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ivy
«So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.»
Author: Henry Vaughan
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bays, Green Bay, green earth, ivy, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, restore, revel, revels, stick up, stuck-up
«False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports»
Author: Richard Burton
(Actor)
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Friendship
| Keywords:
animation, decays, embraces, ivy, ruins, supports
«None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.»
«I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.»
Author: Peter De Vries
(Editor, Linguist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Banks, educating, establishments, graduate, graduating, impressed, ivy, Ivy League, league, Left Bank, Others The
«This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail.»
«When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
ivy, owlet, The Wolf, tod, wolf