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«The stately homes of England! / How beautiful they stand, / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land!»
«When stately ships are twirled and spun / Like whipping tops and help there's none / And mighty ships ten thousand ton / Go down like lumps of lead.»
Author: Ralph Hodgson
| Keywords:
lumps, spinning top, spun, stately, twirl, twirled, twirling, whipping
«There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
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cottage, cottages, descended, inferior, mansion, stately
«The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.»
«Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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asylums, comfortably, England, euphemistically, homes, lunatic, pad, padded, pads, stately
«Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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countess, countesses, peep, peeping, stately
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