For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
flows, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, passages, stimulate
«After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now / History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
contrived, corridor, corridors, issues, passages
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