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Letter "S" » shades
«He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.»
«More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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Against A, apricot, azure, Gold and Silver, islands, shades, The Peninsula, turquoise, varied
«Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should beBut shades of grey are the colors I see.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
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black and white, colors, grey, I go, shades, shades of, wherever
«Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, / Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny.»
«Far are the shades of Arabia, / Where the Princes ride at noon.»
«The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.»
Author: Erica Jong
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aching, bruise, incredibly, shades, shades of, slightest, The Rainbow, The Shades
«Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and beauty»
«Fled / Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.»
«How happy he who crowns in shades like these, / A youth of labour with an age of ease.»
«Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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armed, bigotry, claw, clawing, cling, condemned, fateful, ghosts, grapple, grappled, grappling, perpetual, prejudice, shade, shades, superstition, tenaciously, The Throat, throat, tooth, unceasingly
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