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Letter "F" » fled
«Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.»
«Fight ever on: this earthly stuff if used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, with what his comrade flung away.»
Author: Edwin Markham
(Poet)
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battle line, breaking away, break away, comrade, earthly, earthly life, firing, firing line, fled, flung, red fire, snatched, snatches, snatching, soldier, threw
«I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose garlands dead / And all but he departed!»
«One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.»
«I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| Keywords:
a million, fled, flees, meeting of minds, met, million, mind over matter
«Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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accused, fled, incest, murder charge, piracy, popes, prisoner, rape, scandalous, sodomy, suppressed, twenty-third, vicar, vicars, Vicar of Christ, victim
«I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.»
«Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.»
«Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
arrest, arresting, arrests, attend to, baffle, baffles, baffling, experiences, fled, flees, grasp, instant, melted, notice, occurs
«No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.»
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