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Letter "S" » slopes
«It was no more than a black slash in the ground, a poignant contrast to the lofty white marble and limestone of this monumental city. It was cut into a gently rising slope of grass An al fresco mortuary.»
Author: Nelson DeMille
| Keywords:
contrast, cut into, fresco, gently, lofty, monumental, mortuary, poignant, rising slope, slash, slashed, slashes, slope, slopes
«She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.»
Author: Thomas Pynchon
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
Cornell, Cornell University, slope, slopes, sunrise, The Library, university, West
«It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]»
Author: Sex and the City
(TV series)
| Keywords:
boundaries, Carrie, Miranda, slippery, slippery slope, slope, slopes
«All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of wate»
Author: Theodore Roethke
(Poet)
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basswood, bright blue, finite, freshly, frozen, infinitude, infinitudes, light upon, odor, odors, pines, Shine On, singular, slope, slopes
«Man hath no part in all this glorious work:The hand that built the firmament hath heavedAnd smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopesWith herbage. . . .»
«The earth that has heights, and slopes, and great plains, that supports the plants of manifold virtue, free from the pressure that comes from the midst of men, she shall spread out for us, and fit. herself for us!»
«The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts»
«I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Ski
| Keywords:
formed, forty-seven, forty, hills, Olds, ski, skis, slope, slopes, Snowboarding
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