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Letter "U" » upper
«There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class»
«The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.»
«Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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November,
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«Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field; / And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
Ahaz,
conduit,
fainthearted,
firebrand,
firebrands,
fullers,
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highway,
Isaiah,
Rezin,
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upper
«Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.»
«This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.»
«There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
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Critic,
Editor,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
contending,
drought,
eviscerate,
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flood,
gape,
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mirth,
parch,
parched,
parching,
The Drought,
toil,
upper,
upper hand