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Letter "R" » ridges
«Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has unveiled a new color-coded system to warn the public about different states of danger. Red is the highest state of alert, and it means that Dick Cheney is about to eat a mozzarella stick.»
Author: Conan O'Brien
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Writer)
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Keywords:
alert,
alerting,
Cheney,
coded,
dick,
Dick Cheney,
director,
directors,
homeland,
mozzarella,
on the alert,
ridge,
ridges,
security director,
security system,
tom,
unveil,
unveiled,
unveiling,
unveils,
warn
«My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
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Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
air,
All My,
bare,
bared,
barer,
bares,
barest,
baring,
Bridges,
burning,
chattering,
chatters,
clouds,
curly,
folk,
land,
low,
ridge,
ridges,
smoke,
The Clouds
«All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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About:
Army
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Keywords:
Africa,
armies,
Blue Ridge,
Bonaparte,
chest,
combined,
commander,
excepted,
military force,
Ohio,
ridge,
ridges,
track,
treasure chest
«Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.»
«Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.»
Author: Billy Graham
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Keywords:
adversity,
batter,
battered,
battering,
batters,
Christians,
defeat,
Human nature,
mountain,
ridge,
ridges,
rise,
storms,
strongest,
trees,
winds,
wind rose,
wood
«He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where it had been left last night when the horses were unyoked; beyond, a quiet coppice-wood, in which many leaves of burning red and golden yellow still remained upon the trees. Though the earth was cold and wet, the sky was clear, and the sun rose bright, placid, and beautiful.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Keywords:
coppice,
lowered,
placid,
plough,
ploughed,
remained,
ridge,
ridges,
Rising Sun,
sun rose,
The Rising
«For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.»
«I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Dramatist,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Journalism,
Life
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Keywords:
Dante,
emptiness,
jeer,
jeered,
jeering,
jeers,
Journalists,
refusal,
ridge,
ridges,
shallowest,
tittering