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ivory
«Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.»
«There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can?t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.»
Author: Kabir
(Philosopher)
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covers, holy book, holy water, ivory, kabir, pools, sculpted, sculpting, sideways, swimming, swimming pool, The East
«Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/ Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, / With a cargo of ivory, / And apes and peacocks,/Sandalwood, cedarwood and sweet white wine.»
Author: John Masefield
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cargo, cedarwood, haven, havens, ivory, Nineveh, Ophir, Palestine, peacocks, sandalwood, sunny, white wine
«The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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Animals
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circus, elephant, ivory, parade, predecessor, proceeds, The Circus, The Elephant, thick, thick skin
«The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.»
«Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.»
«Out of a dog's mouth will never come ivory tusks»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
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ivory
«The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour.»