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Letter "P" » piled
«You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.»
«Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, / Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!»
«He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Anger
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Keywords:
burst,
burst upon,
chest,
hump,
humped,
mortar,
piled,
shell,
the Hump,
whale,
white whale
«If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.»
«Money is flat and meant to be piled up.»
«The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise high with the occasion»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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Keywords:
difficulty,
high,
occasion,
occasioned,
on occasion,
piled,
piles,
pile up,
piling,
rise,
The Pile
«The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(
President)
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About:
Ideas,
Obstacles,
Solution
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Keywords:
anew,
case,
difficulty,
dogmas,
inadequate,
occasion,
piled,
piles,
pile up,
piling,
stormiest,
stormy,
The Pile,
The Quiet
«Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword,»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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Keywords:
bond,
drawn,
lash,
lashed,
lashes,
lashing,
piled,
repaid,
repaying,
repays,
sunk,
The Sword,
toil,
two hundred,
unrequited,
wills
«Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, /where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!»
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Keywords:
box,
creeping,
Dark Room,
first book,
fossil,
fossils,
gap,
garret,
giant,
haste,
heats,
here and there,
nibble,
nibbled,
nibbling,
nimble,
packed,
piled,
pillow,
pulling,
rib,
ribbed,
ribs,
The Dark Room,
The Gap,
The Giant,
victorious
«When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.»