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Letter "C" » clasps
«He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.»
«Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.»
«To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Critic,
Editor,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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«He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands, ringed with the azure world, he stands.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Keywords:
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«Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet)
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Keywords:
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Sunday,
The Week,
This Week,
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«He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Love,
Marriage
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Keywords:
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clasps,
cosy,
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«A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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Thick and Thin,
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«O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, / And with God be the rest!»
«One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.»
Author: Victor Hugo
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Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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Idle Hands,
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«That book in many?s eyes doth share the gloryThat in gold clasps locks in the golden story.»