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Letter "W" » wrens
«There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard»
Author: Edward Lear
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Painter,
Writer)
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About:
Fear
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Keywords:
beard,
feared,
hen,
hens,
larks,
old man,
owls,
The Larks,
The Owl,
wren,
wrens
«Sir Christopher Wren / Said, `I am going to dine with some men, / If anybody calls / Say I am designing St Paul's.'»
«Within the oftentimes bombastic and truculent appearance that I present to the world, trembles a heart shy as a wren in the hedgerow or a mouse along the wainscoting»
Author: George Moore
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
bombastic,
hedgerow,
hedgerows,
oftentimes,
shy,
shyest,
Too Shy,
trembles,
truculent,
wainscoting,
wren,
wrens
«I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd want to get me at the end of the picture?»
«A wren in the hand is better than a crane to be caught.»
«Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings / I bore this wren till I was tired with soaring, / And now he mounts above me.»
«Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
builds,
carves,
Columbus,
Handel,
paints,
Phidias,
Raphael,
Watt,
Watts,
wren,
wrens,
writing arm
«He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.»
«The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.Since every Jack became a gentleman,There's many a gentle person made a Jack.»
«Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight»