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«A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood»
«The pseudonymous perpetrator of America's only unsolved airline hijacking [is] a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James.»
Author: David Gates
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
airline, airlines, folk, folk hero, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, James, Jesse, Jesse James, morally, perpetrator, perpetrators, pseudonymous, shadowy, throat, troublesome, unsolved
«Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
forth, go forth, go past, improve, manlier, manly, meet, Meet The, mournfully, shadowy, Thine, wisely, without fear
«The murmur of the mourning ghost / That keeps the shadowy kine, / `O Keith of Ravelston,/ The sorrows of thy line!'»
«. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
abode, blacken, blackened, blackens, deem, deeming, deems, dim, distant, exultation, fleeting, ghostly, kindred, moods, notes, obscure, profitless, purer, remembering, retains, shadowy, sublimity, thence, The Visionary, visionaries, visionary, wind power
«The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Black Forest, blood-red, dark red, eastern, forest fire, frosty, marsh, marshes, on fire, red fire, set on, set on fire, shadowy, ships, sluggishly, substances, The Mast, veiled
«If two lives join, there is oft a scar, / They are one and one, with a shadowy third; / One near one is too far.»
«For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
occupy, real life, shadowy, substantial
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