It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas.
VIPessays now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Letter "S" » scarlet
«History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.»
«I took a day to search for God, And found Him not; but as I trod, By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His footprint in the sod»
Author: William Bliss Carman
|
About:
God
|
Keywords:
flamed,
footprint,
ledge,
ledges,
lily,
rocky,
scarlet,
sod,
The Rocky,
trod,
untamed
«It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(
Novelist,
Writer)
|
Keywords:
continually,
gradual,
hostility,
human process,
impede,
impeded,
impedes,
impeding,
irritation,
irritations,
readily,
scarlet,
Scarlet Letter,
selfishness,
The Scarlet Letter,
transformed
«Robin's here in coat of brown,And scarlet breast-knot gay.»
«If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made.»
«I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(
Runner)
|
About:
Childhood,
Illness
|
Keywords:
brace,
braces,
bracing,
fever,
illnesses,
Nine Lives,
pneumonia,
polio,
scarlet,
scarlet fever,
sports,
World Series
«She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.»
«Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.»
«He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
|
Keywords:
Blood and,
coat,
dead hand,
murdered,
red,
red wine,
scarlet,
The Dead,
the poor,
wear,
wine
«Tell me what find we to admireIn epaulets and scarlet coats --In men, because they load and fire,And know the art of cutting throats?»