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«A stream is music and motion: smooth glides, fast, turbulent riffles and deep pools, each posing a special challenge.»
«Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
angels, Angel of death, claw, clawing, claws, death angel, ravens, shoulders, shoulder in, smooth, The Raven, The Ravens, wings
«Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.»
«An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Gifts,
Heaven,
Mind,
Nature,
Thought
| Keywords:
equable, good nature, good weather, inexhaustible, oil, roughest, smooth, spreading, troubled
«And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.»
«And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: / My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Brother Jacob, deceiver, deceivers, Esau, hairier, hairy, Jacob, Jacob and Esau, peradventure, Rebekah, smooth
«A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner»
«A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
inch, in trouble, railroad, railroads, railroad track, rolled into one, rolling, smooth, switch on, track, wreck
«Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.»
«Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
aught, smooth, tale, True Love
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