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Letter "D" » dreadful
«I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.»
«Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful»
«Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me»
«But such as open their breast to unbelief on them is Wrath from Allah and theirs will be a dreadful penalty»
«How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.»
«How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong»
«FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two.(High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out.(O the walking is nasty bad!) --Armit Huff Bettle»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
bad weather,
barometer,
Big Blue,
descended,
dreadful,
fair weather,
foul,
high sea,
huff,
huffing,
huffs,
merrily,
nasty,
shout,
tempest,
tempests,
The Big Blue,
The Tempest,
The Walking,
tipsy
«I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
dreadful,
eternity,
fills,
fill in,
fill out,
forget,
her,
killed,
moment,
One World,
proposing,
sacrifice,
terror,
that is,
The Killing,
the Terror,
the whole way,
to be filled,
Was,
whole,
wholes
«How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this--for this--I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
dreadful,
horrid,
June,
older,
particular,
picture,
remain,
sad,
yes
«Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling»