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Letter "C" » cut down
«He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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Ambassador,
Governor,
Politician)
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Keywords:
conservation,
cut,
cut down,
mount,
mounting,
mounts,
mount up,
politician,
redwood,
redwoods,
stump,
stumps
«Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.»
«Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.»
Author: John Updike
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Keywords:
book review,
conditioned,
cut down,
Evening News,
holier-than-thou,
holier,
holy book,
Last Judgment,
pages,
reverence,
review,
Second Coming,
subject to,
The Last Judgment,
The New York,
The Second Coming
«Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.»
«They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.»
«In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.»
«It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.»
«In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.»
«How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! / For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: / I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
ascend,
congregation,
congregations,
cut down,
exalt,
Hast,
heights,
Higher Ground,
lucifer,
morning star,
mount,
North,
North Star,
Son of,
The Clouds,
The Morning Star,
The Mount,
the North,
Thine,
throne,
weaken
«The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's pocket because it cut down the doctor's bills like anything»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
anatomies,
anatomy,
bills,
cut down,
details,
ended,
joyously,
laughed,
loud,
old man,
pocket,
pocket money,
shook,
The Doctor,
The old man