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«Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.»
«Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abject, assistance, brace, braces, confront, frantic, grovel, groveled, groveling, submission
«Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Weather
| Keywords:
bad weather, brace, braced, braces, brace up, bracing, Delicious, exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, good weather, refreshes, refreshing, snow, sunshine, weather
«Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire»
Author: George F. Will
| About:
War
| Keywords:
brace, braced, braces, brace up, bracing, Continent, defying, Empire, modern world, remarkably, reminder, reminders, revolutionary, turned on
«Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?»
«My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.»
«I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Childhood,
Illness
| Keywords:
brace, braces, bracing, fever, illnesses, Nine Lives, pneumonia, polio, scarlet, scarlet fever, sports, World Series
«Some people think George is weird, because he has sideburns behind his ears. I think George is weird, because he has false teeth with braces on them.»