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«Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...»
Author: James Knox Polk
(President)
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borders, contentment, presents, reign, spectacle, sublime
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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chastity, corpse, deform, deformed, deforms, distressing, emasculated, engaged, gallows, impotent, in a sense, missionary, offers, sentiments, sodomy, spectacle, vow
«Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.»
«There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.»
«The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.»
«There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.»
«There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul»
«RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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civilians, distinguishable, factory, farm, foot soldier, foot soldiers, gait, impediments, impressive, Johnson, marching, Martial, recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits, retreat, spectacle, The Farm, Thompson, uniform
«Probably there is nothing in the world so suggestive of serene contentment and perfect bliss as the spectacle of a calf chewing a dishrag, but the nearest approach to it is your reedy tenor, standing apart, in sickly attitude, with head thrown back a»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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calf, chewing, contentment, dishrag, reedy, serene, sickly, spectacle, suggestive, suggestive of, tenor, Tenors
«There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.»
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