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Letter "S" » slavish
«She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.»
«If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.»
«All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
conspire, conspires, Conspiring, deep sea, earnest, intrepid, slavish, treacherous, wildest
«The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
evidently, preferring, slavish, suitable, tastes
«I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
emancipation, illumination, illuminations, slavish, The Settlement
«Fame like a wayward girl, will still be coy - To those who woo her with too slavish knees»
«He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
clothe, divine power, dungeon, dungeons, immure, rags, slavish
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