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approached
«I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.»
«The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another»
«Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular»
«We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.»
«It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.»
Author: Andre Gide
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angle, angles, angling, approached, difficulty, obliquely, overcomes, plug, plugging, plug away, plug in, sticking
«Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; / And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king, / And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? / Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.»
«I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Pets
| Keywords:
approached, barked, quieted
«I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was just going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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approached, Big Picture, draw, draw away, film, filmed, filming, go to pieces, My picture, on it, paper, picture, piece, piece of paper, take away, The Big Picture, Think Big, white, white paper
«The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
approached, borders, greatly, Jonah, marvelous, nearer, swallowed, Swallowing, The Marvelous, The Story, whale, whales, whaling