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«Oh! rather give me commentators plain, / Who with no deep researches vex the brain; / Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, / And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.»
Author: George Crabbe
(Writer)
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commentator, doubtful, glimmer, glimmering, glimmerings, Glimmers, researches, tapers, vex
«For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.»
Author: Johnny Carson
(Host)
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after death, fingernail, phone, phone call, taper, tapers, taper off
«Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.»
«He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me»
«'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
musingly, taper, tapers, Tories, Tory, Whig, Whigs
«I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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brilliantly, Company of, German, glittered, lighted, Round Table, sparkled, tapers, this evening, Towered
«Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:/ With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,/ And taper fingers catching at all things, / To bind them all about with tiny rings.»