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Letter "S" » stairs
«For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.»
Author: Dorothy Dix
(
Columnist,
Journalist)
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Keywords:
all over,
bread,
burden,
callous,
cruel,
dependency,
forced,
forlorn,
humiliation,
humiliations,
piteous,
scarred,
Speeches,
stabbing,
stabs,
stairs,
steep,
steeped,
steeps,
unwelcome
«God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.»
«Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(
Actor,
Film Director,
Novelist,
Painter,
Poet)
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About:
Actors and acting,
Expectation,
Writers
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Keywords:
backward,
Commissions,
dared,
down the stairs,
first flight,
flight,
flight of stairs,
jean,
stairs,
suit
«Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.»
«Stairs are climbed step by step.»
«Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.»
«Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.»
«Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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Keywords:
beheld,
blacken,
blackened,
blackens,
blaze,
burnt,
chimney,
chimneys,
Cold Fire,
Dark Room,
desolate,
entertainment,
fall into place,
feathery,
gloomy,
hearth,
hearths,
his uncle,
huge,
large white,
lighted,
roof,
rugged,
ruinous,
smoking room,
stairs,
steep,
stove,
strewed,
The Dark Room,
This Was,
uncle,
uncles
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
Author: George Orwell
(
Essayist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
An electric,
arrivals,
at present,
bald,
bell,
boots,
chronically,
circular,
continuous,
creditor,
creditors,
drill,
drilling,
electric,
electric drill,
eleven,
frustrated,
hangover,
hangovers,
income tax,
interruption,
interruptions,
in red,
losing streak,
malnutrition,
most recent,
needless,
pair,
post,
printed,
rattle,
recent,
recently,
ringing,
schedule,
spectacles,
stairs,
streak,
streaked,
streaks,
telephone,
telephone bell,
The Arrival,
thirty-five,
Thirty two,
up the stairs,
varicose,
veins
«Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(
Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
accomplishments,
concepts,
emerges,
emerging,
inorganic,
organic,
stair,
stairs,
unlike,
up the stairs,
walk-up,
walks