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uproar
«The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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chore, concentrating, dispersing, drops, fall behind, Hard rock, hasty, hideous, hone, honed, honing, Leave No Trace, passage, rocks, rushes, trace, uproar, weakest
«The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.»
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
adjoin, adjoining, butterflies, links, meadows, missed, missing link, Putts, The Butterflies, uproar, upset
«Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
abruptly, cries, immersion, poorer, startled, uproar
«But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.»
«And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.»
«PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.O, what's the loud uproar assailing Mine ears without cease?'Tis the voice of the hopeful, all-hailing The horrors of peace.Ah, Peace Universal; they woo it -- Would marry it, too. If only they knew how to do it'Twere easy to do.They're working by night and by day On their problem, like moles. Have mercy, O Heaven, I pray, On their meddlesome souls! --Ro Amil»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Amil, assail, assailed, assailing, hailing, hopeful, international affairs, meddlesome, mole, moles, uproar
«The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
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Big cities, Big City, Big Ears, big tree, citified, cries, screech, screeching, sidewalk, sidewalks, Songs of, The Song of, uproar
«Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Confusion
| Keywords:
bidding, confined, disorder, fled, infinitude, infinitudes, ruled, rules of order, shone, sprung, uproar