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«When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.»
Author: Saskya Pandita
| Keywords:
jungle, look-over, stretched, stretched out, The Jungle, tiger, treading
«Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.»
Author: Will Carleton
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apple, apple tree, blossoms, danced, Green Grass, hung, lawn, maiden, profusion, Sat, stretched, sunbeams, The Apple, underneath, yearned
«The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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Freedom,
Power,
Speech,
Thinking,
Writing
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arm, devour, jawed, jaws, open to, stretched, stretched out, writing arm
«Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: / And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.»
«The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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disarray, in point of fact, nihilism, stretched, This Modern World, to the point
«Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.»
«You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.»
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