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nod
«To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.»
Author: Christopher Andreae
| Keywords:
brisk, conductor, conductors, flung, gesture, nod, punctuation, strained, tautness
«Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal light, / Into a sea of dew.»
«The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.»
Author: Gerald R. Ford
(President, Vice President)
| Keywords:
arm, nod, nodded, nodding, nods, pat, pats, patting, shoulder, sympathetic
«Softly along the road of evening, / In a twilight dim with rose, / Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew, / Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.»
Author: Walter de La Mare
| Keywords:
drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, nod, Old Road, wrinkled
«With ravished ears / The monarch hears, / Assumes the god, / Affects to nod, / And seems to shake the spheres.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
affects, nod, ravish, ravished, the Monarch
«Some go to church to see and be seen, Some go there to say they have been, Some go there to sleep and nod, But few go there to worship God»
«They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
association, captious, fretful, impatient of, maxims, morose, negligence, nod, practices, tenacious, unlimited