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Letter "R" » red hot
«Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.»
Author: William Manchester
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Historian,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
abruptly,
ashes,
ember,
embers,
glowing,
poker,
pokers,
recollection,
red hot,
smoldering,
stirs,
The Ashes,
uncovering,
uncovers
«It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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Keywords:
blazed,
corrodes,
corroding,
deep-set,
features,
fiendish,
gaunt,
grisly,
hood,
leaden,
protruding,
red hot,
sockets,
sparkled,
winding-sheet,
wrapped
«When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.»
«The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.»
«What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(
Bishop,
Theologian)
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Keywords:
bonds,
burst,
eager,
happily,
lashed,
lashes,
lashing,
pokers,
quarrels,
red hot,
sure enough,
suspicions,
wrapped
«Forgetting your Dear Lord, you enjoy corrupt pleasures, and so you shall have to embrace red-hot pillars»
«I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.»