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Letter "N" » North
«Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.»
Author: Philip Guedalla
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Historian)
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Keywords:
biography,
bounded,
definite,
North,
North and South,
North by,
North West,
obituaries,
obituary,
region,
South West,
tedium,
The East,
the North,
the South,
the West
«Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.»
«He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.»
Author: W. H. Auden
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Dramatist,
Editor,
Poet)
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Keywords:
East,
East Is East,
East of,
in the north,
midnight,
noon,
North,
North A,
North and South,
North by,
North West,
song,
South,
South West,
Sunday,
To South,
to the north,
to the south,
week,
West,
working
«Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started. I was maybe eight or nine.»
«And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.»
«And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.»
«And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.»
«Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: / And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
East,
East Sea,
famine,
famines,
Fro,
North,
North Sea,
The East,
the North,
to and fro,
wander
«GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
aver,
Basing,
Black Forest,
boyhood,
computation,
computations,
custody,
data,
drove,
dwarfish,
European,
extinct,
gnome,
gnomes,
imp,
imps,
inhabiting,
Interior,
miner,
mineral,
minerals,
miners,
mythologies,
mythology,
North,
Party of,
recently,
scamper,
scampering,
southern,
statements,
supplied,
Sweden,
The Black,
three parts,
treasures,
twilight
«And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; / And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.»