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Letter "G" » Great Lakes
«The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the world's most fertile collection of farm fields meet the vast Great Lakes that are the world's largest collection of fresh water.»
Author: Andrew H. Malcolm
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Keywords:
athletics,
brawny,
clash,
collection,
farm,
fresh water,
Great Lakes,
largest,
mingle,
prairie,
prairies,
sights
«Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.»
«[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.»
Author: Luther Cressman
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Keywords:
Against A,
alkali,
August,
cave,
devils,
flats,
Great Lakes,
lake,
lapping,
look out,
look out on,
sandal,
sandals,
swirl,
swirled,
swirling,
Swirls,
wearer,
wearers
«I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.»
Author: Buddha
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Keywords:
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Great Lakes,
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positions,
rag,
rags,
robed,
Robes,
rulers,
Seeds,
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tatter,
tattered,
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The Finest,
treasures,
worlds
«In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.»