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«The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.»
Author: Bette Davis
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bitter, bottomless, concern, drain, draining, drains, insatiable, parch, parched, parching, suck, treacherous, vampire, vampires
«And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, / Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse, / And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.»
«And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp of thy brethren; / And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.»
«And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.»
«And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.»
«Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.»
«Thatch your roof before rainy weather; dig your well before you become parched with thirst»
«All breathing human passion far above, / That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed,/ A burning forehead and a parching tongue.»
«Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye»
«There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
contending, drought, eviscerate, eviscerated, flood, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, mirth, parch, parched, parching, The Drought, toil, upper, upper hand
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