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«Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate»
Author: Colley Cibber
(Actor, Playwright)
| Keywords:
cordial, insipidity, liquid, opening, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, sage, smoothing, sober, tipple, tippled, tippling, venerable, wink
«Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise»
Author: Thomas Love Peacock
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Drinking
| Keywords:
floor, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating
«It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe»
Author: Zachary Taylor
(President)
| Keywords:
judicious, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating
«RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, _Homo ventrambulans_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, rattlesnake
«EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accompanied, chloride, copious, discharge, heart disease, hydrated, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, sodium
«The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
dreaded, indiscriminate, populace, prostrate, prostrates, prostrating, tumultuous
«Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings /as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
musket, muskets, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, purchaser, purchasers, readers, recoil, recoils
«And when you are among them and keep up the prayer for them, let a party of them stand up with you, and let them take their arms; then when they have prostrated themselves let them go to your rear, and let another party who have not prayed come forwa»
Author: quran
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
keep up, Party of, prayed, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, rear, stand up
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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