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Letter "T" » taper
«For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.»
«Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Dramatist,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Hope
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Keywords:
adorning,
adorns,
brighter,
cheers,
darker,
emit,
emits,
emitted,
emitting,
gleamed,
gleaming,
ray,
taper,
tapers
«He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Author,
President)
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Keywords:
darken,
darkening,
darkens,
instruction,
lessened,
lessening,
lessens,
lights,
receives,
taper,
tapers
«'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.'»
«Start slow and taper off.»
«Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:/ With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,/ And taper fingers catching at all things, / To bind them all about with tiny rings.»
Author: John Keats
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Poet)
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Keywords:
catching,
flush,
flushed,
flushes,
pea,
peas,
rings,
sweet pea,
taper,
tapers,
tip,
toe
«Out went the taper as she hurried in; / Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died.»
«And hold up to the sun my little taper.»
«Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
gild,
hue,
lily,
perfume,
pomp,
possessed,
refined,
smooth,
taper,
tapers,
The Rainbow,
title