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«Danger and delight grow on one stalk.»
«For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
bud,
budded,
budding,
meal,
reap,
sown,
stalk,
stalked,
stalking,
stalks,
swallow,
The Strangers,
The Whirlwind,
whirlwinds
«1 draw to myself thy mind, as the leading stallion the female side-horse. As the stalk of grass torn by the wind, thus shall thy mind fasten itself upon me!»
«The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
barren,
barrens,
barren of,
black,
gaudiest,
gaudy,
hangs,
leonine,
scatter,
scattering,
stalk,
stalked,
stalking,
stalks,
sunflower,
sunflowers,
The Dead,
windy
«First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus - then the elements needed for its growth.»
Author: Robert Collier
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Keywords:
elements,
growth,
growths,
needed,
nucleus,
roots,
satisfy,
stalk,
stalked,
stalking,
stalks,
The Elements,
The Roots
«Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
awakened,
formal,
gestures,
grandeur,
liveliness,
lofty,
solemnity,
sprightlier,
sprightly,
stalk,
stately,
strut,
struts,
strutting
«I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.»
«Thy early smile has stayed my walk;But midst the gorgeous blooms of May,I passed thee on thy humble stalk.»
«Maidens withering on the stalk.»