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«I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.»
«It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.»
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, affections, arising, bases, broad, broadest, broads, close to, construction, constructions, dictionary, generations, ground, joys, low, Makers, tastes, The Makers, ties
«Historian. A broad - gauge gossip.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
broad, broad gauge, gauge, gauged, gauging, gossip, historian
«Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.»
«Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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animals, broad, broadest, broads, countenance, countenanced, countenances, diffident, expression, faced, flowers, hollyhock, hollyhocks, honest, much as, pensive, plain, sad, sunflower, sunflowers, upright
«Into a Limbo large and broad, since called / The paradise of fools, to few unknown.»
«I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable -- any real insight or broad human sentiment.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
broad, hesitate, Hesitated, hesitating, insight, Real Book, sentiment, translatable, translations
«Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Admiration,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abroad, billowing, broad, circuits, compass, heights, mountain pass, rivers, River Went, The Mighty, tides
«Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Glory
| Keywords:
broad, disperse, dispersing, enlarge, naught, spreading, to enlarge
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