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Letter "S" » shorn
«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
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Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
drench,
drenched,
drenched in,
drenches,
fog,
heavens,
highlight,
highlighted,
highlighting,
highlights,
hostile,
mist,
poetic,
shear,
sheared,
shearing,
shears,
shorn,
skyscraper,
skyscrapers,
swan,
Swans,
swords,
The Fog,
The Mist,
The Swan,
towers
«The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.»
«Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.»
«The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.»
Author: Dean Koontz
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Keywords:
blink,
blinked,
blinking,
blinks,
digital,
implosion,
scrap,
scraps,
shear,
shearing,
shears,
shorn,
trimmed,
trimming,
trimmings,
trims
«Taxation: how the sheep are shorn»
«Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.»
«To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure»