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Graves
«They grew in beauty, side by side, / They filled one home with glee; - / Their graves are severed, far and wide, / By mount, and stream, and sea.»
Author: Felicia Hemans
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far and wide, glee, Graves, on the far side, sever, severed, severing, severs, The Far Side
«There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.»
«Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
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Irony
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bays, Graves, ironies, irony, pissing, sentimental
«They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.»
«There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.»
«Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.»
«Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, / And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.»
Author: Bible
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come forth, damnation, Graves, marvel, resurrection, The graves, The Resurrection
«REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assure, dirge, favorites, Graves, minor, providing, Requiem, The graves, varied