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«Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.»
Author: Craig Claiborne
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Keywords:
casting,
connoisseur,
connoisseurs,
giant panda,
jolly,
lean,
panda,
physically,
physique,
rolled,
rolled into one,
slender,
The Connoisseur
«There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.»
«Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.»
«The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.»
«The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly.»
Author: St. John of the Cross
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Keywords:
arrive,
arrive at,
attached,
bird,
cord,
corded,
delicate,
rope,
rope in,
rope up,
slender,
The Bird,
thread,
union,
wire,
wired,
wires,
wiring
«The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.»
Author: William Manchester
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Historian,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
adopting,
beach,
coconut,
coconuts,
elderly,
flippant,
graceful,
lithe,
minuet,
minuets,
poses,
slender
«You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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Keywords:
absurd,
arm,
ending,
First hand,
flutter,
fluttered,
fluttering,
flutters,
gloved,
gloves,
good night,
hand and glove,
innocent,
length,
passed,
playful,
Shadow of the,
slender,
squeeze,
squeezed,
squeezing,
tease,
teased,
teases,
teasing,
The Shadow,
venture,
warmer
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
assassins,
blade,
celebrate,
deadly,
flight,
hilt,
hinted,
hinting,
hints,
inutile,
irresistible,
Joel,
keen,
mail,
nurse,
overthrow,
rumor,
serviceable,
shield,
slay,
slender,
spare,
The Assassin,
The Assassins,
the Terror,
unseen,
valor,
wield,
wielded,
wields,
wretch,
wretches
«The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.»
«Slender: Why do your dogs bark so? Be there bears i' the town? Anne: I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of»