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Letter "E" » edged
«Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd»
Author: Margaret Cavendish
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Women
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anger, edged, edge in, edging, Over the Edge, sharp, sharps, sharp tongue, swords, tongues, wound
«Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate.»
«My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; / To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; / To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; / To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.»
«May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands»
«For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit.»
«We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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blades, double-edged, edged, strap, strapped, straps, stroke, The Return, whet, whets, whetted, whetting
«A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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edged, edge tool, keener, mellows, sharp tongue, tart, tarts
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