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Letter "D" » dirge
«Living, just by itself / what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting /or he'll come along and nibble your brain.»
Author: Louis Ferdinand Celine
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Keywords:
awfully,
dirge,
nibble,
nibbled,
nibbling,
spy,
terribly,
usher,
ushering,
ushering in,
ushers,
usher in
«[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.»
«By fairy hands their knell is rung; / By forms unseen their dirge is sung.»
«Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Essayist,
Historian)
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Keywords:
burst,
burst out,
dance music,
dirge,
every day,
march,
march on,
ringed,
rings,
ring out,
Ring The,
ring up,
rung
«REQUIEM, n. A mass for the dead which the minor poets assure us the winds sing o'er the graves of their favorites. Sometimes, by way of providing a varied entertainment, they sing a dirge.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
assure,
dirge,
favorites,
Graves,
minor,
providing,
Requiem,
The graves,
varied
«And now this pale swan in her watery nestBegins the sad dirge of her certain ending.»
«Stern winter loves a dirge-like sound.»