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«He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.»
Author: Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Archimedes, gently, lever, levers, multiplied, racking, tapped
«The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive.»
«Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Sorrow
| Keywords:
acutely, despairingly, grand, racked, racking, racks, the rack, wildly
«Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.»
«I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.»
«RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
argumentative, implement, rack, racked, racking, racks, the rack, unconverted
«I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
dried-up, fictional, racked, racking, the rack
«I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground. That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
buried, burying ground, Higher Ground, high style, hit, Indian, rack, racked, racking, racks, style, the rack, up on
«In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.»
«For it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ours, possession, prize, rack, racked, racking, racks, the rack, Whiles
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