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Letter "P" » pine
«You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.»
«The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.»
Author: Randall Jarrell
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barrens, camps, chain gang, clay, dress down, dully, flour, housewives, pine, red clay, sacked, sacks, sinks, southern, stare
«We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought»
«The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.»
Author: Bible
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beautifies, beautify, beautifying, fir, fir tree, pine, pine tree, The Box, The Fir
«The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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devoured, fir, fir tree, impatience, pine, pined, pine tree, The Fir
«To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.»
«The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.»
«The pine stays green in winter...wisdom in hardship.»
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