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stiffen
«Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.»
Author: Billy Graham
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Courage
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brave, contagious, spines, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening, The Spine
«Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.»
Author: Francis Herbert Bradley
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aphorisms, epigrams, in cold blood, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening
«And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.»
«Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
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mental process, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening
«A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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abnegation, addicted, advancement, associate, contagion, excessive, infect, infected, joints, self-abnegation, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening
«In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Peace
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«Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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blood, sinew, sinews, stiffen, stiffened, stiffening, summon, summoned, summoning