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Letter "T" » The Willows
«The willow tree plays the water like a harp.»
Author: Ramon Gomez de la Serna
(Writer)
| Keywords:
harp, harping, plays, The Willows, willow, willows, willow tree
«Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
| Keywords:
bamboo, bending, cracked, notice, stiffest, survives, The Willows, willow, willows, willow tree, with the wind
«All a green willow is my garland.»
«He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.»
«For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: / And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.»
«Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.»
«The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.»
«And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
Branches of, goodly, palm trees, The Willows, willow, willows, willow tree
«By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
hanged, harps, Rivers of Babylon, The Willows, weeping willow, wept, willow, willows, Zion
«The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bends, calamities, elasticity, escapes, frivolous, loftier, oak, presence of mind, recover, resists, tempest, tempests, The Tempest, The Willows, willow, willows
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