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Letter "S" » swarming
«Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks. all lovely and loose and jingly.»
Author: Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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About:
Travel
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Keywords:
cook,
department,
department store,
Department Stores,
exaltation,
gaggle,
geese,
jingly,
larks,
librarian,
librarians,
packs,
scourge,
scourged,
scourges,
scourging,
stores,
swarm,
swarming,
swarms,
teenagers,
The Cook,
The Larks,
The Librarian
«And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.»
«And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.»
«One bee makes no swarm.»
«The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.»
«Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
historian,
Hun,
Huns,
insects,
in vain,
populate,
populated by,
populating,
strives,
swarm,
swarming,
swarms,
tartar,
Tartars,
The Hun
«But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes»
«What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.»
«A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay but a swarm in July is not worth a fly»
«One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
amusements,
attention,
fatigue,
fatigued,
fatigues,
fatiguing,
idleness,
studied,
swarm,
swarming,
swarms,
writers