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apparitions
«In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.»
Author: Michelangelo
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Art
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apparition, apparitions, block, hew, hewing, imprison, lovely, reveal, rough, shaped, stood, walls
«The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.»
«When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
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apparition, apparitions, glass window, leaps, mirror image, phantom, plate glass, spectre, The Phantom, the Spectre
«Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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apparition, apparitions, interrogate
«The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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all-embracing, apparitions, embracing, exhalation, exhalations, illimitable, resting, rolling, roll call, rushing, swift, swim, tide