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Letter "V" » venerable
«Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate»
Author: Colley Cibber
(Actor, Playwright)
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cordial, insipidity, liquid, opening, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, sage, smoothing, sober, tipple, tippled, tippling, venerable, wink
«In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.»
Author: Rebecca West
(Writer)
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beard, Continent, owner, the continent, venerable, virile, virility
«The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
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Brooks, complaining, decoration, decorations, Great River, majesty, meadows, move in, pensive, poured, quietness, rib, ribbed, rock-ribbed, solemn, tomb, vales, venerable
«Venerable, because it has perfect knowledge of man; lovable because it promises the true good.»
«One of these flaws was, that having been long taught by his father to over-reach everybody he had imperceptibly acquired a love of over-reaching that venerable monitor himself. The other, that from his early habits of considering everything as a question of property, he had gradually come to look, with impatience, on his parent as a certain amount of personal estate, which had no right whatever to be going at large, but ought to be secured in that particular description of iron safe which is commonly called a coffin, and banked in the grave.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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at large, banked, commonly called, description, imperceptibly, monitor, monitoring, monitors, personal estate, personal property, secured, venerable, with impatience
«What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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allied, antiquity, hue, indigenous, modern times, nearest, partridge, partridges, products, rabbits, venerable
«Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Air conditioning, antiquated, bourgeois, compelled, distinguish, earlier, epoch, epochs, frozen, ossified, ossify, production, profaned, profaning, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, sober, solid, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, venerable
«Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Fidelity,
Mind
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endowment, endowments, faithfulness, fidelities, fidelity, human mind, venerable
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