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Letter "T" » the pit
«Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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«They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.»
«They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.»
«The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.»
«Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.»
«The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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